A team of five saints from London and Australia headed to Malawi. The idea behind the trip was twofold, follow up on the Maize mills project at Lilongwe and Blantyre (Chirimba), and encourage the young peoples groups throughout Malawi.
We arrived at Blantyre in the south of Malawi and worked our way north and east to Lilongwe via Mozambique. The Chirimba assembly in Blantyre was our first opportunity to get together with the Young Peoples leaders and oversight from the surrounding areas and talk about the future leaders in the Church. This was a very fruitful meeting and was an opportunity for our youngies from overseas to share their testimonies and experiences with our African brethren.
This meeting covered cultural situations and paved the way for some ground breaking opportunities that the African Youngies were very excited about and planted a seed that is bearing fruit today in the form of sixty plus baptisms and people receiving the Holy Spirit (speaking in Tongues) due totally from YP’s outreaches.
While at Chirimba we checked out the progress on the new maize mill everything is in readiness for the power to be connected and machinery to be installed all that is needed is for the electricity authority to hook up the power!
From Chirimba we visited Nulanje, Phalombe ,Balaka, Salima-LakeMalawi, Dedza, Lilongwe, M’nthunda, Mozambique, Mkalema.
Two highlights from these destinations were the trip into Mozambique, a supposed fifteen minute trip over the border turned into a two and a half hour jaunt to a village destination that no one had been to before! This trip was in a 14 seater bus designed for highway driving, we had 16 people crammed in on roads that ranged from four wheel drive to goat tracks, exciting was one way to describe this leg of the adventure!
Once we finally arrived at our destination it was well worth the rough roads and bridge crossings the welcome by the Mozambique saints was awesome the singing and involvement of the saints in the meeting was truly inspiring and we left on a spiritual high that we talked about for the rest of the trip. The boarder crossing back into Malawi added to the experience with a certain young man unlikely to take photos of Government building (be they ever so rustic) ever again!
The seventy plus people we witnessed being baptised and spirit filled was probably the high point of the trip and something we will always cherish.
All in all a wonderful trip with great encouragement spiritually for all involved.
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