To develop a group of isolated struggling farmers in rural Zambia into a thriving Christian community of sustainable farms and businesses with divinely directed purpose and abundant life.
We want to encourage the villagers of Mupitanshi to lift their standard of living to a point where the people have enough food to eat plus money for other purchase like sending their children to school and to be in line with the plan and purpose God has for them. Our village of Mupitanshi will become the local council hub around which everything grows and prospers and that other villages will follow our example.
Durelle says:
"While assisting Dr. Robi Sonderegger in 2005 on a small missionary trip to Mupitansi, Zambia I fell in love with the people. The people were cheerful and welcoming yet they had so little. I began sponsoring Owen Kafuta, adopting him as my African grandson that year. Owen, whose parents are both dead is now 20 years of age, has given his heart to the Lord, is the Church Choirmaster and a student at boarding school for boys.
Robi called to see me in Jerusalem on his travels a month or so later and explained that he was pulling out of Mupitanshi. When I shared my vision with him he said, “Go for it, Durelle. Grab one of the huts for yourself, make it your own and do whatever God leads you to do.”
I related very strongly to Jeremiah’s attitude of not being good enough but like him I decided I would “go where I was told to go and say what I was told to say and God would rescue me if I got into trouble.”
So in 2008 clutching tightly to my ‘call from God’ I set off to live in Muptitanshi and love the people, the only white person for miles around, not knowing the language and wondering what on earth I was supposed to do. Only three men and one woman in the village speak English. Many of the children had never seen a white person and at first they freaked out."
