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The Anatomy of a School Visit

Anna Vallance
15/11/2021
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Perhaps you’ve been wondering, as you read about our work in schools, what, precisely, a visit entails.We start by contacting the head of the school to ask if we can come to speak with the students. Without exception we have been welcomed into every school that we have approached. The door is wide open!On the day of the visit, we (try to) show up a bit early, so we can introduce ourselves and explain what we hope to accomplish during our time there. This generally entails a good deal of the formalities that I suspect were learned from our dear British friends. Usually, they are expecting us. Almost always, they aren’t quite yet ready.

Hygiene pack ministry

Stephen Harper
12/11/2021
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We have just taken delivery of a supply of cartons for the hygiene pack ministry.

If you are interested in helping assemble hygiene packs, please get in touch with us. We are grateful for all help with this important work.

Training additional Bible Time teachers at Dzaleka

Stephen Harper
06/11/2021
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We were very encouraged to see the enthusiasm for the Swahili Bible Time lessons we’ve been sending into the Dzaleka Refugee Camp.

Brother William took the initiative to train a further 17 teachers from various churches in the camp.

Children’s group in the Msasa wa Ana

Stephen Harper
06/11/2021
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It’s so thrilling to see the new Msasa and the recently made benches being put to good use.

Pray that many of these children and adults will come to a real understanding of the Gospel and come to know the Lord as their Saviour.

Preparations for Open Day

Stephen Harper
04/11/2021
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Preparations are underway for the Open Day at Saidi on 20 November.

The builders have started to construct a kitchen and the carpenters have begun to make wooden benches for the guests to sit on.

Container office conversion underway

Stephen Harper
30/10/2021
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It’s just impossible to keep up with the pace of progress at Saidi.

We just received these photographs of today’s work on the container office and finishing work on the roof.

Thanks again to everyone who has helped make this possible, either through your prayers or your sacrifice.

This is the Lord’s doing

Stephen Harper
30/10/2021
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We had a great online meeting with the team in Malawi when we got first-hand accounts of the following areas of the work:

Goodson – Building project & local History outreach

Anna – Child-Headed Households & School visits

Planning, planning, planning!

Stephen Harper
29/10/2021
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SALT Trustees have got together in Somerset for a second week-long series of meetings to review progress so far and to plan and strategize for the future development of the work.

We first did this in August 2020 and found the time extremely useful.

Zatsala pang’ono

Stephen Harper
29/10/2021
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Work on roofing the container bay is so close to completion.

We expect to begin the conversion of the middle container next week. It will be fitted out for use as offices for translation work and Bible Time ministry.

Thanks again to everyone whose generosity has made this possible.

You can see a pictorial history of the project here.

Planning for Saidi Open Day

Stephen Harper
29/10/2021
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The team met yesterday to plan for our first big event at Saidi.

On 20th November we plan to invite members of the various Bible study groups, builders and tradesmen working on the site, local dignitaries and others for an open day to hear a Gospel presentation and learn more about our plans.

It’s hoped that the UK trustees of SALT will be represented by Stephen and Jim.

An initial guest list suggests we could have as many as 500 present, so please pray for the planning involved.