Schools
Bible study, worship, drama, and activities with secondary school students, then staying behind to pray with whoever wants to. The team returns to the same schools rather than covering new ground.
Go & serve
Come and work alongside the team
Most volunteers are between 20 and 50 and English-speaking. You join what the local team is already doing, in places where they already have relationships. Nothing here is a programme brought from outside.
Ways to serve
Four kinds of work, all of them alongside people who live there. One of them is where the need is greatest right now.
Churches
Serving local churches in Lusaka alongside the team from the partner church — youth meetings, worship, and the Saturday gathering.
Orphanages
Regular visits: activities, a short teaching, time to talk, and a meal when funds allow. The visits repeat, which is what makes them work.
Younger children
The team wants to reach younger children as well as teenagers, and this is where help is most needed right now. Experience with children’s ministry is especially welcome.
Short-term or long-term
Short-term
Most people come for two to three weeks, hosted by the local partner, working alongside the existing team.
No particular skill needed beyond willingness to be with teenagers.
You join the week the team already has planned.
Practical details handled one to one before you book anything.
Costs and trip dates to be confirmed
Long-term
A few months or longer, for people who want to carry part of the work rather than visit it.
Discussed with both the sending church and the local partner.
Expect language, culture, and a slower start.
Housing depends on the Ministry Center's progress.
Visa and health requirements to be confirmed
A day with the team
A sample day, not a timetable. What happens depends on which schools and churches have invited the team that week.
Early morning
Prayer with the team before anything else happens.
Morning
A school visit: worship, drama, then prayer with students who stay behind.
Afternoon
Travel, preparation, and time with the local team. Feeding when the funds are there.
Evening
A church youth meeting, or rest if the next day is a heavy one.
Saturday
The weekly gathering — worship, teaching, and prayer with the teenagers who keep coming back.
The Saturday gathering
The week gathers on Saturday: worship, teaching, and prayer with the teenagers who keep coming back. Visiting teams usually find this is the part they remember.
Photo needed — the Saturday gathering, wide shot, faces not identifiable
Before you come
Who comes
Mostly Egyptian, English-speaking Christians, usually between 20 and 50. Other nationalities are welcome; the working language is English.
What it costs
Flights, visa, and a contribution to hosting. We will send the figures rather than estimate them here.
Costs to be confirmed
Visa and health
Requirements depend on your passport and vaccination history, and are being confirmed with the local partner.
Visa and health requirements to be confirmed
Team rules
A short written agreement covering conduct, photography, and safeguarding, which you sign before travelling.
Team rules to be confirmed
Working with children and teenagers
Volunteers never photograph or name a child without the home or school’s permission, and never post a child’s name, school, or location. Testimonies are shared only with consent. If any of that is unclear when you arrive, ask before you post.
I want to go
Tell us roughly when and for how long. We will send the volunteer brief and answer your questions one to one — no newsletter, no automated follow-ups.
Costs, visa and health requirements, and team rules are being confirmed with the local partner. We will send them as soon as they are fixed rather than guess now.