Preparations are underway for the Open Day at Saidi on 20 November.
The builders have started to construct a kitchen and the carpenters have begun to make wooden benches for the guests to sit on.
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
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.
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.
Anna & Harold continue their regular, weekly school visits.
Each student hears a short Gospel presentation and receives a gift of a an Exercise Book. These are highly prized as schools are generally very poorly resourced. Many students sit on the bare floor as there are insufficient desks and chairs.
The exercise books have a simple Gospel Message based on Acts 16v31 printed on the cover, and over the past couple of months almost 10,000 students have received a copy, meaning almost 10,000 children have received a clear and simple presentation of the Gospel.
