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Wati asks: Please continue to pray for Malawi’s economic situation and for food availability. Prices have been rising steeply, with higher than normal prices for maize and various other items.

Please pray for people’s preservation and that the Lord will draw people to Himself.

Note: Over the past week, we have been buying maize from local villagers. This puts desperately needed cash into the local economy, and also enables us to run some of our local feeding programmes. Maize is presently 75-100% more expensive than at the corresponding time last year, mainly due to much lower supply, as well as the inflationary effects of the recent currency devaluation.

According to the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, the cyclone earlier this year, and the poor maize harvest means that significant parts of the Southern / Central Regions are already “In Crisis” or “Stressed”, with the harvest only 1-2 months past. The outlook for the remainder of this year is not good. We intend to purchase some 15-20 Tonnes maize over the next few weeks in anticipation of difficult months ahead.

Brother Stephen is currently in Malawi and will appreciate your prayers. Particularly remember the following:

  • Safety & security* while traveling and for good health.
  • Guidance regarding best use of limited time
  • Wisdom for the decisions to be made regarding future direction of the building project
  • Literature distribution
  • Visit to Dzaleka Refugee Camp and possible Gospel work there

*Note: The economy in Malawi is really struggling. Increasing poverty is making the security situation worse. See this recent article in the Guardian newspaper.

Anna asks: Please pray for one of the boys in our Child-Headed Households (CHH) group (who is also training at the site in carpentry). He shows signs of being neglected for most of his childhood and really needs a lot of love – especially the Savior’s!

Note: Anna runs a support group for CHHs from Saidi and neighbouring villages. These are family groups where an older child cares for his/her younger siblings.

Each CHH receives a monthly care package and some other help. There is a monthly meeting at Saidi where they have the opportunity to hear the Gospel.

Brother Stephen is planning to fly to Malawi on Wednesday, Lord willing, his third trip of the year, so far.

Although this is somewhat more frequent than usual, there are several aspects of the building project that presently warrant attention. Stephen is also hoping it will work out to have some Gospel meetings at the refugee camp at Dzaleka.

Please pray specifically:

  1. That further security equipment on order will arrive on time to be taken to Malawi
  2. For journeying mercies and safety/stamina while abroad
  3. For help and wisdom in planning & prioritising the works
  4. For help with planned literature distribution
  5. For Gail as she remains at home this trip.

Brother Goodson says: “There is a lot happening here at the site. Also, there is also the work with Anna and the Bible studies. We need to be praying for these things so that this work for the Lord will go well.”

Note: Brother Goodson is kept very busy supervising the ongoing building project as well as construction of a house for Anna nearby. He does this work faithfully and diligently while also managing to keep several Bible studies going on site.

Bro Harold is planning to travel to Lilongwe and on to Kasungu shortly to try to sort out a problem in our literature storage container there. It has an infestation of chiswe (white ants).

The container has subsided due to heavy rains, enabling the chiswe to enter. It needs to be raised and repositioned on concrete pillars to keep it off the ground. White ants are very destructive and could quickly destroy our literature stocks.

Kasungu is approximately 1000Km round-trip. Soaring costs of fuel mean that Harold is keen to accomplish as much as possible on this trip. He asks that we pray for travelling mercies and that he will not only be able to sort out the white ant problem, but that he will be able to make the trip profitable in other ways.

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