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Pray: Presidential Election on 16 September
Please pray about the upcoming Presidential election, now a little over 1 week away. Specifically pray for:
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Pray: Work progressing with Dormitory construction
Please give thanks and pray as work re-starts on the dormitory construction project at Saidi. We had expected to be much further along at this stage, but an order of 30 Tons of cement was delayed by over a month due to the ongoing economic problems in Malawi. This meant the work of pouring foundationsRead More
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SALTBites 2025 Newsletter Released
We’re glad to share the latest edition of SALTbites, our regular newsletter bringing encouragement and updates from the work of Southern Africa Literature Trust in Malawi. We trust these reports will encourage you to pray, give thanks, and continue standing with us in the Gospel. Click the link below to download a copy.
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Give Thanks & Pray: Project to produce video recordings of Conference messages complete
A project to produce all of the recent conference messages on video & mp3 audio is now complete. Please pray that the Lord will multiply the usefulness of these messages in this way as we distribute them to those who were unable to attend the conferences.
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Pray: 12,000 Revised Emmaus Courses going to print
The work of revising and relaunching our Chichewa Emmaus Course offering is complete, and we are placing an initial order for 12,000 new booklets. In future, we hope to keep costs down by printing most of these booklets in-house, however we simply don’t have the time and manpower to do that at present, so weRead More
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Pray: Work underway to construct 80-bed dormitory
Please pray for the project to construct a 80-bed dormitory at Saidi – now underway. Site clearance and levelling was substantially completed during Stephen’s recent visit, and the architect and builders are marking out the site today (Monday) to begin digging the footings. We are very enthusiastic as we take this step of faith, asRead More
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Pray: Upcoming Presidential Elections
Please pray concerning the upcoming Presidential elections in Malawi, scheduled for 16 September. Campaigning is now well underway, with opposing sides vying for attention with large, loud public gatherings happening across the country. Sadly this makes open-air outreach extremely difficult, and we felt we had no option but to cancel MGO this year. Please prayRead More
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One week of digging later
We’ve been one week levelling the site. More more than we anticipated, but the end is in sight.
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Upping the pace – sort of
Things really began to move at pace when the tipper arrived on Thursday morning. That was until the digger got a puncture at lunch time – 3 hours lost!
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How do you move 2500 tons of earth?
How do you move 2500 tons of earth? One bucket-load at a time. It would be lovely to have the luxury for heavy earth-moving equipment. But we have to make do with what’s available locally. We are so thankful to have been able to source a CAT Loading shovel for hire. Otherwise we would haveRead More