The extremely poor rainy season has resulted in the borehole at Saidi running dry. This affects the operations on-site, as well as the many villagers who have become accustomed to using the free water we supply.
It will be at least 5 months before rain is expected and there is any prospect of the water table starting to rise again.
Please pray as we explore options for an alternative water supply.
Anna requests prayer for the Lord to give clear direction for the development of the work in schools and with the Nthawi Ya Baibulo (Bibletime) curriculum, as we anticipate a new phase in the next few months.
Note: Translation & editing of the 3-year Bible Time curriculum is at an advanced stage. We are hoping that the first booklets will be printed and shipped to Malawi in the next few month. Anna and the team are anticipating a lot of preparatory work once the next school term begins in September.
Anna says: “I am thankful for a safe and incredibly encouraging trip to attend the BES Conference in Northern Ireland.”
Give thanks for journeying mercies and for the encouragement received.
Note: BES provide the Postal Bible School curriculum which we are already using in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp (Swahili language), and which is in process of translation into Chichewa for use in the rest of Malawi. Anna was able to attend their recent conference and meet key people involved in similar ministries around the globe.
Brother Goodson asks us to pray for the planned Baptism next Lord’s Day (23 June) at Saidi when it is expected that a further 9 believers will obey the Lord. We give thanks for this further evidence of fruit following the preaching of the Gospel.
Also continue to pray for blessing upon the conference week which took place in early May
Saulous Chilima, Vice President of Malawi has died in a plane crash in the northern part of the country.
As well as praying for his family at this difficult time of personal loss, also pray for political stability. Relations between the President and Vice-President have been strained, and any speculation about the cause of the accident could be destabilising.
Remember the families of the other victims of the crash.
We are glad to report that Angel is recovering following her recent car accident and surgery.
We were glad that she was able to get good care at a private hospital in Blantyre, although her planned surgery was seriously delayed on the day.
Angel returned to work at the beginning of the week, but she will value your prayers for a quick and full recovery.
Also remember Anna who is spending a short time with her friend Lois in Cyprus after attending the BES conference in N.Ireland.
Tomorrow Anna leaves for the Bible Educational Services (BES) conference taking place in Northern Ireland. DV. Please remember her in prayer.
The conference aims to provide attendees from all over the world with the opportunity to interact, build connections and acquire useful knowledge about training methods, safeguarding laws, and advancements in the field of children’s work.
Please pray for Angel, our admin / accounts assistant who has sustained a displaced fracture of her humerus in a road accident on Sunday.
Treatment options at the local government hospital are limited, so we are investigating the possibility of her being treated more quickly and to a better standard at the private Adventist hospital in Blantyre.
We praise God for a very profitable Bible Conference. Over 50 of our literature distribution volunteers came for a week of teaching – some from as far as Mozambique. Many more would have come, but we were constrained by lack of accommodation, and the need to help almost all with their travel expenses.
Many of the brothers who attended commented how they had been so greatly helped by the teaching from 1 Corinthians. Many had never had the opportunity to listen to consecutive Bible teaching before.
Please pray for lasting benefit in the lives of those who came.
Edward reports on an impending crisis which threatens the existence of the Street Kids feeding centre in Lilongwe.
SALT gives regular financial support, but does not actively run the feeding centre in Lilongwe. They do an amazing work feeding street kids and other very vulnerable people who would otherwise starve.
Please remember this situation in prayer.
Greetings to all of you friends and partners of Divine Touch Youth Foundation in Malawi, where we feed the children – those that are street kids, the mammas that goes around in town begging and those that are vulnerable. So our main aim is that we always do this in order to show them the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
So, we got this is an opportunity that as we are feeding them, we should also be preaching the Word of God to them. Mchesi has been an area where a lot of prostitution drug addicts and a lot of alcoholism has been taking place.
I would like to appreciate the kind gesture that SALT has been doing. SALT has been blessing us a lot, have been sending us funds that have been helping us in many ways to keep this running. So, we’d like to thank you all the members of SALT, wherever you are it’s been a privilege that we have you as partners as friends
We just have finished the feeding – all these few people you can see them around means that you are finishing the feeding
We have got a need this year. We’ve got a challenge. We always have got corn but as I’m talking right now, the corn that we had last year is the one that we are finishing this month, that will mean we will not have any corn any more.
So looking at how much corn we normally use five hundred bags and that caters for the whole year and those who normally purchase them for us they told us that they have been having difficulties to have funds that they can be able to buy corn as well as beans that can cater for the whole year
So we are saying this so that you can take note of and you can be praying for us because we know that if we don’t have corn this year, then that will mean that the feeding center needs to be shut off, and that will mean that all the people we’ve been helping and feeding and people have been preaching to they will never have any chance to come and get food here.
But that will mean that they will starve because whatever meal they get here whether once a day, it helps them. It sustains them.
God bless you.
Take note that we always appreciate. Thank you so much. We wish you all the best. Thank you for.
