Mumena Missions

Don & Rita Boyd Rick & Karen Love

Mumena, Zambia Brian & Sondra Davis

A rope pump is an example of that. For

about $40 (which is cheaper than one bag
Prayer Requests February is a of fertilizer), a rope pump can be made
hard time for the that can pump water from up to 150 feet.
farmers in Zambia. Most of them This can be put on any type of well (like a
Growing Churches have eaten all their stored maize (corn), traditional hand dug well).
Pray for the church so they are left searching for something
This simple pump can enable anybody to
families that they to replace their staple food.
make a garden near their village (It also
become mature and has the bonus of providing water for
Appropriate Technology – Rick
faithful to God drinking, cooking, and bathing). The
people can see the benefit, make the well
Development and pump themselves, and pay for
everything without any help.
Efforts
Pray that the local
people will learn how to
produce enough food
for their families
Building a compost pile
Our Team One of the major problems that causes
Pray for the new team starvation and malnutrition in Zambia is
members that are dependency on maize.
planning to come next Everybody grows maize even though it is
A local youth testing the rope pump
year: the most expensive crop to grow and has
Sam & Ellie Rodriguez the lowest price when it is time to sell. As we are teaching the Kaonde we must
Jeremy & Whitney Davis That doesn’t make any sense, but people be the salt in their community that causes
Jason Davis & Erin Baggs cannot risk change because they fear them to thank God for our presence,
their family might starve. Before which Jesus spoke about in Matthew 5.
changing, they have to see something Even here people want to see your love in
Family Health that works better. action before they trust your words.
Pray that our families
Since I live among farmers, it is Hopefully, by showing them a way to feed
will remain healthy as important for me to relate to their their own families on earth, they will also
we live here so that we struggles. So, I started a garden this year. understand that God wants to give them
can focus on God’s work However, I want to introduce simple and spiritual food.
cheap technology that can drastically
improve gardening. This is called
Rick & Karen Love
Appropriate Technology. rickandkarenlove@hotmail.com

Sam Rodriguez standing in the
“ditch” beside our road
Matthew helping Emily ride the
tricycle
Emily in the nice grass
Rick teaching Matthew & Lydia
Contact us:
Boyds: dboyd@coppernet.zm
Loves: rickandkarenlove@hotmail.com
Davises: brsdavis@coppernet.zm
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Standing? – Brian
Noah and Bryson saw snow fall for the first time
on my parent’s farm in Tennessee
It is quite a contrast between the snowy
United States and the balmy Central
African tropics! We arrived back from
our furlough after a leisurely 9 hour lay-
over in London. This actually worked to
our advantage as we have experienced
less jet lag than usual. As we have gotten
back into the swing of things here, we
were trembling as we wondered what we
would find.
You never know what you are going to
come back to. For instance my gardener
decided to “skip” work for the three
months prior to our arrival. Thus the
garden was ruined. Thankfully our new
grocery store was still in business, but
our gardener is now un-employed. The
much greater test is whether the new
churches “skip” worship for the
missionary’s furlough.
While delivering this year’s invitations to
our April Bible School, we have seen time
and time again young churches who are
focused on being faithful and who – in
some cases – are even growing
numerically. This is an important test of
each missionary’s work. The rains have
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Solwezi
Zambia
been harsher than usual this year with
many villages being flooded out and
several houses collapsing. Thus we have
been prevented from visiting our outlying
congregations as of yet, but we hope to
pass the test as the roads begin to
become passable.
“The rain came down, the streams rose,
and the winds blew and beat against that
house; yet it did not fall, because it had its
foundation on the rock.”
Matthew 7:25 NIV
Pray that our outlying young churches
stand on the Rock!
Brian, Sondra, Noah, &
Bryson
brsdavis@coppernet.zm
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Cedar Hill Church of Christ Hillcrest Church of Christ
535 S Clark Rd 650 E. Ambler
Cedar Hill, TX 75104 Abilene, TX 79601
(972) 291-4200 (325) 673-4565
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