I am a boy aged sixteen. I was born on 23rd August in the year 2001, in Ndola District of Copperbelt, Zambia. I am the fourth born in the family of six. I was first enrolled at a nursery school in 2007 and then as a grade 1 in 2008 at Intulo Primary School. When I was going to be in grade 7, I was transferred to Chawama Primary School and I wrote my grade 7 exams there in 2014.

I successfully passed and I was selected at Temweni Secondary School for grade 8. It was hard for me to school because of money for the school fees but thanks be to God he provided, and I was in school in 2015. Since I loved to do things and make things from my mind (ideas), I selected Art as an option, but I also loved Electronics (all kinds of stuff that deal with electricity, like toys by repairing them) and computers. So my favourite subjects were Art and Computer Studies (ICT) until grade 9. I passed my grade 9 exams with very high marks, but again failed to report back to school because of money for school fees and I was owing them money for grade 9 school fees.

So I failed to report back to school until the second term of my grade 10 when God intervened. I thank God I was allowed to start going to school for free by the head teacher just for my grade 10 year.

According to the present situation, I never thought that I ws going to continue going to school after the grade 10 year that was given to me by the head of the school. God has taken everything on Him for me. He has provided and I give thanks to Him. The pastor just asked me how much was needed for my school fees. God has done a very great thing in my life through Pastor William Banda, Pastor Kirolus Sivin and their partners.

I don’t know how to say thank you. I am able to go to school without panicking. This has been very great to me because no I am able to think about what I want to be and what I will be in the future. This is an opportunity given to me by God and am not going to fail you. I will work hard in my education and everything else so that in the future and even now, I can be a help to other people as well.

I never knew that there are people who can help people; who have a Godly heart in this world. Only God can do this through His people. I have seen that God is good, very caring and a Father to me and everyone else.

I pray to God to protect and bless every soul that has a heart for others, for Zambia and Africans. I pray for God to bless you beyond your thinking and beyond what you expect. I really, really say thank you!

God is good. He is a loving and caring Father beyond what I know. I want to serve Him for the rest of my life. My spiritual life is getting better and I am knowing God more through Pastor William Banda.

I want God to use me mightily in His kingdom by being a help to other people as He has been to me. I really want to know God more because I feel there is more to know that I don’t know.

I am on a journey, only God can lead me and I will reach my destination successfully in Him. He will use me mightily as a vessel of change to the world. In Jesus’ name.

JoshuaNdola, Zambia