Cinnabuns

Greetings friends and family! Hope all is well in the U.S., and you are enjoying the spring time. In Zambia we are entering the cold season which means temps in the 40's at night and days in the 70/80's. Things have been fairly slow lately because it is the harvest season and everyone is busy during the day. So for doing projects you need a little more patience than in the other seasons, especially when it comes to meetings. However, we have managed to finish the proposal for the deaf class. Hopefully some funds will be coming in for resources that will help the teachers. The church project is coming a long nicely. About 5000 bricks have already been made and they continue to prepare stones and sand for the cement work. We have been meeting with the leaders of the youth group to teach ways to organize and gear their programs. We've also been showing them different activities they can do using the various resources we've received. A few weeks ago we taught them the game 4 square and they really enjoyed it.

As usual we have our personal projects we like to work on in order to make our life sweeter; and if possible we try to make it benefit others as well. :) A perfect meshing of these two was realized in our teaching the local bakery how to make Cinnamon rolls!! They are so good! Now not only do we have access to an amazing treat, but the bakery is making loads of profit. And the mission hospital is pretty happy because we got the baker to deliver to them on Saturdays. Our next venture is to get soft serve ice cream available in town. Please pray for us as we plant those seeds. :)

An update on the Zambian music video... training sessions have begun and now 10 women, ages 30-75, have learned the Michael Jackson Beat It dance. We only have to polish up some of the moves and they'll be ready to go. The hard part is going to be getting enough men to actually come to the practices. We may have to postpone the filming until after harvest. Also, Stephen's weight room is complete. Now the next step is for us to stop being lazy and actually use it.
And finally we are getting extremely excited because Stephen's brother David is comeing to visit us for three weeks in June. We pretty much have the agenda set for when he comes. We wil spend about one week in the village and then spend some time seeing Victoria Falls and viewing some game. We can't wait to see him and shae this part of our lives with him.

Well, that's all for now. Thanks for keeping us in your prayers! We miss you!

Stephen and Heather