Anna reminds us to pray for MGO 2022, which is now less than 2 months away. Prior to Covid, MGO had become a very significant feature of our annual calendar, and we are really looking forward to resuming this year.
There is still a considerable amount of preparation to be made on site. We plan to have a week of Children’s Outreach & Gospel work at Saidi, as well as our regular MGO activities.
I love Malawi. I’ll take every opportunity to visit Malawi. But I hope I never have to visit again in the circumstances that made this present trip necessary.
As regular readers know, sister Anna recently suffered a very traumatic burglary and assault at her home. The trustees agreed unanimously that Gail and I should travel to Malawi at the earliest opportunity to support her through this crisis. We also felt it appropriate to review and improve the security of our people and property in Malawi in light of what had happened.
After a final flurry of activity this week, MGO 2022 is now fully subscribed. It looks like we are going to have our biggest team ever, with 22 participants signed up, plus our local volunteers, Lord willing.
As in previous years, the team will have an international flavour, with participants from USA, Canada/Mexico, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland.
We expect that MGO may have a slightly different twist this year. For the first time we have our own property on which to run children’s day camps, and it looks like this will feature this August. It will be a great opportunity to bolster the children’s work which Goodson and Anna carry on at Saidi.
Please pray earnestly for the Lord’s blessing. With such a large group there will be much more organisation and logistics involved. So, we ask you to pray for wisdom at this planning stage.
MGO 2022 is now fully subscribed. Applicants after 23 March 2022 will go on a waitlist.
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We are excited to announce provisional dates for MGO 2020, which will be from 1st to 15th August (subject to final confirmation).
Irving & Sheryl proceeded to Chitokoloki, Zambia from Malawi and have been visiting with Shawn & Rhonda Markle and family.
They have been visiting some local Christians to give some food relief.
Safe home, guys!
This trip to Malawi has been very precious in so many ways. It was a real joy to serve the Lord in a small way with this MGO team in Malawi. What a wonderful opportunity to tell precious souls of the love of our Heavenly Father. We have so much to praise the Lord for.
After reflecting about this trip on our return home, I think the bible verse that seems so fitting is, ‘But, as for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord’ (Joshua 24 v 15). A call, followed by that choice to serve the Lord has been made by individuals who are serving the Lord in various places. Hearing their experiences of how the Lord has provided for every need first hand, has really been so encouraging and the faith they have shown in our Lord has been refreshing. How often do we get dismayed by the day to day activities and forget why we are on this earth and who we are here to serve?
Each successive MGO generates its own special memories and MGO 2019 has been no exception.
We’ve had an outstanding team of different, but complementary personalities, all of whom have made a very positive contribution to the overall effectiveness of this outreach.
Many have made significant sacrifices of time, energy and expense to be with us, and we appreciate their efforts enormously.
Most are now home (some after marathon journeys) or enroute like ourselves, and we will all value your prayers for journeying mercies for those who still have some miles to cover, either by road or air.
Remember Anna and Ruthie with a long, bumpy ride back to Sakeji (Zambia) and Irv and Sheryl visiting with the Markles in Chitokoloki.
MGO has been challenging and encouraging to me, both of which are personal answers to prayer!
Visiting the prison today (Tues 13th) was emotional for me for many reasons, but I didn’t expect to actually cry and I did a few times during the gospel message that Jim shared with the the men and women there. I watched one male prisoner specifically because when Jim first stood up to speak I noticed he laughed and continued talking to his friends. But as the message of the gospel continued I watched the prisoner’s face become very focused, he stopped joking around and seemed to really listen to what Jim and Harold were saying.
Obviously, I don’t know what that man was thinking or feeling, but just to watch his change in attitude as he heard the gospel was a great personal reminder of the power of God’s word!
(Contributed by Ruthie)
(This is a true story, but the identity of the individuals involved has been deliberately obscured for their protection.)
We had a really moving experience at the refugee camp.
We were visiting a refugee orphanage run by a Christian couple within the camp. Wow! How the Lord is using the husband and wife in such awful circumstances. He was a government official in his previous country who couldn’t condone or carry out the killings by the President. An assassination on his life was attempted and he narrowly escaped death several times during his escape. He got separated from his wife for a while and sadly she got raped and beaten.
