En Route 8/16/2022

Just as season 7 Michael Scott said, “I don’t leave ‘til tomorrow, so…. Tomorrow I will be a wreck.” Final hello friends and family before we see you in person! Today has been a bittersweet day as we have said our final goodbyes to our friends from Poetice in Zambia. This morning we had our …

Farewell Zambia 8/15/2022

By Ted Lockett, Cayley Ebeling, & Sydney Randall For our last full day in Zambia we started our morning with breakfast at 5:00am with our bags all packed up and ready to travel to Livingstone. After many fun interview questions in the back of the bus and some sleep, we finally arrived to start our …

Farewell to Choma 8/14/2022

Today we were able to attend a church service on Poetice’s base. After an early breakfast and setting the worship center up, we sang and fellowshipped with Poetice staff and community members, then we had chicken salad for lunch on base. It was Ashish’s favorite lunch. Ted says it was phenomenal. Haley says needless to …

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SYDNEY!!! :) – From Macha 8/13/2022

Happy happy birthday Sydney! Today was a great day because we got to celebrate Sydney and her 21st birthday! What a cool place to celebrate a birthday in – Zambia! This morning Seth, Linda, and Grace had an opportunity to play golf at a course right here in Choma! Abby, the CEO of Poetice, picked …

Field of Dreams 8/12/2022

By Ari, Maddie, and Kyra Today was our last day of sports camp and we had a FIELD DAY! We woke up and ate breakfast with the boy campers that spent the night. Many of us are loving buying coffee from the Poetice coffee house in the mornings, so that’s what we did during breakfast. …

Holy Water 8/11/2022

By Jake, Cayley and Amanda We woke up super excited for our second day of sports camp! It was special to have breakfast with the girl campers that spent the night on campus and continue building relationships with them. After days of travel and working hard during camp it was super nice to also use …

Be Strong Be True 8/10/2022

By Ashish, Ted and Grace H. Today was our first day leading the camp with the local youth in Zambia! We started the day off with worship. Worship in Zambia is very different from the worship we experience in the states due to plentiful dancing and a ton of joy. During this time the kids …

Hello from Choma! 8/9/2022

Today was our first full day in Africa! We started our day with breakfast which was yummy. After breakfast we headed over to praise our lord during worship. Worship in a different language is incredible. It is cool to step into a new environment, and to see how the Zambians say YES to the lord …

Hello from Zambia! 8/8/2022

By Sydney & Seth We have finally arrived in Zambia! After an overnight flight and a short layover we flew into the Livingstone airport and were greeted by a few of the Poetice staff. Thankfully all of our luggage also made the trip which we were told may not be 100 percent guaranteed. We then …

Guten tag from Frankfurt, Germany! 8/7/2022

Our first flight landed this afternoon in Frankfurt, Germany around 8 am EST. We were served a delicious pasta dinner around 1:00 am last night on the plane and then breakfast six hours later.  Sleep was rough, but the flight was smooth. We are currently wrapping up an eight-hour layover in Germany. During our time …