God is Doing a New Thing in Zambia

By: Mariah Glasener

I can’t believe we are officially halfway through 2025! The past few months have felt like a whirlwind. 

In June, I spent some time on the ground with our team in Zambia – and I stayed on our brand new property! Our team, programs, and girls are all still settling in, learning things like how long it now takes to get from our property to girls’ schools and how to adjust monthly electricity usage. Moving from a one-room office in a house to our multiple-room, specially-designed office block has presented unique challenges and blessings (but certainly mostly the latter!), and I’ve got to say, our TKP ecosystem is teeming with life and activity!

I also feel like TKP is entering into a season of renewal – welcoming new staff members to the team, settling into new spaces, re-launching programs, and more. God has been faithful to sustain us through lots of changes and periods of growth, and now it feels like He is preparing us for new things. 

I keep coming back to the passage in Isaiah 43:16-19 where it says,

16This is what the Lord says—
    he who made a way through the sea,
    a path through the mighty waters,
17 who drew out the chariots and horses,
    the army and reinforcements together,
and they lay there, never to rise again,
    extinguished, snuffed out like a wick:
18 “Forget the former things;
    do not dwell on the past.
19 See, I am doing a new thing!
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland.

From the ground up, we built a home in a rural area; we wired electricity and drilled boreholes for water on-site – so God is quite literally “making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” We watched a scrubby 5-acre plot of land become inhabitable and secure; a home filled with new life. Since moving in, we’ve already welcomed 3 new girls and 2 new babies – with another one on the way.

I remember TKP’s early days, how, despite intentional preparation, there were some lessons we simply had to learn the hard way. God forged a path for us in otherwise uncharted territory and we trusted Him to guide us through. And don’t get me wrong – today we continue to learn so much and have lots of room for growth, but I thank God for just how far He’s brought us. And I thank Him in advance for what He has up ahead. He is doing a “new thing” – and I can’t wait to see what it is.