A letter from Melita in November 2023
Dear Praying Friends
It is nearly the end of hot season here. We await the start of the proper rainy season. There is one overarching, heavy concern here that we would like to share with you for your prayers. It both very simple, and very complex. A few weeks ago, we received this urgent and distressing text from a friend called Francis, who lives in a nearby village. Nearly every year Malawi has a “hungry season”, as people’s food runs out before the next harvest arrives. This usually starts in January / February, a couple of months before the harvest in April. This message, however, arrived in late September. We met Francis, and he was not exaggerating. He was thin and distressed and brought a saddening report from the village. To make matters worse, he is caring for 4 orphaned children whose house was destroyed by the cyclone earlier this year. Several things contributed to Francis’s situation....... CLICK LATEST NEWS for rest
Melita Gordon
You may remember that Melita visited our church in the summer of 2022. She is a doctor in Blantyre, Malawi. She sees patients and does research, as a gastroenterologist and vaccine expert, in the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust centre. She and her husband Stephen have lived and worked in Malawi for over 25 years. As well as being very involved in a city centre church in Blantyre, Melita has recently been inducted by the Church of England as a Lay Pioneer, and is linked with our church as part of her ministry. Melita will be preaching for us at various points in the year and hopes to visit us in person again this coming summer.
Childa High School
Matt Williams, a member of our church family, has lived and worked in Malawi. There he met Godwins Maere who has succesfully brought new affordable agricultural techniques to his community to eliminate hunger. Now, he is focused on education. He has nearly completed the building of Childa High School.
Get to know Godwins in this short video.
