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…
Read more »Some three hours north of Lilongwe, along the shore of Lake Malawi, stands the Nkhotakota Pottery Lodge and Coffee Shop. Across the lake you can see mountains in Mozambique. On the lake, fishermen ply small boats. When we arrived for…
Read more »On Saturday, March 1, the Rev. Lecton Kaluah, Secretary General of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), and Kafumbi Njewa, administrator for the CCAP General Assembly, joined us after breakfast. The CCAP traces its history back to the efforts…
Read more »Nora Goetz, Guest Author Our plane touched down in Lilongwe (February 29) without having to buzz the airport to shoo grazing cows away from the landing area! That may sound strange to you if you have never landed at Chileka…
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