Points for Prayer & Thanksgiving

  • Pray: MGO Team travels this week

    Anna says: “Please pray for safe travels for all of our visitors who will be arriving this week!” Note: Stephen travels on Wednesday, with remaining members of the team arriving in Malawi Saturday & Sunday. Please pray for uneventful journeys, safe arrival of luggage, and speedy adjustment to the new time zone – as much as +9 hours for some team members. Please remember the deteriorating economic situation in the country, as a result of which, simple things like having enough fuel for airport runs cannot be taken for granted.

  • Pray: Fuel shortages continue

    Anna mentions: Fuel supply continues to be an issue. Please pray the Lord will allow us to continue despite this. I’m thinking particularly of MGO. This appeared online recently:

  • Pray: Final preparations underway for MGO

    Please pray as we make final preparations for MGO 2023. Over the next week, the team in Malawi will be finalising details of the program of activities, and other necessary arrangements. As mentioned previously, our team this year is much smaller and has much less experience than previous years, so please pray that the Lord will guide, direct and enable us for the task in hand. MGO has been a great blessing in the past, and we look to the Lord to make his strength perfect in our weakness.

  • Give Thanks/Pray: Three request Baptism

    Brother Goodson asks that we pray for three men who have requested Baptism. Each bore testimony to discovering since starting to attend the Gospel meetings at Saidi that salvation is not by good works but through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ alone. While we give thanks for this, Goodson asks that we pray that he will have wisdom and discernment and that the reality of their profession will become apparent.

  • Short Term Missions: Is Malawi Gospel Outreach (MGO) Really Worth the Effort?

    Here at Thondwe we are in the throes of preparing for Malawi Gospel Outreach (MGO) 2023. Ordering texts. Distributing invitations. Booking accommodation. Planning activities… The list goes on. And in the midst of all the busyness, it’s natural to start wondering if it’s worth all the effort. Short-term mission work gets a lot of criticism. And let’s be honest, some of that is well deserved. We’ve all heard stories about ‘those people’ who go visit missionaries to ‘help’ and ‘encourage’ them and end up leaving them more worn-out and discouraged than before. Or the enthusiastic but naïve volunteers who end…

  • Pray: Planned peaceful march and prayers in defence of Marriage and Human Sexuality

    Please pray for a day of peaceful protest and prayers planned in defence of the Biblical position on Marriage and Sexuality across Malawi on Thursday 13 July. This has been planned by various church alliances, who are also calling for church leaders to organise “intensive prayers and teaching in our Churches” between Friday 14 and Sunday 16 July. This anticipates an upcoming legal challenge to Malawi’s laws prohibiting same-sex relationships. Urging all Malawians irrespective of faith to stand and protect the family, their Press Release states, “As Churches we believe that sexual acts are only permissible between man and woman…

  • Pray: Final Preparations for MGO 2023

    Please pray for the final preparations for MGO 2023, which is now just 4 weeks away. We have a very much smaller overseas team than in previous years, but this will give opportunity for local believers to play a larger part. Please specifically pray

  • Pray: Visit to Dzaleka & Street Kids’ Feeding Program

    Anna writes: Please pray that our visit to Dzaleka and Divine Touch (Street Kids’ Feeding Program) will be a blessing and encouragement to them and that the Lord will watch over us as we travel. Note: Anna and Wati will be travelling this incoming week to monitor the progress of the Bibletime work at Dzaleka, as well as the various relief programs SALT supports there and in Lilongwe. In recent months the Government has been forcibly returning immigrants to the camp, exacerbating the overcrowding there. During the past week we had the following reports from William (Dzaleka) and Edward (Lilongwe):

  • Life and Death in Malawi – A Recent Funeral

    Life and death are much more raw in Malawi than in the West. People here accept as normal parts of life things that we take great pains to sterilize and sanitize. Few things better exemplify this than a funeral. Everything stops for a funeral Anyone who’s lived in this part of the world knows that everything stops for a funeral. As they often have no way to preserve the body, they need to attend to things promptly. There’s also an expectation that everyone in the village will attend. (That may be because of a strong sense of community. Or, because…

  • Pray: Growth of the new assembly at Saidi

    Anna requests that we pray for the upward and outward growth of the new little assembly. While it is thrilling to see the progress so far, please pray that the Lord will add more to the number there, and that each will progress toward spiritual maturity. The will undoubtedly be difficulties and there are many potential pitfalls, so please pray earnestly for the preservation of the work.

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