Update from the Jim Waters family - missionaries to Zambia Africa

As some of you already know, we lost our little baby boy right before Thanksgiving. Barbie was just at the beginning of her second trimester when her water broke and she lost the baby. We named him Joshua and buried him in the back yard under a tree where the kids play. Because of our remote location there was no where for us to go to get medical help, so we were home alone throughout the ordeal. A couple of days later we made a long and costly trip to the capital to get Barbie checked out and make sure everything was okay. Praise God everything went as good as possible under the circumstances. The doctor said that we should be able to have more children if we want but right now we are so emotionally drained and confused we really don't know what we will do. Please continue to pray for our family. It has been hard but I am pleased to say that God has been faithful through it all.

We had our second baptism since returning from furlough. Please pray for those recently saved. They are such baby Christians with so much to learn. We praise God that not a month goes by where we don't get a chance to lead people to the Lord.

Mbala is not the easiest place to try to start a church. We have been met with resistance and battered with rumors since we have arrived. The first Christmas service we had here no one came. It was pretty discouraging. However over the last two years we are slowly but steadily growing. At our Christmas Eve service this year we had 56 attend with 8 professions for Christ.

Prayer Requests:

1. New tires - the roads are very bad and when we drive into the bush it puts a lot of wear and tear on the tires. A new tire cost $250 dollars, at the moment we are on our last spare.

2. Starting a discipleship program in Mwengu village.

3. The continuing discipling of George Mutale. He has been an extreme help to our ministry since we have been back.

4. This is a very religous area with many cults. Continue to pray for salvation of souls.

5. People to surrender to ministry. We have so much to do, and we know we need help. We have recently asked our pastor to contact some bible colleges to ask for summer interns. We are also hoping that soon some of the nationals will also surrender to help and become more involved.