We broke into small groups. With a translator and a Home Based Care worker, we visited two homes. Each of the Home Based Care patients we visited on received a cross from Pittsburgh. Some of the nurses in the intensive…
Read more »Written by Joy Gaska …Her contagious smile reveling teeth neglected, thinning extremities speaking days gone hungry, weather worn skin with wrinkles that marked an age unknown and a compassion that echoed and told a story far more potent and poetic…
Read more »Written with Kyle Kittrell. Even in this day of instant electronic communication, there is a thrill when something lands in our mailbox or when the UPS truck stops by our door. Some of us will return to our home with…
Read more »Jean Schneider, Guest Author It’s this amazing thing about Malawi. You trundle over dirt roads through tire ruts and truck-sized gullies with maize leaves crowding in the window. You arrive at an old mission statement and there you find a…
Read more »The people of the Kaphuta Presbyterian Church proclaim, “Love is our moto.” “Moto” means fire in the Tumbuka language. Our sisters and brothers greeted us with song on March 3. They sang us into their spacious sanctuary. A bell tower…
Read more »“We don’t need to lose people to AIDS.” Dr. Andy Gaston’s voice cracked slightly as he spoke during a PowerPoint presentation on the Livingstonia Synod AIDS Program (LISAP). He pointed to a picture of a friend and colleague who had…
Read more »On a slight rise, overlooking Lake Malawi, they lie. Young men. Young women. Children. Called by God in Jesus Christ to come to Malawi. Faithful to that call even unto death. We arrived at the old Bwandwe Church on the…
Read more »“This is where we are building our presbytery office.” Fields of maize surrounded us as our bus followed the dirt road to the site where the Dwanga Presbytery is working to build an office. It stands a short distance from…
Read more »“I wondered, what does peacemaking have to do with HIV/AIDS,” said the Rev. Kondwani Gondwe at the English language service on Sunday, March 2 at the Matiki Presbyterian Church. He took off the Presbyterian Peacemaking Program pin that he had…
Read more »The Kasasa Sugar Estate dominates the villages of Dwangwa and Matiki. Some 750,000 hectares are planted with sugar cane. The sugar is also processed on the estate. Many of the people in the region are employed on the estate. The…
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