Greetings from Zambia!

Hi Everyone,
We made it to Zambia last Sunday.

UPDATE FROM A WEEK AGO
We finished a week of the SBS.We learned about Genesis. The students read the book about 4 times in 3 days, and we finished it once. We like it here because we can walk down the street on break and sit at the beach for a bit or grab a bite to eat at a hamburger stand for cheap. We also like that there are about 15 nations represented in the SBS class, and many more on the whole base.
Once as we were walking to the beach to go read Genesis, a homeless woman stopped us and asked us to buy a Bible concordance. She thought we were probably from YWAM and needed help spiritually, emotionally, and financially. She was pregnant and her husband couldn't get a job. She had a very rough family life growing up and I(dewayne) got to share a little about the things I learned in class concerning the fall and how men became sinful and how it's was never Gods heart for this to happen and the only way to fix it is Christ. After hearing more of her sad story Tara prayed with her and we gave her some soup packets and bought the Concordance to help them. Her name is Christin if you would like to pray for her. She is due any day and her husband is looking for a job.
We went to a township nearby with the DTS and talked to the coloreds and blacks. I kinda felt like the rich whitey that was there to comfort them, but later I heard that they would rather listen to us than their family or neighbors that live there with them. We got to talk and pray with people and hear some more sad stories. It's hard to know if you should expect God to heal or if they just need to change things in their life. I don't doubt that God can heal but I also know we cant do whatever we want all the time and expect God to rescue us. Pray for us to know how to speak and pray into their situations.

CURRENT UPDATE

Our time in Zambia has been good. We got to take a mini honeymoon add on from our one in Savannah. We visited Victoria Falls which was amazingly beautiful. This was a moment I (Tara) have been waiting for for 2 years! It was a perfect visit and we walked around the park for 4 hours seeing the falls from many angles. We also went to stay in a village and stayed in a hut for the first time. We got a tour, ate local food, and DeWayne got taught some language by a drunk guy!

We next traveled to the capitol of Zambia- Lusaka to visit a fellow student (Stephanie) of one of our training schools. It's been great visiting with her. We will meet up with her later in the trip to see the ministries she has been involved with and start debriefing her from her time in Zambia.
Tomorrow we will be traveling to another city to visit Elizabeth, a Zambian teacher I (Tara) used to work with at the orphanage a few years ago.

That's all for now! Thanks for bearing such a long email! We appreciate your prayers!

The Bunchs

Tour of Cape Town

Today we went to Cape Town with Sarah and she showed us around the area that we have not seen being here at the base in Muizenburg. There is a lot of rich folk and plenty of European type development. The view in this part of South Africa is amazing!


We stopped by a beach near by and saw penguins.












We took a wrong turn into a subdivision and saw baboons on the side of the street chillin. One was eating yogurt until the dogs came and chased them onto the roofs.

Week one Muizenberg

We made it in at about 10pm. We had an amazing trip. The flights were smooth and no lost luggage! Sarah and James (Sarah used to be on staff in Nashville) picked us up from the airport and showed us the base and our room. Today they took us to eat fish and chips at the beach (there were seals swimming in the water) and we asked questions about South Africa, the Muizenberg base, School of Biblical Studies, and a local church planting ministry. Sarah walked us around the neighborhood and showed us the ropes a bit.

The weather is warm but very windy. It is supposed to get to 90 this week. We are surrounded by mountains and the ocean. It seems very modern here and there is a good mixture of people. Many rich and many poor. Over all it feels more like Europe in this part of South Africa.

We are going to sit in on class (School of Biblical Studies) this week starting Monday.

Since Last Week

We are down to six days before we leave for South Africa. We have been planning more details of the trip and are noticing all the little things we have overlooked. This week we got our vaccinations, bought travelers insurance, and did a lot of research on bus/train stations in South Africa and Zambia. YWAM Nashville will pray us out Wednesday, and our flight is Thursday afternoon. Please keep us in your prayers.

13 more days!

We have been back at YWAM for 1 week as of today, and have 13 more days until we fly out for South Africa!

Between work hours we are busy trying to prepare for this trip. Vaccinations come next week... visa's will have to wait until we arrive in the country & we are hoping for the remaining finances to buy a ticket to Zambia.

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