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Jubilee Centre donates medicine

JC in partnership with the Christian Medical and Dental Association donated medicines to Ndola District Health Management Team; Chipokota Mayamba Clinic in Chifubu and Mapalo Health Clinic. Dr Simon Miti the Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary in his letter to JC stated, “We wish to thank you most sincerely for your untiring efforts in assisting the vulnerable people and indeed, the ministry of health”.

Also through this partnership JC has given out more than 400 Bibles to the men and women who helped in the medical outreach program and youths in HIV/AIDS Youth Action Clubs. JC has also continued to give eye glasses that were donated by the CMDA to needy people in Chifubu churches.

Micah Challenge Launch:

Micah Challenge Zambia (M.C.Z) has officially been lunched in Zambia. The launch was held for two days, on the 3^rd and 4^th of August, 2007 in Lusaka.

On 3^rd August there was workshop and Saturday, 4th August, 2007, saw the official national lunch for Micah Challenge Zambia.

Ninety church leaders attended the Launch. The national broadcaster came and we were televised on Muvi television on Friday and on Saturday and were broadcasted on Zambia National Broadcasting Cooperation (ZNBC) and Christian Voice.

Bread for World Gathering:
Pastor Temfwe was a featured speaker at the Bread for World Gathering of 2007, held at American University, in Washington, D.C. Lawrence spoke after Rev. David Beckman, the President for Bread for the World, and Mr. Salil Shetty, Director of the UN Millennium Campaign and in his speech Lawrence told the 1000 Christian leaders from the USA and across the world that, “For us Christians, development is a spiritual activity. If we are not seeing souls coming to Christ, people being rooted in faith and doing justice then we have reduced development to mere social intervention. Such development is not of God.”

Later Lawrence participated in the Bread for the World advocacy on the Farm Bill. He visited Sen. Inhofe’s office where he spoke to his aid on the need for the Presidential Emergency Plan for AIDS and Relief to be directed to empower vulnerable people in rural areas. Lawrence expressed concern that more funds were being spent on workshops for workers in AIDS rather than those who are directly affected especially people living in poverty and those in rural areas.

Learning Visits
Three groups have visited Jubilee Centre; these are the Transformation team from Tearfund U.K, the Christian Community Church and the Valparaiso Community Church team from the USA. They participated in youth HIV/AIDS programs, teachers training, Church leadership and feeding the orphans and vulnerable children.

Link Space:
JC has begun to work with Micah Challenge on a new project called Link Space. This will link churches in Zambia to those abroad in order to share the different cultural core values in worship and the role of the local church. Pray that the programme will be successful and fruitful.
Linkspace aims to link the global family of God, building on the great diversity and experience of men and women, girls and boys, around the world, who love God and bringing them together in an equal partnership to serving our Lord in their respective communities.

Jubilee Centre promotional video:
Jubilee centre has produced a short video on its work, objectives and strategic plan. This will soon be available to download from our website - to receive a copy by postal mail email the Jubilee Centre.

JC Prayer Requests:
Pray for the provincial Micah Challenge launches. Micah Challenge Zambia will soon be launched in each of Zambia’s eight remaining provinces. The essence of the sensitization campaign is to launch and develop Micah Challenge across the country. They will be one day events bringing together church leaders and Christians from the province.

Pray that the JC Conference Centre, which is currently under construction, will be completed within schedule. $15,000 is required to complete the centre.

New website:
JC website (www.jubileecentre.org) is still under test phase. Pray that we will go live soon.

Become a friend of the Jubilee Centre:
We would like to encourage you to become a friend of JC by giving regularly to support our work. In return we will keep you regularly updated on our work and ministry. For those in the USA and UK we have tax efficient ways you can give to Jubilee Centre:

USA: Please send tax deductible checks to Jubilee Centre, c/o Dr Bryan Boatwright MD, 2704 Hartlee Ct, Denton, Texas 76208.

UK: JC now as an account with Stewardship where you can give tax efficiently. Please use the Stewardship account form found on the website www.jubileecentre.org/support

Within Zambia: Please send cheques and money to us at the address below.