• Staying at the CRC

    Staying at the CRC

    Our Community Resource Centers become an emergency home for many kids.  Here are a few kids who lived at the Matero CRC.

  • Aggie

    Aggie

    Aggie is the girl Mindy and I sponsor at the Tree of Life Children’s Village.  She lived in a one room house with 10 other people before and was very malnourished.

  • Aggie and Baby Joe

    Aggie and Baby Joe

    Two of my favorite kids at the Tree of Life, Agness and Baby Joe.  I met Agness at Camp LIFE 2009 and was drawn to her smile and joy.  Although she is 9, she is about the size of a 6 year old due to malnutrition.  Joe and I became best friends the first day [...]

  • Community Resource Centers

    Community Resource Centers

    We opened Community Resource Centers in 2008 all around Lusaka to give us a permanent presence in the community.  Our staff lives and works out of there CRCs and kids are free to come by anytime especially if they are in trouble.

  • Trampoline

    Trampoline

    The trampoline (or jumping castle as they call it) at the Tree of Life gets a lot of love everyday.  There are 63 kids living at the Tree of Life right now and they jump on it everyday.  The construction crew is working on building a new net for it.

  • Hey There

    Hey There

    Here is one of my favorite pictures from around Lusaka.  Most of the houses in the compounds of Lusaka are one-room, cinder block houses with these curtains for doors.

  • Surrounded

    Surrounded

    We held crusade with teaching and worship in some of the compounds of Lusaka as a way to minister to the communities.  I attended one and drew a big crowd as the only muzungu (white person) around.

  • New Shoes

    New Shoes

    Each kids who comes to Camp LIFE gets a brand new pair of shoes.  That’s over 15,000 pair we give out each year.  Here are Mindy’s girls with their new kicks.

  • About the Tree of Life

    About the Tree of Life

    Click to watch a video about the Tree of Life Children’s Village

  • The Boys

    The Boys

    Here is my group of guys from Kabanana at Camp LIFE 2008.  They each got new shirts and a bandana to wear on Friday.  Little did they know they would be getting a new fleece jacket in just a few hours.

  • Camp LIFE 2009

    Camp LIFE 2009

    Click to watch a video about Camp LIFE

  • I’m Bad

    I’m Bad

    This is one of my favorite pictures from Camp LIFE 2009.  This kid looks like Michael Jackson walking down the street in one of his videos.

  • Tuesday Market

    Tuesday Market

    This is a big Farmer’s Market held every Tuesday in Lusaka where you can get all kinds of fresh vegetables.  The little boy who carried our bags asked if we could buy him a pair of shoes instead of paying him.  We of course took him immediately.