The purpose of the Malawi mission was to find out how we can strengthen the Church Army work which is the link to southern countries for evangelism. During our stay in Malawi we visited and preached in different churches around the town of Lilougue city. We had open air meetings such as lunch hour fellowships and morning devotions which were really helpful for all of us. I preached on Sunday at one of the churches and had a meeting with some of the church heads discussing how we can do more to evangelise to the surrounding area.
We then traveled to and fro to the Lake Malawi and visited the children’s centre where a church officer named sister Violet peter works and lives. I found this very challenging that sister violet peter attends to over a hundred people everyday where she works both as a nurse and a chaplain manager of the centre.
There was a meeting with the vicar general of the Anglican church of Malawi who has been in charge of the diocese of Lake Malawi ever since the bishop died in 2005. Our discussion was centered on evangelism and how more space could be created for Church Army in the region. The vicar general was very much delighted that an evangelism desk could be established in the diocese.
We also had an opportunity to meet the Rev. Major Paul Baunda who is the heads the chaplaincy of the Malawi defence force. We met him at the Kamuzu barracks which is in the heart of the capital city of Lilougue. In our discussion he agreed to be nominated as a Church Army board member as he is already a Church Army Officer.
Sister Ester Miller one of the three officers helped to build a very magnificent college using the fund that they had and named it after the discipleship that Church Army College of missions was offering. The college of Christian ministries now offer a diploma validated by Malawi University.
Then attended the pastors meeting which was inter denominational where roughly eight hundred pastors showed up and I shared to them about the Church Army vision for African churches and the Jesus film project as a means for evangelism.
We had a chance to visit the studio and witnessed the recording of the Jesus film for woman ministry called Magdalona being translated to Chiclew which is the national language of Malawi.
The team from the U.K promised to come and translate the film in our local languages here in Kenya, Nairobi. I have already sold the idea to mothers union which will be encouraging to see how that works. Life ministry is also interested in being involved and helping us to translate the film into the different languages.
