FUN TIME IN MALAWI

Well, little did I know that Malawi is called, "the warm heart of Africa!" This tiny little country about the size of Pennsylvania and 1/3 of that is Lake Malawi. It's much like the other countries we are in, EXCEPT that it's true, these people are indeed exceptionally warm, friendly, welcoming, protective, helpful, and very loving. Just last week a white visitor had gone missing and the people all over Malawi were in search for him. They are very group oriented—what's mine is yours, not individualist like us! So, in their minds, one of the "group" was missing, so they all looked for him and indeed, even found him holed up in a hospital where he was suffering from malaria.

So, this week we are with Steven (DR Congo) and Kaskil (DR Congo) who felt God was telling them to go to Malawi to reach the people there, especially the Yao people who are mostly Muslim. Some of the people they have reached are with us and come from the North, South and Central Malawi. We are so excited to get to spend time with them…they desperately want to learn and are very engaged in the process.

As an added joy, Joseph, a Malawian, traveled from his place in southern Malawi to be with us. He is a YWAM'er whom we met up with and got to hang out with recently in Thailand. Roger originally met him 10 years ago when he joined Brian Hogan (YWAM) to do a training on simple church planting. Then and there, Joseph went home, resigned from his mega-church to reach an unreached people group in Malawi by using the same disciple-making church planting principles we are. We had no idea!! So, now he is not only helping us out with translation, but his experiences here in this country are making for such a rich time together. We really love and admire this man so much. He had the largest church in all of Malawi and left it to become a farmer in a region 99% Muslim. He and his family have been living there for six years now and have seen hundreds come to Christ. Such a humble, precious man who is very inspiring to be with.