Choma Day

 One week ago, Feb. 7th we headed to Choma, about 90 minutes down the road for a day of friends and shopping.

During missions services we'd meet the Howells a couple times at KCC and knew they also worked in Zambia.

At their invitation we headed out early enough to join their team for praise and prayer Wednesday morning at Poetice. It took us a bit to find the location which surprisingly was a couple doors down from the Wesleyan campus. We enjoyed our time and then headed for some shopping.

Cory walked the hardware section of town which consists of many small shops. Fritz and I stayed in the truck reading a Choose Your Own Adventure book. 

After only finding a couple items on our list we stopped at the grocery store and then headed back to have a nice lunch with the Howells.

We got to know the family better and found out where we should head for some of the household items on our list. Fritz elected to remain with them while we headed back out for more shopping. We visited the open air market on our way to the Easy Home store. 

Here we crossed several items off our list: large trash can, laundry baskets, some towels, nail clippers [lost a part from ours right after arrival!] and more....

Back to Poetice for a tour, meeting several of the staff, and seeing first hand their Wed. afternoon Youth ministry. Poetice developed out of Central Wesleyan in Holland Michigan, so a strong West Michigan link that not only includes KCC but HOPE College and we met a Calvin graduate as well. 

Fritz really enjoyed hanging out with the missionary kids; playing soccer on the field; and joining in with the Bible study that followed. About 60 neighborhood young teens participate in this weekly time together. We plan to try to make Wed. our shopping day when needed so that Fritz can join in with the fun.

We grabbed some supper to eat from the Hungry Lion, Fritz's favorite fried chicken restaurant here to eat on the way back home. We also returned to Easy Home to buy a small freezer since the US$ is so strong here for now (it is significantly erratic). 

This will come in handy not only for us but others on the compound. The one that was in our house did not work so the guys moved it out.

I was able to phone in and enjoy part of the women's Bible study my mom leads on Wed. mornings back in Michigan. We also stopped for some roasted and some boiled corn on the cob.

By the time we made it back we'd been gone just over 14 hours...a long day. A good day.