Note: This is the first of several journal entries that were written during the duration of the trip to Zambia from Providence Church. One will be posted each day. Please note that this is, in many ways, just my own musings and thoughts on the trip and is not intended to represent an entire picture of the trip….for which you would have to get much input from the other twenty-one members of the team. -DK

As we were sent off, two individuals in the church brought prophetic words. The first word came out of Nehemiah 4, where the builders under Nehemiah’s leadership built with one hand and were prepared with a sword in the other. So too, we would need to be ready to face the attacks of the enemy. This was concluded with an exhortation from Ephesians 4, to see the need for this team to show grace and forgiveness toward one another.

The next prophetic word was a promise that joy would characterize our team and it would encourage and build up the church in Zambia. He read us a charge from Philippians 4, reminding us that our joy comes from the reality that “the Lord is at hand.” God definitely is moving powerfully in this trip.