Our reach into Zambia began with driving lessons! Pastor Sam and Kasamba Sikapizye came to Hankins where Barbara volunteered to help them practice for their driving tests. During their road trips, Barbara heard heartbreaking stories of children being orphaned as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the efforts of Kasamba's parents, Pastor Charles and Margerat Mumba, to help care for many children by bringing them into their own home.
God laid it on Barbara's heart to purchase a small house in Ndola, Zambia (top left) where the Mumba's were able to give fifteen orphans a home and a future.
In 2007, a ten acre parcel was purchased in nearby Twapia. Barbara and board member, Shirley Blum, traveled to Zambia. They gathered around the "prayer tree" and, with local believers, prayed and anointed this land with oil. Their prayers have been answered as an orphanage (top middle), school, (top right), clinic and worship center have been built on site.