Day Seven - Wednesday, July 6: Pastor's Conference Day Two

What a night...the music finally stopped! Apparently because Monday and Tuesday were national holidays everyone was partying all night long. We Monday was Heroes Day and Tuesday was Unity Day.

Keeping Christ Close. Paul Wolf lead today’s devotion at chapel this morning and spoke on keeping Christ in your mind and asked “Can we live a live where God is always present. He challenged us to form the habit of being present with God.

Around nine we headed out to day two of the pastor’s conference in one of the famous Chinese buses.

We were a little later than yesterday and when we arrived worship was well under way. It is very hard to describe without being there. The worship leader sings and and the rest of the group follows his lead.

The teaching was truly amazing as Pastor Duane took us through an outline of the entire Old and New Testaments over the four hours of teaching today. It was literally his 40 years of study and preaching pouring out. What a blessing it was.

We took a break half way through the morning and had these delicious scones and coffee or tea.

Scott and Charlie.

Harry and Dr. Duane

After tea we got into groups and discussed what insight we had gleaned from the Old

In front of the pulpit of Ndola Baptist Church

The afternoon session focused on finishing the Old Testament where we looked at the Major and Minor Prophets.

Then we did the entire New Testament in around an hour. Pastor Duane took questions and then it was time to head back to Northrise.

We hung out for awhile and then headed off through town to the YMCA hunting for Zambian items to buy. We really wand to stimulate the local economy. It was about a ten minute walk through the streets that were now bustling that the holidays were over. We were accosted by beggars one woman and her two children that were particularly relentless. We waited but apparently the woman who had the goods there was at the trade fair and was not set up to sell after she did finally arrive. On the way back I did finally spend some Kwatchas on a Fanta, a Coke and a Coke Zero.

For dinner we had Asian Chicken and Beef something over rice then have had a great time talking with folks and blogging.