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.
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.
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.
A very big thank you to Samuel and all our friends at Revival Movement / Every Home Crusade for helping us with this further large shipment of Gospel Literature for Malawi, despatched yesterday.
Yesterday we received 20,000 exercise books at SALT offices in Saidi, Thondwe. The books will be distributed to students in primary and secondary schools.
During the school visits, each student hears a short Gospel presentation and receives a gift of an exercise book. Exercise books are highly prized as schools are generally very poorly resourced.
The first heavy rains fell earlier this week, so the roof doesn’t come a minute too early.
Once the IBR sheets go on, we will start the conversion of the middle container to office accommodation
Just received from Brother Goodson this afternoon.
The children at Saidi were learning about Daniel in the dzenje la mikango – the den of lions.
So thrilling to see the msasa bring used for this vital work.
Thanks to everyone whose generosity has helped make this possible.
We are planning to start our feeding program at Saidi very shortly.
As the building works have scaled up we’ve had to add more storage for maize and other food-stuffs. It’s been really difficult to acquire decent containers due to the current world shipping situation, so prices have gone up and available quality gone down.
Brother Harold managed to find this one which is being craned into situation today. Another we’ve been using at a different location will be moved later today to be used for cement storage – the storage location we’ve been using recently is not very suitable with the rainy season approaching.
It’s taken a long time, but we are now the happy owners and possessors of a new (to us) 3T truck.
It’s planned to use this on the construction site and for literature distribution to help relieve our serious logistical problems.
Disappointed this morning as thieves attacked the property overnight and stole 20 fence poles.
We need to consider how to prevent further loss or more serious breaches of the security, keeping in mind that we don’t want to erect barriers between ourselves and the community.
