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“When Enja* first came to Spring of Love Christian Academy, she had some behavioral challenges. Enja’s teacher, Elizabeth Caldwell, recalls, “She was…”

This village school has fought its way into existence, overcome funding struggles, Covid shut downs, construction delays, and staffing challenges. Listen to what Mrs. Lungu says about your impact through Spring of Love Christian School. …

ITMI Partner, Eugene Kalunga, writes, “I am filled with many emotions…”

We asked our partners to share some of the ways Jesus’ kingdom was advanced this year. We hope you are encouraged by their answers and the special messages they have for you!

Conrad Lucheta closed his Bible and rose from the metal chair where he’d been preparing for the morning devotion he’d be leading for his students. …

Vehicle ownership is unreachable, so these dedicated missionary teachers must ride their bicycles 5 miles each way to work, rain or shine until the school can get housing built for them onsite.

THE CONTEXT

Africa's staggering social challenges such as the HIV/AIDS pandemic, genocide, poverty, hunger and corruption can be overwhelming. Where do we start? How do we offer help?

While we want to relieve the suffering, hunger and disease, we also want to find roots of these problems and address them.

Educating children in a place where an education is a privilege, turns those children into adults who are leaders. They become the ones with the income and knowledge to hold influential positions.

Raising and educating children with a Christian worldview not only provides a chance for those positions to be filled by people raised with a Christian worldview, it reaches those children and their families with the Good News.

 

WHAT YOUR SUPPORT DOES

Your support instills a Christian worldview in the lives of Zambian children and their families.

Your support provides a quality Christian education for children in Zambia, many whose families wouldn't otherwise be able to afford one.

As an organization, Excellence Christian Academy prioritizes reaching out to the suffering with the Gospel regularly.

Instead of learning the about world from the streets, ECA students are learning from godly teachers. Instead of understanding the world from a humanistic or Animistic perspective, they are learning about God's world from His Word.

Excellence Christian Academy

Excellence Christian Academy has been reaching families in Kabwe, Zambia with God's Word for over 20 years. Students are educated through the lens of a Biblical worldview and equipped to make an impact as followers of Jesus in any field or endeavor they pursue.

Kabwe, Zambia

ECA, Zambia, Excellence Christian Academy

ECA students are provided with a challenging academic curriculum taught from a Biblical perspective.

ECA, Zambia, Excellence Christian Academy, praying

ECA, Zambia, Excellence Christian Academy

Excellence Christian Academy, Zambia

ECA students enjoy worship time.

 

Excellence Christian Academy, Zambia

Spring of Love Christian Academy

Spring of Love Christian Academy opened in 2021, to provide children in a cluster of villages with a quality education from a Biblical perspective. Spring of Love mirrors the formula honed and proven at Excellence Christian Academy.

Kabwe, Kapiri Mposhi

Kapiri Mposhi is about an hour drive from Kabwe, Zambia.

A Spring of Love student learns to pray.

HISTORY

Pastor Eugene Kalunga, a teacher and lecturer at Mongu Teachers’ College, had a burden to serve the Lord by spreading the Gospel of Christ Jesus through education.

He and his fellow Christian teachers began taking students for picnics during school holidays and teaching them the Bible. Many of these gave their lives to the Lord and later became pastors, elders and deacons in churches all over Zambia.

After his training at Highway Christian Academy (Accelerated Christian Education) and Durban Christian Centre, where he received a degree in Theology, he returned to Zambia.

His first child was involved in the public education, but Eugene wanted his children to be taught from a Gospel perspective and know how to share it with others. He removed his child from public schools and started educating him to share the gospel.

Because of Eugene’s love for teaching and for using education to share the gospel, he began teaching other children in the area as well.

When ITMI discovered that this dear brother was homeschooling 50 students in his tiny house, we began raising support for Eugene’s not-so-little school.

ITMI was able to help Eugene purchase some property that was previously owned by the Zambian Railway to use as the grounds for Excellence Christian Academy. Reverend Kalunga and his dedicated teacher-team have turned it into a first-class educational institution.

ECA campus

ECA campus. 

eugene kalunga, audrey kalunga, ECA, Zambia

ITMI's Eugene and Audrey Kalunga, Zambia

Excellence Christian Academy has duplicated its proven success to reach a village with the Gospel through Christian education.
This was a big milestone and something ITMI’s Eugene Kalunga prayed about for years and worked tirelessly to accomplish.

You Send. They Reach. Your support of our partners is an important part of each of these fun stories of giving and celebrating!

As of mid-July, all schools remain closed. Find out what that means for our partners at Excellence Christian Academy and Spring of Love.

“The experience has been life-changing…” says Given Singogo, “My prayer life has a new lease on life due to…” 

“What once seemed like a dream is now reality!” This is how our long-time partner, Eugene Kalunga of Zambia describes what happened on February 1, 2021 in the village of Lubemba in Zambia. …

Seven-year-old Paul had to stop attending school to help his family eat. Paul normally attends classes at the Caleb Center for Children with Autism, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, he had to help his sister sell goods at the market to help his family eat.