August 7 2009 from AfricaSinger

http://africansinger.livejournal.com/5309.html

http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/172736.html

Jamie's Mom, being the good Mom that she is: "Ok, this is Jamie's Mom. The team from Calvary just got back and Jessica and Jenny had some pics of Jamie on facebook. So, I borrowed the pics and here are a few on Jamie's blog. Please keep her in prayer...Jamie's Mom" ...

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20070807 Area residents comfort Orphans in Africa by Kelsey Volkmann

Area residents comfort, teach AIDS Orphans in Africa


By Kelsey Volkmann, Examiner Staff Writer, Tuesday, August 7, 2007[1]



For other articles by Kelsey Volkmann go here.

One child was found under the bushes, one in a tire and another on the street. All of them alone. Their parents had died of AIDS.

In Namibia, Africa, along the Zambezi River, where hippopotamuses and crocodiles roam, 4,000 to 5,000 children have lost their families to the virus.

It’s these orphans that Carroll County residents hugged and taught this summer at the Children of Mount Zion Village, an orphanage established by Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Bel Air. Twenty members of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Mount Airy, which has donated to the children for years, traveled to Namibia this summer to provide comfort and teach them science, math, guitar, reading, dancing and drawing. For some, this was a return trip to the region.

“We saw this little boy come in last year as a 9-month-old baby, and he was weaker than a newborn,” said Sarah Dorrance, a Calvary seminary student who visited for the second time this year.

“He would have died. It’s a blessing to now see him running around, hugging and playing games.”

The church volunteers returned home last month, but one, Kevin Meadows, remained behind to teach in a region where more than 40 percent of the population has HIV or AIDS.

On his blog, Meadows describes the orphanage’s location in a region called the Caprivi Strip, an intersection of trade routes connecting several southern African countries.

“Despite its favorable location, scenic beauty and exotic wildlife, it also has one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates among adults in Namibia and the whole of Africa,” he wrote.

kvolkmann@baltimoreexaminer.com

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For other posts and information on “Soundtrack” on Children of Zion Namibia Africa, please click here.

Click here for Children of Zion web site information: 20070319 Children of Zion Namibia Africa information

For more information go to: http://www.childrenofzionvillage.org/

For a blog on the Children of Zion initiative, to “Kevin Meadows in Namibia” - http://www.kevinmeadows.us/

[1] Note this article is not online electronically and can only be found in the pdf version of the paper. Since the article is not available easily, I have taken the liberty to keyboard the article into a MS Word document and place the entire article online…

To find the article in pdf go to:
http://bapaper.examiner.com/edition/carroll/?haspdf=1
Under the current edition pull down, go to August 7th, 2007 and then go to page 05-Local

20070319 African orphans make special visit by KVolkmann

African orphans make special visit

Mar 19, 2007

by Kelsey Volkmann, The Examiner

Photo credit: (Kristine Buls/Baltimore Examiner) Nicky Berego, 13, of Namibia, Africa, rides Bucky next to volunteer Caroline Babylon at Petticoat’s Advance, a farm in Hampstead in Carroll County. Nicky is part of a group of orphans touring Md.

Bel Air, Md. - They watched Disney on Ice, shopped at a mall and rode escalators for the first time.

Maryland, after all, is far away from the girls’ home in Namibia, Africa the Children of Mount Zion Village, an orphanage established by Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Bel Air and still operating thanks to donations and volunteers from churches throughout the state.

“It’s a lot for them to take in,” said Sarah Dorrance, a seminary student and missionary advocate at Calvary United Methodist Church in Mount Airy, one of the orphanage’s sponsors.

But the girls appeared at ease recently while riding horses at Petticoat’s Advance, a farm in Hampstead in Carroll County.

Mary Shunk, an instructor with the 4-H Therapeutic Riding Program of Carroll County, praised the teenagers for their riding skills.

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Dorrance volunteered at the orphanage last summer and plans to go back in July.

In Africa, “we played with the kids,” she said, “taught, cooked and just gave them some attention.”

kvolkmann@baltimoreexaminer.com

Read the entire article here: African orphans make special visit

20070319 Children of Zion Namibia on Soundtrack

Children of Zion Namibia on Soundtrack

March 19^th, 2007

For other posts and information on “Soundtrack” on Children of Zion Namibia Africa, please click here.

Click here for Children of Zion web site information: 20070319 Children of Zion Namibia Africa information

For more information go to: http://www.childrenofzionvillage.org/

UPDATE: For a blog on the Children of Zion initiative, to “Kevin Meadows in Namibia” - http://www.kevinmeadows.us/ - or http://www.kevininnamibia.blogspot.com/

20070319 Children of Zion Namibia Africa information

Children of Zion, Namibia, Africa

Africa Namibia Children of Zion Village

March 20^th, 2007

"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in."

-Matthew 24:35

http://www.childrenofzionvillage.org/

Contact Us – info AT childrenofzionvillage DOT org

Telephone: (410) 836-2121

Postal: Children of Zion, Inc., P.O. Box 413, Churchville, MD 21028 USA

Welcome to Children of Zion Village

The Children of Zion Village is a Christian home for orphans in the country of Namibia, in southern Africa. Located on the Zambezi River in the northeast corner of Namibia, our children come from several different tribal and language groups.

They have been placed in our care because they have lost their parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles to AIDS. The home opened in January, 2003, and is now home to 55 children.

Here the boys and girls receive love, nutrition, shelter, healthcare, academic, vocational and Bible education, and become part of one large Christian family. Our missionaries, volunteers, and Namibian staff work together to raise the children in our "village".

For more information go to: http://www.childrenofzionvillage.org/

For other posts and information on “Soundtrack” on Children of Zion Namibia Africa, please click here.

Click here for Children of Zion web site information: 20070319 Children of Zion Namibia Africa information

For more information go to: http://www.childrenofzionvillage.org/

For a blog on the Children of Zion initiative, to “Kevin Meadows in Namibia” - http://www.kevinmeadows.us/

20070227 African Teen Orphans Visit Maryland For Dance Tour

African Teen Orphans Visit Maryland For Dance Tour

Feb 27, 2007

African Teen Orphans Visit Maryland For Dance Tour

Richard Sher , Reporting

http://wjz.com/local/local_story_058175737.html

See the video here: http://wjz.com/video/?id=25392@wjz.dayport.com

(WJZ) BEL AIR, Md. Ten teenage girls from Namibia in Southern Africa are dancing their way through Maryland.

As Richard Sher reports, they are orphans, living at Children of Zion Village, in Northeastern Namibia, thanks to the wonderful work of Mount Zion United Methodist Church in Bel Air.

Church members Rebecca and Gary Mink are missionaries, who along with the church, bought the land, and built Children of Zion Village.

In all, 55 children, live there. Their parents either died from AIDS, or from the war in Angola.

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The girls leave the states March 19th.

They will be giving a free public concert, Friday night, 7 p.m. at Mount Zion United Methodist Church, in Bel Air.

For more information call 410-836-7444 or Click Here to log onto the Children of Zion web site.

Read the entire article and watch the video here: African Teen Orphans Visit Maryland For Dance Tour

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