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April 1974. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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It was a memorable birthday. As Hank Pott turned 32, he and his wife Cathy touched down in Lusaka. They joined a small group of Christian faculty at the University of Zambia and spent their free time discipling the 100 Christian students there. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Many people had been praying for them. The previous year, Chua Wee Hian, the General Secretary of IFES, had spoken at the student missionary conference Urbana<\/em>: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cSomewhere in this audience tonight are Hank and Cathy Pott. They\u2019re going to Zambia. I ask you to pray them in \u2013 and then after two years pray them out, having found their Zambian successor.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Two years later, and 4,000 miles away in London, Zambian student Derek Mutungu gave his life to Christ. God gave him a heart to serve students back in his homeland. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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And so God answered the prayers of the students at Urbana<\/em>. The Potts handed over leadership of the fellowship group, now 500-strong, to Derek. Under Derek\u2019s leadership, the work expanded to more than 30 campuses. Today ZAFES is present on 91 campuses across ten regions. <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":7988,"template":"","area":[456,536],"theme":[1218],"class_list":["post-7987","conexion","type-conexion","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","area-epsa","area-zambia","theme-history-of-movements"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow student work began in Zambia · IFES Conexi\u00f3n Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"April 1974.  It was a memorable birthday. As Hank Pott turned 32, he and his wife Cathy touched down in Lusaka. 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