It's my last month…
And God blessed our team SO big!
We are living on Lake Malawi in Senga Bay. Living in our tents atop a hill that overlooks the lake and the valley.
Our first morning I climbed out of my tent to this sunrise.
I mean if you're going to tent, do it somewhere beautiful right?!
We are working with a South African Family helping them build a Bible School for all the villages around their home. This Bible School and discipleship home will be free of cost to the villagers.
How do you make concrete? In Malawi, its with our hands in the mud.
We are building chicken coups to teach the locals how to raise chickens. Right now there is a stigma about buying chickens from the villages because there is no standard of raising them. Johan and his wife Marie are going to give families baby chicks teaching them how to raise and treat the chickens with the medicine they need. Johan will buy the chickens back at full maturity and in turn sell hundreds or God willing, thousands to the large grocery stores. God has told Johan that this will be his way into the mostly Muslim villages that surrounds Senga Bay. Families will come to learn about feeding and caring for the chickens. Their family and volunteers see this as an opening to start building deeper relationships.
We are surrounded by Muslim villages. The difficult part is many families are Muslim by necessity. The Muslim church has come in and blessed an entire village at a time with goats without any strings attached(in the beginning). Families naturally start to spend their resources in other places and become dependent on the goats over time. Then the church stops supplying goats.
The only way for a village to continue receiving goats from the Muslim Church is to build a Mosque. Once the village has built a Mosque and convert the right percentage of the village to their beliefs and way of living they will start giving goats again.
God has given Johan and Marie a vision really show the villages in Senga Bay the love of Christ. They have started the process of building a school, an orphanage, discipleship programs and the chicken program. All to bring people to the property to build relationships.
New up and coming volunteers home.
Digging a reservoir to get the whole property on running water. Which is so big, because while we've been here we carry 20 liter containers 800 meters uphill to bring water to the home. 27 people needing an average of 50 liters per person per day.
Our dryer 🙂
Our kitchen. Cooking for 27 people!
My newest addiction…
Our bathroom, also for 27 people. The rule is you put the bucket in front of the door when it's in use.
And of course the shower. I have to admit that I decided our first day that carrying water up for a shower was far too much. So, at the end of each work day we all run to the lake, soap and loofa in hand, and shower in the clear blue water.
It's been a pretty perfect way to end the race…
"Delight yourself in the LORD and He will give you the desires of your heart." Psalm 37:4
