Malawi Archives

Helping communities help themselves

Posted July 20th, 2017

The Community Health Evangelism initiative helps African communities take ownership and control over the projects and programs that affect them — with impressive results.

The ties and tithes that bind

Posted March 27th, 2017

New Castle Presbytery looked to its roots during an especially difficult time of church dismissals. However, by remembering where it came from while looking to the future, the presbytery better understood its calling.

Decades-long missionary dream begins in Malawi

Posted February 21st, 2017

Donna has packed her luggage, figuratively, more than once to answer God’s call to mission—a call she has felt since she was 9 years old, growing up in Campbell, Ohio. Donna recalls that when a teacher at Campbell Christian Center asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said, “I want to be a missionary nurse.”

Decades-long missionary dream begins in Malawi

Posted January 23rd, 2017

God’s plans and timing are different from ours. Just ask the Rev. Dr. Donna J. Sloan. Donna has packed her luggage, figuratively, more than once to answer God’s call to mission—a call she has felt since she was nine years old, growing up in Campbell, Ohio.

Standing at the crossroads on AIDS Awareness Sunday

Posted December 2nd, 2016

The second Sunday of Advent is Presbyterian AIDS Awareness Sunday and PC(USA) mission co-worker the Rev. Janet Guyer believes, as many others do, we are at a crossroads.

Feed my sheep

Posted August 10th, 2016

John Pangani, a real estate broker and chef with his own catering business in South Bend, Indiana, has a heart for helping others in his native Malawi and in America.

Mission in partnership highlighted at World Mission Café

Posted June 28th, 2016

At last week’s World Mission Café, a GA 222 event, mission co-workers and staff, ecumenical partners, mid-council leaders and congregational representatives gathered to share stories of the joys and struggles of day-to-day mission partnership around the world.

Presbytery of Greater Atlanta

Posted June 10th, 2016

Congregation seeks to reduce gun violence in the U.S. and to provide safe water in Malawi The ancient biblical vision of turning swords into plowshares and spears into pruning hooks has stirred the modern-day imagination of Columbia Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Georgia.

Pittsburgh pastor shares passion for the work of mission

Posted May 6th, 2016

A personal report from the Rev. Dave Carver on how he sees a full spectrum of mission involvement as key to transformational ministry at home and overseas. Carver is pastor at First United Presbyterian Church of Crafton Heights, a church in Pittsburgh Presbytery.