Mungaila’s

Over the last two weeks, we’ve helped the community in Tara (about a 30 minute drive from Namwianga) build a house for the Mungaila Family. Meagan does a wonderful job of explaining this family’s story HERE. Please read it! But the quick summary is both parents are blind and they have 5 children: Lushomo- 8, Choolwe- 6, Kurt- 4, Jessie- 2, and Leahndrea- 6 months. Leahndrea lives in Haven 1, Jessie, Kurt and Choolwe have lived at the havens and gone back home, and Lushomo is the man who takes care of the family with such gentleness and strength. I first met this wonderful family when we went out on our first village visit. We saw that their house walls and their ceilings didn’t meet and that there was only one room. Being that it’s winter in Zambia, Meagan really wanted to see what could be done about building a proper house. Well, less than a week and another survey trip was made to see about space and needed materials and budget… Add in a lot of prayers, a wonderful community in Tara, dozens of servant hearts from Namwianga and less than a month later the Mungaila’s have a 3 room house with full walls, a tin roof and cement floors! God is SO good!! It was such a blessing to watch the process unfold and get to participate a little. I say a little because our main workdays happened during my vertigo days, so I went with Meagan and the interns, but I sat in a chair and played with the kids while the other girls worked. Pictures will be posted when I get back to the States, but pictures will not be able to explain the peace on Lushomo’s face when he saw the new hooks for his clothes. They will not be able to explain the joy on Kurt’s face when he jumped up on his bed in his bedroom. Pictures will not explain the pride that leaders of the Tara community had for supporting this family and doing everything they could to help. Pictures will not explain the sadness, joy and peace that filled my heart when we left their house for the last time. Saddened to not be hugging those kids in a few days. But so much joy that they are able to rest behind a door. And somehow, still so much peace knowing that God is in that house and in their lives. He is holding them through all the hardships that family will face in the coming years. He is the one who loves them more than I can fathom.