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Edward reports on an impending crisis which threatens the existence of the Street Kids feeding centre in Lilongwe.

SALT gives regular financial support, but does not actively run the feeding centre in Lilongwe. They do an amazing work feeding street kids and other very vulnerable people who would otherwise starve.

Please remember this situation in prayer.

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Greetings to all of you friends and partners of Divine Touch Youth Foundation in Malawi, where we feed the children – those that are street kids, the mammas that goes around in town begging and those that are vulnerable. So our main aim is that we always do this in order to show them the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

So, we got this is an opportunity that as we are feeding them, we should also be preaching the Word of God to them. Mchesi has been an area where a lot of prostitution drug addicts and a lot of alcoholism has been taking place.

I would like to appreciate the kind gesture that SALT has been doing. SALT has been blessing us  a lot, have been sending us funds that have been helping us in many ways to keep this running. So, we’d like to thank you all the members of SALT, wherever you are it’s been a privilege that we have you as partners as friends

We just have finished the feeding – all these few people you can see them around means that you are finishing the feeding

We have got a need this year. We’ve got a challenge. We always have got corn but as I’m talking right now, the corn that we had last year is the one that we are finishing this month, that will mean we will not have any corn any more.

So looking at how much corn we normally use five hundred bags and that caters for the whole year and those who normally purchase them for us they told us that they have been having difficulties to have funds that they can be able to buy corn as well as beans that can cater for the whole year

So we are saying this so that you can take note of and you can be praying for us because we know that if we don’t have fund this year, then that will mean that the feeding center needs to be shut off, and that will mean that all the people we’ve been helping and feeding and people have been preaching to they will never have any chance to come and get food here.

But that will mean that they will starve because whatever meal they get here whether once a day, it helps them. It sustains them.

God bless you.

Take note that we always appreciate. Thank you so much. We wish you all the best. Thank you for.

Pray

Please pray as Bros Stephen and Mark travel to Malawi this week in anticipation of the Bible Teaching conference at Saidi, commencing on 29 April, God willing.

This will be the first conference to take place since before Covid, and we are earnestly seeking blessing as a result.

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Sad to say, our consignment of Gospel Literature for Malawi is still delayed in Mauritius. In total, there are around 1.75 million items in transit, including (now overdue) Gospel Calendars and Tracts.

The consignment also includes several thousand prison hygiene packs.

According to the revised shipping schedule, the container is due to be moved early March – pray that there will be no further delays.

Container ships

Please pray for our latest shipment of Gospel Tracts and Calendars has been delayed in transit.

Although the shipping agent told us on 16 Jan that it was due to arrive in a couple of days, it now turns out that the container has been stuck in Reunion / Mauritius since 28 Dec, with no ETA in Malawi.

This is a disappointment as we are eager to start using the contents as soon as possible.

Please pray that the container will soon be loaded on a ship for onward transit

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Please pray for the safe and speedy arrival of a large consignment of much-needed Gospel Literature for Malawi. In total, there are around 1.75 million items in transit, including Gospel Calendars and Tracts.

The consignment also includes several thousand prison hygiene packs.

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The team would appreciate your prayers for the various children’s programs that will take place over the Christmas period. Hundreds of children will be fed and have opportunity to hear the Gospel at the events at Dzaleka Refugee Camp, the street kids’ feeding centre in Lilongwe, and at the SALT campus at Saidi.

These are wonderful opportunities to demonstrate the grace of God in practical ways. Pray that the kindness of the Christians, and the Word of God preached, would bear fruit in many young lives.

Previous Christmas Programs

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Anna writes: Goodson and I are planning to go to Lilongwe on Monday, God willing, to pick up two guard dogs and also distribute some of the literature that’s been on hold for a while now.

Please pray for safety. Please pray for a miracle in terms of peacefully transporting the dogs, who I’ve just learned have never even left their compound let alone been in a car.

Note: The dogs have been inherited from a German missionary couple who have sadly returned to Germany as the wife has been suffering from PTSD since an attempted break-in at their home in Lilongwe area. Please pray for the entire family who have been traumatised by this. It is yet another example of the deteriorating security situation in Malawi.

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Regular prayer supporters are well aware of our frequently recurring vehicle reliability problems, and the debilitating effect this has on the work, particularly literature distribution. Road conditions, lack of spare parts and poor workmanship all conspire against us and the cost of replacing vehicles is generally prohibitive. Surtax, Excise & Duty frequently double or triple the on-the-road cost of new vehicles.

Recently, we have become aware that SALT is eligible to import cut-price vehicles from a special division of Toyota set up to supply registered NGOs working in the third world. We have obtained a quotation from them for an ideal 4×4 Land Cruiser utility vehicle, which is substantially less than what we would pay for a comparable vehicle in Malawi. We are exploring the possibility of a duty-free waiver with the Malawi Revenue Authority.

Please pray that we will have clear guidance about this purchase. Although much cheaper than alternative options, it still involves a significant outlay of resources, which impacts our ability in other important areas of the work.

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Please pray for Brother Harold & his family, who earlier this week had a very traumatic burglary at their home.

The home was surrounded by a gang of around 15 thieves, two of whom were armed with guns. When they were unable to break down the doors, they took time to break down a wall to get in.

The thieves were looking for money and were very disappointed to find mainly tracts and Bibles, although their phones were taken.

Harold, Egly, and their boys are all very traumatised, especially on the back of the frightening events of the weekend of 12 March when they feared they would be swept away by the mudslides. They are not eating or sleeping, and the children have been crying out in the night.

Please pray for them all. There is NO DOUBT that their association with the work (especially white people) has made them vulnerable, and we need to further review our security as the increasing hardships in Malawi bite even deeper, making crime more and more likely. However, above all, this is yet opposition is another proof that that God is mightily at work in Saidi.

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Please pray for Angel, who started work with us last Monday to help with bookkeeping and admin.

It was certainly an unusual first week on a new job for her, as we were head and ears into MGO, but pray that she will not only be able to relieve an admin burden for us, but that we will be a spiritual blessing to her.

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