Funded, ticketed, and making preparations

Good News! We have received more than sufficient funding at this point to purchase our "first round" tickets to Malawi.  Housing is being prepared as we write this and we anticipate a six day overlap with the ABC President's visit on arrival in Lilongwe. This connection provides several positive elements.  

• it further advances the credibility of the new international leadership's commitment to change the culture of missionary care;

• it presents a visual unity in our efforts; and 

• in light of the fact that the wife of the President is SIM's West Africa Member Care coordinator, it helps to provide a broader vision of what inter-agency partnerships look like. 

 

The days of denominational based missions working alone within their own teams are quickly waning, giving way to inter-agency partnerships to accomplish the shared-goals of evangelism and training without the limited parameters of denominationalism. It just represents better stewardship of mission dollars.

Back to the funding side...we were able to secure a less expensive ticket by purchasing one set of tickets from Raleigh-Durham to Nairobi and a second set of tickets from Nairobi to Lilongwe.  As an added bonus this will allow us to visit with some workers in Kenya with whom we have had a relationship for 35 years and to visit a children's home we have been supporting since Glen's first trip to the continent in 1989.

We've been blessed to see water wells dug, electricity put in, a successful primary school started and, more recently, a number of university graduates of the home beginning to support their home, all based on the long-term development model utilized.

The Githiga Children's Home is a testimony to the tenacity, flexibility and willingness of its generous supporters to fund the administrative aspects of the home as well as the children's support on a long term basis. In fact one of the congregation's Glen pastored has been supporting this home since 1996.

We will arrive in Lilongwe after the five day layover in Nairobi and hit the ground running.  Carol is excited to provide in home hospitality and visits, while Glen will be continuing some ongoing care, which he has been providing via the internet, with students, faculty, and other staff in addition to missionary encouragement. Our stay will encompass 31 days.

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