In a moment of realism but perhaps seeming depression, the writer of Ecclesiastes penned these words: “For everything its season, and for every activity under heaven its time: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to uproot; a time to kill and a time to […]
As we knew I would be speaking and preaching quite a bit on our travels, I packed a smart jacket & tie, and evn a dog collar – not a usual thing for me to travel with, but I am glad I did, as Malawi has inherited the tradition from when it was part of […]
Sunday morning saw us off early to drive to church two and a half hours away. It is a church plant from the Good News Revival Centre and is in a predominantly Muslim area of the country. It is also down on the plain near to the Shire River, and so is much more humid, […]
I thought that you might be interested in one of the ministries that we have encountered here in Malawi. It is one of the things that are part of what Good News Revival Centre offers, a club for the ‘children of the blind’. I have been going along to join them whenever I have been […]
We have been to various prisons during our time in Malawi. It is unusual for people, especially westerners, to be allowed in, but Nedson is an official prison inspector for the government, which seems to open the doors for us to accompany him. Some of the prisons have been open prisons, whilst the one we […]
Although I have already posted a blog today, I thought I would do a second to answer some questions: Where are you staying? We are staying in a house in a village in Southern Malawi, not far from a town called Limbe. To get to the house you have to go down a very bumpy […]
Yesterday we had a puncture in the car we were in, thankfully we were only travelling slowly at the time. People stop and help you if you are in trouble, but it still took quite a few people to change the tyre for the spare, which was almost threadbare, and on which we then travelled […]
Having had the Malawian version of “Delhi Belly” for the last few days we are now back to normal! Today we were therefore able to get out and have visited a children’s nursery in a village in the middle of nowhere. This is run by the Good News Revival Centre where we are staying and […]
African timing is very different to English. It was planned that i would speak, maybe at two celebrations for new chiefs on Sunday. Having got to the first, everything was running very late and wasn’t going to start until 1.00pm, so we went to Pastor Nedson’s home church, in the village where he was brought […]
It’s a while since I last wrote, and at the time we were in Scotland. We arrived in Malawi yesterday and it’s almost as mountainous, very green and beautiful. It was a long journey and we were glad to get here and to get settled in to Pastor Nedson’s home with his family. They are […]