Maranatha Volunteers International’s local crew recently broke ground on a project at the Liumba Adventist School in western Zambia. Established in 1928 as an outpost for the first Adventist missionaries to the region, this aging campus now serves students in grades K-10. But with an enrollment of more than 360 stuck in cramped, deteriorating buildings, Liumba needs more space for learning and living.

Maranatha will expand the school’s capacity with a three-classroom building. These new classrooms will allow Liumba to offer 11th and 12th grades as a full secondary school. This will fill a huge need in the community, as there is no other high school within 12 miles. Maranatha will also add a lab, bathrooms, staff office, workroom, and new water well.

These improvements are the results of many years of prayers. “This is more than exciting for us,” said Mutti Kangungu, executive secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Western Zambia. “It’s a fulfillment of our long-standing wish.”

Maranatha’s local crew is preparing the site to pour the foundation on the classroom building. In late March, volunteers will arrive to help with construction. The work at the Liumba school coincides with a larger effort of Maranatha to construct 17 One-Day Churches in the western part of the country in 2021.

Maranatha worked in Zambia from 2009-2015, completing hundreds of projects. In 2018, Maranatha returned to Zambia in response to a request for more churches, schools, and water wells across the country.

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