Chris and Heidi Kohn are our partners with Orchard Ministries in Zambia, Africa. With the Corona Virus relief offerings sent by HFTW, they were able to help many pastors in their area. Orchard operates a Bible school there, training 12 teenage boys to become pastors and missionaries. They affectionately call their students “young lions,” many of whom come from poverty.
Chris and Heidi recently came up with a brilliant idea. With the funds, they decided to (as the saying goes) not just give their students a fish but to teach them how to fish. They divided up the land behind their house into plots for each boy to have his own garden. They brought in farmers who have a ministry called “Farming God’s Way” to help.
Using the relief funds, they purchased materials to create an irrigation system that includes a holding tank, pump, and pipes for water to reach the individual plots. They also bought rakes and shovels. The crops are blossoming well. The boys have planted cabbage, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cauliflower and are preparing to plant beans and groundnuts.
