Pastors' School started this week.  The pastors began arriving last weekend and started classes in earnest on Monday.  The teachers came from the United States, Zambia, and the Congo.  More teachers from the US will come in later weeks.  In addition to welcoming back old friends, we also started a new first grade class.  This class will continue attending Pastors' School six weeks each year for eight years until they graduate in 2019.

Cassie and Bill are teaching the music class together.  In addition, Bill is teaching Computers and Cassie is teaching Health to the pastors' wives.  See more pictures at this link: http://www.kafakumba.org/latestnews2012.shtml.

Cassie leads a weekly women's Bible Study.  Last month's topic was "Integrity."  Here's a picture of one of the studies being held on Grandma Enright's porch.

Here's a huge sweet potato that Cassie grew in our garden!

New resort grade trampolines have been donated to Kafakumba.  Here is one being tested by some of the local children.  Visitors from Huntertown United Methodist Church set this one up.  They also installed one at the Da Gama Home for Handicapped Children in the nearby city of Luanshya.

Kafakumba is planning to start using new cookers at Kafakumba.  Rather than burning charcoal, these cookers burn sawdust.  We have abundant supplies of sawdust from our sawmill.  This will save us a significant amount of money each year.  Here Maggie and Patricia are learning how the cookers work.

We have new signs at Kafakumba! The signs were made by one of Kafakumba's friends in Indiana. They make a huge difference in the way the Center looks.

Here in Zambia, we cut the grass the hard way - with manual "slashers."  Click here to see a video of several of our workers taking their turn at slashing some of the grass in the center.  It's amazing how much progress can be made in one hour. 

Last month, Cassie and Bill went to South Africa with some folks from Zambia to attend the Walk to Emmaus.  Bill went with three guys one weekend, then Cassie went with three ladies the next weekend.  Cassie and Bill were very active in the Walk to Emmaus in Indiana, and we're in the process of starting it here in Zambia.  It will take a while before we can do it ourselves because we need to build up a team of people who know how to run the retreats.  These six Zambians are the pioneers.  Everyone had an awesome time!  We are all excited about what the future holds for Zambia with the Walk to Emmaus.

For all but one of the people who went, it was their first time to South Africa (including us).  It was also the first airplane ride for all but two.  It was fun talking to them about their feelings when the plane started to take off.