together -Jan 2016

Sowing the good seed
For those who go
and plant in foreign
soil, the outcome can
be affected by many
things — a willingness
to learn as well as
teach, the readiness of
the community to
engage, the preparation,
the weather.
What God uses especially
is a heart to
bless the lives of their
neighbours at every
level...
Crops
of hope
“My children were not eating well. Thank you for showing
us how to plant crops that enabled us all to eat better.
I planted two years in a row before moving down here to
the main road.”
Dee Jones, Pastor Kapayi and I had travelled for nearly two hours over back
roads near Kasempa, Zambia, searching for participants from a nutrition
programme that Dee was part of in the community three years ago. We had
stopped at one place, but the mum was out in the fields working hard. At
another place the family had moved on. We asked at the rural clinic where
the training had taken place, but they kept no records.
Everywhere we asked we saw many children roaming around and a
few men completely sloshed on fermented grain or honey – barely living;
without hope. Having also given up hope, we stopped into a market on our
way back to town and asked if there were any participants there. One of the
mothers, Gladys, was there and very grateful for the help that “Sister Dee”
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