Praying for Sponsored Children

Mapalo Bread of Life invited all secondary school going pupils in the community to attend a church service which was dedicated to encourage and pray with them to be committed with school.

Mapalo Bread of Life Community School has sponsored 43 pupils to go to secondary school and all of them came for the service.  These children are orphans and vulnerable children in the community who are being sponsored by Zambia National Aids Network (ZNAN). In order to offer spiritual guidance, the school invited all the pupils to come in uniforms on one particular Sunday.

This was an opportunity to teach the pupils how they should be morally upright in school.Among these pupils some are Muslims and other s doesn’t go to church.

The theme of the message was “Ask God who gives wisdom freely”. Pastor Peter Chikoseleshi encouraged the pupils from the book of Daniel Chapter 1 were Daniel concentrated to study and not to follow the worldliness of Babylon. Pastor Peter encouraged the pupils to concentrate with school and work hard. And not to follow bad companies, peer pressure which results in promiscuity behavior such as drug/alcohol abuse and prostitution.

Pastor Peter also emphasized the dangers of promiscuity behavior which results in early and unwanted pregnancies, having poor results and the danger of catching HIV and AIDS.  He also reminded them that God has granted them an opportunity to be in school even in the midst of them vulnerable children in order to bring good leadership and discipleship in this generation.
Currently, their teachers have testified of seeing improvements in behavior and performance in the classes of these pupils.  Some of those who were not going to church have started going to churches.
We thank Zambia National Aids Network (ZNAN) their support.

Building of Ablution block

Mapalo Bread of Life Community School has been building its ablution block for sometime now. The buildings success is dependant on well wishers who are giving sacrificially to see the children use the modern toilets and bathrooms in the soonest time possible.

Insert Photo: our building our children’s ablution block.
This year the community has bought 500 blocks, pockets of cement and building sand. We thank God for sister Hamusa who has also contributed 200 bocks towards the building of the ablution block.
We are praying for God to raise more people and organizations for us to move to another extra mile. We are still praying for 700 blocks more blocks, 20 pockets of cement for building only, toilet pans, metal bars, tiles, building stone, building sand and other building material.

Insert Photo: current structure of the building
We are requesting to you brethren to stand with us in prayer so that our children can have better toilets and bathrooms in order to prevent water born diseases like dysentery, typhoid, and cholera.
We thank Community Fellowship Church, Pastor Lawrence Temfwe, Kevin Sampson, Mike Devebiss, Daniel Bullock, and sisters and brother who have been praying and giving sacrificiary towards this project.
Continue praying with us so that we can complete this project before August 2009.

Easter Resurrection: love in action conference.

Mapalo Bread of Life held ‘love in action’ conference during Easter. On Friday 10th April 2009, the conference started with morning devotion at the Church and later went in the community for evangelism. The members were divided into groups to go and witness the message of hope to the local people.

Group one went to the local Market and Bars/Taverns to preach the gospel. Many people don’t have time to attend church service because they are busy selling at the local market in order to survive. Group one witnessed the death and resurrection of Christ to marketers and people in bars.

“We are unreachable and seldom do we hear the gospel,” said one of the drunkards in one bar. The drunkards and Marketers received Jesus as their Lord and Saviour and as a result some Drunkards came on Saturday to attend the conference while they were drunk.

Group two went to distribute water purification to 380 families in Mapalo community because of the untreated water in the area. The group targeted the area that is most hit by water born diseases like cholera, dysentery and typhoid. The water purifications were donated to Mapalo Bread of Life by Southbury Baptist Church of USA.

Group two also donated Bibles and leaflets which contained the message of the resurrection of Christ. “We are humbled us a family to be given the Bible and water purifiers. Instead of buying, but we have been given for free, this is a proof that God loves me and the Family. I will now start going to Church” Said Mr. Kapambwe as he received the gifts.

Group three went to share the message of hope and forgiveness to people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS. The group visited six families and donated soya beans, mealie meal, and money for charcoal. Among the people who were visited is a 68 year chronically ill Man who also happens to have asthma. The man was planning to sale His house so that he could use the money to buy herbs from a witch doctor. Sister Olipah Banda who is a nurse by professional, encouraged the old man not to sell his house. She offered to help him get ART and asthma treatment at the local clinic. Sister Olipah has continued to visit and encourage the man.

As Mapalo Bread of Life this is practical way of reaching our target of having 200 new members by the end of 2009. With the amazing grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we have hope of achieving this goal.

Bread of Life Shares ‘Bread’

By Times Reporter

Bread of Life church of Chipulukusu (Mapalo) Township in Ndola has donated an assortment of foodstuffs, groceries and bibles to the Insakwe Probation Institute for juvenile offenders.

Bread of Life Church Pastor Peter Chikkoseleshi said at the hand over ceremony at the institute that it was the duty of the children of God to help other people that were in need.

Pastor Chikoseleshi said his Church was very much aware of the different financial and other challenges institutes such institute was facing.

He said as children of God, it was important that the Church contributed to institutes that were very important to society.

“It is important that we contribute to institutions such as this one because they are very important to society and yet they lack some things,” Pastor Chikoseleshi said.

He said it was equally cardinal for the church to help the government support important institutions.

Pastor Chikoseleshi said Insakwe was an institute that contributed to the well being of children in society including his township.

The Bread of Life also donated foodstuff, groceries and clothes to Arthur Davidson Children’s Hospital (ADH) and Kansenshi Prisons worth over K3 Million.

And receiving the donation on behalf of Insakwe, Social Welfare officer Mwaja Mwale said she was very happy with the donation.

Ms Mwale said Insakwe was facing numerous challenges and therefore could not provide all that was needed for the residents.

She said the donation was timely and that it would go a long way in helping the administration meet different needs

Testimonies from our community school

Mapalo Support group is a group of people who have similar problems sharing together, i.e people living with HIV and AIDS. Its vision is to see a community free from HIV and AIDS/TB.

 

This project is being funded by Zambia National AIDS Network (ZNAN) in partnership with Irish Aid. So far the group has a membership of 20 volunteers from Mapalo community. The group has helped more than 20 volunteers with bicycles to help in transportation as they visit 60 patients.

 

Bread of Life Community School with its partnership with ZNAN Irish aid is helping people affected with HIV and AIDS who are mainly orphans and vulnerable children.  More than 390 orphans and vulnerable children have been helped with school supplies such as shoes, jerseys, bags, books, and pens and so far paid school fees for 43 secondary school pupils.

 

With the support Bread of Life community school bought sewing machines and carpentry tools to help the children acquire vocational life skills for survival. The school has also been funded to rehabilitate 20 houses of the orphans and vulnerable children care givers. All the 20 houses have been rehabilitated with new roofing sheets and cemented floor. This year the OVCs have no fear their houses would collapse.

 

Bread of Life community is also helping three vulnerable children whose father Mr. John Kalaba is our home based care client. Mr. John Kalaba has 4 children namely; Dickson, Elizabeth, John Kalaba Jr. and Moses. His two children benefited from the distribution of school supplies we were giving to orphans and vulnerable children.

 

This family is one of the victims whose houses collapsed during the last rain season in 2008. This was a period when many houses in Mapalo collapsed because of the heavy rains. This is just one of the families in Mapalo who are facing similar challenges out of 32 victims.

 

From 2008 to date they leave in the tent. Their house collapsed because the roofing was covered with plastics and card boxes. They have also spent this rain season of 2009 in the tent with the family.  Mr. John Kalaba who happens to be the Father who is terminally ill and His wife has now become the bread winner who only works as a maid. Life has not been easy through the challenges this family is going through.

 

As Bread of Life community School, we have spared 20 iron sheets which we want to help to cover the small house that we want build.

 

The Government has helped this family with a peace of land but they can’t afford to buy the building materials.

 

We praise God we have covered a house for the victims whose husband died when the house collapsed with new iron sheets. “I thank God for seeing me through,” She said after finishing the work.

 

We are praying that God will raise people who we care share with to carry this burden together through helping this family to have building materials such as bags of cement, blocks, sand, stones and money to pay the builders.

 

We thank God that the government is aware as the office of the vice president under Disaster Management Team and the Copperbelt District Commissioner has recommended us to help these families. The government has given the victims the piece of land but they can’t manage to build because of lack of finances.

 

The victims have chosen me speak on their behalf. Kindly pray for me as I become the voice to the voiceless.  

 

Pastor Peter Chikoseleshi.

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