Please continue to remember Janet McMaster’s health. Janet has recently had a second cancer surgery and expects to begin further treatment in the coming weeks.
Janet has been responsible for overseeing SALT’s finances and we miss her input. Please also remember Gail as she tries to handle the increased bookkeeping / finance responsibilities as a result of Janet’s illness.
Anna says, Please pray for the health and strength of the team. Both Harold and Goodson have been under the weather during the past week.
Note: Malawi is currently experiencing yet another Cholera outbreak. According to Reuters, it has claimed over 110 lives since March, with thousands of others infected, making it one of the worst outbreaks in recent years. Millions of people in Malawi have no flush toilets and many still do not even have access to a latrine. During wet season these poor hygiene standards leave such people very vulnerable to disease. Wet season is also the time when Malaria proliferates, due to increased numbers of mosquitoes which carry the parasite.
Please remember the ongoing Fuel shortage in Malawi. This has been a persistent problem for 4 months now. Over the past week or two supplies of diesel have been intermittently available, but there has been little or no petrol at all.
Apart from further limiting the country’s already struggling economy, this frustrates the work daily. Every journey has to be carefully evaluated and much time is wasted searching / queueing for fuel.
Please remember Anna as she will be returning to Malawi on Wednesday, after a few weeks’ break in the UK and USA.
Please pray for safe, trouble-free travel, and that she will recover quickly from the long and tiring journey. Pray too that she will settle back quickly to the work in Malawi, and know the Lord’s presence and guidance in the weeks and months ahead.
It’s almost a year since our extremely useful Trustees workshop at Pitcott Farm, Somerset. We had planned to be together again in Scotland this week. Sadly those plans have had to be temporarily shelved, following sister Janet’s cancer diagnosis. Please join in praying with us for successful surgery later this month, and for a full and quick recovery.
Brother Harold shared this photograph of the group that turned out for the meeting this morning.
It’s so encouraging to see how the regular Sunday Gospel meeting has continued to grow in number following the two-week series during MGO.
As we give thanks for this, Harold asks that we also pray for wisdom to know how best to take the work forward. Pray too for blessing in salvation as the Gospel is preached.
Please remember the deteriorating economic situation in Malawi, illustrated by this plea for help received this morning from a senior prison officer in Malawi.
“Good morning Stephen, I trust the Lord is keeping you well.
“We have a difficult situation at C* Prison and N* Prison. The two prisons have run out food. We have maize in stock at M* Prison Farm but there is no fuel. Therefore, I am requesting if SALT can come in to help. The Officer In-charge for N* Prison personally called me on the need.
Please pray for Stephen & Gail who will be taking part in a three-day Hostile Environment and First Aid Training course this week.
Although some of the training scenarios will likely envisage environments that are considerably more dangerous than Malawi, pray that they will be able to acquire knowledge and ideas that will prove beneficial in our circumstances, especially given the deteriorating security situation in Malawi.
Over the past couple of weeks sporadic fuel shortages have become more widespread. In an escalation of problems which re-emerged in April this year, fuel pumps across Malawi are running dry. After variously blaming high demand due to a major football match and a visiting Nigerian pop artist, the Government has finally admitted that the shortage is due to lack of foreign currency!
