Missionaries are also literally breaking new ground as they travel to their congregations this rainy season in Zambia.  They travel very muddy roads that at first glance look impassable, and sometimes they make it through, but sometimes they get stuck.
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The rainy season is record-breaking this year, with a number of roads and bridges being washed out and flooding in homes and fields.  One missionary who has a rain gauge said that we had already received more rain in December and January than the whole rainy season last year (typically it rains until March).  According to one of the national pastors it hasn’t rained this much since 1921.  I don’t know where he got that fact since he is not that old, and I wonder if they were keeping records here back then… but it sounds impressive doesn’t it? Another evidence of how much rain we have had is the fact that one large section of our “wall fence” fell down.   We have “wall fences” made from concrete blocks that surround our yards and serve as a form of security complete with barbed wire on the top and a big black metal gate to get in and out of the yard.  One night it rained really heavy and was very windy but Jason and I were not home at the time.  We came home, ate dinner and were getting ready for bed when we heard barking in our yard that was not the bark of our dogs.  Strange.  So, we went outside and the neighbor’s dogs are in our yard!   We walked around the corner of our house and saw: the other yard (when we normally just see a wall) because the wall separating the yards was completely down!  Yikes!  However, it was good because our neighbors are the mission guest house- so no problems there, it was just a big mess and took a lot of work to clean up and put back up.

Life is never dull, as God continues to give us new opportunities to break ground.  Please pray for the missionaries and national pastors here in Zambia as they travel to preach the word and break new ground spiritually in people’s hearts