Rev. Dr. John Vissers, has had a unique experience in Malawi; he has been greeted at most events with dancing and singing. Without placing any pressure on the congregations Vissers will be visiting in Canada over the next few months, the Presbyterian Record reports on this dynamic evangelism activity.
Rev. Dr. John Vissers, moderator of the Canadian Presbyterian Church’s 138th General Assembly, preached on Sunday morning at St. James Church in Blantyre, Malawi.
While they may be orphans and other vulnerable children; while they may living in households headed by children, grandparents, or a sick or dying parent; […]
Church in Malawi is very different from church in Canada, the moderator learned while visiting five congregations last Saturday. After spending a week in the […]
In September, the moderator visited church partners in Malawi and Andrew Faiz, the Record’s managing editor, reported on the trip. Read about their journey through the “warm heart of Africa.”
While saying his farewells to the Canadian delegation, the health director for the Presbyterian Church in northern Malawi reserved some time to praise Rick Fee. […]
His name is Richard and he picks me up at the hotel to drive me to a restaurant where we were to meet others for lunch.
On Wednesday the moderator visited a remote village where he was greeted warmly with song and dance, and then fed by subsistence farmers. The village is typical of those in northern Malawi, with a dozen or so homes, each made of dried mud walls about nine inches thick, with makeshift windows and doors. Each home typically has four rooms. Cooking is done outdoors.
There are a few new highways around Mzuzu, Malawi, which are well paved and smooth, but they won’t take you all the way to remote villages where the needs are the greatest. To get there, you have to get off the paved road, often down into a short steep ditch and then up again just as sharply, and onto a hard packed dusty path just wide enough to take your vehicle.
Mphatso Nguluwe once told a group of international donors that if the only thing she had ever achieved was to save an eight-year-old girl from a forced marriage to a 52-year-old man, she would consider their millions of dollars well spent.
It was July 2010 and the Southeast African country of Malawi was in the tight grip of President Bingu wa Mutharika. His policies were considered harmful and dangerous to the extremely poor in this country, which has been consistenetly named one of the poorest in the land.
The moderator prayed with Jacklyn at her home on Tuesday.
Jacklyn is an AIDS-stricken woman, living in a remote village near Mzuzu, in northern Malawi. She is the mother of two: a six-year-old boy and a two-and-a-half year old girl who has carried the HIV virus from birth.
Singing, dancing and ululating greeted the moderator upon his arrival in Malawi Sunday night.
Rev. Gordon Haynes, a former associate secretary, sees an interesting future for the Presbyterian Church—if we give ourselves the freedom and nurture the creativity we’ll need to make new ministries happen.
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I’m not one who is big on change. I struggle with go-with-the-flow type plans and find sudden changes uncomfortable at best. So as God would […]
I started off my week at Canada Youth 2012 with a question in my head: “What on earth do I want to do with my […]
Work seemed to be killing us. From now on we were going to be Sabbath keepers. More or less.
Our ministry with youth is nothing more and nothing less than a participation with them in what the triune God is doing, across cultures, across social and economic groups and across generations. It involves everyone.
e are in the Sean O’Sullivan Theatre at Brock University and there is an awesome excitement in the room. Five hundred youth from all over […]