Lordship International Ministries - Zambia
As the American Director of LIM, I will be traveling to Zambia at least one month per year to make sure Lordship International Ministries is functioning to help local Independent Baptist churches to reach out to their communities and train men to be pastors and deacons. Every effort will be made to help these churches become autonomous, and support their own pastor.
We are starting with one church as the master template for the ministry in Zambia, Liberty Baptist Church. As you will see from the pictures below, our goal is simple. It is to help independent Baptist churches in Zambia build a building to stablize the church in one locality as it reaches out to the community to win people for the Lord Jesus Christ.
Every gift given will go directly to helping these churches. There will be no administrative cost here in the states, and no funds will need to be diverted to sustaining a missionary on the foreign field. If you are a Lordship church, please pray about joining this effort to help other Lordship churches in Zambia.
--Ben
Slashing the Grass on the Church Property-
The Zambian church men gather to see how slashing the grass is done by an expert: a real American golfer who is a professional at being in tall grass and slicing my way out.
The perfect pitching wedge form. Notice the flying grass and no golf ball in the air.
Pastor Frazer, an expert grass slasher, shows proper form while he eats fruit. I was thinking, "A brushhog could cut all this grass in less than 30 minutes. Slashing by eight men (not counting me) took about six hours, and they only slashed half of the church property.
The stumps have to be removed before the building can be built. I'm a much better golfer when I am digging the ground up.
After a hard day's work, sitting in the grass not even realizing a dangerous reptile is slithering right in front of me and looking at me with glowing eyes, wondering to themself what white meat would taste like. If you look sharp, you will see the head at the bottom of the picture, looking right at me.
Fortunately, someone got a picture of this dangerous reptile (some call it a frog) right before it decided it didn't want to mess with a sanctified Baptist pastor.
Pastor Frazer and I discussing the church property and the new sub-division going in with houses being built all around the property at this time. What an opportunity for ministering to thousands of new families moving into the area. A local school is already planned to be built close by, and even a Zambian college less than half mile away from where we are sitting.
The slashing crew that stayed until the end. Some left earlier.
Most of the men of the church were out on visitation for the day.
Buying and Unloading Cement-
Yes, businessmen everywhere are all smiles when you come to purchase large quantities of cement. This place right in Kalulushi had a delivery truck which did not cost extra.
"c'mon back! c'mon back!"
Evans, the church builder, shows how cement is carried.
Then everyone joins in.
That's not a smile, it's a grimace. I saw 50kg on the bag, and after simple multiplication, determined it was over 110 lbs.
See? It's a grimace. Kenny has Malaria here, but is still working.
Yes, I carried about ten of these bags. And I was wore out.
Malaria stricken Kenny had to take a break.
I encouraged him, which was my break.
Even the young men got in on the work.
Lordship Cement Carriers' Association
This is one tired Baptist preacher!