Anna reports that it’s been a real encouragement to see Norris at the site every day, happily working alongside the carpenter.
Norris is from the Child-Headed Households group and we have been trying to help him learn carpentry skills as unfortunately he’s now too old to go back to resume his school education.
Slowly but surely relationships with the children from the child-headed homes are strengthening (Anna)
Anna asks: “Pray for approval of two-year immigration permit, which has been in progress for about a month now.
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.
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
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.
