Family Project Zambia 2026

Overview

Maranatha offers at least two family projects each year that provide service opportunities for every member of your family, both young and old. In 2026, spend part of your summer break in Zambia!

Maranatha has selected the Mwami Hospital Campus for a second Summer Family Project, July 16-26. In 1925, the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Africa acquired a farm of 3,035 acres, on which the Mwami Mission Station was established. The farm had three streams, good soil, and pastureland that could support a small herd. It used to be a tobacco farm and had many of its original brick buildings. Some of these buildings were run down, but contained 200,000 good bricks that were used to construct new mission buildings. The Mwami Adventist Hospital was later established there, as an extension of the medical missionary work conducted at Malamulo Mission in Malawi. Mwami is located 30 kilometers southeast of Chipata, the capital city of the Eastern Province of Zambia. The mission was named after the Mwami stream, which flows through the property. Maranatha worked on several projects at the Mwami Hospital decades ago. And the Adventist Church in Zambia recently requested that Maranatha return to build a secondary school campus. It will serve a growing community and be the first school to offer secondary Adventist education in its Province.

Zambia has long been a beautiful place for tourists, with natural sights and wonders pervading the country. However, in recent years, the focus of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Zambia has been its explosive membership growth. From 2011 to 2024, membership more than doubled. As the church grows, there is a need for churches and schools.

For this upcoming project, volunteers will build a multi-classroom building for the secondary school located around the Mwami Hospital Campus.