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 […]

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.

Singing, dancing and ululating greeted the moderator upon his arrival in Malawi Sunday night.