Quick Update :)

Hi everyone!
Well it's still cold here in Zambia... maybe 70 if we're lucky during the day, but still down into the thirties at night.

It's been a busy past week here. I've had several meetings at Namwianga and am beginning to try to organize all my thoughts and ideas into an actual course to teach next term at Namwianga. It's such an honor to be asked to teach there. There are 478 students at the secondary school and I'll be teaching just the females. It's a little daunting, but I feel like God is going to do incredible things through it.

We also made a trip to Livingston to take Brian (Rob and Christa's friend from Holland who came here to build us basically a new kitchen. p.s. I love it) to the airport so he could fly home. I got to see Victoria Falls. It is truly spectacular. Words cannot describe it. It's a mile wide and some 300 feet high. The power of it, the noise it makes, and the beauty of it are all just breathtaking. It's quite the workout to hike all over though as everything is pretty slippery! It was a very very very tiring trip as I was with the Murphys pretty much non-stop and the chaos got to me quite a bit by the end. Prayers for my patience level would be very very much appreciated.

Last Friday was immigration again which ended up being pretty simple. Thank the Lord! Our permanent work permits have not come yet, but the local office is getting more pleasant to deal with.

I've been typing up a storm on my job description and goals documents. I've recently felt like I'd like more accountability for myself and our team. Rather then continuing to just talk about ideas or things that should be done I feel like it may speak more if I just go ahead and do these things myself. The whole actions speak louder than words principle. Anyway, I've gotten my job description done and am now working on short-term, long-term, monthly, personal, and home life (living with the Murphys) goals. It's helping me feel like I have more focus. Please pray that the board of Africa's Child would receive these (and the work reports I've been compiling) well - that they would see the importance of them and be able to offer more guidance into the work that I am setting about doing.

Lastly, but biggest in new news is my main reason for writing this update. Starting tomorrow night until Saturday I will be caring for a newborn little girl. Her name is Anna. Her mom died in childbirth and so the uncle called Mike and Linda Jones because of the orphanage they help run. He could not take the baby so he wanted to know if the Jones had room at their orphanage to take her in. They agreed so Mike and Linda went to pick her up from the hospital when she was just four days old. Linda's been taking care of her, but is getting quite worn out from just how much care Anna needs. They thought she might be ready to go to the orphanage today, but she hasn't gained any weight. She hasn't lost any weight either so that is good, but they're concerned they need to keep her to take care of her for a little longer before taking her to the orphanage. Well today Linda came over with a big question. She has to go to Livingston tomorrow and then Lusaka on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. She was worried about taking Anna with her because that's just a lot to take a newborn a long for especially since Linda's trying to get everything ready for a missions team they have coming next week. Linda's big question was if I would be willing to watch her starting tomorrow (Tuesday) night until Saturday. I had been feeling discouraged this week because I don't have any meetings or anything really set up. I mean it gives me lots of time for writing, but still was feeling a bit discouraged. I feel like this is definitely God's doing... that He purposefully kept my week open so that I could help Linda. I told her that I would love to. Immediately you could tell a big burden had been lifted off her shoulders. I love helping take care of babies and to get to have one for a few days in a row is exciting to me. At the same time it's a big big responsibility. I would love all of your prayers for me and Anna the rest of this week. Prayers for her continued health and growth, for my energy and patience, and for me to be productive in my writing during the times she does rest.

Well I should get going. It's about dinner time. I miss you all and hope your summers are going well. Please let me know how I can be praying for all of you as well!

By His Grace and For His Glory,
Abbie Morehead

PS. The satellite system is still sitting in Lusaka and although they are waving storage fees until the end of July it's still $1400 to get it out. Please pray that these funds will become available quickly so we can get it out before storage fees start accumulating and for Paul's patience in the slowness of getting it all out, up, and running. :)