Today is Christmas 2017, and I am away from my family and miss them dearly. These past nine days flew by. God answered my prayers to redeem my time and make my extended stay valuable for the kingdom. Through his mighty provision, God has provided many things. This morning, Tony and I walked through the house that we are renting. We are going to configure it with the capability of comfortably housing 18 people. That will give us the ability to host 12 youth mission trip partic

Today we were able to visit a couple of additional churches. The first one was Pastor Joe’s church that I spoke at last week. We were there quite early to drop off bibles and bicycles, and Joe, with his wife and two children rode along with me. Driving down the dirt road to his church, I noticed branches with green foliage lying across the road. I had seen that several times before, but never discovered the reason. I asked Joe and he explained, “It marks a funeral taking plac

There are some interesting things about Malawian culture I have not mentioned yet. Men hold hands with each other on occasion. I witnessed several people do it, including Tony. We have talked with them, that in our culture, that usually means a homosexual relationship, however that does not apply here. When men hold hands here, it is more of an act of friendship or respect. I told Josh when he was here, if we really liked each other as friends, we should hold hands, jokingly

This was an extremely long day. My waking hours almost filled an entire 24-hour period because I was unable to sleep and extremely restless in my spirit. Something just wasn’t right in our situation. My suspicion had become highly elevated after making a telephone call early in the evening. I was interested in finding out what it would cost to buy Bibles in large quantities because we had been paying in the neighborhood of $10 a piece from the supplier. The Bibles that were p

We were eagerly anticipating the last day of the conference, not because we were tired, but just because we were filled with excitement. Duncan and Felix arrived on schedule and we departed. God has provided additional funds for 215 Bibles for Duncan’s congregation. He asked if we could drop off the first 48 Bibles at his church. Again, we were reminded that “good roads” in Africa meant horrible roads. The Bibles were taken inside and distributed. We were able to spend a few