IMPACT NDOLA 2017 INFORMATION PACKET For updates and additional documents go to www.northrise.org/impact-participant WELCOME! You are part of an incredible team of ambassadors devoting their time this summer to helping Northrise University love and serve the people of Ndola, Zambia. This information packet is designed to help you prepare for our trip in July so please read carefully. Please note that there are specific time lines that need to be followed for the entire team and the mission of Impact Ndola 2017 to be successful. PREPARATION CHECKLIST GUIDE TO THIS PACKET Register for Impact Ndola and pay the EvErything you nEEd to know, in onE placE $275 deposit per person before Mar. 14. • Mission and Expectations • Booking your flights Secure proper travel documentation (passport, visa, immunization record, • Travel Documentation etc). • Immunization & Medication • Preparing to fly Book your flights to and from Zambia • Needs while in Zambia Send a copy of your passport and flight • Team Planning Schedule itinerary to Northrise by May 1st • Cost Schedules Meet with your primary care physician • Safari Options to discuss recommended immunizations • Packing List and medications for traveling to Zambia. • Fundraising tips Update your immunization record card and pack it with your passport and visa • Visa Application Form for your flights. Click on the items above to go directly to the page with that content, all underlined Get a Yellow Fever Shot or make sure content are hyper-links. your proof of vaccination is current. Fast Facts about Zambia throughout. Purchase international medical emergency insurance or register with Northrise group coverage and send details with emergency contact information to Northrise Make your final payments for the service trip and safari to Northrise. Prepare mentally, physically, and spiritually. If you have not yet registered online or have any questions after reviewing the materials please contact Kelly Young, 602-330-6274. 2 MISSION AND MINISTRY The mission of Impact Ndola: We are Northrise This means we represent Northrise University in all our actions, words, and attitudes. Northrise University is Christ-centered so the goal is to follow Christ’s examples in all our interactions, demonstrating God’s love for those we meet. We are Northrise means that those we serve know their support comes from Northrise. When we go home the support we give doesn’t leave with us, but continues through the presence of Northrise in their community and ultimately through the God we represent. To really address poverty in a way that • Northrise University staff, students and honors and uplifts it is important that we other people you will meet are not allowed follow these guidelines: to propose or enter into any business relationships with you. • Northrise University staff members alone give gifts to students and those we serve. • We are Northrise represents life-changing Your team leaders are bringing gifts for relationships. As you prepare to come those we serve, — do not bring any gifts and see what God is doing in Africa be to hand out. You may be inclined to bring prepared to meet amazing people and coins, dollar bills, candy, clothes, etc — begin relationships that will change your these gestures tend to hurt more than help. life forever! You will likely feel out of your If you have a specific donation you want to comfort zone and seek anything familiar provide please contact Kelly Young prior to give you comfort and while there will to the trip to coordinate the gift through be opportunities for you to connect with Northrise. friends you’ve traveled with, actively choose to reach out to those you don’t yet • Northrise University meets the needs and know such as: solves the problems of their community. If you hear of or see a need and want to • NU staff and students — make friends, respond please contact a Northrise staff share your contact information to leader before you respond — do not continue the relationships when you get give out money or purchase items. Allow home. Bring a little notebook you can Northrise the opportunity to be the source write their email in or tear off a page to of the blessing so that when you leave they give them your info. will know where they can go for help and • Travelers from the US outside of your continue to see God at work in their city. immediate group — get to know those • Northrise University students are not allowed you’re traveling with by asking about to ask for donations. If you want to support their journey to Africa. Share contact info! a student please give to the ONE STUDENT • Volunteers serving on other projects — Scholarship Program. The program is you will have all day to serve with your designed in the best way to contribute team, take the opportunity at breakfast to the success and transformation of the or dinner to interact with people on other student and they must do their part as teams and ask about their work. required by the university. 3 WHAT CAN I EXPECT? Dr. Moffat Zimba’s goal for this experience is to change the hearts of all involved. Moffat wants to see Northrise University students cultivate a heart for service and local leaders equipped to continue the ministry after we leave. Additionally, it’s not just the Africans who can expect to experience a change of heart and soul, Moffat knows, and many have shared, that participating in Impact Ndola changes the hearts of those who travel overseas to serve. We cannot know exactly how we will change, but we can expect God to work in our lives, in the lives of those we serve and with whom we share the story. WHAT IS IMPACT NDOLA? We have an obligation for the care and ministry of the individuals we send from Impact Ndola is a great opportunity to share the United States and our goal is that each the love of Christ with the people of Ndola, participant experiences God’s love, grace, Zambia while serving with students and staff and hope through participation. and friends of Northrise University (NU). We want you to recognize your place in the Impact Ndola serves as an opportunity and global family and Kingdom of God. blessing to churches and friends across the United States as they participate in what God is doing in Ndola, Zambia and Africa. WHAT IS EXPECTED OF ME? While being used to transform a city, nation Read the entire Information Packet and ask and continent, the experience will change questions if not sure about some aspect of you. Many past participants say that they left the preparation for our trip. Memorize the a piece of their heart in Africa. Impact Ndola mission statement, “We are Northrise,” and guidelines on the previous Impact Ndola 2017 is Northrise University’s page of this packet. fifth intercontinental project which began in 2008. Plan well – 5 minutes of planning can save you 5 hours of valuable time in the future. The objective for 2017 is to “come and see” what God is doing through Northrise Prepare your heart, soul, mind and body University and to introduce new friends to its — materials will be provided through your vision and mission. local church to help guide some of the spiritual preparation for the trip. You will HOW DOES IMPACT NDOLA WORK? want to be knowledgeable about the culture, Our main goal is to share God’s love by serving environment and how you will be serving and ministering to the people of Ndola. by participating in all the ministry/project team meetings. Eating right, exercise and This includes the pastors and women from adequate rest leading up to the trip will help local churches, Arising Life Ministries, NU your body adjust faster to the challenges of Care, Northrise Farms, Mapalo Morning Glow long travel and a new environment. Academy, Makenzie Children’s Center and Arthur Davison Children’s Hospital. This also Follow the guidelines provided by Northrise includes new connections that are formed as University and your Team Leader. NU’s influence grows and friends use their unique skills to bless the city. 4 FAST FACTS ABOUT ZAMBIA Time: Zambia is in Central Africa Time Zone. (GMT+2) US Standard = CST +7 hours Population: 15.5 million Borders: Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia Capital: Lusaka Area: 752,614 sq. km. Zambia is roughly the size of Texas Languages: English is the official language. The 8 local languages include Bemba, Lozi, Nyanja and Tonga BOOKING YOUR FLIGHTS 3. While we encourage you to include the safari experience as a valuable time for You are required to book your own flights debriefing and experiencing Africa we to and from Zambia. Due to the number understand that some are just not able. If of different itineraries required for such needed you can book your return flight a unique trip, 75 participants coming on Saturday July 15 from Ndola. from different cities and states across the • Send your flight itinerary to Kelly Young country, we require participants to book as soon as you have it. We need that their own travel arrangements from the information to arrange your transportation United States to Zambia and back home. to and from the airport in Ndola. • Northrise University is arranging all of the Some things to keep in mind when booking travel logistics for our week in Ndola as well your flights: as our safari experience. This requires that • Make Ndola your final destination, arriving we get your itinerary no later than May 1st. on Sunday July 9. In respect of our hosts, • Reports show that the best time to book Northrise University, please do not arrive an international flight is 3 months prior earlier as the University does not have the to your trip.