November 2024 Newsletter
WORD FROM RABBI ALEX.
We were not placed here on earth to do the possible. We were not called to achieve the ordinary. We are here by divine appointment to fill the world with a light that it does not know. To make the blind to see, to make the darkness shine, to make the bitter sweet, to bring the spiritual into the realm of the physical and to proclaim the presence of a Highly exalted God who hides in plain sight.
Have a wonderful day!!
ZAMBIA
Zambia has been hit by one of the worst drought in living memory. The Kariba Dam which is the largest man-made dam in the word and which houses Zambia’s hydro-power station is running at less than 10% capacity resulting in severe electricity outages.
Experts say the drought has been more devasting to Zambia’s economy than COVID-19. In many areas electricity only comes for just 1 hour a day.
Please do pray that with the onset of the rainy season that Zambia will receive adequate rains to feed itself and to take care of its electricity needs.
ZMF NEWS
Our Israel solidarity march on the streets of Lusaka, Zambia. The Israeli consular joined us for the march.
We successfully hosted the Jewish voice medical outreach, East of Mumbwa in Central Zambia. The outreach targeted the Lemba Jews of Zambia and their neighbors. There were doctors and nurses from the USA, Ethiopia and Zambia. Over 8500 people received treatment, 600 people received Yeshua and 3 congregations were planted among the Lemba Jews.
The Lemba Jews are descendants of Aaron the High priest and are found primarily in Zimbabwe, Northern South Africa and Zambia.
Over 8500 Lemba Jews received treatment at the medical outreach.
CONGREGATIONS.
Another wedding at ZMF.
I am happy to report the baptism of several people at our Beth Messiah Congregation in Lusaka and in Luwingu several people received the Lord through the ministry of Rabbi Thomas Kapoki.
SCHOOL
According to UNESCO there are about 251 million children globally aged between 8-18 who are not in school. Over half of these children (over 51% or over 125 million) are found in Sub Sahara Africa which includes Zambia.
According to UNICEF about 800,000 Zambian children are out of school. And worse still Zambia has one of the highest rates of child marriages in Africa. Please help break the cycle of hopelessness by sponsoring a child at our Jerome Fleischer school at only $45 a month.
The Jerome Fleischer School for orphans has K1 to k12 grades and has been a place of refuge for the poorest of the poor. The children are offered food, academics, uniforms and medical treatment.
We are happy to be identified as one of the best schools in Matero/Lilanda zone and have produced nurses, electricians and others.
The Jerome Fleischer school is this year celebration 20 years of it’s existence.
Some of the children at our Jerome Fleischer school attending class. Our new computer lab.
ORPHANAGE.
Africa is home to a large number of orphans, with an estimated 52 million children living in orphanhood on the continent. This is more than a third of the world’s orphans, and the majority of them live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Many orphans in Africa face difficult lives, without support and forced to care for themselves and their siblings. Some orphans turn to extended family members for support, but these family members are often unable to provide it.
There is no government help for orphans in Zambia.
Orphans in Zambia often live with impoverished relatives or older siblings or worse still on the streets.
The team from Hesperus Church in Southern Colorado visited our orphanage and gave it a new facelift. The team tiled, painted and repaired the orphanage dormitories, dining room, kitchen and storerooms.
We thank the Lord for this amazing team which also prayed and played with the orphans.
THE YALENGA FAMILY
Thank you for your support and prayers we are all doing well.
OTHER PRAISE REPORTS.
Computer labs are being set up at the orphanage and the two campuses of the Jerome Fleischer school.
We received a solar system at the orphanage to help mitigate the severe electricity outages currently facing Zambia.
We had a joyful wedding at ZMF.
Our HJ Ledbetter Campus was closed by the government due to having only one outhouse for more than 100 students and staff.
I am happy to report that we were able to build adequate bathrooms for our students and the city council connected us to the city water.
School is now open and children are learning.
PRAYER POINTS- Please join us in prayer for the following:
- Good health of all the children and staff.
- Growth and wellbeing of all the congregations that make up ZMF.
- Protection, prosperity and salvation of the Zambian traditional Jewish community.
- Salvation of Zambia’s Muslim community and African tribal communities.
- Open doors for the gospel especially among African Kings and queens.
- Pray for sponsorship for our day school students, half of the 300 children are not sponsored.
- Pray for our Shalom Zambia radio outreach and that it will bear fruit among the 2.5 million listeners.
- Finances for ministry needs, including a sponsor for each child under our care, financial support for the Yalenga family and for the needs of the other congregations under the Zambia Messianic Fellowship covering.
NEEDS
- $80 a month will allow a child to stay at our orphanage giving them a safe place, warm bed, three meals a day and school. Children will be taken in only after a sponsor is found.
- $45/month will sponsor, feed and educate one orphan for the whole month at our school. We still have many children in need of sponsors.
- $90 will sponsor one radio outreach program to over 2.5 million people.
- $150 will help pay the monthly wage of one teacher at the orphanage day school.
- $6 will buy a bible for a new believer.
- Monthly support for the Yalenga family who are in full time ministry taking care of several congregations, a radio ministry, over 300 orphans, outreach, discipleship and raising new leaders.
- $100 to help build a playground for our orphanage.
Thank you for being a blessing.
Shalom, Shalom.
For more information contact
zmforphanage@gmail.com
To Donate
Donations are tax deductible in the USA and are received with thanksgiving. For tax-deductible contributions in the United States, write checks (please designate Zambia) to:
Roeh Israel
PO Box 6147
Abilene, TX 79608-6147
Those in the UK (and Europe) can now support the work here in Zambia in £ or euros (cheque, money order). Cheques should be made to B’Nai Maccabim (http://www.bnaimac.co.uk) with Zambia on the back.
If you have questions or are looking for possibilities of supporting the ministry, sponsoring an orphan, being involved in our Graciousness Extended program or supporting the Yalenga family, please contact Maria Schmitt at zmforphanage@gmail.com or 719-487-9061.
When you donate to the Zambia Messianic Fellowship you can be sure that you are contributing to an organization that is witnessing to the lost, discipling believers, raising new leaders, taking care of orphans, planting congregations around Zambia, fighting anti-Semitism, teaching the church about their roots and responsibility to Israel and to the Jewish people, lobbying government for biblical values and helping the poor masses with viable economic activities.
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Shalom.
