An Evening in Zambia – October 8 at 6 p.m.

Please join us for a very special What’s On Wednesday (WOW), our church family dinner and education evening.  We meet every second and fourth Wednesday in Heffner Hall for dinner, fellowship and a program.

On Wednesday, October 8th at 6PM in Heffner Hall  we will be welcoming Sandra Levinson, Vice President of the Alliance for Children Everywhere (ACE). She will be sharing information on how ACE supports the Christian Alliance for Children in Zambia (CACZ), which organizes and supports many programs to nurture and love children in the name of Christ Jesus. The two organizations support the following programs in Lusaka, Zambia:
• Milk & Medicine – Officials from CACZ go into five compounds once a month to deliver supplemental nutrition and medicines to mothers with infants who are registered with the program. Infants are weighed and measured and if a child is not progressing normally then their diet is altered and the assistance is increased.
• House of Moses – provides food and shelter to abused, abandoned, or orphaned children under the age of two. Currently there are 32 children at the House of Moses.
• Bill and Bette Bryant Crisis Nursery – provides food, shelter, and schooling to abused, abandoned, or orphaned children between the ages of two and five. There are currently 25 children at the Crisis Nursery.
• Faith Works schools – these schools are for students in 7th grade or younger, which have been set up in churches in the compounds of Lusaka. Most Zambian children cannot afford to go to school. These Faith Works schools provide access to a quality education the students would not get otherwise.
• Helen DeVos Christian School – this high school (grades 8th – 12th) is an oasis in the middle of the poorest compound in Lusaka. This past year’s graduating class of 43 all passed the country’s national exam and 14 qualified for university enrollment. As part of our Building Capital Campaign, St. Andrews paid to build one of the classroom buildings on the Helen DeVos campus. Additionally, students are fed lunch every day. In many cases, this may be the only meal students eat that day. Supplemental nutrition is provided by gardens the students and staff tend on school grounds and by utilizing Stop Hunger Now meals.
• Change for Children – all of the aforementioned programs are supported by congregational gifts, direct sponsorship, and change for children.

Kim Rometo will also be sharing her experiences from her time in Lusaka this summer. We look forward to seeing you at WOW.

St. Andrews collects Change for Children on the first Sunday of the month in a large woven basket at the front of the church.  We collect our spare change in small baskets woven by Zambian women and then share this on the appointed Sunday.  You can be a part of our efforts which have helped these organizations.  Pick up your own small basket in the Narthex.

Find out more about Change for Children here.