The Intentional Life

This is the third blog post on a series about our trip to Zambia. To read the first two posts click below: The Beautiful The Hard Zambia, the butterfly-shaped country (light blue on this map) about 3 up from the bottom. Over a decade ago Lifesong School in Zambia had it's beginnings in a small blue church building in the middle of the compound in Garneton. In the time since, it has grown to a campus, a farm, and now, soon a vocational school. In just the past couple years boarding homes (Student Life Centre) have been set up.  Since all the children at Lifesong school come from the compound, they return to the compound each evening. This means little to no light to read by, no running water, and often loud, ruckus music and people right outside in the streets. It can be difficult for children to get homework done, let along a good night's sleep. So. boarding has been made available to students who are in grades 8-12. They live in the homes (boys'

July 2017 was unlike any July we have ever experienced. Sure, we had our family time on the 4th, and took in a ball game.  But, then, the rest of the month was consumed with packing for Zambia, being in Zambia, and recovering from Zambia. It was awesome.  And I want to do it again.  Some pictures of the trip are posted here, just because it made up a majority of our July. To get a more thorough summary of the trip check out The Beautiful and The Hard previously posted. Grandpa and Grandma's new 'playground' is a hit with all the cousins Through my job in Foster Care we got seats to a Tincaps game, a buffet meal, and July 4th fireworks afterwards. Carrie in Zambia gave me the idea to put a countdown app on my phone. It was fun to be able to countdown the days. We planned to make the majority of our luggage be for the Wiegands, so as boxes showed up at our house that Carrie had ordered, I would stack them in the corner. A few days before our fli