I have been settling in - but boy, is it hot here! I tried to get a couple hours of sleep this afternoon but it was too hot and close to do anything more than doze.
We've just had dinner (standard YWAM - Youth With A Mission - food of super-noodles) and in half-an-hour they are having their weekly community meeting. There are about 15 people associated with YWAM in this base (which is a fairly large single story villa) or living close by... some are students of staff on the DTS (Discipleship Training School), which Dan and Suzy run and I'll be teaching on next week. Others are people who are running their own ministries in the area under the umbrella of YWAM.
Anyway, I'm digressing... I've found out a bit more about the plans for my next 11 days.
Tomorrow we leave the base here in Blantyre and head to Phalombe - a town/large village about 4 hours drive away (I think). In Phalombe construction work on an orphanage was started a few years ago but never got finished. The orphans have been looked after in the community and now, with the YWAM base's help the building is going to become a school. A well has also been built.
We're going there tomorrow afternoon and will stay for the next 3 or 4 days. In the daytime Dan and I will do training for local pastors and then in the late afternoon and evening we'll go out into the villages of the pastors to hold meetings - where they'll show a film of Jesus' life in their local dialect, have a 5-minute talk and then offer prayer for healing.
For those 4 nights I'll be sleeping in a tent on top of the jeep! And apparently the toilets there are appalling, with some of the largest cockroaches ever! Something to look forward to then!
I won't be able to update the blog until I'm back... hopefully by then I'll have some great stories to tell!
Once I'm back I have 5 days of teaching the students on the DTS course. And then I get to fly home!
So I'll sign off now. It's still very, very hot, even though it's 7:30 and pitch black outside! Hopefully I'll have a good night's sleep (despite the mosquitoes that everyone keeps warning me about!)
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Dave am praying for you constantly, especially as my research on Malawi snakes concludes that not only is the black mamba one of the most venomous snakes in the world it's also the fastest! It can chase you at over 5m per second! So my advice is sleep with your trainers on! If you want me to research Malawi spiders just drop me a note! Love & prayers xx
ReplyDeleteThanks Pete! Wish you were here... not only because we'd have lots of fun, but also because I'm sure I can run faster than you (so I could escape while the snake eats you!)
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