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| Wyatt and Heath playing soccer |
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| Breakfast from hot plate takes longer |
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| Rackson getting texts |
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| Just got in from airport |
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| Sarah being stringed from Johnathan |
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| Wyatt sleeping under mosquito net |
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| Wyatt and brothers talking |
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| Heath waiting to leave for school |
Thursday the 25th and all is well, no water this
morning but we had electricity so we enjoyed a very good breakfast. Yesterday
was a good day as we had much time for study and preparation for the upcoming
events. We went to Bro. John’s for mid-week service, it was very enjoyable
having the two families together. Bro. John always does a top notch job
in presenting the Word. We had fellowship for a while after service and had a
cold drink before coming home at sun down. Grace fixed a great meal of rice and
beef gravy. Today is a work day around the house because tomorrow we get up
early and head out for soul winning and visitation in Mbulumbuzi. The Church
there is doing well and Rackson says we have had a lot of visitors over the
weeks, I love visitors but what we need is members. What they do is go to their
church and then come visit Bible Way because they like the teaching, we’ll see
how this goes. This has been an easy few days. Rackson has planned it that way
but it is about to come to an end as far as easy goes. We just got back from
town doing shopping for things we will need for church and conference. We went
to the Malawi bible society to buy two boxes of KJV bibles printed in their
language. I had obligated money for two boxes of 20 each at $120.00 per, the
price went up from 120 to $200.00 a box so we bought one, I am
heartbroken but God will not let us go without the bibles needed He will show
us where we can save on something else. We have the next four Sundays planned
and the start of the bible conference that is to follow. Sheila will be here
for the conference and then her time will be up and she and Wyatt will head
back to Florida. I think Sheila has posted pictures on facebook till she
gets the blog up and running. I will update by e-mail till then. Love and miss
you all.
Greetings from Malawi. We now have internet and phone service
and Sheila will start the blog back up in a day or two. We arrived on time and
in poor shape noon Monday. It was a very long flight from NY to Johannesburg,
15 hours nonstop with a 45 minute lay over and then a 4 hour flight to
Blantyre, Malawi followed by a very long drive from the airport to Rackson’s
home. It was a good flight and we lost nothing and all bags got here when we
did. Service workers in NY have three hands and they use all of them. Two to do
the work and one for the tips. Even the complimentary breakfast cost 15 bucks.
I see why people move south from NY why would you live there if you didn’t have
to. I also noticed the NY airport TSA like to touch. To those who say don’t be
so hard on NY I ask “why are you here and not there” but believe me, enough
about NY already. We went to bed early and we were up at 0530 and had morning
coffee and started the day with prayer and bible study. We did some food
shopping and picked up some needed comfort items exchanged money, visited
Mr. Patel and was brought up to speed on the happenings in Blantyre as he knows
everyone or almost. Grace fixed us a wonderful noon meal of Nsima and beef
relish, boiled potatoes, cheese, hard boiled eggs. Breakfast was traditional
American, eggs, bacon, toast and juice. Rackson and I spent much time in
planning what was to be done in the bible conference, he has a very good plan
and we are filling slots with lessons and teachers. We learned a lot from last year
both of what works and what did not do so well. John Fullford got home early
from Tengani and we went to see him and catch up on fellowship, he will be
helping with the conference, that will be a blessing to all of us. John is an
excellent teacher and preacher. Thursday Harry will come down from Monkey Bay
area where he is overseeing the construction of a church building. He will be
here about 15 more days and then go back home in Henderson, NC. He is
building a church very much like we have in Njuli. Rackson was telling me this
after that Bible Way Baptist Church, Njuli is one of the largest churches in the
area of Blantyre. God has blessed us richly this past two years and I see many
more blessing He has to offer His children. We will get a group together
Thursday from BWB in Njuli and from Mbulumbuzi along with John and his family
and spend the day soul winning and visitation in the Mbulumbuzi area. Rackson
is making plans on where I will be preaching for the next few weeks and several
churches have asked we come and visit them but he says I need to be at Njuli
and at the new church and if I have time then we will see about visiting other
churches. Sheila and Grace are just what you would expect of a mother daughter
team, they have the house and kitchen in some kind of order and love chatting
about whatever. Jet-lag is still in charge and I am going to shower while the
water is hot and go to bed. I cannot put in words how I feel about being back
here but it is a blessing and I thank all of you for the prayer and the
support. God is planning a mighty work here and I want to help in any small way
I can.
