Updates

After 8+ months in Nkhoma Mission, these are some of the largest donations YOU have made through-us to-others:

• $4,000 to Alinafe (“God-with-us”) Communities of Hope that serves the spiritual, physical and communal needs of 1700 elderly and disabled in and around Nkhoma (emergency food and start-up money for 250 egg-laying chickens that will produce both eggs to give clients and formerly non-existent revenue that will support the ministries of Alinafe for years to come
• $3,000 to Chisomo (“Grace”), a mission org that trains and supports 13 disabled individuals to sew various merchandise; last month, we donated 13 new manual (most of their homes do not have electric) for them to increase their income by sewing and selling additional merchandise from their homes on weekends
• $2,600 towards the costs of the Bike Malawi bicycle trip in support of the missional needs of the Northern Livingstonia Church Synod (hospitals), the Central Nkhoma Church Synod (Seminary Hostel Building that will provide a direly necessary revenue source), and the Southern Blantyre Church Synod (Cyclone Freddy Relief)
• $1,750 to deserving University and Seminary students in support of tuition and nutrition
• $1,750 to the Seminary at which I was a guest lecturer (books for the library, underwriting the Food Bank for students and their families without adequate nutritional resources, staff support
• $1,500 to the Ministry & Mission of Nkhoma Synod, renovating an apartment in the Guest House that will produce revenue for the Synod of years to come
• $1,500 Giving to the needs of Malawians whose stories of suffering you have helped us give food and home assistance
• $,1,000 Blantyre Synod Cyclone Freddy Relief
• $1,000 Livingstonia Synod Hospital Rite Aid
• $1,000 Church donations
• $800 to Frank’s Carpentry that trains and provides a future trade, building furniture, to young adult village men
• $650 to a general gardener making a subsistence living, purchasing for him a used motorcycle with which he can have his own business (transportation of products and people) and increase his opportunities to earn and provide more for his family
• We will be giving additional donations to people and service organizations before we depart Malawi on Oct. 9

LAST CALL: Friends and Followers of our Journey of Volunteer Service in Malawi who may not yet have donated, we will be continuing to tell the story of the People of Malawi, and their need for aid, after we return to PA later in October, hoping to raise additional funds for mission organizations here in Malawi. For those who have not yet donated but have been moved by the needs of, and inspired by the donations that have enabled us to give at least $20,000 to, people and service organizations within Malawi, it is not too late! Please go to montsmalawimission.org to donate by check or credit card.

THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOUR PRAYER AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT ALLOWED US TO DO!

We have experienced this faithful truth throughout our lives, but, in especially fresh and surprising ways during these nine months in Malawi — “with God all things are possible” Matthew 19:26.

While Deb readily admits that she is not a good writer, as nurses’ notes in patients’ charts do not require correct grammar or punctuation, Deb wrote and submitted a Grant Proposal to Samaritan’s Purse three months ago for the Palliative Care Department of Nkhoma Mission Hospital. This just in: $11,000 from Samaritan’s Purse was deposited into the Hospital’s Palliative Care Department this afternoon!

Wheelchairs are worth their weight in gold in Malawi, but this money will provide money for their backlog of wheelchairs necessary for clients in remote villages, which is where the Palliative Care Interdisciplinary teams travel to each Tuesday and Thursday. In addition, the Palliative Care team take with them emergency food and tarps for terribly leaky roofs made of tin or thatch.

One more more quick word about Samaritan’s Purse. We have seen S’s Purse provide generous funding for doctors and nurses to fly in from around the world during the COVID and Cholera epidemics. They have also provided funding for nurses and doctors from the United States, Netherlands, Germany and other nations from around the world. I just got off the phone with Samaritan’s Purse, headquartered in North Carolina, thanking them for the extraordinary mission giving and support they have provided to Nkhoma Mission that we have witnessed with our own eyes and ears. With no doubt in my mind, I can say they extend the extravagant healing mercies and loving grace of Jesus Christ in their service to God’s Beloved here in Malawi.

Thanks be to God!