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Robinsons2Malawi Update June 25'
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Dear Churches and Friends

Well “Praise the Lord and shame on the Devil” as they say! I hope and trust that this letter finds you well spiritually, physically, and mentally. My family and I are thankful to have just gotten back to “home” base after almost three consecutive months of travel.


 


After my return from a short trip to Malawi, I hardly had time to unpack my bags before setting off to the Northwest. Although I had felt the need for some ”down time” after meeting with almost all of the thirteen churches throughout Malawi, that didn’t exactly happen. Since it would have never worked time wise to visit each church individually, we didn’t even attempt it. Instead we rented a large hall nearest to where the churches could travel to, and invited all of the churches in the vicinity to join together for services.


It was a wonderful time of singing, testifying, and preaching in each general area that we visited. Not surprisingly, scores of testimonies of encouragement found their way to me in the weeks to follow.



In addition to the revival meetings held in Malawi, the Lord also gave clear answers to prayer on a few specific subjects that I had been asking people to pray over. Although the answer in multiple cases was a clear “NO”, I am so incredibly thankful to be directed by the goodness of God. I am rejoicing to learn as I go, who I can and cannot work with concerning the ministry. Thank you all for praying!


It was good to see the men that I work with in Malawi face to face. Phone calls are great, much can be done over the internet, but nothing beats time together. It was a joyful reunion as I felt like I was going to see friends who I had missed for a long time. We enjoyed sweet fellowship, and had ample opportunity to converse about the churches, the various ministers, and many of the individuals throughout the churches who are making strides forward in their growth in Christ. Many matters were discussed and much good came of the decisions that were made during our meetings.

 

The Young Plant ministry has proven to be a fruitful endeavor thus far. Several teens have made a profession of faith in Christ after attending the classes and preaching for many weeks!

I get blessed every time I think of what all God could do with these kids if they will choose to live a life of faith.

Pray for them and for the instructors who have the opportunity to make a real and lasting impact on their lives.

 


Upon my return to the USA, I only unpacked my bags long enough to wash the clothes before turning around and packing them back to go to Alaska. Due to the remote location, our family had not visited our sending church together since 2014. It was a blessing to be there firsthand and experience Northstar Baptist Church afresh. A few of the families we used to know there have since been sent out to various mission efforts and there were many new people to fill their spots. It was a blessing to be a part of the mission’s conference and then reconnect with old friends, as well as getting to know new ones. We are thankful for the lifeline this church has been to us ever since they laid hands on us and sent us out in 2008.


Various meetings were subsequently held in churches in the Northwest. We were warmly received in all the churches we visited and were reacquainted with many friends, some of whom I have known since I was thirteen years old. What a blessing it was to see them still faithful to the Lord and still serving in their calling. I hope to return to the NW at some point before we go back to Africa since we were not able to visit some of the churches which we had been invited to this time around.

 

At present our family is busy playing catch up after such a long stint on the road. I feel like there is nothing much to write about most of the time since this type of catchup is all just normal life stuff. Stuff like trying to correct many years of “third world” dentistry hack jobs in all of our mouths, letting our kids enjoy the neighborhood parks which are so readily available in the USA, and changing the broken door handle at the house we are staying in, just isn’t really noteworthy. In general we are all doing well and are in generally good health. We thank the Lord for his goodness to us, and we are thankful to all of you for your consistent and faithful support of our ministry both in prayer, in encouragement, and in financial support.


Lord willing, next up for us, will find us heading out to PA for a missions conference and some more meetings.


 


Prayer Requests:


  • The pastors and their families in Malawi especially for wisdom

  • The churches in Malawi

  • Malawians to be saved and discipled

  • Blessings on travel and meetings here in the USA

  • Opportunity for us to disciple people while in the USA

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Dear Supporters,



I hope and trust that you are doing well. I am thankful to say that we are all doing fantastic. As we celebrated the Christmas season and New Year with family, we thought about how many special moments have been spent apart from family over the years. It was a precious gift to be able to be with loved ones throughout the holidays.


Meetings have continued to go well. I was encouraged during one of our recent meetings when the pastor of the church was still wiping tears out of his eyes as he got up to speak after the presentation. His words to the church caused me to reflect on how encouraging it really can be for missionaries to come through and update God’s people. It is a blessing to be able to encourage the brethren who are faithfully holding the ropes and share with them at least a fraction of the fruits of their sacrificial prayer and giving. Please pray for the Lord's continued guidance and involvement in our missions meetings

Another blessing I have gotten to experience recently is the opportunity of serving the local church where we are attending while stateside. The church is quite a “young” ministry, having only been started within the past few years. I consider it a rare and precious opportunity to be an integral part of laying the groundwork for their understanding and perception of missions. Having been involved in full time missions work since 2005, I have witnessed first hand the amazing results of what can happen when a group of Christians gets informed and excited about doing their part in world wide missions! I have been granted all of the midweek services that I am available and that may be needed in order to carry out a foundational study on the subject of world-wide missions. Please pray for me to do a good job and that the Lord will raise up some mighty missions efforts as a result of these lessons.


In Malawi, last month a very helpful pastoral training seminar was held. Pastor Daniel, Pastor Alex, and Evangelist Mark Anthony handled everything. During their meetings for planning, they determined the scope of the subjects which would be taught, developed teaching materials and a syllabus for each subject, established what the daily schedule would be, communicated that information to all the participating pastors nationwide, organized the needed lodging and meals, and then taught the material with great enthusiasm and joy!


My phone was flooded with messages of praising God from the participating pastors. I was especially blessed that the pastors who were being taught were not only grateful for the teaching itself, but were also expressing gratitude for the many years of investment into the ministers who are now fully capable of building them up! The occasion also afforded the visiting pastors an opportunity to preach to the churches in Mzuzu. All in all it was a great blessing to everyone. I am thankful that the ministry is not regressing in my absence. God has given me capable and faithful men who are carrying forward until my return to Africa.

Lord willing, I will be headed to Malawi on the 24th of this month to visit these ministry efforts in Malawi which have been started since we have been on furlough in the USA. I am looking forward to seeing first hand what the men that I have worked with for so long have developed in my absence. The purpose of this trip is multi-faceted as we are also using the same trip to Malawi to consider two other possible ministry developments that may come into place in the near future. I would love for you to pray about it.

Additionally, an “after school” ministry aimed at reaching high school kids in the Lusangazi area around the missions station has been developed called “Young Plants”.

The goal is to preach the gospel to the kids in their formative years and to be a badly needed voice for godly living while they are making decisions that will potentially impact the rest of their lives.  You can find out more about this ministry by watching this video.

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At one of the mission conferences that I was a part of in December I learned of a ministry based out of a church in Georgia that is heavily involved in missions efforts in Malawi. As myself and the pastor briefly got to know each other, we both began to wonder if the Lord had crossed our paths “for such a time as this”. As we have continued to speak on the phone, we have both concluded that God may be leading us to partner with each other in ministry and have decided to meet in Malawi to pursue God's will in this matter together. They have a well established mercy ministry that has a gospel centered approach to providing rural medical clinics and practical orphan help. Both focused on evangelism, discipleship, and eventual church planting. Although it has only been very preliminary discussions at this point, there is serious mutual consideration of their ministry partnering with us to provide similar help to the people in our area of Malawi. While I believe it could be a huge blessing to our ministry in the north, I also am aware of the many pieces of the puzzle that would have to fall into place in order for this to become a reality. Please pray that God would lead us in this decision and that our faith would rise to the occasion as God directs. I am praying that GOd will use this trip to clarify his will in this matter. Please pray with us.

Another objective of this trip is to meet with the heads of a ministry based in South Africa. I was contacted by them several months ago and have been holding regular meetings with their board over ZOOM. They feel led to partner with our ministry by way of facilitating the buildinging of a full scale sports complex on our mission property. This would include a full size, zero maintenance turf, soccer field, two full size basketball, volleyball, netball multi-purpose courts, as well as a short term missions housing facility. Again, I would love for these facilities to be available to the people in our area. It would be the only one of its kind in the north of Malawi so it would be an incredibly useful tool to use for the ministry there. Again, I am keenly aware that only God can bring these things to pass.

This trip has the potential to validate these directions, or to show me that God has other plans for our ministry. I have been involved in ministry long enough to realize that we are only given strength to fulfil the ministry directions that Jesus invites us into. Not more, and not less. I covet your prayers for this journey. Pray for God to use the moments of preaching and teaching, for physical safety, for guidance in the developing relationships, and for clear revelation as to God’s will in the pursual of these mentioned ministry directions.

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Robinsons2Malawi Ministry Update November 2024

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Dear Friends and Supporters,


Wow! Where to begin? It feels like so much has happened since our last update. As many of you know, we had two major evangelism efforts planned for 2024.

Thank you for faithfully praying for these endeavors! By God’s grace, both efforts—one in April and another in August—were met with great success.

The Lord blessed abundantly in the attendance, preaching, and the subsequent yield of new discipleship students.

The August evangelism effort, in particular, allowed us to witness the largest discipleship group we have ever had the privilege of teaching.

After completing the initial evangelism efforts in any given area, we usually secure a meeting hall or conference room nearby to hold an orientation for the discipleship course. These sessions allow us to begin building personal relationships with the individuals who got saved, or recommitted their lives to Christ during the outreach.

When arranging these follow-up classes, we often face challenges in knowing about how many people will attend. It becomes a bit of a guessing game to determine a venue large enough to accommodate the anticipated group. The first day of classes found our ministry team faced with one of those “good problems” that only God can orchestrate. We had hoped and estimated that perhaps 200–250 people would attend. Imagine our surprise when over 400 people showed up for classes that day!

Though the venue was far too small, the day did not descend into chaos. Praise the Lord for the incredible coordination of our ministry team and the willingness of local believers to step in and assist. Despite the challenges, the classes went on beautifully, and once again we were afforded the opportunity to preach the gospel of salvation to all who attended. One woman shared afterward how she had never understood that salvation is freely given, not earned through good works. She came to class THINKING she was saved and left KNOWING she was saved! Praise God for the constant guidance of the Holy Ghost every step of the way.

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As we reflect on this experience, we know from past efforts that only about half of those who begin the discipleship course will ever finish. Of those who finish, fewer will become active church members, and fewer still will go on to bear lasting fruit. This is the reality of ministry. Yet, how humbling it is to realize that this one discipleship group is larger than the total number of people who were involved in our ministry in years gone by! Please join us in praying for these new believers, that they may grow into faithful laborers for the Lord.

Transition and New Opportunities

As the discipleship courses, fellowship groups, and twelve local churches continue forward in Malawi, our family has turned its attention to raising support and visiting churches here in the United States. The growing opportunities in Malawi come with increased demands—demands we cannot meet without additional prayer and financial resources.

Before leaving Malawi, we held “handover” services with the local ministry leaders who have taken on many of our daily responsibilities. Those moments were filled with both joy and tears as we prepared for this season of separation. What a blessing it is to be able to have confidence in the men we have left behind for a while. 

Since our recent arrival into the USA, we have hit the ground running. We’ve attended missions conferences and regular services across Texas, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

Thus far, our meetings in U.S. churches have been encouraging, and we’ve been warmly received everywhere we have gone. We praise God that at least two new churches have partnered with us in support. By faith, we trust the Lord will provide all that we need as we prepare for a future return to Africa.

Additionally, I was blessed with the unique opportunity to preach in Mexico to a group of national pastors who have worked with a veteran missionary for many years. Over the years, God has arranged several ministers from other mission fields as well as pastors from the USA to come and bless the men who we work with in Malawi.

I have for many years desired to go to Mexico or South America to minister to the faithful men of other countries. Seeing the Lord answer yet another long-held prayer was humbling.

A New Church Plant


As we labor here in the States, the work in Malawi continues. We rejoice in the launch of a new church plant led by Pastor Timothy. This young man, a faithful preacher with a supportive family, felt called into the pastorate back in 2022. He has been patiently waiting on God’s timing for over a year and a half. It was a blessing to receive pictures of the launch and to hear how God blessed the first services. Pastors from established churches around the country traveled to the ceremony to attend and show their support for NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH. What an encouragement for this new pastor.


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As I reflected on this milestone, I thought about our first church plant in Mzuzu over fifteen years ago. Back then, we often felt like “lone rangers,” surrounded by skepticism and discouraging remarks about the eventual longevity of our efforts. Today, Pastor Timothy is surrounded by a network of mature, faithful Malawian pastors who have weathered trials and can offer invaluable guidance. What a testament to God’s grace and the endurance He has sustained us with over the years! Please pray for Pastor Timothy, his family, and this new work of faith.

Prayer Requests:


As we close, we ask for your continued prayers. Specifically:


1. For Rest – Our family has been running at full speed for the past few years, and we are feeling the weight of fatigue. Please pray that God would grant us the wisdom to balance the work he has called us to, and to obtain the rest which I know can be experienced in doing His work in His ways. 

2. For Support – As the ministry grows, so do the financial needs. Pray for open doors and willing hearts to partner with us in the work God is doing in Malawi.

3. For the New Church Plant – Pray for Pastor Timothy, his congregation, and the pastors supporting this effort, that the Lord would use this ministry for His glory.

4. For Upcoming Meetings – While in the U.S., we hope to visit with as many supporting churches as possible. If your church would like us to visit, please reach out. It would be our joy to encourage and be encouraged by visiting our supporting congregations, as well as visit new churches to potentially partner with. 

Thank You to ALL!

We are deeply thankful for those of you who strengthen our hands through prayer and financial support. Your generosity and sacrifices make it possible for us to continue serving in Malawi. To those who have faithfully stood with us, we cannot thank you enough. To those who, for one reason or another, have been unable to continue, we thank you as well. Your past support has left an eternal impact, and we pray it will abound to your reward in heaven. Know that your investment was not in vain. May the Lord continue to bless your ministries mightily.



Thank you from the Robinson Family,


David & Jennie, Josh, Bekah, Grace, Justus, Charity, and Hope




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Greetings To All,

I hope this letter finds you all doing well. I am thankful to be able to report that we are all doing better than ever here in Malawi! The past few months have flown by as we have continued to work with the outcroppings of new churches throughout the country.


With the increase in new churches throughout the country there is obviously a massive increase in the workload which we are carrying as well. We covet your prayers for strength and wisdom. Overall the fledgling new ministries are doing amazingly well, but each and every one of them seem to be in constant need of one thing or the other.


Even though each congregation is taking responsibility for their own physical needs, and the needs of their church leadership, we are still heavily tasked with needs in teaching and preaching for them in different circumstances.

One such situation was that of a recent funeral in one of the new congregations. There is not much that is more difficult than preaching next to a coffin that short. Malaria here in Malawi is still one of the leading causes of death in children under five years old.

Pastor Alex and Pastor Daniel were asked by the churches in that area to come and conduct the funeral services since none of the church leadership in that area had ever conducted services under such circumstances. Although what happened is heartbreaking, it was a blessing to be able to assure the family with all confidence of the scriptures, that their baby is in heaven awaiting those among them that are saved. The particular area where the child was from and was buried was several hours drive off the beaten path, situated in a place where we have never preached before. The tragedy was used by the Lord for an entire village to hear the clear preaching of the gospel. Although it is considered “disrespectful” to have some kind of an altar call at a funeral preaching in that area, it was hardly containable as people responded to the preaching.


Since that time, we have been receiving messages and phone calls requesting us to return and hold a special preaching meeting for those who gave testimony that they had never heard that kind of preaching before. Please pray that the doors continue to open in that area and that the Lord gives us the grace, help and time we need to go there for a proper follow up preaching.


Click the photo above to see Independent Baptist Pastors in Malawi leading the entire village in God Glorifying Funeral Services

In contrast to the sting of death, we were blessed to hold the first baptism service in the Blantyre area for some of those who were saved as a result of last year's Campaigns for Christ efforts. For all such needs we have made it a point to transport all the newer church leaders from around the country and hold miniature teaching seminars on how to conduct these kinds of services after we exemplify the work ourselves. This has actually given us the opportunity to accentuate and expound on why we do things the Bible way.

Weekly personal work continues to go well in the Mzuzu churches. As the workload increases for the ministry leaders that I work with, it has been a blessing to see other capable men in the churches stepping up and taking a more active role of responsibility in the local churches. Ministries such as weekly witnessing, teens church, and other such kinds of ministries have become almost completely handed over to other men. I covet your prayers for those who are stepping up into these helpful roles.

One such brother I would like to ask prayer for is brother Charles Kalinde. He is Pastor Alex’s right hand man in Light Baptist Church. He is dependable, knowledgeable, and has become a fantastic preacher and teacher since he got established in the right doctrine in 2018. He has stepped up and filled the void in so many ways in Light Baptist Church and I really don't know how the church would fare without him and his family. Please pray God’s special hand of blessing over him and his family in every way. He is the owner of a small banking franchise and is one of the most faithful men I have ever met here in Malawi.

Brother Charles Kalinde and Family

A very unexpected blessing emerged within the past few weeks which has blessed us beyond words. Northstar Baptist Church laid hands on me and sent us out as missionaries many years ago in 2008. At that time the church was still pastored by the founder of the church Pastor Ron Robinson (My dad) Years later as my parents moved along in ministry, the church appointed my younger brother Paul Robinson to take the responsibility of senior pastor.


Since that time he was never able to come and visit our work here in Malawi to see what all the Lord is doing here. UNTIL NOW!! Pastor Paul and his wife Kate are here now with us in Malawi and it has been such an incredible ENCOURAGEMENT! I encourage all pastors everywhere to visit the missionaries sent out from their churches if at all possible. God blesses the efforts you make in special ways.



As I write this letter we are on the precipice of yet another huge push for public outreach ministry here in Malawi. The Campaigns for Christ ministry is coming again and the teams will be landing within a few days. This time around there will be twenty seven international volunteers, and around fifty folks from within Malawi who are converging for this effort. We hold public preaching meetings in three cities over the course of this effort and will attempt to distribute over 270,000 scriptures. We once again need prayer for strength, wisdom, boldness, and utterance from on high.

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Over 270,000 scriptures and invitations sitting collated and ready for distribution in three cities in southern Malawi.

On the home front as a family, we have never been better! We have learned so much over the past few months and we thank the Lord for each and every precious and priceless lesson. We want to say thank you to all who are faithfully praying for and supporting the Lord's work here in Malawi. We have been overwhelmed by your show of support of our ministry and by your confidence in me as a minister of the Gospel. We do not take it lightly. We could never be able to continue on doing what the Lord has us doing here in Malawi without you. May the Lord bless your faithfulness.

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Dear Faithful Supporters,


Thank you for taking a moment to review this letter containing significant information pertaining to the ministry here in Malawi.



Parting of Ways  


Bible Baptist Mission Board, Inc in Pensacola has faithfully forwarded our financial support and our prayer letters for many years as we have laboured on the field here in Malawi. For this we will always be grateful.


However, recent events have revealed that our two ministries are no longer compatible.  


The issue began for us when BBM publicly brought the legitimacy of our ministry and methods into question by editing our family’s monthly prayer letter. Confusing and unsigned red letter statements were added to our letter by the mission board director and approved by the board president for distribution.


This was done without our knowledge or permission, nor were we ever contacted or made aware about any issues or concerns that BBM may have had with our work prior to their public announcement.  


This manner of communication subsequently revealed a loss of confidence that we were not previously aware existed, and which we cannot now ignore.


For several weeks we made every attempt to resolve the entire matter privately, but ultimately we could not commit in faith to what the board required from us.


On the morning of December 26, our resignation was requested from the board president.


The following day, after seventeen years of missionary service with no previous problems, my wife Jennie and I submitted our official resignation letter to the Bible Baptist Mission board.




1 Corinthians 9:3



For the public record I wish to state:


  1. I have NEVER PAID SALARIES to indigenous/national pastors to fulfill their ministries. Although this is a popular method for attracting “converts and workers” in the third world, not once in fifteen years of full time missions work in Malawi have I taken this approach.


  2. I have always believed that based on the maturity of a given indigenous congregation, receiving regular support from sources outside the local church could hinder more than help the saints by cultivating an unhealthy dependency that relieves the congregants of their biblical duty to give. Likewise, I believe that based on the spiritual maturity and moral character of a given minister, receiving regular outside support could cultivate laziness and wrong motivation if the minster becomes dependent on this funding.


  3. I believe that due to cultural differences and language barriers, it is nearly impossible for US-based churches or individuals to distinguish on their own between a faithful brother and an unfaithful brother in another country.


  4. I absolutely believe in the biblical principle of a “missionary” being sent forth and supported by sending and supporting churches; I do not believe that this principle requires me to RESTRICT or HINDER any faithful minister (“national” or otherwise) from receiving support or assistance from a US-based church or believer who wanted to offer some kind of help.


  5. I have NEVER believed that a national minister, or any brother or sister in Christ for that matter, should be excluded from consideration for financial help based on his nationality or because of his race or ethnicity. I believe that doing so could undermine practical applications to the doctrine of the ONE body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Acts 6:1-

  6. I believe that the specific topic of national ministers receiving foreign funds is a matter of discretion --not doctrine. As a veteran missionary who believes the scripture, who honors authority, and who has actual experience of starting churches, discipling believers, and training ministers in the third world, I reserve my right to believe this, and I reserve my obligation to serve in my field with a pure conscience.


  7. These statements constitute a brief summary of MY personal beliefs and practices in these matters.  Any and all statements made about my convictions, if contrary to what I’ve written here, are simply NOT TRUE, no matter WHO says it. Anyone can speculate, assume, state or imply — but NO ONE has the right to conclude dogmatically as to what David Robinson believes. Only God knows the heart.





What Now


WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THE LORD’S WORK HERE IN MALAWI, as we have always done it, in accordance with scripture, in light of God’s leading, with a clear conscience, and without fear, partiality, or dissimulation.


Parting ways with our brethren at Bible Baptist Mission, Inc is not something we had planned on, but we are glad to report that although this ordeal has been very confusing and frustrating, we sincerely wish them all well.


By God’s grace, and rejoicing in consciences purified by the truth, we are committed to continuing our course with joy and faith.


2 Corinthians 1:12 has been especially meaningful to us lately:

  • For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

Change of Address


In light of these things, we are asking all of our supporters to redirect support to our Home & Sending Church


Northstar Baptist Church

P.O. Box 74521

Fairbanks, AK 99707

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Immediate Needs


Despite these unexpected changes, we have already committed to BE HERE IN MALAWI throughout 2024 to facilitate two more evangelistic collaborations with the Campaigns for Christ ministry.  


At the writing of this letter, there are containers full of John & Romans headed across the ocean to Malawi; these will need to be unloaded and stored in preparation for the campaigns. There are currently over fifty people from Stateside churches who have mission trips planned for Malawi. These will have to be housed, transported, fed, and directed. We must also scout out locations for literature distribution and preaching services. The saints who have provided the scriptures and the ones coming to distribute them are depending on us to be here in order to facilitate these efforts.


Anyone interested in seeing what God is doing through these efforts is encouraged to visit www.campaignsforchrist.org for more information. The campaigns are very labor-intensive, but have been equally rewarding. We count it all joy to work with our Malawian and American brethren in these efforts to bring the word of God and the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ to the Malawian people.




Our Request


We believe that our ministry here speaks for itself and that God’s hand on our lives and our work is evident. In light of these things, we ask individuals or churches who have ever considered investing in the salvation of souls in Malawi to soberly pray about PARTICIPATING WITH US by cheerfully contributing whatever God lays on your heart.  


Supporters can visit our sending church website www.northstarbaptistak.com and make a contribution to our work from there.


For those who prefer snail mail, the church address is listed above in the highlighted area.


Should the Lord tarry, we are  planning a scheduled furlough in 2025. We look forward to visiting as many churches as possible to give our report, so feel free to contact us about scheduling a meeting. Your continued support during the next twelve months will be greatly appreciated as we would rather not have to come back to the USA ahead of schedule.  




Closing Considerations


Lastly for now, we want to let our supporters know that we consider it an honor to labor for the Lord Jesus here in Malawi.


It is our great joy and privilege to do so alongside our faithful Malawian brethren, fellowsaints and ministers who love and serve God under pressures and circumstances that many cannot imagine.


We cherish your prayers for us and them.


We regard your financial support as an evident token of your trust and love, making it possible for us to serve here.


As such, we count ourselves debtors and stewards of your eternal investment, and we renew our pledge to continue to operate with the highest regard for scripture and for souls.


If anyone has any questions about any of these matters, all you’ve got to do is ask! We love hearing from any of you, so please feel free to contact us via email or by clicking the link below.


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We pray the Lord’s special blessings on those who “hold the ropes” for us in confidence;  your faithfulness to the Lord Jesus and to us is appreciated in new ways now, and we promise by God’s grace to do our best for Jesus Christ and for you here in Malawi, Africa.



Thank you from the Robinson Family,


David & Jennie, Josh, Bekah, Grace, Justus, Charity, and Hope




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Greetings to you all from the northern part of Malawi Africa. I hope and trust this letter finds you doing well. We are all doing great.


Let me begin by apologizing for the tardiness of this letter. It really should have been sent out before now so let me say a special thank you for your patience.




The last few months have been by far the very most fruitful in terms of numeric and visible fruit since we came to Malawi. I will not attempt to give a detailed account but let me give a quick overview so that you can rejoice with me over what the Lord has done.


In this last chapter, we have managed to distribute over 750,000 gospel tracts nationwide, we have had over 900 people come forward to alter calls to make first time professions of faith in Christ, we have graduated over 250 people from the discipleship courses, we have opened 3 new Independent Baptist Churches in three different areas of the country, and we have opened 3 other church plants, and have managed to distribute several thousand Bibles/ New Testaments.



Obviously much of the now seen fruit is a result of many months and years of investing in work which could not necessarily be seen or counted. Should the Lord tarry I Believe that we will continue to SEE fruit throughout the country of Malawi to the glory of God.



Ecclesiastes 4:9 says ; Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour…Ecclesiastes 4:12…and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.



The point of these verses is to say that if two or three of us can ever get over ourselves, and our human pride, for long enough to actually work WITH each other rather than AGAINST each other, a lot can get done. Unfortunately this requires more than just a doctrinal KNOWLEDGE of the biblical doctrine of unity, it requires more than just the ability to write the verses related to the matter on a chalkboard and gabber about it. DOING it ends up requiring the actual APPLICATION of that doctrine in order to make it work.


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This simple fact of the matter is that the great work that the Lord has done here and is doing here could not be done without Christians working TOGETHER. Let me expound a bit. Brother Dave Darling is the founder and primary minister in a Bible Believing, WorldWide, Evangelistic ministry. The ministry is called Campaigns For Christ (Which Link Please See).


Bro Darling has been leading teams of folks from around the USA Churches over to Malawi, as he does to various parts of the world,  to distribute copies of John and Romans. Invitations are printed inviting people to come and hear a gospel message to which our largest crowd numbered over 5000 people at once.

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The gospel was preached in various locations around the city and people were invited to REPENT before the Lord and put their personal faith in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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This effort required The LOGISTICS ministries to work together with the PRINTING ministries which had to get along with the LOCAL CHURCHES who volunteered countless hours to fold and stack the materials. Then Bro Darling had to gather christians from various churches to all get on a plane and fly into the middle of Africa where we had to work with various local churches around the country to lend us members from their congregations who could volunteer their time to come and act as interpreters and guides for the visiting brothers and sisters from the states as they yoked up as a team during the distribution efforts. Pastors from the USA preached their hearts out while the interpreters did an incredible job of effectively bringing the message of God into the ears of the masses. After the evangelism efforts, Discipleship groups were established by coordinating with local church pastors throughout the country

!!Lots of Teamwork!!

Hundreds Are Enrolled In Discipleship Courses Around the Country


The most exciting part of this is that these efforts are STILL HAPPENING! There is still an opportunity for those who want to join the fun. Two more huge efforts are already planned for the spring and summer of 2024. I know that the next group coming is about 30 people who are planning to come in April 2024. Please coordinate with Brother Darling if you would like to get in on the action


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The other development which has made such a dramatic increase in momentum possible has been YOUR SUPPORT of the men that I work with here. In the past they relied heavily on the support of their local church congregations to support what they were able to do in the ministry. By helping support their basic needs, it has freed them up from their secular jobs and made these men available to help me in the missions work.


Mc Anthony Mwandelile (Evangelist)

Christopher Midiasi (Evangelist)

Daniel Nyirenda (Pastor)

Alex Mwenikifungwe (Pastor)

PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE MEN AND THEIR FAMILIES !


As a newly formed team it is a lot of work to get and keep ourselves organized in our efforts, but the fruit is well worth the work. I cannot thank you all enough for those of you who have taken part in that effort.




Please PRAY for the men involved and their families. Pastor Alex, Pastor Daniel, Evangelist Mark Anthony, and Evangelist Brother Chris.Together we are able to plan and execute efforts of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting, throughout the country.  

In closing I want to say that I am so incredibly thankful for the ministry of Brother Dave Darling & for Campaigns for Christ. I continue to URGE fellow missionaries around the globe to consider how they might be able to work with Brother Darling on arranging similar efforts in their prospective countries. It is a ministry which I believe the churches in the USA would do well to invest in financially as the Lord leads. I will leave their contact info at the bottom of this letter so that local churches in the USA can consider arranging Brother Darling to present this desperately needed ministry to their congregations.

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Dear Saints,


We hope and trust you are well. The past two months have been interesting to say the least. We were sent out of the church which my dad and mom (Ron and Mary Robinson) started, Northstar Baptist Church, in 2008 to go to Malawi to preach the gospel. At that time the Assistant Pastor of the church was Bro Daniel Grotke. He was among those who were the first to “believe in” our calling and was instrumental in supporting us as we got started in the work. It was those who were closest to us who were our heaviest supporters and who God used to make it possible for us to go. Since that time the Lord called brother Grotke and his family to go and minister in the country of Norway. They were sent out of our home church and have now been there for the past few years. The Lord has seen fit to bless their work there to the point to where they were desirous to get involved in foreign missions. Amazingly, our sending church, and those who have been supportive since day one, once again got together and raised the funds for our family to be able to go and spend ten days holding some “Missions Emphasis” Sundays in Norway teaching about missions as well as presenting the ministry in Malawi to the congregation there. What an incredible and humbling experience it was to be able to encourage this young congregation in the right ways to be involved in world-wide missions work. Please pray that the Lord would bring to pass some of the plans which were committed to the Lord during that time. There is a good group of folks there and they genuinely desire to take some missions trips and support some foreign missionaries. PLEASE PRAY that the Lord would lead them in the steps to come so that they will truly fulfill what the Lord is leading them to do.

From there we were back in the saddle with the ministry in Malawi. We are continuing to go as far as we can with the Light Baptist Church building project. The project is going amazingly well! It is (so far as I know) the only Independent Baptist Church building which has ever been built in Malawi that is DIRECTLY on the M1 main north to south road in the county. It has been a miracle of sorts since the day we were able to buy the plot. Although the building is not finished yet we have decided to go ahead and hold services in the main auditorium while we plug away with the project.

Charity Baptist Church Choir helping us in a public outreach.

Charity Baptist Church continues to do very very well. Pastor Nyirenda is a great pastor and loves the people who he ministers too. His love for the Lord and for the scriptures continues to compel him to go forward in the ministry. This church has long outgrown their building, and desperately needs to move. As of right now we can see the problem but we have no absolute clear direction from the Lord on what to do about it. Please pray with us. There is a building in Mzuzu that I have been praying about for years and years now. It would be a perfect place to be as a church. I have been telling the men that I work with here for years that the Lord is going to give that building to Charity Baptist one day. Recently I noticed that the building was chained shut and was informed that the owner wanted to sell it. I haven’t even asked the prices or details yet. I am asking for YOUR prayer for God to show HIS will and show HIS hand strong. Please pray with us about this.

Due to the particular context of fraudulent Malawian “pastors” that I met early on in the ministry here, the Lord showed me to NOT financially support the men who I worked with in the ministry. This was totally against S.O.P. in third-world missions work but it has proven to be one of the best decisions I made early on in the ministry. As opposed to riding the missionary gravy train style ministry, the men who would work with me would be destined to be “first proved”, before holding a position of leadership in the church. These men have learned to “work with their own hands” to feed their families and have struggled to make ends meet as they have ministered to the congregations that the Lord has planted. This is not to say that I have not helped them and their families on many occasions, but it was a statement to the community to let people know that we take church leadership seriously and that you need to PROVE your work in the ministry just as many of our supporting church pastors have had to do as their congregations develop.

Times have changed. According to the work load that the Lord has for us to do here, their working will soon become a hindering factor to what the Lord has us doing together. Although the men all pastor different churches, we have discovered that some of the work of the Lord's work is best done through joint efforts. It is fulfilling these efforts that now consume much of our time these days. Now we constantly find ourselves working around schedules and such in order to make time to fulfil the work that the Lord has given us to do. Although the churches continue to grow in number, the people are still citizens of the second poorest country in the world (Malawi). In spite of the growing congregations, the financial ability to fully support their pastor remains a challenge.

Brother Mwandilire’s trained evangelistic skit team draws a crowd of a few hundred in a hurry before turning them over to us for preaching.

We have recently been praying as a group over the subject of possibly traveling to the USA and having these men preach in the churches there. In doing so, I have all confidence that the Lord would use these men to be a GREAT encouragement to you churches in the states, as well as lend opportunity to them being able to be at least partially supported.


I have done enough things in my life to know that efforts are only worth acting on if GOD is the author and fulfiller of the effort. Please pray with us about this situation. I believe that time is short before the Lord’s coming and that I need these men to be able to work with me on a daily full time basis. Again, there are no concrete plans in place, and we need the LORD to move in this matter.

Speaking of recent efforts, thousands of gospel tracts went out at our local open air preaching services, and we saw five souls come to Christ on one occasion. At a different location there were fifteen teens who came forward to receive Christ. We praise the Lord for you all loving the Lord enough to give these folks a chance to hear the glorious gospel of grace!

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We are only days away from the next Campaigns for Christ effort. This time around we will be holding all the distribution efforts and preaching efforts in the Capital City of Lilongwe. We will be attempting to distribute between 150,000 and 250,000 copies of John & Romans at three different locations around the city. We are holding the public preaching meetings at the nearest open grounds to the different churches that brother Mike Fleuch (an Independent Baptist Missionary) started years ago. The hope is to draw attention to the Independent Baptist Churches that already exist in that area. Hopefully it will be an encouragement and an example to those congregations.

We covet your prayer for the lost souls who will attend the preaching meetings. Pray for the preachers, pray for the personal workers, pray for the weather, pray against the wiles of the devil, and pray for the folks who have selflessly raised the funds to come with Campaigns for Christ to come and strengthen our hands in the work.

Family hike to the top of the nearest mountain in our area!


On the home front, the family is doing fine. I appreciate your ongoing prayers over our family and children. We are so incredibly blessed to have our quiver full, and it is a joy to see them growing into godly young people for the Lord.



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Psalms 7:17 I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the LORD most high.


We hope and trust that this letter finds you well and serving the Lord in his perfect will for your life. I wanted to send you all a quick word of thanks and a Happy New Year! In this prayer letter I have outlined our most concerning prayer needs. Many years of working in Malawi Africa has taught me that it is YOUR prayers that have been effectual to carry us through. We can’t thank you enough for holding the ropes in prayer for the ministry.

(1) Wisdom and divinely opened doors as we handle the subject of our older children in their life directions. Our children need encouragement and hope in their lives. Mzuzu, Malawi is an incredibly difficult place for American Teenagers to live. I do not expect you to fully understand this subject in its entirety, just trust and know that it is a subject of great concern in our lives. We NEED your prayer for God to open up GREAT direction & opportunities for our children who have grown up in this third culture context. They have been so faithful and such a vital part of the ministry here. We are asking the Lord to open doors for them as they are thinking of the next steps in their lives.

(2) Light Baptist Church building project. We are still pushing on a daily basis to progress on this building project. We thank you all so much for making it financially possible for this building to be here.

(3) Revelation from the Lord to my heart and mind to know how to more effectively serve the Lord and help the people of Malawi. We thank the Lord, he has used us for to establish Biblical Christian Faith in the lives of those who have accepted the truth through us. However, I constantly feel that there must be something that I am missing in order to see a much greater movement of the grace of God here in this country. Please pray that the Lord would reveal to me through his word and by his spirit, exactly what I need to do as a missionary to win more people to God and to help them to convert from their misplaced values to understanding God's authority, his precepts, and his perfect ways.

(4) The strengthening of the churches which are newly planted but they are still weak and still in need of much prayer and input. I need adequate time and resources to effectively minister to them for their growth.

(5) The establishment of an ongoing way to fund the physical needs of the Malawian Churches from within Africa. Finances are a very real part of any real missions work. My dream is to see the churches and pastors become completely self-sufficient without depending on money from churches in foreign countries.

Elaboration on Prayer Request # 5


There is no doubt that our family as well as the church leadership here in Malawi GREATLY appreciate the sacrificial giving of our Bible Believing Independent Baptist Churches and individuals around the world. Without your financial help the ministries here in Malawi could have never been established. However, as we move forward, and we see the Malawian Pastors take on an increasingly major role in the actual ministry leadership, we need to be careful to NOT create a culture of “dependency” on foreign funding for ongoing progress in the ministries. The problem with ministry finances here is that we live and operate under one of the most wicked, tyrannical governments on the face of planet earth. I do not say that lightly, ignorantly, or irreverently. I do, however, say it factually and experientially. I say it with the utmost honour to the Malawian government where it is due and with no intentions of rebellion whatsoever. Outside of how they devastate the lives of our flock, I have nothing personally against them all. In fact, they are simply doing what wicked men do when they are in positions of power and authority. Proverbs 29:2 When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn.

The fact is that there has never been a proper establishment of a government which produced a prosperous condition of life in this country since its conception in 1964. This is not slander, this is fact. The plight of the common people who live under such a government and who attend the churches, is genuinely heart wrenching. It is nearly as challenging for the average American person to actually understand the role which government plays in their generally prosperous way of life, as it is for an average Malawian family to feed itself. Here it takes all of a man’s strength, wit, and determination, just to get food for his family that day. Giving financially in the local church requires faith ANYWHERE, but here in Malawi, giving in a manner which would be adequate to actually fulfill the needs of the ministries of the local churches is seemingly impossible. While the short term answer may seem to be that we should just ask the believers in the USA, to help fund these projects, we also need to consider the long term effects of employing such strategies.


We must ask ourselves and more importantly, ask the Lord…What HIS strategy would be. What kind of mentality would develop in the churches if we utilize that methodology? Is it really what the believers here are in need of? Do African believers REALLY need to be encouraged to have their hand permanently extended, waiting on the next financial donation to come from the USA? Is that really a “renewed” mindset? Is it good for the church leadership to deepen into the culture of DEPENDENCY as they lead the way forward in their INDEPENDENT Baptist Churches? Obviously, for now, we need to work in the context of what is available.

Since there is no other option on the table, we depend highly on finances to be sent from other countries to fulfill nearly every project and evangelistic effort. Dependency however, is NOT a good long term solution. It will not be sustainable for the churches in the future. I am bringing this matter up as a subject to pray over because it is time to consider what will unfold here for these churches and ministries should the Lord tarry his coming.


My understanding of Missions Work is easily seen if we look at the idea of a scaffolding system in the construction industry. For major building projects, scaffolding systems are a highly technical, well engineered part of the project. Just the scaffolding system itself can be an enormous cost and is very technical in its installation. However, no matter how great the scaffolding system is, and no matter how necessary and helpful it is while the building is being built, none of us would expect the scaffolding system to be a permanent part of the building. Likewise, in my calling of missions work, the goal is to build the believers and the ministries up in such a way that there should be very little, if not NO dependency at all in the future. Paul said it like this…1 Corinthians 3:9-10 For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building. According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. Two of the churches are very much self -sustaining in every way, spiritually and financially, however, unless I do something differently in the future than I have in the past, this makes for incredibly SLOW church planting.



As the years of missions work have unfolded here, the subject of future sustainability has been increasingly on my mind. After years of consideration, the root problem is quite simple and the solution is simple as well. The root problem of the impoverished churches is the fact that Malawian Christians have no way to lead a, “quiet and peaceable life” due to extreme wickedness in high places. Unless a solution is brought in which would help earn the money to provide for their churches needs, the future is grim. They must actually employ the scripture which says, Ephesians 4:28 Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.



Please bear in mind that we are not concerned with beautiful chandeliers, ornate tapestries, breathtaking decorations, or stained glass windows. When I refer to the needed physical things, I am talking of simple buildings to meet in, simple benches to sit on, adequate fuel for the vehicles so that the preachers can go and preach and such like things. Whatever money needs to be made to do the work of God must be made in a godly way so that the reputation of these men is not damaged along the way. WE NEED YOUR PRAYER! I mention this subject as a prayer request because it plays such an influential role in the ministries here. With dedication, hard work and faith, I am praying that the Lord would show us what to do as ministry leadership.


Every week the pastors of all the churches, the evangelists, the deacons, and all the men in leadership come together to pray over this matter. This is because it is the single most pressing and hindering matter to the ministries of TRUTH here in Malawi. I share this burden with you all in order to ask for PRAYER. Here in Malawi a very good foundation of Biblical Christian faith has been established. Many hours have been spent with the leaders of the churches, praying over and considering the subject of how the ministries are to be funded moving forward. We are highly considering the possibility of these men opening a high standard private school or running some other kind of company from which the money generated would be able to supply the needs of the ministries. We are sharing our greatest burden with you all so that you can help us in prayer to ask the Lord to open a way of funding for the ministries from here within Malawi. Our God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He can be trusted. His arm is not short and he CAN furnish a table in the wilderness. Pray with us about this issue please.


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Contents Of This Letter:

  • Light Baptist Church Building Project

  • Campaigns For Christ Evangelism

  • Coordinated Efforts

  • Fellowship Baptist Church

Light Baptist Church Building Update

Thankfully, the Light Baptist Church building project has been going very very well. Thank you to each of you who have prayed for it. Although it may seem to be going in slow motion if compared to how quickly things can move along in the USA, given all of the challenges here, we feel like we are soaring on eagles wings!

In addition to the usual challenges, the whole country has had no fuel in the filling stations for over a month. I mean none at all. It's every man for himself to figure out how to keep some fuel for his vehicles. When a fuel tanker does make its way to Malawi the wild wild west rat race begins with vehicles pushing their way from every direction towards the pump.

I have managed on a few occasions to get the vehicle full when fuel comes in but it is a two and a half hour ordeal every time, and I'm still not sure it's worth the BP. Naturally the transportation of materials has become a real challenge. We still have miles to go on this project so please just say a word of prayer over it as we continue ahead.

We are very thankful for your support in this Church building as clearly it would be impossible without your generosity. Just as inflation has hit the USA hard, the same is true in Malawi. I mentioned in the last letter that there was a significant increase in the cost of everything which will definitely have an effect on the completion of the building.

I remember being at several missions conferences in the USA where, by the grace of God, huge financial sums were raised for foreign missions. I encourage you pastors and churches who are blessed to have been able to raise such amounts to let there be an application of those finances here. May the Lord direct you in what to do. 2 Corinthians 8:11/ 1 John 3:18

L.B.C. Building Fund

Campaigns For Christ

Pastor Kyle Stephens Preaching
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C4C Ministry Video

What a privilege it has been to host and work with The Campaigns For Christ ministry here in Malawi. From the first day that I found out about this ministry I was absolutely impressed with the focus and the faith which was being exercised. These are the kinds of efforts which are greatly needed in our churches.

The primary work is to get tens of thousands of copies of the book of John and Romans into the hands of people in a particular area and then at the same time give them a printed invitation to come to and attend an evangelistic preaching meeting.

Read Jason Sadek's Testimony

Since Campaigns for Christ did all of the hard ground work of organising the trip, other brothers and sisters who ARE called to “GO '' but are NOT called to “STAY" forever on the field, had the opportunity to come and serve in a very real way in foreign missions. I FOR ONE SAY PRAISE THE LORD for such faith!

Having done all the necessary groundwork to accommodate a team, Campaigns for Christ extended an open invitation to Bible Believing Independent Baptist Church members all across the USA. The application requires a statement from the pastor of the particular local church and thus lone rangers and quacks are primarily filtered out. The group who came were a GREAT blessing to my family and I, and were a tremendous help to the work.

Indeed it really was an act of faith. Far from being vacation-like, these folks were on the street WORKING for several hours every day. They walked for miles, stood in the sun and toted heavy backpacks full of John & Romans all over Mzuzu.

They toughed it out without water and electricity for half the time, ate food they were not used to, and faced many challenges in order to fulfill the work. They truly strengthened our hands in the work!

Their very presence felt like a shock wave ripping through the whole town. Everyone everywhere in the whole area had a keen awareness that GOD was doing something in Mzuzu!

Foreigners tend to stick out like a sore thumb “around these here parts” and this group was no exception, each of the Campaigns for Christ volunteers were linked up with Malawian brothers and sisters in Christ to go out and work in small teams of six to eight. All in all, combining the Campaigns For Christ folks and the volunteers from here we ended up being around one hundred and ten folks out on the streets on a daily basis.

We passed out the literature, we sang in public, we had open air preaching, and these all culminated in some amazingly blessed evangelistic crusade meetings. WOW! THANK YOU FOR PRAYING! God has done great things among us!

Collectively we passed out 100,000 copies of John & Romans, 100,000 invitations, we had a few thousand folks attend the preaching meetings, a few hundred people who made a first time profession of faith, and we are busy working through a follow up list of over two hundred names and numbers of people who registered for discipleship course.

After the efforts were over we have had several first time visitors in the local churches, a few folks who have joined, and in at least some cases, there are people who have not missed a service since then!

Obviously there were a million logistical challenges to mobilizing that many people to, not just attend a meeting or sit and listen to preaching, but to be actively doing the work of ministry in a foreign country.

These folks got dropped off as small teams in locations all over the area and then had to navigate their way to certain predetermined points. Due to the weight of the literature and the volume being distributed, it was a major challenge just to keep all the troops supplied while they worked.

Leadership Team Left to Right: Brother Jason Sadek, Chris Madiasi, Pastor Alex, Myself, Pastor Daniel, Evangelist Mark Anthony, Brother Dave Darling

Recap of the Evangelism

Click the picture above to see a recap video for this years campaign.

Keeping everyone rested, fed, mobilized, and encouraged gave our host leadership team lots of opportunity to learn how to do it better next time! I thank the Lord for what these folks did and how flexible they were to allow us to sort of mesh ideas to make it effective here in this field. Overall God just decided to use these folks in a major way and I pray that they continue in their ministry vision.

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If you happen to be a missionary reading this letter, you may consider contacting brother Darling to see if they may be able to come to your country as well. In accordance with how the Lord leads you, and the realities of your particular field, it could be very helpful. Again, if you are a Bible Believing Independent Baptist pastor in the USA, I encourage you to consider Campaigns for Christ as a regularly supported missions ministry. Please remember Brother Dave Darling, Pastor Stevans, and Brother Sadek in your prayers as they continue to lead that ministry. They desperately need our prayer in order to do this work.

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Coordinated Efforts

Thanks to your generosity, in addition to the USA volunteers we were also able to transport, and host a number of local Malawian participants. The local participants were mainly made up from the folks from the local churches here in Mzuzu, Bible Institute students and other Independent Baptist Local Church Pastors from different parts of the country.

This gave us a “training ground” opportunity on how to conduct future coordinated efforts while simultaneously establishing a healthy sense of respect for the mutual independence of each ministry represented.

While these mutual efforts are somewhat “normal” in other parts of the world, they are altogether non-existent here in Malawi. In the USA it is fairly normal for “Camp Meetings' to be a conglomeration of churches & pastors from near and far who come together for a meeting while remaining very much independently governed in their own ministries. Missions conferences, youth camps, and preacher meetings are just a few examples of how the Independent churches mutually benefit one another in other countries. NO SUCH MEETINGS EXIST IN MALAWI & THEY NEVER HAVE.

The evangelistic effort of Campaigns for Christ provided a neutral opportunity for these national pastors to learn the ropes of coordinated ministry efforts and it also provided ample opportunity for these men to simply get to know each other. They were encouraged to set up future plans for preaching in each others churches, as well as sharing particular burdens with each other in prayer. I have already heard of at least a few of the men who met at the evangelism, preaching for each other and enjoying very blessed meetings since that time.

Fellowship Baptist Church

Psalms 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

I mentioned in previous letters that I had several men who were in the Bible Institute up in the Chitipa area who were historically Pentecostal preachers. I mentioned that some of them were at a serious crossroads of faith due to being exposed to true biblical doctrine for over a year and a half now. One of those young men was able to come to the Campaign effort.

He had mentioned to me a while back that he no longer preaches any Pentecostal false doctrine and that he only preaches the truth in the church which he is responsible for. He went on to say that he was convinced that he needed to leave the Pentecostal churches all together and follow the truth, but that he wasn’t exactly sure how to go about it. I told him to be patient and that if he was very serious, and willing to undergo plenty of opposition, then God would show him what to do, and when to do it. We prayed about it for several months and I asked you all to pray for him as well.

During the time he was with us on the streets I could see that he was really fired up and that he had been greatly encouraged by what he was experiencing. I gave him the opportunity to give a testimony during one of the testimony services. He said that there were many things which had impressed him about the Independent Baptist Churches since he began to know us.

He mentioned that first of all, that we indeed have the right doctrine. He went on to say that we also have the right exaltation of the scriptures and that we were more humble than any other group he had seen. He said that the very most impressive and compelling thing he had seen was our fellowship and genuine care for one another. He was so impressed by our willingness to work with each other as equals instead of everyone trying to “lord over'' others. He said that he has been praying and searching for the truth for years and that he is 100% sure that he has finally found it. He then declared publicly that he will resign from the Pentacostal church and that, as of then and there, he is no longer any part with Pentecostals; he is an Independent Baptist!


I asked him later on how it went back in the church he had been a preacher in for years. The “Head Bishop” was a woman and, as I had imagined, they all but tarred and feathered him and his family. They shamed him and his family for his association with the “white heretic” (yours truly). He simply said that he knew it was coming, and that the truth was worth it. He is a natural born preacher and he immediately asked me if he could go ahead and start holding services in their sitting room at their house because people need to know the truth! He named the church Fellowship Baptist Church because it was the fellowship which he had never seen before that sealed the deal in his heart. What a testimony to God’s truth and his ways.

As of now, they are holding services in his home while they look for a space to rent. He has a genuinely humble attitude and is requesting to be further taught by Pastor Daniel and Pastor Alex here in Mzuzu, as well as myself. I am thankful that he has examples to look to now in terms of pastoring a Bible Believing Church. Pastor Alex and Pastor Daniel are both men of great faith and they love the Lord and his people. I must say that I am excited about this development in the Lord's work and I covet your prayers over this man and his family as well as the work of faith which is underway there in that area. His name is John Nkisi.

In Closing

Psalms 34:14 Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

There are a good number of Malawian Pastors and church members all over the country who are greatly encouraged to be a part of these evangelism efforts. Please pray that the Lord will continue to establish a spirit and attitude of cooperation as we continue to try and strengthen the churches and pastors here in Mzuzu and around the country. Thank you all once again for your sacrificial prayer and support to enable us to do this work.

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Thank you once again for taking a few minutes to read this letter and hear more about what all is going on around here. We have a lot on our plate right now and we earnestly covet your prayer for what all is happening during this time. In this Prayer letter we would like to update you on:

1) Light Baptist Church Building Progress

2) Chitipa Graduation

3) Upcoming Campaigns For Christ Evangelism Campaign

Light Baptist Church Building

Several months ago we attempted to start on the building of the new LBC church building. Those efforts were heavily thwarted by both natural weather disasters, as well as internal struggles in the ministry. While flash floods wiped out entire sections of the M1 (main trade road going north to south through Malawi), the enemy was also busy ripping one of our most prominent young preachers out of the church and ministry. I will forgo mentioning his name in this letter because I believe deeply in my heart that he will one day be restored into fellowship and a Lord willing into the ministry in spite of having personally wounded me and our ministry deeply. (In Malawi we as Bible Believing Independent Baptist, still have to focus on forgiveness and restoration. We will necessarily need to do so until we have enough spare IBC soldiers to afford the process of biting and devouring one other, possibly if the Lord blesses and lots of Churches get established we may also be able to start the other tactics… for now we are still far too few;-)

I will spare you the details of his desertion. just know that he is one of the most talented & promising young preachers who has been around our ministry for several years. His calling is real and his gifting is not doubted, but unfortunately he was lifted up in pride and made some ignorant mistakes. Since then he has apologised and now he is faithfully attending church again. He not permitted to do anything besides show up, shut up, and sit still until he is told what to do. As of now he is patiently being disciplined. If he continues as such it will be a blessing to have his help in the ministry again. Please pray that he will be fully repentant and then fully restored. I would love for him to once again be profitable to the Lord & to me for the ministry.

His sudden departure from the ministry without notice caused many practical hiccups on our internal “organizational” structure. This necessitated me spending a great deal of time having to start from scratch training new office personnel.

Once the weather came right again and we got ourselves sorted out, the progress on the building has been AMAZING! All I can say is that “little is much, when God is in it”. In the midst of all the busy, I haven’t done a good job of keeping you all up to date better on the progress. I encourage you to pray for me about the subject of staying in better touch with everyone. I am “as one born out of due season” when it comes to all things social media as well as all things “instant updates”. I know that I need to do a better job and would appreciate your prayer in this.

Overall, The building project is going well and we can not say THANK YOU enough, for the offerings which have gotten us this far! We are getting ready to start on the roof at this point after which we expect the funds to be exhausted. This is not necessarily due to miscalculation of the budget as much as it has to do with sudden changes in the Malawi economy.

Prices of Fuel and commodities were hiked by 45% overnight without notice. Everyone in Malawi who has a phone got a message saying that fuel and goods are increased by 45% effective immediately. Supposedly this is due to the world financial situation. Those details are way above my pay grade to know why these things happen. What we know for sure is that it happened. This obviously took a huge toll on how far we could go with the money that came in for the project. Furthermore it had an effect on how far our ministry support could go to supplement carrying the project forward. We essentially lost a huge percentage of our support overnight.

We are not worried, we are trusting the Lord to provide for his work according to his will. As of now, we expect that we will need around $14,000 more to finish the building. We are way to far committed to do anything else but keep barreling FORWARD!

In spite of the financial setbacks, I remain VERY excited about this building. The core men who are leading this church have been prepared and faithful to me and to our ministry for over 10 years. In many ways, this will be a time when their faithfulness which has been in secret will be rewarded openly.

Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe & His right hand man Charles Kalinde and their spouses.

Amazing Progress!!!

Lord willing this building will help them to teach many more people the TRUE doctrine and practice of scripture. People from around the community stop daily to tell us that they are going to be with us in our services as soon as we start meetings there because they see the miracle which has happened with this building! Thanks for your continued prayer and support in this area.

Bible Institute, Chitipa Graduation

Over the years, our Bible Institute has adapted to become “available” to anyone who is dedicated and faithful enough to go through the classes. Part of what this means is that we provide regionalised classes to groups all over the north of the country.

Although we have already purchased land and have plans to build dorms to accommodate the students, we have still not yet managed to build the dorm facility which we expect to cost around 30,000usd.

Based on the principle of Galatians 6:6, It is my desire to have ALL of our ministries to eventually become self-sustaining, and while we do have a “fee” as one of the requirements, for now, we are still in the phase of applying 2 Corinthians 11:8. The reality is that 100% of the costs for the Bible Institute still come directly from our support and in essence from what YOU send.

For now we are still traveling to different regions to provide classes in those areas. The battlefront in “the Chitipa theater” has been costly but because of the grace of YOUR giving, we have managed to complete our first round of efforts in that remote location. I want to thank you for enabling us to do so. We initially offered the classes to anybody and everyone who wanted to join. We expected to have around five or six people who would half- heartedly make it through the first few lessons and then maybe end up with one or two fellows who made it all the way through. Instead, to our surprise, we had over sixty people register, out of whom forty-five started classes, out of the forty-five pastors who started, twenty-five have just graduated the first set of classes. Out of the twenty-five students who graduated eight of them are inquisitive as to how we can work together to start some Independent Baptist Churches in their respective areas. Although thus far, only one IBC has been started in that region, we are very excited about these prospects of potential ministries. Please remember that we NEED your prayer as we must be sensitive to the leading of the Lord in these things.

We all had such a great time of fellowship at the graduation. There were student speeches, Popcorn Preaching, and special singing.

Campaigns For Christ Malawi Evangelism 2022

We are very excited to have brother David Darling coming over with his group of volunteers to help us pass out 100,000 copies of John and Romans along with 100,000 invitations to attend scheduled preaching meetings. Simply put, we need prayer. This is not the kind of thing that usually happens twice in any given town, let alone Mzuzu Malawi! This is going to jolt this little village-town for sure and we believe it is going to be an amazing opportunity for folks to get saved. Please pray for the Lord to fill the preachers and the preaching. Pray that those souls who have been convicted of their sin would yield to the drawing and wooing of the Holy Spirit. Pray that some of the other christians in the area would see the good work. Pray that some would decide to separate from their apostate ministries and get themselves into Bible Believing Independent Baptist Churches around Mzuzu and get rooted and grounded as they ought to. Pray for physical safety and that the powers that be would not hinder in any way. Pray Pray Pray!

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Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Thank you once again for taking a few minutes to read this letter and hear more about what all is going on around here. We have a lot on our plate right now and we earnestly covet your prayer for what all is happening during this time. In this Prayer letter we would like to update you on:

1) Light Baptist Church Building Progress

2) Chitipa Graduation

3) Upcoming Campaigns For Christ Evangelism Campaign

Light Baptist Church Building

Several months ago we attempted to start on the building of the new LBC church building. Those efforts were heavily thwarted by both natural weather disasters, as well as internal struggles in the ministry. While flash floods wiped out entire sections of the M1 (main trade road going north to south through Malawi), the enemy was also busy ripping one of our most prominent young preachers out of the church and ministry. I will forgo mentioning his name in this letter because I believe deeply in my heart that he will one day be restored into fellowship and a Lord willing into the ministry in spite of having personally wounded me and our ministry deeply. (In Malawi we as Bible Believing Independent Baptist, still have to focus on forgiveness and restoration. We will necessarily need to do so until we have enough spare IBC soldiers to afford the process of biting and devouring one other, possibly if the Lord blesses and lots of Churches get established we may also be able to start the other tactics… for now we are still far too few;-)

I will spare you the details of his desertion. just know that he is one of the most talented & promising young preachers who has been around our ministry for several years. His calling is real and his gifting is not doubted, but unfortunately he was lifted up in pride and made some ignorant mistakes. Since then he has apologised and now he is faithfully attending church again. He not permitted to do anything besides show up, shut up, and sit still until he is told what to do. As of now he is patiently being disciplined. If he continues as such it will be a blessing to have his help in the ministry again. Please pray that he will be fully repentant and then fully restored. I would love for him to once again be profitable to the Lord & to me for the ministry.

His sudden departure from the ministry without notice caused many practical hiccups on our internal “organizational” structure. This necessitated me spending a great deal of time having to start from scratch training new office personnel.

Once the weather came right again and we got ourselves sorted out, the progress on the building has been AMAZING! All I can say is that “little is much, when God is in it”. In the midst of all the busy, I haven’t done a good job of keeping you all up to date better on the progress. I encourage you to pray for me about the subject of staying in better touch with everyone. I am “as one born out of due season” when it comes to all things social media as well as all things “instant updates”. I know that I need to do a better job and would appreciate your prayer in this.

Overall, The building project is going well and we can not say THANK YOU enough, for the offerings which have gotten us this far! We are getting ready to start on the roof at this point after which we expect the funds to be exhausted. This is not necessarily due to miscalculation of the budget as much as it has to do with sudden changes in the Malawi economy.

Prices of Fuel and commodities were hiked by 45% overnight without notice. Everyone in Malawi who has a phone got a message saying that fuel and goods are increased by 45% effective immediately. Supposedly this is due to the world financial situation. Those details are way above my pay grade to know why these things happen. What we know for sure is that it happened. This obviously took a huge toll on how far we could go with the money that came in for the project. Furthermore it had an effect on how far our ministry support could go to supplement carrying the project forward. We essentially lost a huge percentage of our support overnight.

We are not worried, we are trusting the Lord to provide for his work according to his will. As of now, we expect that we will need around $14,000 more to finish the building. We are way to far committed to do anything else but keep barreling FORWARD!

In spite of the financial setbacks, I remain VERY excited about this building. The core men who are leading this church have been prepared and faithful to me and to our ministry for over 10 years. In many ways, this will be a time when their faithfulness which has been in secret will be rewarded openly.

Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe & His right hand man Charles Kalinde and their spouses.

Amazing Progress!!!

Lord willing this building will help them to teach many more people the TRUE doctrine and practice of scripture. People from around the community stop daily to tell us that they are going to be with us in our services as soon as we start meetings there because they see the miracle which has happened with this building! Thanks for your continued prayer and support in this area.

Bible Institute, Chitipa Graduation

Over the years, our Bible Institute has adapted to become “available” to anyone who is dedicated and faithful enough to go through the classes. Part of what this means is that we provide regionalised classes to groups all over the north of the country.

Although we have already purchased land and have plans to build dorms to accommodate the students, we have still not yet managed to build the dorm facility which we expect to cost around 30,000usd.

Based on the principle of Galatians 6:6, It is my desire to have ALL of our ministries to eventually become self-sustaining, and while we do have a “fee” as one of the requirements, for now, we are still in the phase of applying 2 Corinthians 11:8. The reality is that 100% of the costs for the Bible Institute still come directly from our support and in essence from what YOU send.

For now we are still traveling to different regions to provide classes in those areas. The battlefront in “the Chitipa theater” has been costly but because of the grace of YOUR giving, we have managed to complete our first round of efforts in that remote location. I want to thank you for enabling us to do so. We initially offered the classes to anybody and everyone who wanted to join. We expected to have around five or six people who would half- heartedly make it through the first few lessons and then maybe end up with one or two fellows who made it all the way through. Instead, to our surprise, we had over sixty people register, out of whom forty-five started classes, out of the forty-five pastors who started, twenty-five have just graduated the first set of classes. Out of the twenty-five students who graduated eight of them are inquisitive as to how we can work together to start some Independent Baptist Churches in their respective areas. Although thus far, only one IBC has been started in that region, we are very excited about these prospects of potential ministries. Please remember that we NEED your prayer as we must be sensitive to the leading of the Lord in these things.

We all had such a great time of fellowship at the graduation. There were student speeches, Popcorn Preaching, and special singing.

Campaigns For Christ Malawi Evangelism 2022

We are very excited to have brother David Darling coming over with his group of volunteers to help us pass out 100,000 copies of John and Romans along with 100,000 invitations to attend scheduled preaching meetings. Simply put, we need prayer. This is not the kind of thing that usually happens twice in any given town, let alone Mzuzu Malawi! This is going to jolt this little village-town for sure and we believe it is going to be an amazing opportunity for folks to get saved. Please pray for the Lord to fill the preachers and the preaching. Pray that those souls who have been convicted of their sin would yield to the drawing and wooing of the Holy Spirit. Pray that some of the other christians in the area would see the good work. Pray that some would decide to separate from their apostate ministries and get themselves into Bible Believing Independent Baptist Churches around Mzuzu and get rooted and grounded as they ought to. Pray for physical safety and that the powers that be would not hinder in any way. Pray Pray Pray!

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Listen to the interview/ discussion to hear the vision, and find out how you can be involved!

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Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Greetings Dear Fellow Servants

What a blessing it is to write to you again from a mission field which is still about as open as open gets in 2022. While lockdown measures and wars play a role against foreign mission efforts around the world, we are thankful that doors of ministry remain wide open to us here in Malawi.

Blessed Bible Institute Efforts in Chitipa:

As mentioned in a previous letter, the Lord has opened an incredible door of ministry opportunity to us in Chitipa, the northernmost tip of Malawi. Logistically, it has been a bit of a nightmare to be able to minister there due to the difficulties of travel, accommodations, food, and physical safety. Chitipa is a border area sandwiched between no man’s land Tanzania, no man’s land Zambia, and no man’s land Malawi. Due to the physical location, none of the mentioned countries are concerned to do much governing in the area. Roads are not maintained, there is no more than a vague semblance of a police “force” in the area, and there is no feasible way for the government to control or regulate all the trade, crime and trafficking of goods and persons that happen in the area. Business is done in these areas as though no such governments even exist.

Chitipa, Malawi

Chitipa Google Maps

Official borders, although they may seem “clear” to the casual observer on google maps, do not actually function on the ground in the capacity one may expect. In fact, these borders are being operated just as they did long before the British, French and Germans ever sat in the Belgian and drew circles on maps declaring their “right” to these areas. Borders here are based on languages. Wherever your language stops being spoken, that’s where your border ends. Once you reach the place you can’t hear what the people are saying… that is when you are in someone else’s territory. It’s as simple as that. Once you are in someone else’s territory, if you abide by the rules of that territory you are fine. If you don’t you need to go back to where you come from or be put to death. So as trade goes on through these fluid “borders” people inevitably rip each other off and as one would expect, revenge would be sought.

Surprisingly, shady business rip offs are not as “rampant” of a problem as you may expect. The reason for this may also come as a surprise. The hindrance against crime is specifically because people are aware that Chitipa and its neighbouring district of Karonga is the “headquarters”of witchcraft in this region of Africa.

That Malawi as a whole is in umpteen times worse condition than any of its neighbouring countries is common knowledge to everyone in this region of the world. If you talk to the average Tanzanian, or Zambian, from anywhere in the vicinity and ask them why Malawi is in so much worse condition than their country, they will always respond with two answers. 1) Too much Envy, (Proverbs 27:4 )and 2) “Too much witchcraft”(Deut 18:9-14). They are not wrong. People here do not forgo wrong doing of any kind because they fear any kind of justice system, nor do they forgo crime due to the fear of offending God. It is simple. If they do wrong, they will be killed or plagued through witchcraft.


Of course I realize that most of the “First World” audience of this prayer letter will arrogantly chuckle at the “silly” “superstitious beliefs” of the “ignorant heathen” who think witchcraft is real. I also know that there aren’t enough pages in this letter to convey the REASONS why God commanded witches, dealers in familiar spirits, and sorcerers to be put to death in the O.T. none of which were because, “only superstitious people believe in that stuff. My intention is most certainly NOT to glorify or draw attention to dark spiritual power. However, having worked in this context for many years, it is painfully obvious that it is a very real force to be reckoned with in ministry here.

In any case, Chitipa has very little governance, and absolutely no way to prevent revenge seekers or criminals from coming and going as they please. This absence of governance is certainly felt every time I am there. I have not been there even once without passing by a scene where something terrifically terrible happened in the area. On one of my journeys a man was disemboweled in the night less than 100 meters from where I was sleeping. Another morning on my way to teach I passed by the aftermath of a young boy had been “degroined” (fatal of course) for witchcraft ritual purposes.

One evening as I was about to doze off to sleep five thieves surrounded my “house” and tried to get in. I was startled awake from my dozing by the banging around. I wasn’t as spiritual as many of you, of whom I’m sure would have prayed calmly through the whole situation. Being as carnal as I am, I went into a complete adrenaline rush, and resorted to brandishing my machete through the window and communicating to them in their language, the negative results which would befall them should they successfully make it into the house. Let’s just say I didn’t exactly sleep well that night. The Lord helped me to teach the scripture for over eight hours the following day with no sleep at all. I have had at least one “pastor” leave the institute, and make it his ministry to tell everyone in Chitipa that I am “a Satanic” (whatever that means). Most recently I was sent a message by an unknown person in the area who swears I will not leave Chitipa alive. What a blessing.

Wisdom Needed

As of right now we have twenty-eight pastors who are in the institute. Eight of them have requested me to instruct them on what they need to do in order to “become” Independent Baptist Pastors. I need prayer concerning how to handle these men since I have personally led to Christ, discipled, and trained for ministry all the men who are currently in ministry leadership in our churches.

Preaching In One of These Churches

I have never been involved in rebranding national in order to “grow the work faster” (a tactic which is unfortunately all too common in third world missions all around the world) Fake missions work, driven by the desire for large numbers, has never been my cup of tea. In this situation however, there is a genuine need to handle things in wisdom.

One of the challenges of missions work is that you are always involved in situations where there is no “playbook”. There is no automatic answer and there is no way that I can know what to do outside of God revealing His will in the situation through the scriptures as highlighted by the Holy Spirit.

While many of the student pastors are content to carry on within the conforms of a denomination headquarters, in spite of the truth they have heard, others have come to the conclusion that a radical change in their ministry is necessary.

Some of these pastors who are now waiting on instructions to join our work were the most heated during classroom battles as the doctrine of scriptures was being taught. I have little doubt as to the genuine work of the Lord bringing these men to the point of being willing to give up an established position in a structured denomination, in order to have the liberty to preach and teach the truth. One thing is for sure, if indeed these men are serious, there are some serious trials of their faith which lay ahead in order to depart from falsehood and preach the truth. I need prayer concerning how and when to handle this.

New Church Started

Aside from these men, there is also a man that trained in our institute years ago who has started the first ever Bible Believing Independent Baptist Church to ever be started in the Chitipa region. His name is Pastor Justin Kayange.

Please pray for him, as he faces many challenges to pastor this genuine work of faith. The other Bible Believing Malawian pastors and I are working carefully with him to provide support in every practical way possible. I am blessed to see this brand new church get started and I believe the Lord will bless it.

Light Baptist Church Building Delays

Malawi as a country has faced some serious weather challenges throughout the monsoon season of the early part of this year. Several years ago we built a building smack dab in the middle of the monsoon season. I figured we would be able to do it again, so we initiated the raising of funds, and paperwork with the officials in order to start building the new church building for Light Baptist Church. You all responded by giving over 75% of the needed funding within just a few weeks.

Unfortunately the weather has proven to be too much for us this time around. This is not a case of Prov 20:4/ Ecc 11:4 “he that observeth the wind…”. There has been mass flooding, washed out roads, washed out bridges, broken supply chains and a number of other weather related challenges that have prevented us from really cranking up the progress for this project. So far as we know, we have everything possible lined up in order to start and we expect to do so within the month of April. I can’t thank you enough for the finances which were directed towards this building and I look forward to sharing the progress once we are able to get underway.

Chip In On The Remaining 25%

John & Romans Arrived For Upcoming Campaigns For Christ Evangelism Effort August 2022

Click the Photo to View The Campaigns For Christ Website

H.O.P.E.

Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting

Some of you may remember the ministry which we started back in 2015 which is called “Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting”. I don’t mention it alot in my letters because I could never organize it enough for it to solidify into a “real” organization. If the Lord ever gives me the finances and necessary personnel, I would love to see that come to pass. In the mean time while it is not a “big to do”, there are several kids who are in very difficult circumstances who all “eat of my table”. By the grace of God, I select them, sustain them, pay their school fees, uniforms costs, books, transportation, and many other things. I meet with them and their extended family as often as possible and mentor them from the scriptures. I have them memorize Bible verses pertaining to personal salvation, and many other subjects.

Mphatso Memoizing James 4:6

Pray For Him And His Family To Get Saved

New Enablement

Speaking of thankfulness, I am incredibly THANKFUL for the men and women in our Bible Believing Churches that simply act in faith, and put their hard earned money into the genuine needs of missionaries around the world. Such was the case with my transportation needs as of late. During the monsoon season, travel to the villages is extremely difficult. I cannot exactly leave my family without a vehicle when I go to the villages so I usually try to bum rides from one of the national pastors here. Usually this involves pushing a small Toyota hatchback through many Kilometers of knee deep mud, and hiring locals to help us “forge” the bad spots. (Sometimes out in the bush the same locals dig up the road in order to provide a job for themselves the next time a vehicle wants to get through)

Click the Photo To See A Typical Situation

By halfway through the Monsoon season there was only one guy who would still say “yes” when I asked him to take me to the villages. I have spent plenty of time worried about the logistics of how to get stuff done without a proper vehicle that I could rely on.

When a ride is not available I am left in a situation where the only way I could plan my efforts is to walk out of my house with whatever I could carry in my backpack as I use a glorified method of hitchhiking. Usually I can just pay small amounts to various vehicles who are passing by on the way I needed to go. I go as far as they can take me, get out on the side of the road, wait/ walk until another vehicle passed by and eventually get to where I needed to go.


Click Photo

This is obviously not ideal when it's raining, and of course it always puts my Bible and notes at risk of getting wet. Long story slightly shorter, after one particularly long day of traveling to a remote village in such a manner, I got on my knees and plainly asked the Lord if I could have a 4x4 Toyota Hilux. I mentioned to the Lord that He has already given me more than I deserve, and that, I know that He sees the difficulty that is involved with traveling this way. I asked a missionary friend of mine to pray with me on the subject. He really prayed about it with me, shortly after that he was contacted by an anonymous brother in Christ who expressed his desire to help a missionary need. I have no idea on the details of what was discussed or what all happened, all I know is that adequate money was sent within two weeks in order for me to purchase a reliable 4x4 Toyota Hilux! I have already put over 1500 miles on it in the short time I’ve had it! I praise, and thank the Lord, for the brother who did this. May the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills, the creator of heaven and earth, reward him many times over according to his faith. THANK YOU BROTHER!

Vehicle Put to Good Use

I drove that vehicle to a village church where I was invited to preach last week. I preached the gospel and afterwards the pastor called for an invitation to respond to the message. He did a fantastic job of allowing the Holy Spirit to do the work without clouding up the conviction with a bunch of humanistic emotional pressure. Four people came forward for salvation! It was a village church with no piano, no choir, and no coaxing. There was just a Holy Ghost of God sense of conviction and a deafening silence. In a day and age of EMOTIONALISM, I thought all odds were against anyone responding. I was led by the Lord to tell them each to pray in the best way they know how to receive the Lord by calling on him in faith. On their knees they did so one by one. My heart rejoiced and tears filled my eyes as I knew that a few more souls would not suffer the wrath of God and that these folks chose to submit to God's will for their salvation. What a blessing.

The Family

Thankfully we are all doing well. Our last born (Hope)recently got initiated into the Malaria club. It was her first time to get the deadly parasite.

Recently, a business man friend of mine here in town lost his fifteen year old daughter to the same strain. A six year old in our area succumbed to Malaria a few weeks ago as well. Both were otherwise perfectly healthy kids.

In our case, it was several days without sleep, lots of vomiting and all the usual stress of dealing with a potentially dying child which my poor wife has gone through so many times. It’s always worse the first time because each child reacts a bit differently. By now we know the signs for the rest of the family, so we can start administering the proper remedies early on. The Lord is merciful and she is fine now. As soon as there was a case in the house we implemented our normal anti-malarial precautions since it is a mosquito born sickness and there is a high likelihood of further issues.

Charity sleeps in the same room and, not surprisingly, took sick with it not long afterwards. We were able to handle it quickly and she responded well so she bounced back after only three days.

Otherwise most days around here have the kids busy with schoolwork, farm chores, poultry management classes, Taekwondo and boxing training from two hand to hand combat officers in the Malawi Defense Force.

Pray for Joseph to either GET saved or GET RIGHT. He says he is saved but he has no passion to serve the Lord. His Church background is nominal Roman Catholicism. His life is 100% devoted to martial arts. He is a VERY good young man and he is incredibly talented in the fighting arts. He has competed and won medals all over Africa and some in Korea. I need the Lord to open his heart.

Overall we are doing fine because of your prayers. Please don’t ever let go of your end of the rope.

David Robinson

Light Baptist Church Remaining 25%
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James 4:14

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Greetings Dear Fellow Servants

What a blessing it is to write to you again from a mission field which is still about as open as open gets in 2022. While lockdown measures and wars play a role against foreign mission efforts around the world, we are thankful that doors of ministry remain wide open to us here in Malawi.

Blessed Bible Institute Efforts in Chitipa:

As mentioned in a previous letter, the Lord has opened an incredible door of ministry opportunity to us in Chitipa, the northernmost tip of Malawi. Logistically, it has been a bit of a nightmare to be able to minister there due to the difficulties of travel, accommodations, food, and physical safety. Chitipa is a border area sandwiched between no man’s land Tanzania, no man’s land Zambia, and no man’s land Malawi. Due to the physical location, none of the mentioned countries are concerned to do much governing in the area. Roads are not maintained, there is no more than a vague semblance of a police “force” in the area, and there is no feasible way for the government to control or regulate all the trade, crime and trafficking of goods and persons that happen in the area. Business is done in these areas as though no such governments even exist.

Chitipa, Malawi

Chitipa Google Maps

Official borders, although they may seem “clear” to the casual observer on google maps, do not actually function on the ground in the capacity one may expect. In fact, these borders are being operated just as they did long before the British, French and Germans ever sat in the Belgian and drew circles on maps declaring their “right” to these areas. Borders here are based on languages. Wherever your language stops being spoken, that’s where your border ends. Once you reach the place you can’t hear what the people are saying… that is when you are in someone else’s territory. It’s as simple as that. Once you are in someone else’s territory, if you abide by the rules of that territory you are fine. If you don’t you need to go back to where you come from or be put to death. So as trade goes on through these fluid “borders” people inevitably rip each other off and as one would expect, revenge would be sought.

Surprisingly, shady business rip offs are not as “rampant” of a problem as you may expect. The reason for this may also come as a surprise. The hindrance against crime is specifically because people are aware that Chitipa and its neighbouring district of Karonga is the “headquarters”of witchcraft in this region of Africa.

That Malawi as a whole is in umpteen times worse condition than any of its neighbouring countries is common knowledge to everyone in this region of the world. If you talk to the average Tanzanian, or Zambian, from anywhere in the vicinity and ask them why Malawi is in so much worse condition than their country, they will always respond with two answers. 1) Too much Envy, (Proverbs 27:4 )and 2) “Too much witchcraft”(Deut 18:9-14). They are not wrong. People here do not forgo wrong doing of any kind because they fear any kind of justice system, nor do they forgo crime due to the fear of offending God. It is simple. If they do wrong, they will be killed or plagued through witchcraft.


Of course I realize that most of the “First World” audience of this prayer letter will arrogantly chuckle at the “silly” “superstitious beliefs” of the “ignorant heathen” who think witchcraft is real. I also know that there aren’t enough pages in this letter to convey the REASONS why God commanded witches, dealers in familiar spirits, and sorcerers to be put to death in the O.T. none of which were because, “only superstitious people believe in that stuff. My intention is most certainly NOT to glorify or draw attention to dark spiritual power. However, having worked in this context for many years, it is painfully obvious that it is a very real force to be reckoned with in ministry here.

In any case, Chitipa has very little governance, and absolutely no way to prevent revenge seekers or criminals from coming and going as they please. This absence of governance is certainly felt every time I am there. I have not been there even once without passing by a scene where something terrifically terrible happened in the area. On one of my journeys a man was disemboweled in the night less than 100 meters from where I was sleeping. Another morning on my way to teach I passed by the aftermath of a young boy had been “degroined” (fatal of course) for witchcraft ritual purposes.

One evening as I was about to doze off to sleep five thieves surrounded my “house” and tried to get in. I was startled awake from my dozing by the banging around. I wasn’t as spiritual as many of you, of whom I’m sure would have prayed calmly through the whole situation. Being as carnal as I am, I went into a complete adrenaline rush, and resorted to brandishing my machete through the window and communicating to them in their language, the negative results which would befall them should they successfully make it into the house. Let’s just say I didn’t exactly sleep well that night. The Lord helped me to teach the scripture for over eight hours the following day with no sleep at all. I have had at least one “pastor” leave the institute, and make it his ministry to tell everyone in Chitipa that I am “a Satanic” (whatever that means). Most recently I was sent a message by an unknown person in the area who swears I will not leave Chitipa alive. What a blessing.

Wisdom Needed

As of right now we have twenty-eight pastors who are in the institute. Eight of them have requested me to instruct them on what they need to do in order to “become” Independent Baptist Pastors. I need prayer concerning how to handle these men since I have personally led to Christ, discipled, and trained for ministry all the men who are currently in ministry leadership in our churches.

Preaching In One of These Churches

I have never been involved in rebranding national in order to “grow the work faster” (a tactic which is unfortunately all too common in third world missions all around the world) Fake missions work, driven by the desire for large numbers, has never been my cup of tea. In this situation however, there is a genuine need to handle things in wisdom.

One of the challenges of missions work is that you are always involved in situations where there is no “playbook”. There is no automatic answer and there is no way that I can know what to do outside of God revealing His will in the situation through the scriptures as highlighted by the Holy Spirit.

While many of the student pastors are content to carry on within the conforms of a denomination headquarters, in spite of the truth they have heard, others have come to the conclusion that a radical change in their ministry is necessary.

Some of these pastors who are now waiting on instructions to join our work were the most heated during classroom battles as the doctrine of scriptures was being taught. I have little doubt as to the genuine work of the Lord bringing these men to the point of being willing to give up an established position in a structured denomination, in order to have the liberty to preach and teach the truth. One thing is for sure, if indeed these men are serious, there are some serious trials of their faith which lay ahead in order to depart from falsehood and preach the truth. I need prayer concerning how and when to handle this.

New Church Started

Aside from these men, there is also a man that trained in our institute years ago who has started the first ever Bible Believing Independent Baptist Church to ever be started in the Chitipa region. His name is Pastor Justin Kayange.

Please pray for him, as he faces many challenges to pastor this genuine work of faith. The other Bible Believing Malawian pastors and I are working carefully with him to provide support in every practical way possible. I am blessed to see this brand new church get started and I believe the Lord will bless it.

Light Baptist Church Building Delays

Malawi as a country has faced some serious weather challenges throughout the monsoon season of the early part of this year. Several years ago we built a building smack dab in the middle of the monsoon season. I figured we would be able to do it again, so we initiated the raising of funds, and paperwork with the officials in order to start building the new church building for Light Baptist Church. You all responded by giving over 75% of the needed funding within just a few weeks.

Unfortunately the weather has proven to be too much for us this time around. This is not a case of Prov 20:4/ Ecc 11:4 “he that observeth the wind…”. There has been mass flooding, washed out roads, washed out bridges, broken supply chains and a number of other weather related challenges that have prevented us from really cranking up the progress for this project. So far as we know, we have everything possible lined up in order to start and we expect to do so within the month of April. I can’t thank you enough for the finances which were directed towards this building and I look forward to sharing the progress once we are able to get underway.

Chip In On The Remaining 25%

John & Romans Arrived For Upcoming Campaigns For Christ Evangelism Effort August 2022

Click the Photo to View The Campaigns For Christ Website

H.O.P.E.

Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting

Some of you may remember the ministry which we started back in 2015 which is called “Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting”. I don’t mention it alot in my letters because I could never organize it enough for it to solidify into a “real” organization. If the Lord ever gives me the finances and necessary personnel, I would love to see that come to pass. In the mean time while it is not a “big to do”, there are several kids who are in very difficult circumstances who all “eat of my table”. By the grace of God, I select them, sustain them, pay their school fees, uniforms costs, books, transportation, and many other things. I meet with them and their extended family as often as possible and mentor them from the scriptures. I have them memorize Bible verses pertaining to personal salvation, and many other subjects.

Mphatso Memoizing James 4:6

Pray For Him And His Family To Get Saved

New Enablement

Speaking of thankfulness, I am incredibly THANKFUL for the men and women in our Bible Believing Churches that simply act in faith, and put their hard earned money into the genuine needs of missionaries around the world. Such was the case with my transportation needs as of late. During the monsoon season, travel to the villages is extremely difficult. I cannot exactly leave my family without a vehicle when I go to the villages so I usually try to bum rides from one of the national pastors here. Usually this involves pushing a small Toyota hatchback through many Kilometers of knee deep mud, and hiring locals to help us “forge” the bad spots. (Sometimes out in the bush the same locals dig up the road in order to provide a job for themselves the next time a vehicle wants to get through)

Click the Photo To See A Typical Situation

By halfway through the Monsoon season there was only one guy who would still say “yes” when I asked him to take me to the villages. I have spent plenty of time worried about the logistics of how to get stuff done without a proper vehicle that I could rely on.

When a ride is not available I am left in a situation where the only way I could plan my efforts is to walk out of my house with whatever I could carry in my backpack as I use a glorified method of hitchhiking. Usually I can just pay small amounts to various vehicles who are passing by on the way I needed to go. I go as far as they can take me, get out on the side of the road, wait/ walk until another vehicle passed by and eventually get to where I needed to go.


Click Photo

This is obviously not ideal when it's raining, and of course it always puts my Bible and notes at risk of getting wet. Long story slightly shorter, after one particularly long day of traveling to a remote village in such a manner, I got on my knees and plainly asked the Lord if I could have a 4x4 Toyota Hilux. I mentioned to the Lord that He has already given me more than I deserve, and that, I know that He sees the difficulty that is involved with traveling this way. I asked a missionary friend of mine to pray with me on the subject. He really prayed about it with me, shortly after that he was contacted by an anonymous brother in Christ who expressed his desire to help a missionary need. I have no idea on the details of what was discussed or what all happened, all I know is that adequate money was sent within two weeks in order for me to purchase a reliable 4x4 Toyota Hilux! I have already put over 1500 miles on it in the short time I’ve had it! I praise, and thank the Lord, for the brother who did this. May the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills, the creator of heaven and earth, reward him many times over according to his faith. THANK YOU BROTHER!

Vehicle Put to Good Use

I drove that vehicle to a village church where I was invited to preach last week. I preached the gospel and afterwards the pastor called for an invitation to respond to the message. He did a fantastic job of allowing the Holy Spirit to do the work without clouding up the conviction with a bunch of humanistic emotional pressure. Four people came forward for salvation! It was a village church with no piano, no choir, and no coaxing. There was just a Holy Ghost of God sense of conviction and a deafening silence. In a day and age of EMOTIONALISM, I thought all odds were against anyone responding. I was led by the Lord to tell them each to pray in the best way they know how to receive the Lord by calling on him in faith. On their knees they did so one by one. My heart rejoiced and tears filled my eyes as I knew that a few more souls would not suffer the wrath of God and that these folks chose to submit to God's will for their salvation. What a blessing.

The Family

Thankfully we are all doing well. Our last born (Hope)recently got initiated into the Malaria club. It was her first time to get the deadly parasite.

Recently, a business man friend of mine here in town lost his fifteen year old daughter to the same strain. A six year old in our area succumbed to Malaria a few weeks ago as well. Both were otherwise perfectly healthy kids.

In our case, it was several days without sleep, lots of vomiting and all the usual stress of dealing with a potentially dying child which my poor wife has gone through so many times. It’s always worse the first time because each child reacts a bit differently. By now we know the signs for the rest of the family, so we can start administering the proper remedies early on. The Lord is merciful and she is fine now. As soon as there was a case in the house we implemented our normal anti-malarial precautions since it is a mosquito born sickness and there is a high likelihood of further issues.

Charity sleeps in the same room and, not surprisingly, took sick with it not long afterwards. We were able to handle it quickly and she responded well so she bounced back after only three days.

Otherwise most days around here have the kids busy with schoolwork, farm chores, poultry management classes, Taekwondo and boxing training from two hand to hand combat officers in the Malawi Defense Force.

Pray for Joseph to either GET saved or GET RIGHT. He says he is saved but he has no passion to serve the Lord. His Church background is nominal Roman Catholicism. His life is 100% devoted to martial arts. He is a VERY good young man and he is incredibly talented in the fighting arts. He has competed and won medals all over Africa and some in Korea. I need the Lord to open his heart.

Overall we are doing fine because of your prayers. Please don’t ever let go of your end of the rope.

David Robinson

Light Baptist Church Remaining 25%
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James 4:14

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Greetings Dear Fellow Servants

What a blessing it is to write to you again from a mission field which is still about as open as open gets in 2022. While lockdown measures and wars play a role against foreign mission efforts around the world, we are thankful that doors of ministry remain wide open to us here in Malawi.

Blessed Bible Institute Efforts in Chitipa:

As mentioned in a previous letter, the Lord has opened an incredible door of ministry opportunity to us in Chitipa, the northernmost tip of Malawi. Logistically, it has been a bit of a nightmare to be able to minister there due to the difficulties of travel, accommodations, food, and physical safety. Chitipa is a border area sandwiched between no man’s land Tanzania, no man’s land Zambia, and no man’s land Malawi. Due to the physical location, none of the mentioned countries are concerned to do much governing in the area. Roads are not maintained, there is no more than a vague semblance of a police “force” in the area, and there is no feasible way for the government to control or regulate all the trade, crime and trafficking of goods and persons that happen in the area. Business is done in these areas as though no such governments even exist.

Chitipa, Malawi

Chitipa Google Maps

Official borders, although they may seem “clear” to the casual observer on google maps, do not actually function on the ground in the capacity one may expect. In fact, these borders are being operated just as they did long before the British, French and Germans ever sat in the Belgian and drew circles on maps declaring their “right” to these areas. Borders here are based on languages. Wherever your language stops being spoken, that’s where your border ends. Once you reach the place you can’t hear what the people are saying… that is when you are in someone else’s territory. It’s as simple as that. Once you are in someone else’s territory, if you abide by the rules of that territory you are fine. If you don’t you need to go back to where you come from or be put to death. So as trade goes on through these fluid “borders” people inevitably rip each other off and as one would expect, revenge would be sought.

Surprisingly, shady business rip offs are not as “rampant” of a problem as you may expect. The reason for this may also come as a surprise. The hindrance against crime is specifically because people are aware that Chitipa and its neighbouring district of Karonga is the “headquarters”of witchcraft in this region of Africa.

That Malawi as a whole is in umpteen times worse condition than any of its neighbouring countries is common knowledge to everyone in this region of the world. If you talk to the average Tanzanian, or Zambian, from anywhere in the vicinity and ask them why Malawi is in so much worse condition than their country, they will always respond with two answers. 1) Too much Envy, (Proverbs 27:4 )and 2) “Too much witchcraft”(Deut 18:9-14). They are not wrong. People here do not forgo wrong doing of any kind because they fear any kind of justice system, nor do they forgo crime due to the fear of offending God. It is simple. If they do wrong, they will be killed or plagued through witchcraft.


Of course I realize that most of the “First World” audience of this prayer letter will arrogantly chuckle at the “silly” “superstitious beliefs” of the “ignorant heathen” who think witchcraft is real. I also know that there aren’t enough pages in this letter to convey the REASONS why God commanded witches, dealers in familiar spirits, and sorcerers to be put to death in the O.T. none of which were because, “only superstitious people believe in that stuff. My intention is most certainly NOT to glorify or draw attention to dark spiritual power. However, having worked in this context for many years, it is painfully obvious that it is a very real force to be reckoned with in ministry here.

In any case, Chitipa has very little governance, and absolutely no way to prevent revenge seekers or criminals from coming and going as they please. This absence of governance is certainly felt every time I am there. I have not been there even once without passing by a scene where something terrifically terrible happened in the area. On one of my journeys a man was disemboweled in the night less than 100 meters from where I was sleeping. Another morning on my way to teach I passed by the aftermath of a young boy had been “degroined” (fatal of course) for witchcraft ritual purposes.

One evening as I was about to doze off to sleep five thieves surrounded my “house” and tried to get in. I was startled awake from my dozing by the banging around. I wasn’t as spiritual as many of you, of whom I’m sure would have prayed calmly through the whole situation. Being as carnal as I am, I went into a complete adrenaline rush, and resorted to brandishing my machete through the window and communicating to them in their language, the negative results which would befall them should they successfully make it into the house. Let’s just say I didn’t exactly sleep well that night. The Lord helped me to teach the scripture for over eight hours the following day with no sleep at all. I have had at least one “pastor” leave the institute, and make it his ministry to tell everyone in Chitipa that I am “a Satanic” (whatever that means). Most recently I was sent a message by an unknown person in the area who swears I will not leave Chitipa alive. What a blessing.

Wisdom Needed

As of right now we have twenty-eight pastors who are in the institute. Eight of them have requested me to instruct them on what they need to do in order to “become” Independent Baptist Pastors. I need prayer concerning how to handle these men since I have personally led to Christ, discipled, and trained for ministry all the men who are currently in ministry leadership in our churches.

Preaching In One of These Churches

I have never been involved in rebranding national in order to “grow the work faster” (a tactic which is unfortunately all too common in third world missions all around the world) Fake missions work, driven by the desire for large numbers, has never been my cup of tea. In this situation however, there is a genuine need to handle things in wisdom.

One of the challenges of missions work is that you are always involved in situations where there is no “playbook”. There is no automatic answer and there is no way that I can know what to do outside of God revealing His will in the situation through the scriptures as highlighted by the Holy Spirit.

While many of the student pastors are content to carry on within the conforms of a denomination headquarters, in spite of the truth they have heard, others have come to the conclusion that a radical change in their ministry is necessary.

Some of these pastors who are now waiting on instructions to join our work were the most heated during classroom battles as the doctrine of scriptures was being taught. I have little doubt as to the genuine work of the Lord bringing these men to the point of being willing to give up an established position in a structured denomination, in order to have the liberty to preach and teach the truth. One thing is for sure, if indeed these men are serious, there are some serious trials of their faith which lay ahead in order to depart from falsehood and preach the truth. I need prayer concerning how and when to handle this.

New Church Started

Aside from these men, there is also a man that trained in our institute years ago who has started the first ever Bible Believing Independent Baptist Church to ever be started in the Chitipa region. His name is Pastor Justin Kayange.

Please pray for him, as he faces many challenges to pastor this genuine work of faith. The other Bible Believing Malawian pastors and I are working carefully with him to provide support in every practical way possible. I am blessed to see this brand new church get started and I believe the Lord will bless it.

Light Baptist Church Building Delays

Malawi as a country has faced some serious weather challenges throughout the monsoon season of the early part of this year. Several years ago we built a building smack dab in the middle of the monsoon season. I figured we would be able to do it again, so we initiated the raising of funds, and paperwork with the officials in order to start building the new church building for Light Baptist Church. You all responded by giving over 75% of the needed funding within just a few weeks.

Unfortunately the weather has proven to be too much for us this time around. This is not a case of Prov 20:4/ Ecc 11:4 “he that observeth the wind…”. There has been mass flooding, washed out roads, washed out bridges, broken supply chains and a number of other weather related challenges that have prevented us from really cranking up the progress for this project. So far as we know, we have everything possible lined up in order to start and we expect to do so within the month of April. I can’t thank you enough for the finances which were directed towards this building and I look forward to sharing the progress once we are able to get underway.

Chip In On The Remaining 25%

John & Romans Arrived For Upcoming Campaigns For Christ Evangelism Effort August 2022

Click the Photo to View The Campaigns For Christ Website

H.O.P.E.

Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting

Some of you may remember the ministry which we started back in 2015 which is called “Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting”. I don’t mention it alot in my letters because I could never organize it enough for it to solidify into a “real” organization. If the Lord ever gives me the finances and necessary personnel, I would love to see that come to pass. In the mean time while it is not a “big to do”, there are several kids who are in very difficult circumstances who all “eat of my table”. By the grace of God, I select them, sustain them, pay their school fees, uniforms costs, books, transportation, and many other things. I meet with them and their extended family as often as possible and mentor them from the scriptures. I have them memorize Bible verses pertaining to personal salvation, and many other subjects.

Mphatso Memoizing James 4:6

Pray For Him And His Family To Get Saved

New Enablement

Speaking of thankfulness, I am incredibly THANKFUL for the men and women in our Bible Believing Churches that simply act in faith, and put their hard earned money into the genuine needs of missionaries around the world. Such was the case with my transportation needs as of late. During the monsoon season, travel to the villages is extremely difficult. I cannot exactly leave my family without a vehicle when I go to the villages so I usually try to bum rides from one of the national pastors here. Usually this involves pushing a small Toyota hatchback through many Kilometers of knee deep mud, and hiring locals to help us “forge” the bad spots. (Sometimes out in the bush the same locals dig up the road in order to provide a job for themselves the next time a vehicle wants to get through)

Click the Photo To See A Typical Situation

By halfway through the Monsoon season there was only one guy who would still say “yes” when I asked him to take me to the villages. I have spent plenty of time worried about the logistics of how to get stuff done without a proper vehicle that I could rely on.

When a ride is not available I am left in a situation where the only way I could plan my efforts is to walk out of my house with whatever I could carry in my backpack as I use a glorified method of hitchhiking. Usually I can just pay small amounts to various vehicles who are passing by on the way I needed to go. I go as far as they can take me, get out on the side of the road, wait/ walk until another vehicle passed by and eventually get to where I needed to go.


Click Photo

This is obviously not ideal when it's raining, and of course it always puts my Bible and notes at risk of getting wet. Long story slightly shorter, after one particularly long day of traveling to a remote village in such a manner, I got on my knees and plainly asked the Lord if I could have a 4x4 Toyota Hilux. I mentioned to the Lord that He has already given me more than I deserve, and that, I know that He sees the difficulty that is involved with traveling this way. I asked a missionary friend of mine to pray with me on the subject. He really prayed about it with me, shortly after that he was contacted by an anonymous brother in Christ who expressed his desire to help a missionary need. I have no idea on the details of what was discussed or what all happened, all I know is that adequate money was sent within two weeks in order for me to purchase a reliable 4x4 Toyota Hilux! I have already put over 1500 miles on it in the short time I’ve had it! I praise, and thank the Lord, for the brother who did this. May the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills, the creator of heaven and earth, reward him many times over according to his faith. THANK YOU BROTHER!

Vehicle Put to Good Use

I drove that vehicle to a village church where I was invited to preach last week. I preached the gospel and afterwards the pastor called for an invitation to respond to the message. He did a fantastic job of allowing the Holy Spirit to do the work without clouding up the conviction with a bunch of humanistic emotional pressure. Four people came forward for salvation! It was a village church with no piano, no choir, and no coaxing. There was just a Holy Ghost of God sense of conviction and a deafening silence. In a day and age of EMOTIONALISM, I thought all odds were against anyone responding. I was led by the Lord to tell them each to pray in the best way they know how to receive the Lord by calling on him in faith. On their knees they did so one by one. My heart rejoiced and tears filled my eyes as I knew that a few more souls would not suffer the wrath of God and that these folks chose to submit to God's will for their salvation. What a blessing.

The Family

Thankfully we are all doing well. Our last born (Hope)recently got initiated into the Malaria club. It was her first time to get the deadly parasite.

Recently, a business man friend of mine here in town lost his fifteen year old daughter to the same strain. A six year old in our area succumbed to Malaria a few weeks ago as well. Both were otherwise perfectly healthy kids.

In our case, it was several days without sleep, lots of vomiting and all the usual stress of dealing with a potentially dying child which my poor wife has gone through so many times. It’s always worse the first time because each child reacts a bit differently. By now we know the signs for the rest of the family, so we can start administering the proper remedies early on. The Lord is merciful and she is fine now. As soon as there was a case in the house we implemented our normal anti-malarial precautions since it is a mosquito born sickness and there is a high likelihood of further issues.

Charity sleeps in the same room and, not surprisingly, took sick with it not long afterwards. We were able to handle it quickly and she responded well so she bounced back after only three days.

Otherwise most days around here have the kids busy with schoolwork, farm chores, poultry management classes, Taekwondo and boxing training from two hand to hand combat officers in the Malawi Defense Force.

Pray for Joseph to either GET saved or GET RIGHT. He says he is saved but he has no passion to serve the Lord. His Church background is nominal Roman Catholicism. His life is 100% devoted to martial arts. He is a VERY good young man and he is incredibly talented in the fighting arts. He has competed and won medals all over Africa and some in Korea. I need the Lord to open his heart.

Overall we are doing fine because of your prayers. Please don’t ever let go of your end of the rope.

David Robinson

Light Baptist Church Remaining 25%
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James 4:14

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Greetings Dear Fellow Servants

What a blessing it is to write to you again from a mission field which is still about as open as open gets in 2022. While lockdown measures and wars play a role against foreign mission efforts around the world, we are thankful that doors of ministry remain wide open to us here in Malawi.

Blessed Bible Institute Efforts in Chitipa:

As mentioned in a previous letter, the Lord has opened an incredible door of ministry opportunity to us in Chitipa, the northernmost tip of Malawi. Logistically, it has been a bit of a nightmare to be able to minister there due to the difficulties of travel, accommodations, food, and physical safety. Chitipa is a border area sandwiched between no man’s land Tanzania, no man’s land Zambia, and no man’s land Malawi. Due to the physical location, none of the mentioned countries are concerned to do much governing in the area. Roads are not maintained, there is no more than a vague semblance of a police “force” in the area, and there is no feasible way for the government to control or regulate all the trade, crime and trafficking of goods and persons that happen in the area. Business is done in these areas as though no such governments even exist.

Chitipa, Malawi

Chitipa Google Maps

Official borders, although they may seem “clear” to the casual observer on google maps, do not actually function on the ground in the capacity one may expect. In fact, these borders are being operated just as they did long before the British, French and Germans ever sat in the Belgian and drew circles on maps declaring their “right” to these areas. Borders here are based on languages. Wherever your language stops being spoken, that’s where your border ends. Once you reach the place you can’t hear what the people are saying… that is when you are in someone else’s territory. It’s as simple as that. Once you are in someone else’s territory, if you abide by the rules of that territory you are fine. If you don’t you need to go back to where you come from or be put to death. So as trade goes on through these fluid “borders” people inevitably rip each other off and as one would expect, revenge would be sought.

Surprisingly, shady business rip offs are not as “rampant” of a problem as you may expect. The reason for this may also come as a surprise. The hindrance against crime is specifically because people are aware that Chitipa and its neighbouring district of Karonga is the “headquarters”of witchcraft in this region of Africa.

That Malawi as a whole is in umpteen times worse condition than any of its neighbouring countries is common knowledge to everyone in this region of the world. If you talk to the average Tanzanian, or Zambian, from anywhere in the vicinity and ask them why Malawi is in so much worse condition than their country, they will always respond with two answers. 1) Too much Envy, (Proverbs 27:4 )and 2) “Too much witchcraft”(Deut 18:9-14). They are not wrong. People here do not forgo wrong doing of any kind because they fear any kind of justice system, nor do they forgo crime due to the fear of offending God. It is simple. If they do wrong, they will be killed or plagued through witchcraft.


Of course I realize that most of the “First World” audience of this prayer letter will arrogantly chuckle at the “silly” “superstitious beliefs” of the “ignorant heathen” who think witchcraft is real. I also know that there aren’t enough pages in this letter to convey the REASONS why God commanded witches, dealers in familiar spirits, and sorcerers to be put to death in the O.T. none of which were because, “only superstitious people believe in that stuff. My intention is most certainly NOT to glorify or draw attention to dark spiritual power. However, having worked in this context for many years, it is painfully obvious that it is a very real force to be reckoned with in ministry here.

In any case, Chitipa has very little governance, and absolutely no way to prevent revenge seekers or criminals from coming and going as they please. This absence of governance is certainly felt every time I am there. I have not been there even once without passing by a scene where something terrifically terrible happened in the area. On one of my journeys a man was disemboweled in the night less than 100 meters from where I was sleeping. Another morning on my way to teach I passed by the aftermath of a young boy had been “degroined” (fatal of course) for witchcraft ritual purposes.

One evening as I was about to doze off to sleep five thieves surrounded my “house” and tried to get in. I was startled awake from my dozing by the banging around. I wasn’t as spiritual as many of you, of whom I’m sure would have prayed calmly through the whole situation. Being as carnal as I am, I went into a complete adrenaline rush, and resorted to brandishing my machete through the window and communicating to them in their language, the negative results which would befall them should they successfully make it into the house. Let’s just say I didn’t exactly sleep well that night. The Lord helped me to teach the scripture for over eight hours the following day with no sleep at all. I have had at least one “pastor” leave the institute, and make it his ministry to tell everyone in Chitipa that I am “a Satanic” (whatever that means). Most recently I was sent a message by an unknown person in the area who swears I will not leave Chitipa alive. What a blessing.

Wisdom Needed

As of right now we have twenty-eight pastors who are in the institute. Eight of them have requested me to instruct them on what they need to do in order to “become” Independent Baptist Pastors. I need prayer concerning how to handle these men since I have personally led to Christ, discipled, and trained for ministry all the men who are currently in ministry leadership in our churches.

Preaching In One of These Churches

I have never been involved in rebranding national in order to “grow the work faster” (a tactic which is unfortunately all too common in third world missions all around the world) Fake missions work, driven by the desire for large numbers, has never been my cup of tea. In this situation however, there is a genuine need to handle things in wisdom.

One of the challenges of missions work is that you are always involved in situations where there is no “playbook”. There is no automatic answer and there is no way that I can know what to do outside of God revealing His will in the situation through the scriptures as highlighted by the Holy Spirit.

While many of the student pastors are content to carry on within the conforms of a denomination headquarters, in spite of the truth they have heard, others have come to the conclusion that a radical change in their ministry is necessary.

Some of these pastors who are now waiting on instructions to join our work were the most heated during classroom battles as the doctrine of scriptures was being taught. I have little doubt as to the genuine work of the Lord bringing these men to the point of being willing to give up an established position in a structured denomination, in order to have the liberty to preach and teach the truth. One thing is for sure, if indeed these men are serious, there are some serious trials of their faith which lay ahead in order to depart from falsehood and preach the truth. I need prayer concerning how and when to handle this.

New Church Started

Aside from these men, there is also a man that trained in our institute years ago who has started the first ever Bible Believing Independent Baptist Church to ever be started in the Chitipa region. His name is Pastor Justin Kayange.

Please pray for him, as he faces many challenges to pastor this genuine work of faith. The other Bible Believing Malawian pastors and I are working carefully with him to provide support in every practical way possible. I am blessed to see this brand new church get started and I believe the Lord will bless it.

Light Baptist Church Building Delays

Malawi as a country has faced some serious weather challenges throughout the monsoon season of the early part of this year. Several years ago we built a building smack dab in the middle of the monsoon season. I figured we would be able to do it again, so we initiated the raising of funds, and paperwork with the officials in order to start building the new church building for Light Baptist Church. You all responded by giving over 75% of the needed funding within just a few weeks.

Unfortunately the weather has proven to be too much for us this time around. This is not a case of Prov 20:4/ Ecc 11:4 “he that observeth the wind…”. There has been mass flooding, washed out roads, washed out bridges, broken supply chains and a number of other weather related challenges that have prevented us from really cranking up the progress for this project. So far as we know, we have everything possible lined up in order to start and we expect to do so within the month of April. I can’t thank you enough for the finances which were directed towards this building and I look forward to sharing the progress once we are able to get underway.

Chip In On The Remaining 25%

John & Romans Arrived For Upcoming Campaigns For Christ Evangelism Effort August 2022

Click the Photo to View The Campaigns For Christ Website

H.O.P.E.

Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting

Some of you may remember the ministry which we started back in 2015 which is called “Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting”. I don’t mention it alot in my letters because I could never organize it enough for it to solidify into a “real” organization. If the Lord ever gives me the finances and necessary personnel, I would love to see that come to pass. In the mean time while it is not a “big to do”, there are several kids who are in very difficult circumstances who all “eat of my table”. By the grace of God, I select them, sustain them, pay their school fees, uniforms costs, books, transportation, and many other things. I meet with them and their extended family as often as possible and mentor them from the scriptures. I have them memorize Bible verses pertaining to personal salvation, and many other subjects.

Mphatso Memoizing James 4:6

Pray For Him And His Family To Get Saved

New Enablement

Speaking of thankfulness, I am incredibly THANKFUL for the men and women in our Bible Believing Churches that simply act in faith, and put their hard earned money into the genuine needs of missionaries around the world. Such was the case with my transportation needs as of late. During the monsoon season, travel to the villages is extremely difficult. I cannot exactly leave my family without a vehicle when I go to the villages so I usually try to bum rides from one of the national pastors here. Usually this involves pushing a small Toyota hatchback through many Kilometers of knee deep mud, and hiring locals to help us “forge” the bad spots. (Sometimes out in the bush the same locals dig up the road in order to provide a job for themselves the next time a vehicle wants to get through)

Click the Photo To See A Typical Situation

By halfway through the Monsoon season there was only one guy who would still say “yes” when I asked him to take me to the villages. I have spent plenty of time worried about the logistics of how to get stuff done without a proper vehicle that I could rely on.

When a ride is not available I am left in a situation where the only way I could plan my efforts is to walk out of my house with whatever I could carry in my backpack as I use a glorified method of hitchhiking. Usually I can just pay small amounts to various vehicles who are passing by on the way I needed to go. I go as far as they can take me, get out on the side of the road, wait/ walk until another vehicle passed by and eventually get to where I needed to go.


Click Photo

This is obviously not ideal when it's raining, and of course it always puts my Bible and notes at risk of getting wet. Long story slightly shorter, after one particularly long day of traveling to a remote village in such a manner, I got on my knees and plainly asked the Lord if I could have a 4x4 Toyota Hilux. I mentioned to the Lord that He has already given me more than I deserve, and that, I know that He sees the difficulty that is involved with traveling this way. I asked a missionary friend of mine to pray with me on the subject. He really prayed about it with me, shortly after that he was contacted by an anonymous brother in Christ who expressed his desire to help a missionary need. I have no idea on the details of what was discussed or what all happened, all I know is that adequate money was sent within two weeks in order for me to purchase a reliable 4x4 Toyota Hilux! I have already put over 1500 miles on it in the short time I’ve had it! I praise, and thank the Lord, for the brother who did this. May the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills, the creator of heaven and earth, reward him many times over according to his faith. THANK YOU BROTHER!

Vehicle Put to Good Use

I drove that vehicle to a village church where I was invited to preach last week. I preached the gospel and afterwards the pastor called for an invitation to respond to the message. He did a fantastic job of allowing the Holy Spirit to do the work without clouding up the conviction with a bunch of humanistic emotional pressure. Four people came forward for salvation! It was a village church with no piano, no choir, and no coaxing. There was just a Holy Ghost of God sense of conviction and a deafening silence. In a day and age of EMOTIONALISM, I thought all odds were against anyone responding. I was led by the Lord to tell them each to pray in the best way they know how to receive the Lord by calling on him in faith. On their knees they did so one by one. My heart rejoiced and tears filled my eyes as I knew that a few more souls would not suffer the wrath of God and that these folks chose to submit to God's will for their salvation. What a blessing.

The Family

Thankfully we are all doing well. Our last born (Hope)recently got initiated into the Malaria club. It was her first time to get the deadly parasite.

Recently, a business man friend of mine here in town lost his fifteen year old daughter to the same strain. A six year old in our area succumbed to Malaria a few weeks ago as well. Both were otherwise perfectly healthy kids.

In our case, it was several days without sleep, lots of vomiting and all the usual stress of dealing with a potentially dying child which my poor wife has gone through so many times. It’s always worse the first time because each child reacts a bit differently. By now we know the signs for the rest of the family, so we can start administering the proper remedies early on. The Lord is merciful and she is fine now. As soon as there was a case in the house we implemented our normal anti-malarial precautions since it is a mosquito born sickness and there is a high likelihood of further issues.

Charity sleeps in the same room and, not surprisingly, took sick with it not long afterwards. We were able to handle it quickly and she responded well so she bounced back after only three days.

Otherwise most days around here have the kids busy with schoolwork, farm chores, poultry management classes, Taekwondo and boxing training from two hand to hand combat officers in the Malawi Defense Force.

Pray for Joseph to either GET saved or GET RIGHT. He says he is saved but he has no passion to serve the Lord. His Church background is nominal Roman Catholicism. His life is 100% devoted to martial arts. He is a VERY good young man and he is incredibly talented in the fighting arts. He has competed and won medals all over Africa and some in Korea. I need the Lord to open his heart.

Overall we are doing fine because of your prayers. Please don’t ever let go of your end of the rope.

David Robinson

Light Baptist Church Remaining 25%
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Greetings!

Dear Brother and Sisters in Christ,

Warm holiday greetings from the warm heart of Africa. We hope and trust you are doing well. We are continually reminded of your care for us and for the work you are enabling us to do. We thank the Lord for you all, and we pray the Lord's richest blessing as your reward. You will only know in glory what all has been accomplished for his names sake here in Malawi through your prayers and support.

We are all doing well and are upholden daily by his grace. We can truly say that though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Pastor Alex’ Church Building Project

I have a number of things to share with you so let me begin by praising the Lord for Light Baptist Church and Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe’ family and ministry. As those of you know who follow our prayer letters, Brother Alex got saved back in 2008 and I have been witness of the amazing grace of God in his life, family, and his ministry over the past several years.

In my last prayer letter I mentioned that we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for this church situated along the main road of Mzuzu. We have now started the building process for the church building! We are excited to get this building built and to have church services right along the main road! Having a proper building in a prime location will certainly be a game changer for this church. One of the biggest blessings to me was to see how the brothers and sisters from the other churches have responded to this need from within Malawi. I was blessed to receive several text messages and phone calls from folks here that expressed their desire to help get this building started. In one case, cash was brought to my house and I was told to let pastor Alex know that it was for his church but it is to be given anonymously. All that has been given thus far has been given by those who truly can not “afford” to give. Progress is certainly slow but work is being done in direct proportion to the funding that trickles in.

Church Property

I mention this here because the situation has become a bit more urgent in the past few weeks. We were all shocked to find that the usual meeting hall which they have been renting was suddenly housing an occupant as we showed up for Sunday morning services! Rental “agreements” are very non-binding here in Malawi and unfortunately for us, the owner of the building decided to erect a house on the property and change the use of the church building. So, without notice Light Baptist has no sure place to meet. Everyone is in good spirits considering the situation and that the monsoon rainy season is just around the corner. They are considering putting up a blue tarp building on the new property until funds become available for construction of a building but decisions are still up in the air. Your prayer for good decisions to be made is greatly appreciated. They need around $35,000 to get into the new building. We are helping as much as we possibly can and are encouraging anyone who may be able to give towards this need to do so as the Lord leads. I can give assurance that, although you have never gotten to meet Pastor Alex, his family or his ministry, they are indeed your faithful Bible Believing Independent Baptist Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I will be happy to pass along any finances that are given for this need and it will be an enormous blessing to this congregation.

Everything demarcated for “Alex Church Building” or “Light Baptist Building'' will go straight into this project. I realize that many of you are not in a financial position to be able to give, we do covet your prayers for this need. Through YOUR prayer, God can and will make the necessary arrangements for the funding of this building. Please mention it to the Lord.

Give Directly Towards L.B.C. Building Project

Open Doors in Chitipa

Through a Mzuzu Bible Institute student, Justin Kayange, the Lord has now opened doors for us to minister in the very furthest northern tip of Malawi. It is a place called Chitipa, and it is situated on a map, directly where Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia converge. Due to its location and history there are over thirty-six completely different languages spoken there. Fortunately, the language that I minister in, Chitumbuka, is still the most common trade language spoken there. For several years I have been making efforts in learning a second language here which I can now hear the majority of, I would appreciate your prayers for my ability to speak it. I think it would broaden our scope of influence if I could eventually preach/ teach in it as well.

The road to Chitipa is no easy one, I am traveling about a six hours drive north of where we live in Mzuzu every two weeks to teach a doctrinal course to around 25 pastors in the Chitipa area. Keep in mind that these “pastors” are not necessarily Independent Bible Believing Baptist. We offered this course to anyone and everyone who wanted to learn the Bible in the entire area. We printed posters, sent letters of invitation, and spread the invitation by word of mouth through the former institute student to the entire area.

It just so happened that the majority of those who registered to become students, happened to be several of the area’s spiritual leaders. This ministry endeavor has me teaching the local spiritual leaders of the area through an institute course focused on SOUND BIBLE DOCTRINE! Let’s just say that our classes can sometimes become very very “lively”! It is truly amazing to watch the word of our God do its work of convincing men of TRUTH. I told the participants at the beginning of the course that I would teach the truth as it stands in the book, and that if it differs from that which they believe, they are welcome to either change their beliefs, or dispute with me in front of all the participants provided things are done decently and in order and that the scriptures would stand as the final authority. The fact is that TRUE BIBLE DOCTRINE can not be refuted by pseudo-spiritual fakers. Ministering on the mission field is quite often standing toe to toe with those who absolutely DO NOT believe the truth. More times than not, it is a hostile environment which resembles the description given in Acts 17:17. This effort is intended to openly challenge the spiritual leaders of the area, and then simultaneously provide an opportunity for folks to choose to submit to the truth.

Acts 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

Having started with forty-two men it didn't take long for some of them to realize that this “focus on truth“ wasn't their cup of tea. I had expected for some of the chaff to blow away as we opened the book, it didn't take long to go from over forty down to twenty-five. I do not only expect to lose students as true colors are shown but I also fully expect to get to know men in the area who want the truth. I have already seen some men who have the attitude of Apollos in Acts 18, who are so incredibly thankful for the TRUE Bible doctrine! I would like to work with Brother Kayange to open an Independent Baptist Church in Chitipa one day if the Lord permits, and if some of the other men desire to preach and teach the truth as it is in scripture, I will do as much as I can for them to help them establish Independent Baptist Churches as well as the Lord leads. Much is in the works already and it is quite possible that we may soon see the Lord open a church in this area through that institute student. Please pray for the Lord to guide this very potentially wonderful church plant situation and to help me in these classes as it really is a challenge for me.

Acts 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

Brother Chatonda’ New Evangelism Ministry

Chatonda Mwangonde from Charity Baptist Church has started an evangelistic ministry which is intended to be a nation wide effort. Chatonda has been mentioned in the prayer letters in the past and I appreciate your prayer for him. He was a young man who I had the opportunity to start working with in 2009. He got saved at a Bible study in 2009 and then jumped into the scriptures and became totally dedicated to the Lord.

Years ago he went to South Africa in search of work with nothing more than the shirt on his back. The Lord richly blessed his integrity and he is careful to give God all the glory for it. He now owns a small logistics company and has a few semi-trucks which carry goods from South Africa to Malawi and back. He is one of the best preachers you will ever have the opportunity to listen to. He is spot on doctrinally, and is absolutely “apt to teach”.

If I could “give him a calling” I would have him pastoring a church in no time. He is confident that he is not called to pastor but that he is definitely called to preach, teach, and win souls. His vision is to “mobilize” doctrinally sound people from the Independent Baptist Churches here to go on short missions trips to areas of Malawi where there are no gospel preaching churches.

It is really amazing to see the Lord at work in his life. Pray for his ministry to really encourage others to participate. For now they are using public transport but he would eventually like to get a 4x4 which will be able to get into areas which don’t have good transportation options. As a missionary, I would not hesitate for a moment to help him with the vehicle if I had the finances to do so. Pray the Lord will provide the right vehicle, at the right time, in the right way.

Visit From Brother Dave Darling With Campaigns For Christ!

Earlier this month we had the privilege of having brother Dave Darling from Campaigns for Christ, come to Malawi for a mission trip. The primary objective of the mission trip was to plan the logistics for a larger mission effort in August of 2022. Lord willing, Bro Darling will lead a team of around 20-25 folks from the USA over to Malawi to distribute 100,000 John and Romans Scriptures. Please pray for that effort as there will be plenty of spiritual opposition to such an endeavor. Find out more about the plan and how best to pray by following this link to his website.

While brother Darling was here, we invited everyone from the Independent Baptist churches around Mzuzu to come for a special preaching meeting. It was really a blessing. After Brother Darling preached the morning services we had dinner on the grounds followed by popcorn preaching and some volleyball matches in the afternoon. There were a few hundred people there and the fellowship has never been sweeter. I praise the Lord for what he did to encourage our hearts on that day.

Young Preacher Stepping Into Ministry!

Brother Kumwenda is a 26 year old young man here who has been around since 2015 or so. He got saved after a Bible study at the mission in 2016 and since then he has grown quite a bit. Before brother Resmondo went to open the Harvest Baptist Church in Zomba (ten hours drive from Mzuzu) Kumwenda had the opportunity to work with him doing some translation work as well as helping in the ministry in various ways. He certainly learned a lot and it is clear that the Lord used that time to teach him many invaluable lessons. He is definitely called to preach, mentally he is sharp, and personality wise he is a natural leader. He strongly desires to start Living Word Baptist Church. I have no doubts as to his calling to pastor.

I am confident that starting a Church is indeed within the Lords will, my concern is timing. I am not sure that it is the right time for him to step into that position. For now, he is helping pastor Banda as associate pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Lusangazi, as well as teaching Bible study classes at the Mzuzu Bible Institute. He is helping me in countless ministry tasks on a daily basis, so for now, I am encouraging him to wait. While for now we are waiting, I am also chomping at the bits to help him get out there and get a church started. Pray for me to be sensitive to the Lord concerning timing and to give good counsel. I do not want to hinder anything by either rushing him into the ministry, or by delaying what the Lord would have him to do. Prayer is needed.

More Precious Souls Saved!

Every time a person get saved, the precious news trickles through our ranks quite naturally, just for the sake of encouragement, and joining the choirs of heaven in praise that another soul has been won! In the last week or two, off the top of my head, I can remember that we had seven saved through public preaching, three were saved on the streets through visitation, one was saved through a gospel tract, one was saved at our daily Bible study. Many many more of course heard the gospel preached. There very well may be more that I haven’t heard of yet. Please continue to pray for the lost here in Malawi.

Thank You All!

Let me close by thanking you all for enabling this work to be done. Our family is the first (that we know of) Independent Baptist Missionaries to ever work in this northern area of Malawi. As of now we are the only ones who are currently working north of the Capitol. It is no small privilege to be sent by Bible Believing Independent Baptist brothers and sisters to labor in the Lord’s harvest.


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Pray For The Robinsons in Malawi

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Greetings!

Dear Brother and Sisters in Christ,

Warm holiday greetings from the warm heart of Africa. We hope and trust you are doing well. We are continually reminded of your care for us and for the work you are enabling us to do. We thank the Lord for you all, and we pray the Lord's richest blessing as your reward. You will only know in glory what all has been accomplished for his names sake here in Malawi through your prayers and support.

We are all doing well and are upholden daily by his grace. We can truly say that though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Pastor Alex’ Church Building Project

I have a number of things to share with you so let me begin by praising the Lord for Light Baptist Church and Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe’ family and ministry. As those of you know who follow our prayer letters, Brother Alex got saved back in 2008 and I have been witness of the amazing grace of God in his life, family, and his ministry over the past several years.

In my last prayer letter I mentioned that we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for this church situated along the main road of Mzuzu. We have now started the building process for the church building! We are excited to get this building built and to have church services right along the main road! Having a proper building in a prime location will certainly be a game changer for this church. One of the biggest blessings to me was to see how the brothers and sisters from the other churches have responded to this need from within Malawi. I was blessed to receive several text messages and phone calls from folks here that expressed their desire to help get this building started. In one case, cash was brought to my house and I was told to let pastor Alex know that it was for his church but it is to be given anonymously. All that has been given thus far has been given by those who truly can not “afford” to give. Progress is certainly slow but work is being done in direct proportion to the funding that trickles in.

Church Property

I mention this here because the situation has become a bit more urgent in the past few weeks. We were all shocked to find that the usual meeting hall which they have been renting was suddenly housing an occupant as we showed up for Sunday morning services! Rental “agreements” are very non-binding here in Malawi and unfortunately for us, the owner of the building decided to erect a house on the property and change the use of the church building. So, without notice Light Baptist has no sure place to meet. Everyone is in good spirits considering the situation and that the monsoon rainy season is just around the corner. They are considering putting up a blue tarp building on the new property until funds become available for construction of a building but decisions are still up in the air. Your prayer for good decisions to be made is greatly appreciated. They need around $35,000 to get into the new building. We are helping as much as we possibly can and are encouraging anyone who may be able to give towards this need to do so as the Lord leads. I can give assurance that, although you have never gotten to meet Pastor Alex, his family or his ministry, they are indeed your faithful Bible Believing Independent Baptist Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I will be happy to pass along any finances that are given for this need and it will be an enormous blessing to this congregation.

Everything demarcated for “Alex Church Building” or “Light Baptist Building'' will go straight into this project. I realize that many of you are not in a financial position to be able to give, we do covet your prayers for this need. Through YOUR prayer, God can and will make the necessary arrangements for the funding of this building. Please mention it to the Lord.

Give Directly Towards L.B.C. Building Project

Open Doors in Chitipa

Through a Mzuzu Bible Institute student, Justin Kayange, the Lord has now opened doors for us to minister in the very furthest northern tip of Malawi. It is a place called Chitipa, and it is situated on a map, directly where Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia converge. Due to its location and history there are over thirty-six completely different languages spoken there. Fortunately, the language that I minister in, Chitumbuka, is still the most common trade language spoken there. For several years I have been making efforts in learning a second language here which I can now hear the majority of, I would appreciate your prayers for my ability to speak it. I think it would broaden our scope of influence if I could eventually preach/ teach in it as well.

The road to Chitipa is no easy one, I am traveling about a six hours drive north of where we live in Mzuzu every two weeks to teach a doctrinal course to around 25 pastors in the Chitipa area. Keep in mind that these “pastors” are not necessarily Independent Bible Believing Baptist. We offered this course to anyone and everyone who wanted to learn the Bible in the entire area. We printed posters, sent letters of invitation, and spread the invitation by word of mouth through the former institute student to the entire area.

It just so happened that the majority of those who registered to become students, happened to be several of the area’s spiritual leaders. This ministry endeavor has me teaching the local spiritual leaders of the area through an institute course focused on SOUND BIBLE DOCTRINE! Let’s just say that our classes can sometimes become very very “lively”! It is truly amazing to watch the word of our God do its work of convincing men of TRUTH. I told the participants at the beginning of the course that I would teach the truth as it stands in the book, and that if it differs from that which they believe, they are welcome to either change their beliefs, or dispute with me in front of all the participants provided things are done decently and in order and that the scriptures would stand as the final authority. The fact is that TRUE BIBLE DOCTRINE can not be refuted by pseudo-spiritual fakers. Ministering on the mission field is quite often standing toe to toe with those who absolutely DO NOT believe the truth. More times than not, it is a hostile environment which resembles the description given in Acts 17:17. This effort is intended to openly challenge the spiritual leaders of the area, and then simultaneously provide an opportunity for folks to choose to submit to the truth.

Acts 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

Having started with forty-two men it didn't take long for some of them to realize that this “focus on truth“ wasn't their cup of tea. I had expected for some of the chaff to blow away as we opened the book, it didn't take long to go from over forty down to twenty-five. I do not only expect to lose students as true colors are shown but I also fully expect to get to know men in the area who want the truth. I have already seen some men who have the attitude of Apollos in Acts 18, who are so incredibly thankful for the TRUE Bible doctrine! I would like to work with Brother Kayange to open an Independent Baptist Church in Chitipa one day if the Lord permits, and if some of the other men desire to preach and teach the truth as it is in scripture, I will do as much as I can for them to help them establish Independent Baptist Churches as well as the Lord leads. Much is in the works already and it is quite possible that we may soon see the Lord open a church in this area through that institute student. Please pray for the Lord to guide this very potentially wonderful church plant situation and to help me in these classes as it really is a challenge for me.

Acts 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

Brother Chatonda’ New Evangelism Ministry

Chatonda Mwangonde from Charity Baptist Church has started an evangelistic ministry which is intended to be a nation wide effort. Chatonda has been mentioned in the prayer letters in the past and I appreciate your prayer for him. He was a young man who I had the opportunity to start working with in 2009. He got saved at a Bible study in 2009 and then jumped into the scriptures and became totally dedicated to the Lord.

Years ago he went to South Africa in search of work with nothing more than the shirt on his back. The Lord richly blessed his integrity and he is careful to give God all the glory for it. He now owns a small logistics company and has a few semi-trucks which carry goods from South Africa to Malawi and back. He is one of the best preachers you will ever have the opportunity to listen to. He is spot on doctrinally, and is absolutely “apt to teach”.

If I could “give him a calling” I would have him pastoring a church in no time. He is confident that he is not called to pastor but that he is definitely called to preach, teach, and win souls. His vision is to “mobilize” doctrinally sound people from the Independent Baptist Churches here to go on short missions trips to areas of Malawi where there are no gospel preaching churches.

It is really amazing to see the Lord at work in his life. Pray for his ministry to really encourage others to participate. For now they are using public transport but he would eventually like to get a 4x4 which will be able to get into areas which don’t have good transportation options. As a missionary, I would not hesitate for a moment to help him with the vehicle if I had the finances to do so. Pray the Lord will provide the right vehicle, at the right time, in the right way.

Visit From Brother Dave Darling With Campaigns For Christ!

Earlier this month we had the privilege of having brother Dave Darling from Campaigns for Christ, come to Malawi for a mission trip. The primary objective of the mission trip was to plan the logistics for a larger mission effort in August of 2022. Lord willing, Bro Darling will lead a team of around 20-25 folks from the USA over to Malawi to distribute 100,000 John and Romans Scriptures. Please pray for that effort as there will be plenty of spiritual opposition to such an endeavor. Find out more about the plan and how best to pray by following this link to his website.

While brother Darling was here, we invited everyone from the Independent Baptist churches around Mzuzu to come for a special preaching meeting. It was really a blessing. After Brother Darling preached the morning services we had dinner on the grounds followed by popcorn preaching and some volleyball matches in the afternoon. There were a few hundred people there and the fellowship has never been sweeter. I praise the Lord for what he did to encourage our hearts on that day.

Young Preacher Stepping Into Ministry!

Brother Kumwenda is a 26 year old young man here who has been around since 2015 or so. He got saved after a Bible study at the mission in 2016 and since then he has grown quite a bit. Before brother Resmondo went to open the Harvest Baptist Church in Zomba (ten hours drive from Mzuzu) Kumwenda had the opportunity to work with him doing some translation work as well as helping in the ministry in various ways. He certainly learned a lot and it is clear that the Lord used that time to teach him many invaluable lessons. He is definitely called to preach, mentally he is sharp, and personality wise he is a natural leader. He strongly desires to start Living Word Baptist Church. I have no doubts as to his calling to pastor.

I am confident that starting a Church is indeed within the Lords will, my concern is timing. I am not sure that it is the right time for him to step into that position. For now, he is helping pastor Banda as associate pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Lusangazi, as well as teaching Bible study classes at the Mzuzu Bible Institute. He is helping me in countless ministry tasks on a daily basis, so for now, I am encouraging him to wait. While for now we are waiting, I am also chomping at the bits to help him get out there and get a church started. Pray for me to be sensitive to the Lord concerning timing and to give good counsel. I do not want to hinder anything by either rushing him into the ministry, or by delaying what the Lord would have him to do. Prayer is needed.

More Precious Souls Saved!

Every time a person get saved, the precious news trickles through our ranks quite naturally, just for the sake of encouragement, and joining the choirs of heaven in praise that another soul has been won! In the last week or two, off the top of my head, I can remember that we had seven saved through public preaching, three were saved on the streets through visitation, one was saved through a gospel tract, one was saved at our daily Bible study. Many many more of course heard the gospel preached. There very well may be more that I haven’t heard of yet. Please continue to pray for the lost here in Malawi.

Thank You All!

Let me close by thanking you all for enabling this work to be done. Our family is the first (that we know of) Independent Baptist Missionaries to ever work in this northern area of Malawi. As of now we are the only ones who are currently working north of the Capitol. It is no small privilege to be sent by Bible Believing Independent Baptist brothers and sisters to labor in the Lord’s harvest.


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Pray For The Robinsons in Malawi

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Greetings!

Dear Brother and Sisters in Christ,

Warm holiday greetings from the warm heart of Africa. We hope and trust you are doing well. We are continually reminded of your care for us and for the work you are enabling us to do. We thank the Lord for you all, and we pray the Lord's richest blessing as your reward. You will only know in glory what all has been accomplished for his names sake here in Malawi through your prayers and support.

We are all doing well and are upholden daily by his grace. We can truly say that though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Pastor Alex’ Church Building Project

I have a number of things to share with you so let me begin by praising the Lord for Light Baptist Church and Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe’ family and ministry. As those of you know who follow our prayer letters, Brother Alex got saved back in 2008 and I have been witness of the amazing grace of God in his life, family, and his ministry over the past several years.

In my last prayer letter I mentioned that we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for this church situated along the main road of Mzuzu. We have now started the building process for the church building! We are excited to get this building built and to have church services right along the main road! Having a proper building in a prime location will certainly be a game changer for this church. One of the biggest blessings to me was to see how the brothers and sisters from the other churches have responded to this need from within Malawi. I was blessed to receive several text messages and phone calls from folks here that expressed their desire to help get this building started. In one case, cash was brought to my house and I was told to let pastor Alex know that it was for his church but it is to be given anonymously. All that has been given thus far has been given by those who truly can not “afford” to give. Progress is certainly slow but work is being done in direct proportion to the funding that trickles in.

Church Property

I mention this here because the situation has become a bit more urgent in the past few weeks. We were all shocked to find that the usual meeting hall which they have been renting was suddenly housing an occupant as we showed up for Sunday morning services! Rental “agreements” are very non-binding here in Malawi and unfortunately for us, the owner of the building decided to erect a house on the property and change the use of the church building. So, without notice Light Baptist has no sure place to meet. Everyone is in good spirits considering the situation and that the monsoon rainy season is just around the corner. They are considering putting up a blue tarp building on the new property until funds become available for construction of a building but decisions are still up in the air. Your prayer for good decisions to be made is greatly appreciated. They need around $35,000 to get into the new building. We are helping as much as we possibly can and are encouraging anyone who may be able to give towards this need to do so as the Lord leads. I can give assurance that, although you have never gotten to meet Pastor Alex, his family or his ministry, they are indeed your faithful Bible Believing Independent Baptist Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I will be happy to pass along any finances that are given for this need and it will be an enormous blessing to this congregation.

Everything demarcated for “Alex Church Building” or “Light Baptist Building'' will go straight into this project. I realize that many of you are not in a financial position to be able to give, we do covet your prayers for this need. Through YOUR prayer, God can and will make the necessary arrangements for the funding of this building. Please mention it to the Lord.

Give Directly Towards L.B.C. Building Project

Open Doors in Chitipa

Through a Mzuzu Bible Institute student, Justin Kayange, the Lord has now opened doors for us to minister in the very furthest northern tip of Malawi. It is a place called Chitipa, and it is situated on a map, directly where Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia converge. Due to its location and history there are over thirty-six completely different languages spoken there. Fortunately, the language that I minister in, Chitumbuka, is still the most common trade language spoken there. For several years I have been making efforts in learning a second language here which I can now hear the majority of, I would appreciate your prayers for my ability to speak it. I think it would broaden our scope of influence if I could eventually preach/ teach in it as well.

The road to Chitipa is no easy one, I am traveling about a six hours drive north of where we live in Mzuzu every two weeks to teach a doctrinal course to around 25 pastors in the Chitipa area. Keep in mind that these “pastors” are not necessarily Independent Bible Believing Baptist. We offered this course to anyone and everyone who wanted to learn the Bible in the entire area. We printed posters, sent letters of invitation, and spread the invitation by word of mouth through the former institute student to the entire area.

It just so happened that the majority of those who registered to become students, happened to be several of the area’s spiritual leaders. This ministry endeavor has me teaching the local spiritual leaders of the area through an institute course focused on SOUND BIBLE DOCTRINE! Let’s just say that our classes can sometimes become very very “lively”! It is truly amazing to watch the word of our God do its work of convincing men of TRUTH. I told the participants at the beginning of the course that I would teach the truth as it stands in the book, and that if it differs from that which they believe, they are welcome to either change their beliefs, or dispute with me in front of all the participants provided things are done decently and in order and that the scriptures would stand as the final authority. The fact is that TRUE BIBLE DOCTRINE can not be refuted by pseudo-spiritual fakers. Ministering on the mission field is quite often standing toe to toe with those who absolutely DO NOT believe the truth. More times than not, it is a hostile environment which resembles the description given in Acts 17:17. This effort is intended to openly challenge the spiritual leaders of the area, and then simultaneously provide an opportunity for folks to choose to submit to the truth.

Acts 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

Having started with forty-two men it didn't take long for some of them to realize that this “focus on truth“ wasn't their cup of tea. I had expected for some of the chaff to blow away as we opened the book, it didn't take long to go from over forty down to twenty-five. I do not only expect to lose students as true colors are shown but I also fully expect to get to know men in the area who want the truth. I have already seen some men who have the attitude of Apollos in Acts 18, who are so incredibly thankful for the TRUE Bible doctrine! I would like to work with Brother Kayange to open an Independent Baptist Church in Chitipa one day if the Lord permits, and if some of the other men desire to preach and teach the truth as it is in scripture, I will do as much as I can for them to help them establish Independent Baptist Churches as well as the Lord leads. Much is in the works already and it is quite possible that we may soon see the Lord open a church in this area through that institute student. Please pray for the Lord to guide this very potentially wonderful church plant situation and to help me in these classes as it really is a challenge for me.

Acts 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

Brother Chatonda’ New Evangelism Ministry

Chatonda Mwangonde from Charity Baptist Church has started an evangelistic ministry which is intended to be a nation wide effort. Chatonda has been mentioned in the prayer letters in the past and I appreciate your prayer for him. He was a young man who I had the opportunity to start working with in 2009. He got saved at a Bible study in 2009 and then jumped into the scriptures and became totally dedicated to the Lord.

Years ago he went to South Africa in search of work with nothing more than the shirt on his back. The Lord richly blessed his integrity and he is careful to give God all the glory for it. He now owns a small logistics company and has a few semi-trucks which carry goods from South Africa to Malawi and back. He is one of the best preachers you will ever have the opportunity to listen to. He is spot on doctrinally, and is absolutely “apt to teach”.

If I could “give him a calling” I would have him pastoring a church in no time. He is confident that he is not called to pastor but that he is definitely called to preach, teach, and win souls. His vision is to “mobilize” doctrinally sound people from the Independent Baptist Churches here to go on short missions trips to areas of Malawi where there are no gospel preaching churches.

It is really amazing to see the Lord at work in his life. Pray for his ministry to really encourage others to participate. For now they are using public transport but he would eventually like to get a 4x4 which will be able to get into areas which don’t have good transportation options. As a missionary, I would not hesitate for a moment to help him with the vehicle if I had the finances to do so. Pray the Lord will provide the right vehicle, at the right time, in the right way.

Visit From Brother Dave Darling With Campaigns For Christ!

Earlier this month we had the privilege of having brother Dave Darling from Campaigns for Christ, come to Malawi for a mission trip. The primary objective of the mission trip was to plan the logistics for a larger mission effort in August of 2022. Lord willing, Bro Darling will lead a team of around 20-25 folks from the USA over to Malawi to distribute 100,000 John and Romans Scriptures. Please pray for that effort as there will be plenty of spiritual opposition to such an endeavor. Find out more about the plan and how best to pray by following this link to his website.

While brother Darling was here, we invited everyone from the Independent Baptist churches around Mzuzu to come for a special preaching meeting. It was really a blessing. After Brother Darling preached the morning services we had dinner on the grounds followed by popcorn preaching and some volleyball matches in the afternoon. There were a few hundred people there and the fellowship has never been sweeter. I praise the Lord for what he did to encourage our hearts on that day.

Young Preacher Stepping Into Ministry!

Brother Kumwenda is a 26 year old young man here who has been around since 2015 or so. He got saved after a Bible study at the mission in 2016 and since then he has grown quite a bit. Before brother Resmondo went to open the Harvest Baptist Church in Zomba (ten hours drive from Mzuzu) Kumwenda had the opportunity to work with him doing some translation work as well as helping in the ministry in various ways. He certainly learned a lot and it is clear that the Lord used that time to teach him many invaluable lessons. He is definitely called to preach, mentally he is sharp, and personality wise he is a natural leader. He strongly desires to start Living Word Baptist Church. I have no doubts as to his calling to pastor.

I am confident that starting a Church is indeed within the Lords will, my concern is timing. I am not sure that it is the right time for him to step into that position. For now, he is helping pastor Banda as associate pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Lusangazi, as well as teaching Bible study classes at the Mzuzu Bible Institute. He is helping me in countless ministry tasks on a daily basis, so for now, I am encouraging him to wait. While for now we are waiting, I am also chomping at the bits to help him get out there and get a church started. Pray for me to be sensitive to the Lord concerning timing and to give good counsel. I do not want to hinder anything by either rushing him into the ministry, or by delaying what the Lord would have him to do. Prayer is needed.

More Precious Souls Saved!

Every time a person get saved, the precious news trickles through our ranks quite naturally, just for the sake of encouragement, and joining the choirs of heaven in praise that another soul has been won! In the last week or two, off the top of my head, I can remember that we had seven saved through public preaching, three were saved on the streets through visitation, one was saved through a gospel tract, one was saved at our daily Bible study. Many many more of course heard the gospel preached. There very well may be more that I haven’t heard of yet. Please continue to pray for the lost here in Malawi.

Thank You All!

Let me close by thanking you all for enabling this work to be done. Our family is the first (that we know of) Independent Baptist Missionaries to ever work in this northern area of Malawi. As of now we are the only ones who are currently working north of the Capitol. It is no small privilege to be sent by Bible Believing Independent Baptist brothers and sisters to labor in the Lord’s harvest.


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Greetings!

Dear Brother and Sisters in Christ,

Warm holiday greetings from the warm heart of Africa. We hope and trust you are doing well. We are continually reminded of your care for us and for the work you are enabling us to do. We thank the Lord for you all, and we pray the Lord's richest blessing as your reward. You will only know in glory what all has been accomplished for his names sake here in Malawi through your prayers and support.

We are all doing well and are upholden daily by his grace. We can truly say that though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Pastor Alex’ Church Building Project

I have a number of things to share with you so let me begin by praising the Lord for Light Baptist Church and Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe’ family and ministry. As those of you know who follow our prayer letters, Brother Alex got saved back in 2008 and I have been witness of the amazing grace of God in his life, family, and his ministry over the past several years.

In my last prayer letter I mentioned that we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for this church situated along the main road of Mzuzu. We have now started the building process for the church building! We are excited to get this building built and to have church services right along the main road! Having a proper building in a prime location will certainly be a game changer for this church. One of the biggest blessings to me was to see how the brothers and sisters from the other churches have responded to this need from within Malawi. I was blessed to receive several text messages and phone calls from folks here that expressed their desire to help get this building started. In one case, cash was brought to my house and I was told to let pastor Alex know that it was for his church but it is to be given anonymously. All that has been given thus far has been given by those who truly can not “afford” to give. Progress is certainly slow but work is being done in direct proportion to the funding that trickles in.

Church Property

I mention this here because the situation has become a bit more urgent in the past few weeks. We were all shocked to find that the usual meeting hall which they have been renting was suddenly housing an occupant as we showed up for Sunday morning services! Rental “agreements” are very non-binding here in Malawi and unfortunately for us, the owner of the building decided to erect a house on the property and change the use of the church building. So, without notice Light Baptist has no sure place to meet. Everyone is in good spirits considering the situation and that the monsoon rainy season is just around the corner. They are considering putting up a blue tarp building on the new property until funds become available for construction of a building but decisions are still up in the air. Your prayer for good decisions to be made is greatly appreciated. They need around $35,000 to get into the new building. We are helping as much as we possibly can and are encouraging anyone who may be able to give towards this need to do so as the Lord leads. I can give assurance that, although you have never gotten to meet Pastor Alex, his family or his ministry, they are indeed your faithful Bible Believing Independent Baptist Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I will be happy to pass along any finances that are given for this need and it will be an enormous blessing to this congregation.

Everything demarcated for “Alex Church Building” or “Light Baptist Building'' will go straight into this project. I realize that many of you are not in a financial position to be able to give, we do covet your prayers for this need. Through YOUR prayer, God can and will make the necessary arrangements for the funding of this building. Please mention it to the Lord.

Give Directly Towards L.B.C. Building Project

Open Doors in Chitipa

Through a Mzuzu Bible Institute student, Justin Kayange, the Lord has now opened doors for us to minister in the very furthest northern tip of Malawi. It is a place called Chitipa, and it is situated on a map, directly where Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia converge. Due to its location and history there are over thirty-six completely different languages spoken there. Fortunately, the language that I minister in, Chitumbuka, is still the most common trade language spoken there. For several years I have been making efforts in learning a second language here which I can now hear the majority of, I would appreciate your prayers for my ability to speak it. I think it would broaden our scope of influence if I could eventually preach/ teach in it as well.

The road to Chitipa is no easy one, I am traveling about a six hours drive north of where we live in Mzuzu every two weeks to teach a doctrinal course to around 25 pastors in the Chitipa area. Keep in mind that these “pastors” are not necessarily Independent Bible Believing Baptist. We offered this course to anyone and everyone who wanted to learn the Bible in the entire area. We printed posters, sent letters of invitation, and spread the invitation by word of mouth through the former institute student to the entire area.

It just so happened that the majority of those who registered to become students, happened to be several of the area’s spiritual leaders. This ministry endeavor has me teaching the local spiritual leaders of the area through an institute course focused on SOUND BIBLE DOCTRINE! Let’s just say that our classes can sometimes become very very “lively”! It is truly amazing to watch the word of our God do its work of convincing men of TRUTH. I told the participants at the beginning of the course that I would teach the truth as it stands in the book, and that if it differs from that which they believe, they are welcome to either change their beliefs, or dispute with me in front of all the participants provided things are done decently and in order and that the scriptures would stand as the final authority. The fact is that TRUE BIBLE DOCTRINE can not be refuted by pseudo-spiritual fakers. Ministering on the mission field is quite often standing toe to toe with those who absolutely DO NOT believe the truth. More times than not, it is a hostile environment which resembles the description given in Acts 17:17. This effort is intended to openly challenge the spiritual leaders of the area, and then simultaneously provide an opportunity for folks to choose to submit to the truth.

Acts 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

Having started with forty-two men it didn't take long for some of them to realize that this “focus on truth“ wasn't their cup of tea. I had expected for some of the chaff to blow away as we opened the book, it didn't take long to go from over forty down to twenty-five. I do not only expect to lose students as true colors are shown but I also fully expect to get to know men in the area who want the truth. I have already seen some men who have the attitude of Apollos in Acts 18, who are so incredibly thankful for the TRUE Bible doctrine! I would like to work with Brother Kayange to open an Independent Baptist Church in Chitipa one day if the Lord permits, and if some of the other men desire to preach and teach the truth as it is in scripture, I will do as much as I can for them to help them establish Independent Baptist Churches as well as the Lord leads. Much is in the works already and it is quite possible that we may soon see the Lord open a church in this area through that institute student. Please pray for the Lord to guide this very potentially wonderful church plant situation and to help me in these classes as it really is a challenge for me.

Acts 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

Brother Chatonda’ New Evangelism Ministry

Chatonda Mwangonde from Charity Baptist Church has started an evangelistic ministry which is intended to be a nation wide effort. Chatonda has been mentioned in the prayer letters in the past and I appreciate your prayer for him. He was a young man who I had the opportunity to start working with in 2009. He got saved at a Bible study in 2009 and then jumped into the scriptures and became totally dedicated to the Lord.

Years ago he went to South Africa in search of work with nothing more than the shirt on his back. The Lord richly blessed his integrity and he is careful to give God all the glory for it. He now owns a small logistics company and has a few semi-trucks which carry goods from South Africa to Malawi and back. He is one of the best preachers you will ever have the opportunity to listen to. He is spot on doctrinally, and is absolutely “apt to teach”.

If I could “give him a calling” I would have him pastoring a church in no time. He is confident that he is not called to pastor but that he is definitely called to preach, teach, and win souls. His vision is to “mobilize” doctrinally sound people from the Independent Baptist Churches here to go on short missions trips to areas of Malawi where there are no gospel preaching churches.

It is really amazing to see the Lord at work in his life. Pray for his ministry to really encourage others to participate. For now they are using public transport but he would eventually like to get a 4x4 which will be able to get into areas which don’t have good transportation options. As a missionary, I would not hesitate for a moment to help him with the vehicle if I had the finances to do so. Pray the Lord will provide the right vehicle, at the right time, in the right way.

Visit From Brother Dave Darling With Campaigns For Christ!

Earlier this month we had the privilege of having brother Dave Darling from Campaigns for Christ, come to Malawi for a mission trip. The primary objective of the mission trip was to plan the logistics for a larger mission effort in August of 2022. Lord willing, Bro Darling will lead a team of around 20-25 folks from the USA over to Malawi to distribute 100,000 John and Romans Scriptures. Please pray for that effort as there will be plenty of spiritual opposition to such an endeavor. Find out more about the plan and how best to pray by following this link to his website.

While brother Darling was here, we invited everyone from the Independent Baptist churches around Mzuzu to come for a special preaching meeting. It was really a blessing. After Brother Darling preached the morning services we had dinner on the grounds followed by popcorn preaching and some volleyball matches in the afternoon. There were a few hundred people there and the fellowship has never been sweeter. I praise the Lord for what he did to encourage our hearts on that day.

Young Preacher Stepping Into Ministry!

Brother Kumwenda is a 26 year old young man here who has been around since 2015 or so. He got saved after a Bible study at the mission in 2016 and since then he has grown quite a bit. Before brother Resmondo went to open the Harvest Baptist Church in Zomba (ten hours drive from Mzuzu) Kumwenda had the opportunity to work with him doing some translation work as well as helping in the ministry in various ways. He certainly learned a lot and it is clear that the Lord used that time to teach him many invaluable lessons. He is definitely called to preach, mentally he is sharp, and personality wise he is a natural leader. He strongly desires to start Living Word Baptist Church. I have no doubts as to his calling to pastor.

I am confident that starting a Church is indeed within the Lords will, my concern is timing. I am not sure that it is the right time for him to step into that position. For now, he is helping pastor Banda as associate pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Lusangazi, as well as teaching Bible study classes at the Mzuzu Bible Institute. He is helping me in countless ministry tasks on a daily basis, so for now, I am encouraging him to wait. While for now we are waiting, I am also chomping at the bits to help him get out there and get a church started. Pray for me to be sensitive to the Lord concerning timing and to give good counsel. I do not want to hinder anything by either rushing him into the ministry, or by delaying what the Lord would have him to do. Prayer is needed.

More Precious Souls Saved!

Every time a person get saved, the precious news trickles through our ranks quite naturally, just for the sake of encouragement, and joining the choirs of heaven in praise that another soul has been won! In the last week or two, off the top of my head, I can remember that we had seven saved through public preaching, three were saved on the streets through visitation, one was saved through a gospel tract, one was saved at our daily Bible study. Many many more of course heard the gospel preached. There very well may be more that I haven’t heard of yet. Please continue to pray for the lost here in Malawi.

Thank You All!

Let me close by thanking you all for enabling this work to be done. Our family is the first (that we know of) Independent Baptist Missionaries to ever work in this northern area of Malawi. As of now we are the only ones who are currently working north of the Capitol. It is no small privilege to be sent by Bible Believing Independent Baptist brothers and sisters to labor in the Lord’s harvest.


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Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

Dear Faithful Friends and Supporters,
As many of you know we have made it safely and soundly back to Malawi. Challenges with flight patterns, luggage handling, and jet lag were certainly felt but all in all our travels were blessed.

After one of the busiest times of our existence (furlough), it is good to be back in a place where I can distribute an average of over 450+ gospel tracts per hour! It has been amazing to once again experience ministering to a people who are generally comfortable with the idea that God, indeed exists. In my experience, no matter how far off someone's view of God or deity is, it is almost always more fruitful to deal with someone who at the very least, does acknowledge God as the creator. It is hard to see how far things have drifted in our own country, and to understand the impact that is had by the never ending narrative of atheistic evolution, until you step back out of the first world setting, and speak to common folks about the subject of God. I can think of countless incidents over the past year and a half in the USA, where just the very mention of the subject of the Bible, or Jesus, or church was unfortunately enough to ruin someone’s day! Through these experiences I developed a great admiration for soul winners and personal workers who are still called to win souls in the hard soil of the USA. I Praise the Lord for you and the work that you are doing! Praise the Lord for the faithful pastors who are still in their pulpits, the men and women who are still on the firing line and for the souls still being saved! I truly believe that God calls us, and prepares each of us for the field he desires to use us in.

Getting re-established here in Malawi has been filled with mixed emotions and reality checks. Without a doubt it has made the biggest impact on the older kids. The little ones simply feel that all is well and normal. Jennie and I are well aware of our decisions of faith and we are trusting that the Lord has his purpose in all the ways he directs our footsteps. Joshua and Bekah however, are fifteen and thirteen respectively, and they have faced some very real trials of their faith. It has always been our prayer that our children would neither become bitter at God through their experience on the mission field, nor would they become the typical missionary kid that can’t seem to function later on in normal life. It is our desire to equip them to live by faith wherever God may call them to serve. Thanks be to God who has given them the victory in this transition, they have both handled the transitions like champs! They are truly doing better than I ever would have when I was their age and for that I am grateful. I would ask you to consider their age and all that the enemy throws at a young person at this time of life, and I would ask you to pray that God would continue to move in their hearts to comfort, guide, teach, and keep them. Missionary kids truly face challenges and trials that the rest of us can only observe as bystanders. I realize that it's not just my children who have been called away from “normal life” through the calling of their parents. I believe we would do well to pray for all of the missionaries teens out there wherever they are serving.

I do still strongly believe that it is always best to be wherever God tells you to be and, for us, there is no doubt about where the Lord has us serving for now. Since our arrival here, we have seen amazing doors of ministry opening left and right. The doors of ministry opportunities such as preaching in the churches , door to door visitation, market tracking, public preaching, village to village outreach, and small group discipleship have absolutely FLOWN OPEN. Mzuzu Bible Institute has restarted & I have been preaching or teaching seven days a week. Believe it or not, it has never been easier! The Lord is pouring out his messages and is sustaining the strength!

Last Sunday I preached in Manyamura, a village about three hours from here by motorcycle. I street preached there a few weeks ago, and then some people who happened to be there at the time, subsequently sent an invitation for me to come “formally” and preach in their village. I preached for over two hours to around three hundred people who had gathered to hear. From there I drove my motorcycle from village to village for the next eight hours, preaching publicly in eight different villages! I distributed hundreds of tracts in these places wherever I stopped and returned home exhausted after riding over a hundred miles in sand. Monday morning I didn't miss a beat as I woke up ready to face the building projects which are currently underway at the Lusangazi Mission Station. For those of you who are aware of my health condition, just know that I am praising the Lord every day that I am able to function. I am following the recommended terrible exercises given to me by the physiotherapist and am thankful to be upright!

Our current building project is a security wall which will enclose our hands on technical skills training center. (Carpentry, Electrical, Solar, Etc. ) We are soon to start our first class through a Malawi government certified course in our soon to open “Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center”. This will be a very “Galatians 6:10'' type of ministry. In this particular aspect of the ministry, I will oversee trainers who will teach through the curriculums which are provided by government for hands on skills training. My objective will be bringing a heavy emphasis on scripture, personal salvation, and personal discipleship throughout the course. I am really looking forward to how this will provide me “side-by-side” time with the students. There is a mix of students in this first class between church members, ministry leaders of the various congregations, and completely lost people. Pray for us to have many opportunities to witness to the unsaved as well as to strengthen the hands of the believers. These skills, if learned and applied, could be a huge help to the families of the churches, as well as to the ministries of the churches.

I would also like to ask for prayer for Mr. James Phiri. After preaching in a church of a pastor I taught several years ago, Mr. James came forward and kneeled in front of the church and prayed one of the most sincere prayers of calling on the Lord I have ever heard. After praying, he testified to the over three hundred people in attendance to his history of being born and raised a Muslim and having “this day, found the truth of salvation which I have been searching for all these years”! What a blessing it is to see another soul brought to the saving knowledge of Christ even in this late hour of the church! I recently received a message that Mr. Phiri has asked me to dedicate some time for further teaching. Please pray for his growth. The pastor NOT mentioned by name here is a man who was indeed called and trained in our ministry several years ago. Unfortunately however, his faith wavered when it came to opening his ministry. Instead of trusting the Lord to provide a way, he opted to minister under the “umbrella“ of a large established denominational organization, which could provide him the “network of support” which he thought was so necessary. I still go and preach there when he asks me to, but I do not consider him one of our churches nor a real part of our ministry. I would have much rather seen him pastoring one of our churches, but the door of our ministry is always open. Open to come in and open to leave . I do not try to “control“ peoples decisions. At least he is doing something for the Lord!

Preaching in all these different churches and villages makes me more appreciative of the churches which the Lord has used us to start from scratch. Since our return I have had the opportunity to rotate through the Bible Believing, Independent Baptist, KJV Churches which God has raised up here in the north of Malawi. I have a genuine appreciation and love for these churches and for the pastors who are standing faithfully in the doctrine which they were taught. Coming back and seeing these men who are faithfully preaching and teaching in their pulpits has been such a reward. In the short time remaining before the Lord comes I want to do all I can do to help these pastors with whatever they need in the ministry. Pastor Daniel Nyirenda just finished discipleship courses with another small group of five people. They decided to have a small “graduation ceremony“ to honor their efforts and they invited me to attend the ceremony and then preach to them. It was really a blessing to see another five people who had been taught through the doctrinal course WITHOUT ME!!!


By God's grace we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for Light Baptist Church directly on the main highway that goes through Mzuzu! It is amazing to have the opportunity to purchase such a property. As a direct result of your faithfulness and support we were able to take action when the property became available. In the past this church had been renting a community building tucked away in the village. Now they are excited to build the church where no one in town can miss it! I am very excited to help them develop the property and get a church building built. By God’s grace, and as you enable us, we will help as much as possible. What a blessing to see a Bible Believing Baptist Church get prime Real Estate!!!

We have so many praises in our short time of being back on the field that it is hard to know where to start and stop this letter. Let me close by thanking all of you once again who made this transition back onto the field possible. You really cannot imagine how our financial needs were met in such an exact way. We were truly able to come back to the field and step right into ministry again. We returned to Malawi with no financial debt, and we were able to purchase a very adequate vehicle upon our arrival. We thank the Lord for your generosity. By God’s grace, we have been serving in full-time mission work since 2006, it is humbling to see the Lord continue to pave the way one step at a time.

Our Vehicle…THANK YOU!!

(Special Thanks to Open Door Baptist Church for enabling us to purchase this vehicle!)

Lusangazi Mission Station

So many projects DONE! GOD IS USING YOU to help us reach souls with these facilities!

Security Wall for the Technical Training Center

Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center

Kids Enjoying the Simple Things in Life!

Joshua & I at the top of Njewe Mountain

Joshua’s Mountain Top Experience!

Looking due west from where we were, there is not another Bible Believing, IBC, Gospel Preaching Church for HUNDREDS if not a THOUSAND miles… HELP US CHANGE THAT!

Preaching the Gospel to the Mountain Guides.

I preached to these guys for a long time in their language… I can never thank you all enough for supporting us through the long process of learning the Chitumbuka language. I am so thankful to be able to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the most rural herdsman or farmer, knowing that he can hear the Good News in his native tongue!

Mzuzu Bible Institute Classes

I am teaching all classes now in Chitumbuka. The teaching and preaching of GODS “W-O-R-D-S” has the power to mobilize the “weak“ and “base“ people of this world to confound the wise! Pray for Mzuzu Bible Institute!

C.B.C. Discipleship Group

Preaching From Village to Village

This would be a typical “location“ which is sort of an unofficial housing settlement village which is close to a town.

Typical Village Setting

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Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

Dear Faithful Friends and Supporters,
As many of you know we have made it safely and soundly back to Malawi. Challenges with flight patterns, luggage handling, and jet lag were certainly felt but all in all our travels were blessed.

After one of the busiest times of our existence (furlough), it is good to be back in a place where I can distribute an average of over 450+ gospel tracts per hour! It has been amazing to once again experience ministering to a people who are generally comfortable with the idea that God, indeed exists. In my experience, no matter how far off someone's view of God or deity is, it is almost always more fruitful to deal with someone who at the very least, does acknowledge God as the creator. It is hard to see how far things have drifted in our own country, and to understand the impact that is had by the never ending narrative of atheistic evolution, until you step back out of the first world setting, and speak to common folks about the subject of God. I can think of countless incidents over the past year and a half in the USA, where just the very mention of the subject of the Bible, or Jesus, or church was unfortunately enough to ruin someone’s day! Through these experiences I developed a great admiration for soul winners and personal workers who are still called to win souls in the hard soil of the USA. I Praise the Lord for you and the work that you are doing! Praise the Lord for the faithful pastors who are still in their pulpits, the men and women who are still on the firing line and for the souls still being saved! I truly believe that God calls us, and prepares each of us for the field he desires to use us in.

Getting re-established here in Malawi has been filled with mixed emotions and reality checks. Without a doubt it has made the biggest impact on the older kids. The little ones simply feel that all is well and normal. Jennie and I are well aware of our decisions of faith and we are trusting that the Lord has his purpose in all the ways he directs our footsteps. Joshua and Bekah however, are fifteen and thirteen respectively, and they have faced some very real trials of their faith. It has always been our prayer that our children would neither become bitter at God through their experience on the mission field, nor would they become the typical missionary kid that can’t seem to function later on in normal life. It is our desire to equip them to live by faith wherever God may call them to serve. Thanks be to God who has given them the victory in this transition, they have both handled the transitions like champs! They are truly doing better than I ever would have when I was their age and for that I am grateful. I would ask you to consider their age and all that the enemy throws at a young person at this time of life, and I would ask you to pray that God would continue to move in their hearts to comfort, guide, teach, and keep them. Missionary kids truly face challenges and trials that the rest of us can only observe as bystanders. I realize that it's not just my children who have been called away from “normal life” through the calling of their parents. I believe we would do well to pray for all of the missionaries teens out there wherever they are serving.

I do still strongly believe that it is always best to be wherever God tells you to be and, for us, there is no doubt about where the Lord has us serving for now. Since our arrival here, we have seen amazing doors of ministry opening left and right. The doors of ministry opportunities such as preaching in the churches , door to door visitation, market tracking, public preaching, village to village outreach, and small group discipleship have absolutely FLOWN OPEN. Mzuzu Bible Institute has restarted & I have been preaching or teaching seven days a week. Believe it or not, it has never been easier! The Lord is pouring out his messages and is sustaining the strength!

Last Sunday I preached in Manyamura, a village about three hours from here by motorcycle. I street preached there a few weeks ago, and then some people who happened to be there at the time, subsequently sent an invitation for me to come “formally” and preach in their village. I preached for over two hours to around three hundred people who had gathered to hear. From there I drove my motorcycle from village to village for the next eight hours, preaching publicly in eight different villages! I distributed hundreds of tracts in these places wherever I stopped and returned home exhausted after riding over a hundred miles in sand. Monday morning I didn't miss a beat as I woke up ready to face the building projects which are currently underway at the Lusangazi Mission Station. For those of you who are aware of my health condition, just know that I am praising the Lord every day that I am able to function. I am following the recommended terrible exercises given to me by the physiotherapist and am thankful to be upright!

Our current building project is a security wall which will enclose our hands on technical skills training center. (Carpentry, Electrical, Solar, Etc. ) We are soon to start our first class through a Malawi government certified course in our soon to open “Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center”. This will be a very “Galatians 6:10'' type of ministry. In this particular aspect of the ministry, I will oversee trainers who will teach through the curriculums which are provided by government for hands on skills training. My objective will be bringing a heavy emphasis on scripture, personal salvation, and personal discipleship throughout the course. I am really looking forward to how this will provide me “side-by-side” time with the students. There is a mix of students in this first class between church members, ministry leaders of the various congregations, and completely lost people. Pray for us to have many opportunities to witness to the unsaved as well as to strengthen the hands of the believers. These skills, if learned and applied, could be a huge help to the families of the churches, as well as to the ministries of the churches.

I would also like to ask for prayer for Mr. James Phiri. After preaching in a church of a pastor I taught several years ago, Mr. James came forward and kneeled in front of the church and prayed one of the most sincere prayers of calling on the Lord I have ever heard. After praying, he testified to the over three hundred people in attendance to his history of being born and raised a Muslim and having “this day, found the truth of salvation which I have been searching for all these years”! What a blessing it is to see another soul brought to the saving knowledge of Christ even in this late hour of the church! I recently received a message that Mr. Phiri has asked me to dedicate some time for further teaching. Please pray for his growth. The pastor NOT mentioned by name here is a man who was indeed called and trained in our ministry several years ago. Unfortunately however, his faith wavered when it came to opening his ministry. Instead of trusting the Lord to provide a way, he opted to minister under the “umbrella“ of a large established denominational organization, which could provide him the “network of support” which he thought was so necessary. I still go and preach there when he asks me to, but I do not consider him one of our churches nor a real part of our ministry. I would have much rather seen him pastoring one of our churches, but the door of our ministry is always open. Open to come in and open to leave . I do not try to “control“ peoples decisions. At least he is doing something for the Lord!

Preaching in all these different churches and villages makes me more appreciative of the churches which the Lord has used us to start from scratch. Since our return I have had the opportunity to rotate through the Bible Believing, Independent Baptist, KJV Churches which God has raised up here in the north of Malawi. I have a genuine appreciation and love for these churches and for the pastors who are standing faithfully in the doctrine which they were taught. Coming back and seeing these men who are faithfully preaching and teaching in their pulpits has been such a reward. In the short time remaining before the Lord comes I want to do all I can do to help these pastors with whatever they need in the ministry. Pastor Daniel Nyirenda just finished discipleship courses with another small group of five people. They decided to have a small “graduation ceremony“ to honor their efforts and they invited me to attend the ceremony and then preach to them. It was really a blessing to see another five people who had been taught through the doctrinal course WITHOUT ME!!!


By God's grace we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for Light Baptist Church directly on the main highway that goes through Mzuzu! It is amazing to have the opportunity to purchase such a property. As a direct result of your faithfulness and support we were able to take action when the property became available. In the past this church had been renting a community building tucked away in the village. Now they are excited to build the church where no one in town can miss it! I am very excited to help them develop the property and get a church building built. By God’s grace, and as you enable us, we will help as much as possible. What a blessing to see a Bible Believing Baptist Church get prime Real Estate!!!

We have so many praises in our short time of being back on the field that it is hard to know where to start and stop this letter. Let me close by thanking all of you once again who made this transition back onto the field possible. You really cannot imagine how our financial needs were met in such an exact way. We were truly able to come back to the field and step right into ministry again. We returned to Malawi with no financial debt, and we were able to purchase a very adequate vehicle upon our arrival. We thank the Lord for your generosity. By God’s grace, we have been serving in full-time mission work since 2006, it is humbling to see the Lord continue to pave the way one step at a time.

Our Vehicle…THANK YOU!!

(Special Thanks to Open Door Baptist Church for enabling us to purchase this vehicle!)

Lusangazi Mission Station

So many projects DONE! GOD IS USING YOU to help us reach souls with these facilities!

Security Wall for the Technical Training Center

Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center

Kids Enjoying the Simple Things in Life!

Joshua & I at the top of Njewe Mountain

Joshua’s Mountain Top Experience!

Looking due west from where we were, there is not another Bible Believing, IBC, Gospel Preaching Church for HUNDREDS if not a THOUSAND miles… HELP US CHANGE THAT!

Preaching the Gospel to the Mountain Guides.

I preached to these guys for a long time in their language… I can never thank you all enough for supporting us through the long process of learning the Chitumbuka language. I am so thankful to be able to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the most rural herdsman or farmer, knowing that he can hear the Good News in his native tongue!

Mzuzu Bible Institute Classes

I am teaching all classes now in Chitumbuka. The teaching and preaching of GODS “W-O-R-D-S” has the power to mobilize the “weak“ and “base“ people of this world to confound the wise! Pray for Mzuzu Bible Institute!

C.B.C. Discipleship Group

Preaching From Village to Village

This would be a typical “location“ which is sort of an unofficial housing settlement village which is close to a town.

Typical Village Setting

This is is a normal village house setting! Be sure to put “Preaching from village to village in Malawi” on your bucket list! SEE HOW TO JOIN US THIS YEAR!!

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James 3:13
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

Dear Faithful Friends and Supporters,
As many of you know we have made it safely and soundly back to Malawi. Challenges with flight patterns, luggage handling, and jet lag were certainly felt but all in all our travels were blessed.

After one of the busiest times of our existence (furlough), it is good to be back in a place where I can distribute an average of over 450+ gospel tracts per hour! It has been amazing to once again experience ministering to a people who are generally comfortable with the idea that God, indeed exists. In my experience, no matter how far off someone's view of God or deity is, it is almost always more fruitful to deal with someone who at the very least, does acknowledge God as the creator. It is hard to see how far things have drifted in our own country, and to understand the impact that is had by the never ending narrative of atheistic evolution, until you step back out of the first world setting, and speak to common folks about the subject of God. I can think of countless incidents over the past year and a half in the USA, where just the very mention of the subject of the Bible, or Jesus, or church was unfortunately enough to ruin someone’s day! Through these experiences I developed a great admiration for soul winners and personal workers who are still called to win souls in the hard soil of the USA. I Praise the Lord for you and the work that you are doing! Praise the Lord for the faithful pastors who are still in their pulpits, the men and women who are still on the firing line and for the souls still being saved! I truly believe that God calls us, and prepares each of us for the field he desires to use us in.

Getting re-established here in Malawi has been filled with mixed emotions and reality checks. Without a doubt it has made the biggest impact on the older kids. The little ones simply feel that all is well and normal. Jennie and I are well aware of our decisions of faith and we are trusting that the Lord has his purpose in all the ways he directs our footsteps. Joshua and Bekah however, are fifteen and thirteen respectively, and they have faced some very real trials of their faith. It has always been our prayer that our children would neither become bitter at God through their experience on the mission field, nor would they become the typical missionary kid that can’t seem to function later on in normal life. It is our desire to equip them to live by faith wherever God may call them to serve. Thanks be to God who has given them the victory in this transition, they have both handled the transitions like champs! They are truly doing better than I ever would have when I was their age and for that I am grateful. I would ask you to consider their age and all that the enemy throws at a young person at this time of life, and I would ask you to pray that God would continue to move in their hearts to comfort, guide, teach, and keep them. Missionary kids truly face challenges and trials that the rest of us can only observe as bystanders. I realize that it's not just my children who have been called away from “normal life” through the calling of their parents. I believe we would do well to pray for all of the missionaries teens out there wherever they are serving.

I do still strongly believe that it is always best to be wherever God tells you to be and, for us, there is no doubt about where the Lord has us serving for now. Since our arrival here, we have seen amazing doors of ministry opening left and right. The doors of ministry opportunities such as preaching in the churches , door to door visitation, market tracking, public preaching, village to village outreach, and small group discipleship have absolutely FLOWN OPEN. Mzuzu Bible Institute has restarted & I have been preaching or teaching seven days a week. Believe it or not, it has never been easier! The Lord is pouring out his messages and is sustaining the strength!

Last Sunday I preached in Manyamura, a village about three hours from here by motorcycle. I street preached there a few weeks ago, and then some people who happened to be there at the time, subsequently sent an invitation for me to come “formally” and preach in their village. I preached for over two hours to around three hundred people who had gathered to hear. From there I drove my motorcycle from village to village for the next eight hours, preaching publicly in eight different villages! I distributed hundreds of tracts in these places wherever I stopped and returned home exhausted after riding over a hundred miles in sand. Monday morning I didn't miss a beat as I woke up ready to face the building projects which are currently underway at the Lusangazi Mission Station. For those of you who are aware of my health condition, just know that I am praising the Lord every day that I am able to function. I am following the recommended terrible exercises given to me by the physiotherapist and am thankful to be upright!

Our current building project is a security wall which will enclose our hands on technical skills training center. (Carpentry, Electrical, Solar, Etc. ) We are soon to start our first class through a Malawi government certified course in our soon to open “Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center”. This will be a very “Galatians 6:10'' type of ministry. In this particular aspect of the ministry, I will oversee trainers who will teach through the curriculums which are provided by government for hands on skills training. My objective will be bringing a heavy emphasis on scripture, personal salvation, and personal discipleship throughout the course. I am really looking forward to how this will provide me “side-by-side” time with the students. There is a mix of students in this first class between church members, ministry leaders of the various congregations, and completely lost people. Pray for us to have many opportunities to witness to the unsaved as well as to strengthen the hands of the believers. These skills, if learned and applied, could be a huge help to the families of the churches, as well as to the ministries of the churches.

I would also like to ask for prayer for Mr. James Phiri. After preaching in a church of a pastor I taught several years ago, Mr. James came forward and kneeled in front of the church and prayed one of the most sincere prayers of calling on the Lord I have ever heard. After praying, he testified to the over three hundred people in attendance to his history of being born and raised a Muslim and having “this day, found the truth of salvation which I have been searching for all these years”! What a blessing it is to see another soul brought to the saving knowledge of Christ even in this late hour of the church! I recently received a message that Mr. Phiri has asked me to dedicate some time for further teaching. Please pray for his growth. The pastor NOT mentioned by name here is a man who was indeed called and trained in our ministry several years ago. Unfortunately however, his faith wavered when it came to opening his ministry. Instead of trusting the Lord to provide a way, he opted to minister under the “umbrella“ of a large established denominational organization, which could provide him the “network of support” which he thought was so necessary. I still go and preach there when he asks me to, but I do not consider him one of our churches nor a real part of our ministry. I would have much rather seen him pastoring one of our churches, but the door of our ministry is always open. Open to come in and open to leave . I do not try to “control“ peoples decisions. At least he is doing something for the Lord!

Preaching in all these different churches and villages makes me more appreciative of the churches which the Lord has used us to start from scratch. Since our return I have had the opportunity to rotate through the Bible Believing, Independent Baptist, KJV Churches which God has raised up here in the north of Malawi. I have a genuine appreciation and love for these churches and for the pastors who are standing faithfully in the doctrine which they were taught. Coming back and seeing these men who are faithfully preaching and teaching in their pulpits has been such a reward. In the short time remaining before the Lord comes I want to do all I can do to help these pastors with whatever they need in the ministry. Pastor Daniel Nyirenda just finished discipleship courses with another small group of five people. They decided to have a small “graduation ceremony“ to honor their efforts and they invited me to attend the ceremony and then preach to them. It was really a blessing to see another five people who had been taught through the doctrinal course WITHOUT ME!!!


By God's grace we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for Light Baptist Church directly on the main highway that goes through Mzuzu! It is amazing to have the opportunity to purchase such a property. As a direct result of your faithfulness and support we were able to take action when the property became available. In the past this church had been renting a community building tucked away in the village. Now they are excited to build the church where no one in town can miss it! I am very excited to help them develop the property and get a church building built. By God’s grace, and as you enable us, we will help as much as possible. What a blessing to see a Bible Believing Baptist Church get prime Real Estate!!!

We have so many praises in our short time of being back on the field that it is hard to know where to start and stop this letter. Let me close by thanking all of you once again who made this transition back onto the field possible. You really cannot imagine how our financial needs were met in such an exact way. We were truly able to come back to the field and step right into ministry again. We returned to Malawi with no financial debt, and we were able to purchase a very adequate vehicle upon our arrival. We thank the Lord for your generosity. By God’s grace, we have been serving in full-time mission work since 2006, it is humbling to see the Lord continue to pave the way one step at a time.

Our Vehicle…THANK YOU!!

(Special Thanks to Open Door Baptist Church for enabling us to purchase this vehicle!)

Lusangazi Mission Station

So many projects DONE! GOD IS USING YOU to help us reach souls with these facilities!

Security Wall for the Technical Training Center

Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center

Kids Enjoying the Simple Things in Life!

Joshua & I at the top of Njewe Mountain

Joshua’s Mountain Top Experience!

Looking due west from where we were, there is not another Bible Believing, IBC, Gospel Preaching Church for HUNDREDS if not a THOUSAND miles… HELP US CHANGE THAT!

Preaching the Gospel to the Mountain Guides.

I preached to these guys for a long time in their language… I can never thank you all enough for supporting us through the long process of learning the Chitumbuka language. I am so thankful to be able to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the most rural herdsman or farmer, knowing that he can hear the Good News in his native tongue!

Mzuzu Bible Institute Classes

I am teaching all classes now in Chitumbuka. The teaching and preaching of GODS “W-O-R-D-S” has the power to mobilize the “weak“ and “base“ people of this world to confound the wise! Pray for Mzuzu Bible Institute!

C.B.C. Discipleship Group

Preaching From Village to Village

This would be a typical “location“ which is sort of an unofficial housing settlement village which is close to a town.

Typical Village Setting

This is is a normal village house setting! Be sure to put “Preaching from village to village in Malawi” on your bucket list! SEE HOW TO JOIN US THIS YEAR!!

Support Our Ministry Online

Give online through The Bible Baptist Mission Board. One time gift for special projects, or reoccurring monthly support is available.

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James 3:13
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

Dear Faithful Friends and Supporters,
As many of you know we have made it safely and soundly back to Malawi. Challenges with flight patterns, luggage handling, and jet lag were certainly felt but all in all our travels were blessed.

After one of the busiest times of our existence (furlough), it is good to be back in a place where I can distribute an average of over 450+ gospel tracts per hour! It has been amazing to once again experience ministering to a people who are generally comfortable with the idea that God, indeed exists. In my experience, no matter how far off someone's view of God or deity is, it is almost always more fruitful to deal with someone who at the very least, does acknowledge God as the creator. It is hard to see how far things have drifted in our own country, and to understand the impact that is had by the never ending narrative of atheistic evolution, until you step back out of the first world setting, and speak to common folks about the subject of God. I can think of countless incidents over the past year and a half in the USA, where just the very mention of the subject of the Bible, or Jesus, or church was unfortunately enough to ruin someone’s day! Through these experiences I developed a great admiration for soul winners and personal workers who are still called to win souls in the hard soil of the USA. I Praise the Lord for you and the work that you are doing! Praise the Lord for the faithful pastors who are still in their pulpits, the men and women who are still on the firing line and for the souls still being saved! I truly believe that God calls us, and prepares each of us for the field he desires to use us in.

Getting re-established here in Malawi has been filled with mixed emotions and reality checks. Without a doubt it has made the biggest impact on the older kids. The little ones simply feel that all is well and normal. Jennie and I are well aware of our decisions of faith and we are trusting that the Lord has his purpose in all the ways he directs our footsteps. Joshua and Bekah however, are fifteen and thirteen respectively, and they have faced some very real trials of their faith. It has always been our prayer that our children would neither become bitter at God through their experience on the mission field, nor would they become the typical missionary kid that can’t seem to function later on in normal life. It is our desire to equip them to live by faith wherever God may call them to serve. Thanks be to God who has given them the victory in this transition, they have both handled the transitions like champs! They are truly doing better than I ever would have when I was their age and for that I am grateful. I would ask you to consider their age and all that the enemy throws at a young person at this time of life, and I would ask you to pray that God would continue to move in their hearts to comfort, guide, teach, and keep them. Missionary kids truly face challenges and trials that the rest of us can only observe as bystanders. I realize that it's not just my children who have been called away from “normal life” through the calling of their parents. I believe we would do well to pray for all of the missionaries teens out there wherever they are serving.

I do still strongly believe that it is always best to be wherever God tells you to be and, for us, there is no doubt about where the Lord has us serving for now. Since our arrival here, we have seen amazing doors of ministry opening left and right. The doors of ministry opportunities such as preaching in the churches , door to door visitation, market tracking, public preaching, village to village outreach, and small group discipleship have absolutely FLOWN OPEN. Mzuzu Bible Institute has restarted & I have been preaching or teaching seven days a week. Believe it or not, it has never been easier! The Lord is pouring out his messages and is sustaining the strength!

Last Sunday I preached in Manyamura, a village about three hours from here by motorcycle. I street preached there a few weeks ago, and then some people who happened to be there at the time, subsequently sent an invitation for me to come “formally” and preach in their village. I preached for over two hours to around three hundred people who had gathered to hear. From there I drove my motorcycle from village to village for the next eight hours, preaching publicly in eight different villages! I distributed hundreds of tracts in these places wherever I stopped and returned home exhausted after riding over a hundred miles in sand. Monday morning I didn't miss a beat as I woke up ready to face the building projects which are currently underway at the Lusangazi Mission Station. For those of you who are aware of my health condition, just know that I am praising the Lord every day that I am able to function. I am following the recommended terrible exercises given to me by the physiotherapist and am thankful to be upright!

Our current building project is a security wall which will enclose our hands on technical skills training center. (Carpentry, Electrical, Solar, Etc. ) We are soon to start our first class through a Malawi government certified course in our soon to open “Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center”. This will be a very “Galatians 6:10'' type of ministry. In this particular aspect of the ministry, I will oversee trainers who will teach through the curriculums which are provided by government for hands on skills training. My objective will be bringing a heavy emphasis on scripture, personal salvation, and personal discipleship throughout the course. I am really looking forward to how this will provide me “side-by-side” time with the students. There is a mix of students in this first class between church members, ministry leaders of the various congregations, and completely lost people. Pray for us to have many opportunities to witness to the unsaved as well as to strengthen the hands of the believers. These skills, if learned and applied, could be a huge help to the families of the churches, as well as to the ministries of the churches.

I would also like to ask for prayer for Mr. James Phiri. After preaching in a church of a pastor I taught several years ago, Mr. James came forward and kneeled in front of the church and prayed one of the most sincere prayers of calling on the Lord I have ever heard. After praying, he testified to the over three hundred people in attendance to his history of being born and raised a Muslim and having “this day, found the truth of salvation which I have been searching for all these years”! What a blessing it is to see another soul brought to the saving knowledge of Christ even in this late hour of the church! I recently received a message that Mr. Phiri has asked me to dedicate some time for further teaching. Please pray for his growth. The pastor NOT mentioned by name here is a man who was indeed called and trained in our ministry several years ago. Unfortunately however, his faith wavered when it came to opening his ministry. Instead of trusting the Lord to provide a way, he opted to minister under the “umbrella“ of a large established denominational organization, which could provide him the “network of support” which he thought was so necessary. I still go and preach there when he asks me to, but I do not consider him one of our churches nor a real part of our ministry. I would have much rather seen him pastoring one of our churches, but the door of our ministry is always open. Open to come in and open to leave . I do not try to “control“ peoples decisions. At least he is doing something for the Lord!

Preaching in all these different churches and villages makes me more appreciative of the churches which the Lord has used us to start from scratch. Since our return I have had the opportunity to rotate through the Bible Believing, Independent Baptist, KJV Churches which God has raised up here in the north of Malawi. I have a genuine appreciation and love for these churches and for the pastors who are standing faithfully in the doctrine which they were taught. Coming back and seeing these men who are faithfully preaching and teaching in their pulpits has been such a reward. In the short time remaining before the Lord comes I want to do all I can do to help these pastors with whatever they need in the ministry. Pastor Daniel Nyirenda just finished discipleship courses with another small group of five people. They decided to have a small “graduation ceremony“ to honor their efforts and they invited me to attend the ceremony and then preach to them. It was really a blessing to see another five people who had been taught through the doctrinal course WITHOUT ME!!!


By God's grace we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for Light Baptist Church directly on the main highway that goes through Mzuzu! It is amazing to have the opportunity to purchase such a property. As a direct result of your faithfulness and support we were able to take action when the property became available. In the past this church had been renting a community building tucked away in the village. Now they are excited to build the church where no one in town can miss it! I am very excited to help them develop the property and get a church building built. By God’s grace, and as you enable us, we will help as much as possible. What a blessing to see a Bible Believing Baptist Church get prime Real Estate!!!

We have so many praises in our short time of being back on the field that it is hard to know where to start and stop this letter. Let me close by thanking all of you once again who made this transition back onto the field possible. You really cannot imagine how our financial needs were met in such an exact way. We were truly able to come back to the field and step right into ministry again. We returned to Malawi with no financial debt, and we were able to purchase a very adequate vehicle upon our arrival. We thank the Lord for your generosity. By God’s grace, we have been serving in full-time mission work since 2006, it is humbling to see the Lord continue to pave the way one step at a time.

Our Vehicle…THANK YOU!!

(Special Thanks to Open Door Baptist Church for enabling us to purchase this vehicle!)

Lusangazi Mission Station

So many projects DONE! GOD IS USING YOU to help us reach souls with these facilities!

Security Wall for the Technical Training Center

Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center

Kids Enjoying the Simple Things in Life!

Joshua & I at the top of Njewe Mountain

Joshua’s Mountain Top Experience!

Looking due west from where we were, there is not another Bible Believing, IBC, Gospel Preaching Church for HUNDREDS if not a THOUSAND miles… HELP US CHANGE THAT!

Preaching the Gospel to the Mountain Guides.

I preached to these guys for a long time in their language… I can never thank you all enough for supporting us through the long process of learning the Chitumbuka language. I am so thankful to be able to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the most rural herdsman or farmer, knowing that he can hear the Good News in his native tongue!

Mzuzu Bible Institute Classes

I am teaching all classes now in Chitumbuka. The teaching and preaching of GODS “W-O-R-D-S” has the power to mobilize the “weak“ and “base“ people of this world to confound the wise! Pray for Mzuzu Bible Institute!

C.B.C. Discipleship Group

Preaching From Village to Village

This would be a typical “location“ which is sort of an unofficial housing settlement village which is close to a town.

Typical Village Setting

This is is a normal village house setting! Be sure to put “Preaching from village to village in Malawi” on your bucket list! SEE HOW TO JOIN US THIS YEAR!!

Support Our Ministry Online

Give online through The Bible Baptist Mission Board. One time gift for special projects, or reoccurring monthly support is available.

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<![CDATA[Robinsons2Malawi March Prayer Letter 2021]]> https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=5c410038483af41f3d1c55b00&id=0591581678 https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=5c410038483af41f3d1c55b00&id=0591581678 Robinsons2Malawi March Prayer Letter 2021 WOW! God is GOOD!

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Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Greetings and Blessings from the Robinsons

Your Missionaries to Malawi Africa

To everything in life and ministry there truly is a time and season. In many cases we may know what the Lord wants us to do, but it is always a trial of faith to wait for his time to do it. We have been in the States now for longer than we had originally expected, and to us it has seemed TOO LONG! We have trusted the Lord in the matter all along and we have continually presented ourselves before the Lord to seek his face in what he is doing in our ministry and lives.

During our time in the States we have served the Lord with all our hearts as we would in any other physical location. Aside from strengthening the hands of the local churches around the USA, we have been able to financially and prayerfully support many efforts in Malawi through the ministries that have been established over the years. Although we have been doing as much as possible using internet communications and phone calls, I have hesitated to write to the churches frequently simply due to the fact that we have not been on the ground doing the work which we have always done in person.

I am more thankful now than ever before that the Lord raised up good ministers of the gospel in Malawi who have carried on so faithfully in our physical absence. This period of waiting has proven to me that they truly are autonomous, self governing, and being used by God for the ministry of the word! Please keep them in your prayers. Alex, Daniel, Marc Anthony, Nchachi, Chatonda, Goli, Miya, are amongst those who I pray for on a daily basis. The enemy greatly desires to weaken their hands, and their faith, but your prayers WILL strengthen and help them and I covet even just one earnest prayer on their behalf. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer...

As I mentioned before, timing is everything. There is indeed a time to wait and when the Lord says “Go” there is a time to take action! After a long season of waiting has passed, we are thrilled to let everyone know that the time for us to return to the field HAS BECOME OFFICIAL! April-21-2021 is the day we are set to leave thanks to your prayers and support!

As many of you know, my older brother John is the pastor of Bible Believers Baptist Church in Hillsboro, OR. After knowing of our intention to return to the field for quite some time, and having prayed for us in the matter, he called and more or less asked me “what the hold up is”. I explained the financial restraints that were keeping us from being able to purchase tickets and make other necessary arrangements to return to the field. He asked me if my supporters know of our needs. My response was that the Lord knew and that I hesitate to mention our financial needs in our prayer letters because mission work is littered with “moochinaries” who always “need more money”. After giving me sound counsel on the matter, in his zeal for the Lord, he immediately organized an online fundraising campaign through the local church, (SEE HERE) mentioning that it would allow the saints to “carry us forward” on our journey “after a godly sort”, “lacking nothing”.

We have been blown away to see the Lord’s people step up to help us get back to the field in downright quick order! I told Jennie that we must have been a bigger pain in the backside than we realized because you all are scrambling at the chance to get us out of here! All kidding aside, I believe that most of our supporters know and understand, as we do, that the time is short to work before the Lord comes and that the work must be done while opportunity remains. Within 24hrs we received enough one time support to be able to purchase tickets, and to pull out all the stops to making arrangements to head over to Malawi.

“Excited”, does not even begin to describe how we feel and “thankful” almost seems to be an understatement. Your generosity and care for lost souls around the world makes me thankful to be your missionary and to fulfill my part in your ministry in Malawi. May the Lord richly bless all who are financially making our soon return possible. May he also equally bless those many of you, who I have met over the years, who rejoice with us in the Lord's provision, but don't have the means to give towards this endeavor. I hope you know that we deeply appreciate your prayers for our family and the ministry which the Lord would have us fulfill.

As if this was not hard enough to believe, we recently received a call from one of our supporting church pastors. He informed me that the Lord had given his church some missions funding, and that God put it on his heart to PURCHASE A VEHICLE for us when we get back to the field! I am blown away by what GOD is doing! Most of the time I am not the smartest guy in the room, but even I can see that GOD’s time has come!

After working, believing, and acting as though we had things set in order to go, God has moved and so now we are going. As you know, finances are only a necessary tool to help enable the work of the ministry. The unseen enemies that seek to hinder us from boldly sowing the seed, as we ought and which seek to stop the eyes and ears of the lost masses from the “hearing of the word” must equally be moved out of the way. We are no more able to do that by ourselves than we were able to provide the funds for ourselves. So we go knowing that the spiritual condition of the world-wide atmosphere has changed forever, and that it is more opposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ than ever before. We go with a deeper sense than ever before of our need for his divine protection and the necessity for God to move in the ministries which he will fulfill by our hand.

Please pray for us and, never hesitate to send me specific needs that I can pray for you as well.

Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Your missionaries to Malawi Africa

The Robinsons

Pray For:

  • Continued Provisions for our return

  • Vehicle Purchase

  • Safety in International Travels

  • Healing for David’s Back

  • Continue to Pray for Dayspring Baptist Church

  • Pray for Malawian National Ministers

  • Pray FOR GOD TO MOVE In Malawi

  • Doors would stay open to world-wide missions work

  • Our children/family to “re-adjust well” to Life in Malawi

Thank you! For taking the time to read our letter and pray for us!

Below you will find some direct links to a printable version of this prayer letter as well as some direct links to some of the different aspects of our ministry.

As always, thank you all so much for your prayer and support.

Printable Prayer Letter
Send Me Your Prayer Request
Visit Our Website
The Lord led us to start a ministry specifically aimed at helping church groups and individuals take short term missions trips (10day-6months) Find out more about it by clicking on the IBC logo above. Send it to a friend who is praying about a missions trip!

This ministry was started in 2017 and is aimed at helping individuals and church groups to be able to GO on a short term (10 days-6 months) Missions Trip. Know someone who is praying about a missions trip? Send them the LINK

Mzuzu Bible Institute is a ministry started in 2016, and is aimed directly at TEACHING the scriptures to ministry leaders and people who desire to spend time being trained in the scripture. If you would like to know more about this particular aspect of our ministry, please follow this LINK & scroll down.

I.B.S.C.O.M.

INDEPENDENT BAPTIST SUPPORT CENTER OF MALAWI

This is a “hands-on” ministry directed towards helping National Pastors and Churches to coordinate efforts of evangelism and building churches. Find out more about this specific ministry by following this LINK.

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Thank you for your time in reading & praying!

Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Greetings and Blessings from the Robinsons

Your Missionaries to Malawi Africa

To everything in life and ministry there truly is a time and season. In many cases we may know what the Lord wants us to do, but it is always a trial of faith to wait for his time to do it. We have been in the States now for longer than we had originally expected, and to us it has seemed TOO LONG! We have trusted the Lord in the matter all along and we have continually presented ourselves before the Lord to seek his face in what he is doing in our ministry and lives.

During our time in the States we have served the Lord with all our hearts as we would in any other physical location. Aside from strengthening the hands of the local churches around the USA, we have been able to financially and prayerfully support many efforts in Malawi through the ministries that have been established over the years. Although we have been doing as much as possible using internet communications and phone calls, I have hesitated to write to the churches frequently simply due to the fact that we have not been on the ground doing the work which we have always done in person.

I am more thankful now than ever before that the Lord raised up good ministers of the gospel in Malawi who have carried on so faithfully in our physical absence. This period of waiting has proven to me that they truly are autonomous, self governing, and being used by God for the ministry of the word! Please keep them in your prayers. Alex, Daniel, Marc Anthony, Nchachi, Chatonda, Goli, Miya, are amongst those who I pray for on a daily basis. The enemy greatly desires to weaken their hands, and their faith, but your prayers WILL strengthen and help them and I covet even just one earnest prayer on their behalf. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer...

As I mentioned before, timing is everything. There is indeed a time to wait and when the Lord says “Go” there is a time to take action! After a long season of waiting has passed, we are thrilled to let everyone know that the time for us to return to the field HAS BECOME OFFICIAL! April-21-2021 is the day we are set to leave thanks to your prayers and support!

As many of you know, my older brother John is the pastor of Bible Believers Baptist Church in Hillsboro, OR. After knowing of our intention to return to the field for quite some time, and having prayed for us in the matter, he called and more or less asked me “what the hold up is”. I explained the financial restraints that were keeping us from being able to purchase tickets and make other necessary arrangements to return to the field. He asked me if my supporters know of our needs. My response was that the Lord knew and that I hesitate to mention our financial needs in our prayer letters because mission work is littered with “moochinaries” who always “need more money”. After giving me sound counsel on the matter, in his zeal for the Lord, he immediately organized an online fundraising campaign through the local church, (SEE HERE) mentioning that it would allow the saints to “carry us forward” on our journey “after a godly sort”, “lacking nothing”.

We have been blown away to see the Lord’s people step up to help us get back to the field in downright quick order! I told Jennie that we must have been a bigger pain in the backside than we realized because you all are scrambling at the chance to get us out of here! All kidding aside, I believe that most of our supporters know and understand, as we do, that the time is short to work before the Lord comes and that the work must be done while opportunity remains. Within 24hrs we received enough one time support to be able to purchase tickets, and to pull out all the stops to making arrangements to head over to Malawi.

“Excited”, does not even begin to describe how we feel and “thankful” almost seems to be an understatement. Your generosity and care for lost souls around the world makes me thankful to be your missionary and to fulfill my part in your ministry in Malawi. May the Lord richly bless all who are financially making our soon return possible. May he also equally bless those many of you, who I have met over the years, who rejoice with us in the Lord's provision, but don't have the means to give towards this endeavor. I hope you know that we deeply appreciate your prayers for our family and the ministry which the Lord would have us fulfill.

As if this was not hard enough to believe, we recently received a call from one of our supporting church pastors. He informed me that the Lord had given his church some missions funding, and that God put it on his heart to PURCHASE A VEHICLE for us when we get back to the field! I am blown away by what GOD is doing! Most of the time I am not the smartest guy in the room, but even I can see that GOD’s time has come!

After working, believing, and acting as though we had things set in order to go, God has moved and so now we are going. As you know, finances are only a necessary tool to help enable the work of the ministry. The unseen enemies that seek to hinder us from boldly sowing the seed, as we ought and which seek to stop the eyes and ears of the lost masses from the “hearing of the word” must equally be moved out of the way. We are no more able to do that by ourselves than we were able to provide the funds for ourselves. So we go knowing that the spiritual condition of the world-wide atmosphere has changed forever, and that it is more opposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ than ever before. We go with a deeper sense than ever before of our need for his divine protection and the necessity for God to move in the ministries which he will fulfill by our hand.

Please pray for us and, never hesitate to send me specific needs that I can pray for you as well.

Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Your missionaries to Malawi Africa

The Robinsons

Pray For:

  • Continued Provisions for our return

  • Vehicle Purchase

  • Safety in International Travels

  • Healing for David’s Back

  • Continue to Pray for Dayspring Baptist Church

  • Pray for Malawian National Ministers

  • Pray FOR GOD TO MOVE In Malawi

  • Doors would stay open to world-wide missions work

  • Our children/family to “re-adjust well” to Life in Malawi

Thank you! For taking the time to read our letter and pray for us!

Below you will find some direct links to a printable version of this prayer letter as well as some direct links to some of the different aspects of our ministry.

As always, thank you all so much for your prayer and support.

Printable Prayer Letter
Send Me Your Prayer Request
Visit Our Website
The Lord led us to start a ministry specifically aimed at helping church groups and individuals take short term missions trips (10day-6months) Find out more about it by clicking on the IBC logo above. Send it to a friend who is praying about a missions trip!

This ministry was started in 2017 and is aimed at helping individuals and church groups to be able to GO on a short term (10 days-6 months) Missions Trip. Know someone who is praying about a missions trip? Send them the LINK

Mzuzu Bible Institute is a ministry started in 2016, and is aimed directly at TEACHING the scriptures to ministry leaders and people who desire to spend time being trained in the scripture. If you would like to know more about this particular aspect of our ministry, please follow this LINK & scroll down.

I.B.S.C.O.M.

INDEPENDENT BAPTIST SUPPORT CENTER OF MALAWI

This is a “hands-on” ministry directed towards helping National Pastors and Churches to coordinate efforts of evangelism and building churches. Find out more about this specific ministry by following this LINK.

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Thank you for your time in reading & praying!

Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Greetings and Blessings from the Robinsons

Your Missionaries to Malawi Africa

To everything in life and ministry there truly is a time and season. In many cases we may know what the Lord wants us to do, but it is always a trial of faith to wait for his time to do it. We have been in the States now for longer than we had originally expected, and to us it has seemed TOO LONG! We have trusted the Lord in the matter all along and we have continually presented ourselves before the Lord to seek his face in what he is doing in our ministry and lives.

During our time in the States we have served the Lord with all our hearts as we would in any other physical location. Aside from strengthening the hands of the local churches around the USA, we have been able to financially and prayerfully support many efforts in Malawi through the ministries that have been established over the years. Although we have been doing as much as possible using internet communications and phone calls, I have hesitated to write to the churches frequently simply due to the fact that we have not been on the ground doing the work which we have always done in person.

I am more thankful now than ever before that the Lord raised up good ministers of the gospel in Malawi who have carried on so faithfully in our physical absence. This period of waiting has proven to me that they truly are autonomous, self governing, and being used by God for the ministry of the word! Please keep them in your prayers. Alex, Daniel, Marc Anthony, Nchachi, Chatonda, Goli, Miya, are amongst those who I pray for on a daily basis. The enemy greatly desires to weaken their hands, and their faith, but your prayers WILL strengthen and help them and I covet even just one earnest prayer on their behalf. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer...

As I mentioned before, timing is everything. There is indeed a time to wait and when the Lord says “Go” there is a time to take action! After a long season of waiting has passed, we are thrilled to let everyone know that the time for us to return to the field HAS BECOME OFFICIAL! April-21-2021 is the day we are set to leave thanks to your prayers and support!

As many of you know, my older brother John is the pastor of Bible Believers Baptist Church in Hillsboro, OR. After knowing of our intention to return to the field for quite some time, and having prayed for us in the matter, he called and more or less asked me “what the hold up is”. I explained the financial restraints that were keeping us from being able to purchase tickets and make other necessary arrangements to return to the field. He asked me if my supporters know of our needs. My response was that the Lord knew and that I hesitate to mention our financial needs in our prayer letters because mission work is littered with “moochinaries” who always “need more money”. After giving me sound counsel on the matter, in his zeal for the Lord, he immediately organized an online fundraising campaign through the local church, (SEE HERE) mentioning that it would allow the saints to “carry us forward” on our journey “after a godly sort”, “lacking nothing”.

We have been blown away to see the Lord’s people step up to help us get back to the field in downright quick order! I told Jennie that we must have been a bigger pain in the backside than we realized because you all are scrambling at the chance to get us out of here! All kidding aside, I believe that most of our supporters know and understand, as we do, that the time is short to work before the Lord comes and that the work must be done while opportunity remains. Within 24hrs we received enough one time support to be able to purchase tickets, and to pull out all the stops to making arrangements to head over to Malawi.

“Excited”, does not even begin to describe how we feel and “thankful” almost seems to be an understatement. Your generosity and care for lost souls around the world makes me thankful to be your missionary and to fulfill my part in your ministry in Malawi. May the Lord richly bless all who are financially making our soon return possible. May he also equally bless those many of you, who I have met over the years, who rejoice with us in the Lord's provision, but don't have the means to give towards this endeavor. I hope you know that we deeply appreciate your prayers for our family and the ministry which the Lord would have us fulfill.

As if this was not hard enough to believe, we recently received a call from one of our supporting church pastors. He informed me that the Lord had given his church some missions funding, and that God put it on his heart to PURCHASE A VEHICLE for us when we get back to the field! I am blown away by what GOD is doing! Most of the time I am not the smartest guy in the room, but even I can see that GOD’s time has come!

After working, believing, and acting as though we had things set in order to go, God has moved and so now we are going. As you know, finances are only a necessary tool to help enable the work of the ministry. The unseen enemies that seek to hinder us from boldly sowing the seed, as we ought and which seek to stop the eyes and ears of the lost masses from the “hearing of the word” must equally be moved out of the way. We are no more able to do that by ourselves than we were able to provide the funds for ourselves. So we go knowing that the spiritual condition of the world-wide atmosphere has changed forever, and that it is more opposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ than ever before. We go with a deeper sense than ever before of our need for his divine protection and the necessity for God to move in the ministries which he will fulfill by our hand.

Please pray for us and, never hesitate to send me specific needs that I can pray for you as well.

Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Your missionaries to Malawi Africa

The Robinsons

Pray For:

  • Continued Provisions for our return

  • Vehicle Purchase

  • Safety in International Travels

  • Healing for David’s Back

  • Continue to Pray for Dayspring Baptist Church

  • Pray for Malawian National Ministers

  • Pray FOR GOD TO MOVE In Malawi

  • Doors would stay open to world-wide missions work

  • Our children/family to “re-adjust well” to Life in Malawi

Thank you! For taking the time to read our letter and pray for us!

Below you will find some direct links to a printable version of this prayer letter as well as some direct links to some of the different aspects of our ministry.

As always, thank you all so much for your prayer and support.

Printable Prayer Letter
Send Me Your Prayer Request
Visit Our Website
The Lord led us to start a ministry specifically aimed at helping church groups and individuals take short term missions trips (10day-6months) Find out more about it by clicking on the IBC logo above. Send it to a friend who is praying about a missions trip!

This ministry was started in 2017 and is aimed at helping individuals and church groups to be able to GO on a short term (10 days-6 months) Missions Trip. Know someone who is praying about a missions trip? Send them the LINK

Mzuzu Bible Institute is a ministry started in 2016, and is aimed directly at TEACHING the scriptures to ministry leaders and people who desire to spend time being trained in the scripture. If you would like to know more about this particular aspect of our ministry, please follow this LINK & scroll down.

I.B.S.C.O.M.

INDEPENDENT BAPTIST SUPPORT CENTER OF MALAWI

This is a “hands-on” ministry directed towards helping National Pastors and Churches to coordinate efforts of evangelism and building churches. Find out more about this specific ministry by following this LINK.

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Robinsons2Malawi March Prayer Letter 2021 WOW! God is GOOD!

Thank you for your time in reading & praying!

Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Greetings and Blessings from the Robinsons

Your Missionaries to Malawi Africa

To everything in life and ministry there truly is a time and season. In many cases we may know what the Lord wants us to do, but it is always a trial of faith to wait for his time to do it. We have been in the States now for longer than we had originally expected, and to us it has seemed TOO LONG! We have trusted the Lord in the matter all along and we have continually presented ourselves before the Lord to seek his face in what he is doing in our ministry and lives.

During our time in the States we have served the Lord with all our hearts as we would in any other physical location. Aside from strengthening the hands of the local churches around the USA, we have been able to financially and prayerfully support many efforts in Malawi through the ministries that have been established over the years. Although we have been doing as much as possible using internet communications and phone calls, I have hesitated to write to the churches frequently simply due to the fact that we have not been on the ground doing the work which we have always done in person.

I am more thankful now than ever before that the Lord raised up good ministers of the gospel in Malawi who have carried on so faithfully in our physical absence. This period of waiting has proven to me that they truly are autonomous, self governing, and being used by God for the ministry of the word! Please keep them in your prayers. Alex, Daniel, Marc Anthony, Nchachi, Chatonda, Goli, Miya, are amongst those who I pray for on a daily basis. The enemy greatly desires to weaken their hands, and their faith, but your prayers WILL strengthen and help them and I covet even just one earnest prayer on their behalf. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer...

As I mentioned before, timing is everything. There is indeed a time to wait and when the Lord says “Go” there is a time to take action! After a long season of waiting has passed, we are thrilled to let everyone know that the time for us to return to the field HAS BECOME OFFICIAL! April-21-2021 is the day we are set to leave thanks to your prayers and support!

As many of you know, my older brother John is the pastor of Bible Believers Baptist Church in Hillsboro, OR. After knowing of our intention to return to the field for quite some time, and having prayed for us in the matter, he called and more or less asked me “what the hold up is”. I explained the financial restraints that were keeping us from being able to purchase tickets and make other necessary arrangements to return to the field. He asked me if my supporters know of our needs. My response was that the Lord knew and that I hesitate to mention our financial needs in our prayer letters because mission work is littered with “moochinaries” who always “need more money”. After giving me sound counsel on the matter, in his zeal for the Lord, he immediately organized an online fundraising campaign through the local church, (SEE HERE) mentioning that it would allow the saints to “carry us forward” on our journey “after a godly sort”, “lacking nothing”.

We have been blown away to see the Lord’s people step up to help us get back to the field in downright quick order! I told Jennie that we must have been a bigger pain in the backside than we realized because you all are scrambling at the chance to get us out of here! All kidding aside, I believe that most of our supporters know and understand, as we do, that the time is short to work before the Lord comes and that the work must be done while opportunity remains. Within 24hrs we received enough one time support to be able to purchase tickets, and to pull out all the stops to making arrangements to head over to Malawi.

“Excited”, does not even begin to describe how we feel and “thankful” almost seems to be an understatement. Your generosity and care for lost souls around the world makes me thankful to be your missionary and to fulfill my part in your ministry in Malawi. May the Lord richly bless all who are financially making our soon return possible. May he also equally bless those many of you, who I have met over the years, who rejoice with us in the Lord's provision, but don't have the means to give towards this endeavor. I hope you know that we deeply appreciate your prayers for our family and the ministry which the Lord would have us fulfill.

As if this was not hard enough to believe, we recently received a call from one of our supporting church pastors. He informed me that the Lord had given his church some missions funding, and that God put it on his heart to PURCHASE A VEHICLE for us when we get back to the field! I am blown away by what GOD is doing! Most of the time I am not the smartest guy in the room, but even I can see that GOD’s time has come!

After working, believing, and acting as though we had things set in order to go, God has moved and so now we are going. As you know, finances are only a necessary tool to help enable the work of the ministry. The unseen enemies that seek to hinder us from boldly sowing the seed, as we ought and which seek to stop the eyes and ears of the lost masses from the “hearing of the word” must equally be moved out of the way. We are no more able to do that by ourselves than we were able to provide the funds for ourselves. So we go knowing that the spiritual condition of the world-wide atmosphere has changed forever, and that it is more opposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ than ever before. We go with a deeper sense than ever before of our need for his divine protection and the necessity for God to move in the ministries which he will fulfill by our hand.

Please pray for us and, never hesitate to send me specific needs that I can pray for you as well.

Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

Your missionaries to Malawi Africa

The Robinsons

Pray For:

  • Continued Provisions for our return

  • Vehicle Purchase

  • Safety in International Travels

  • Healing for David’s Back

  • Continue to Pray for Dayspring Baptist Church

  • Pray for Malawian National Ministers

  • Pray FOR GOD TO MOVE In Malawi

  • Doors would stay open to world-wide missions work

  • Our children/family to “re-adjust well” to Life in Malawi

Thank you! For taking the time to read our letter and pray for us!

Below you will find some direct links to a printable version of this prayer letter as well as some direct links to some of the different aspects of our ministry.

As always, thank you all so much for your prayer and support.

Printable Prayer Letter
Send Me Your Prayer Request
Visit Our Website
The Lord led us to start a ministry specifically aimed at helping church groups and individuals take short term missions trips (10day-6months) Find out more about it by clicking on the IBC logo above. Send it to a friend who is praying about a missions trip!

This ministry was started in 2017 and is aimed at helping individuals and church groups to be able to GO on a short term (10 days-6 months) Missions Trip. Know someone who is praying about a missions trip? Send them the LINK

Mzuzu Bible Institute is a ministry started in 2016, and is aimed directly at TEACHING the scriptures to ministry leaders and people who desire to spend time being trained in the scripture. If you would like to know more about this particular aspect of our ministry, please follow this LINK & scroll down.

I.B.S.C.O.M.

INDEPENDENT BAPTIST SUPPORT CENTER OF MALAWI

This is a “hands-on” ministry directed towards helping National Pastors and Churches to coordinate efforts of evangelism and building churches. Find out more about this specific ministry by following this LINK.

SHARE THIS PRAYER LETTER WITH A CHURCH YOU KNOW

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<![CDATA[Robinson Prayer Letter Jan 2021]]> https://mailchi.mp/0426ab8af15f/robinson-prayer-letter-jan-2021 https://mailchi.mp/0426ab8af15f/robinson-prayer-letter-jan-2021 Robinson Prayer Letter Jan 2021 Here is our latest Prayer Letter. Thank you for laboring with us!

Psalms 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

Greetings and Blessings in 2021,

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I trust this letter finds you well and still serving the Lord in all sincerity and truth. Looking back over the year of 2020, I see a lot of challenges. Some old and definitely some new, but more so than any challenges, I see the countless blessings of God's goodness towards my family and I. Many thanks to all of you who have been a part of those blessings! Special thanks also to all of you who sent something extra over the holidays. God bless you for your kindness.

Like many of you, we have experienced “changes of plans” and “delays” in our work throughout 2020, but BY THE GRACE OF GOD these things have not caused us to despair. One of the “lessons” God saw fit to teach me many years ago is the lesson of ever changing plans.

I remember how difficult it was to adapt to changing circumstances when I first got to Malawi. When the normal circumstances I had always been accustomed to were no longer available, trying to actually accomplish anything seemed to be nearly impossible. I quickly found out that in a foreign country things as simple as finding a way to buy milk for the kids bottles or just find soap for laundry were a genuine challenge. I could barely believe that just prior to leaving the USA I had owned a construction company doing remodels, new house builds, and any other construction related services, all of which required the ability to “get-er-done”. Being a “newby” in Malawi was incredibly humiliating because I went from being able to assess, estimate, plan, coordinate, and execute very challenging jobs, to feeling like I didn't even know how to tie my own shoes!

At some point early on there, I had finally put together a plan to go and do an outreach in one of the villages. Having jumped through all the necessary hoops, the logistics were finally done. Transportation was figured out, speakers and equipment were figured out, an interpreter was coordinated, tracts were packed, Bibles were ready, the sermon was prepared, souls had been prayed for, banners were printed, meeting location was set, permission was obtained from the chief etc etc etc. I felt like my efforts would pay off and I was excited to see what would happen. What happened was exactly what would happen many times since. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! As soon as we had arrived we were greeted and welcomed very pleasantly only to be informed that someone two villages away had died that morning. The interpreter told me of the loss and I remember feeling sorry for the family and fully expected there to be some setbacks for them. The Malawians who were with me, began to offer condolences and then started back to the truck to return home. Almost expressionlessly, they interpreted to me that the village does not want to offend the neighboring village by “hosting an event” while others are grieving. We would not be holding the evangelism outreach. WHAT??? What about lost souls? What about the plans? What about all my hard work? Did they know what kind of difficulties I had undergone to prepare and plan this? Where was the Lord in THIS? It seemed that nobody cared except me. The main reason that no one seemed to care is because... no one cared except me. I was desperately disappointed and frustrated. As I drove two hours back towards home I was not only frustrated about the canceled evangelism but furthermore, I was disappointed that there wasn't even anyone to be disappointed with me. After a good spell of mully grubbing I concluded that I had to simply trust the Lord with it. There was nothing to do but “suck it up buttercup”. I wish I could say that someone got saved on the way home or that some other great thing happened, but as far as I know that was not the case on that trip.

Although I would face many as equally, and even far more disappointing situations in the years to come, I realized that the Lord is aware of our circumstances and is still in perfect control. This applies even when the authorities we are subject to make decisions that may hinder folks from getting saved. Disappointments and changes of plans had to become part of everyday life if I were going to live and minister in Malawi. After a while I learned that it was absolutely a miracle when ANYTHING actually happened according to plan. Fluid is the name of the game in most places around the world and I believe God is giving wisdom to pastors all over the USA who are having to roll with the punches.

Over the years in Malawi we learned to focus on what COULD be done and NOT on what could NOT be done. The Lord himself has blessed this focus and even though we have not been able to do as much as I wish we could have, I have learned to stand in awe at what HAS HAPPENED for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ among the Malawian people.

From Malawi, reports continue to compile of more people getting saved & baptized. More precious converts being discipled and more blessed church services. We thank the Lord for this, and we ask you all to join us in prayer for those who have recently been saved. You never know what the Lord can do with someone who not only receives the Lord, but also walks in a new life of faith.

A few months ago we saw the doors of Malawi temporarily close as the whole world went into “lockdown”. We had positioned ourselves for a plan to return to the field when we had to, yet again, face the facts that our plans would need to change. The US Department of State who is responsible to process US Passports shut down nearly all of their processing offices entrapping three of our children's passports. Thanks to your prayers we have received all of the passports and are planning to return to the field in March. Please pray for provision and logistics for our trip over.

Thank you to all who have been praying for my daughter Rebekah. She had an accident while playing volleyball and broke her femur. The break was unique in that it broke very near to the knee joint. She ended up having to go in for a somewhat complex surgery to put it back together. Please pray she would recover fully and that she would be able to walk well again by the time we are ready to leave in March. The 40+ hour trip is daunting even without injury so please pray for her to recover well. The rest of the family is doing well, but we are all restless and ready to get back “home”. I cannot tell you how thankful I am to serve the Lord with such a great crew. They are all amazing little people and are each growing in the Lord at their own pace. Please pray that their hearts would be tender towards the Lord, and that God will give Jennie and I the grace and wisdom to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord as we ought.

Finally, Please pray for Asher, Rebecca, Cara, David, Fauna, Demetrius, Christina, Brian, Naomi, Ronda, and the many others Jennie and I have had the opportunity to be a witness to recently. We can sow the seed, but only the Lord can show these folks their need for the truth of the gospel. It seems that there is such incredible hardness to the gospel in these last days, but there is still a chance for us to witness and there are still people getting saved. May the Lord help us to be found as faithful witnesses right up to the day of his coming.


Prayer Requests:

  • Salvation of those mentioned

  • Growth for converts in Malawi

  • Strength and Wisdom for Pastor Daniel and Pastor Alex

  • Current Church Plant in Malawi (Faith Baptist Church)

  • Healing for Rebekahs Knee

  • Healing (or grace) for David’s Back

  • The Right Messages for the Churches while in USA

  • Provision to be able to return in March

  • Wisdom to raise our children as we aught

Pastor Daniel & Nafe

Baby Joy

Youth Group CBC

Youth group meeting

Evangelist Mark Anthony

Recent Baptisms

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Psalms 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:

Greetings and Blessings in 2021,

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I trust this letter finds you well and still serving the Lord in all sincerity and truth. Looking back over the year of 2020, I see a lot of challenges. Some old and definitely some new, but more so than any challenges, I see the countless blessings of God's goodness towards my family and I. Many thanks to all of you who have been a part of those blessings! Special thanks also to all of you who sent something extra over the holidays. God bless you for your kindness.

Like many of you, we have experienced “changes of plans” and “delays” in our work throughout 2020, but BY THE GRACE OF GOD these things have not caused us to despair. One of the “lessons” God saw fit to teach me many years ago is the lesson of ever changing plans.

I remember how difficult it was to adapt to changing circumstances when I first got to Malawi. When the normal circumstances I had always been accustomed to were no longer available, trying to actually accomplish anything seemed to be nearly impossible. I quickly found out that in a foreign country things as simple as finding a way to buy milk for the kids bottles or just find soap for laundry were a genuine challenge. I could barely believe that just prior to leaving the USA I had owned a construction company doing remodels, new house builds, and any other construction related services, all of which required the ability to “get-er-done”. Being a “newby” in Malawi was incredibly humiliating because I went from being able to assess, estimate, plan, coordinate, and execute very challenging jobs, to feeling like I didn't even know how to tie my own shoes!

At some point early on there, I had finally put together a plan to go and do an outreach in one of the villages. Having jumped through all the necessary hoops, the logistics were finally done. Transportation was figured out, speakers and equipment were figured out, an interpreter was coordinated, tracts were packed, Bibles were ready, the sermon was prepared, souls had been prayed for, banners were printed, meeting location was set, permission was obtained from the chief etc etc etc. I felt like my efforts would pay off and I was excited to see what would happen. What happened was exactly what would happen many times since. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! As soon as we had arrived we were greeted and welcomed very pleasantly only to be informed that someone two villages away had died that morning. The interpreter told me of the loss and I remember feeling sorry for the family and fully expected there to be some setbacks for them. The Malawians who were with me, began to offer condolences and then started back to the truck to return home. Almost expressionlessly, they interpreted to me that the village does not want to offend the neighboring village by “hosting an event” while others are grieving. We would not be holding the evangelism outreach. WHAT??? What about lost souls? What about the plans? What about all my hard work? Did they know what kind of difficulties I had undergone to prepare and plan this? Where was the Lord in THIS? It seemed that nobody cared except me. The main reason that no one seemed to care is because... no one cared except me. I was desperately disappointed and frustrated. As I drove two hours back towards home I was not only frustrated about the canceled evangelism but furthermore, I was disappointed that there wasn't even anyone to be disappointed with me. After a good spell of mully grubbing I concluded that I had to simply trust the Lord with it. There was nothing to do but “suck it up buttercup”. I wish I could say that someone got saved on the way home or that some other great thing happened, but as far as I know that was not the case on that trip.

Although I would face many as equally, and even far more disappointing situations in the years to come, I realized that the Lord is aware of our circumstances and is still in perfect control. This applies even when the authorities we are subject to make decisions that may hinder folks from getting saved. Disappointments and changes of plans had to become part of everyday life if I were going to live and minister in Malawi. After a while I learned that it was absolutely a miracle when ANYTHING actually happened according to plan. Fluid is the name of the game in most places around the world and I believe God is giving wisdom to pastors all over the USA who are having to roll with the punches.

Over the years in Malawi we learned to focus on what COULD be done and NOT on what could NOT be done. The Lord himself has blessed this focus and even though we have not been able to do as much as I wish we could have, I have learned to stand in awe at what HAS HAPPENED for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ among the Malawian people.

From Malawi, reports continue to compile of more people getting saved & baptized. More precious converts being discipled and more blessed church services. We thank the Lord for this, and we ask you all to join us in prayer for those who have recently been saved. You never know what the Lord can do with someone who not only receives the Lord, but also walks in a new life of faith.

A few months ago we saw the doors of Malawi temporarily close as the whole world went into “lockdown”. We had positioned ourselves for a plan to return to the field when we had to, yet again, face the facts that our plans would need to change. The US Department of State who is responsible to process US Passports shut down nearly all of their processing offices entrapping three of our children's passports. Thanks to your prayers we have received all of the passports and are planning to return to the field in March. Please pray for provision and logistics for our trip over.

Thank you to all who have been praying for my daughter Rebekah. She had an accident while playing volleyball and broke her femur. The break was unique in that it broke very near to the knee joint. She ended up having to go in for a somewhat complex surgery to put it back together. Please pray she would recover fully and that she would be able to walk well again by the time we are ready to leave in March. The 40+ hour trip is daunting even without injury so please pray for her to recover well. The rest of the family is doing well, but we are all restless and ready to get back “home”. I cannot tell you how thankful I am to serve the Lord with such a great crew. They are all amazing little people and are each growing in the Lord at their own pace. Please pray that their hearts would be tender towards the Lord, and that God will give Jennie and I the grace and wisdom to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord as we ought.

Finally, Please pray for Asher, Rebecca, Cara, David, Fauna, Demetrius, Christina, Brian, Naomi, Ronda, and the many others Jennie and I have had the opportunity to be a witness to recently. We can sow the seed, but only the Lord can show these folks their need for the truth of the gospel. It seems that there is such incredible hardness to the gospel in these last days, but there is still a chance for us to witness and there are still people getting saved. May the Lord help us to be found as faithful witnesses right up to the day of his coming.


Prayer Requests:

  • Salvation of those mentioned

  • Growth for converts in Malawi

  • Strength and Wisdom for Pastor Daniel and Pastor Alex

  • Current Church Plant in Malawi (Faith Baptist Church)

  • Healing for Rebekahs Knee

  • Healing (or grace) for David’s Back

  • The Right Messages for the Churches while in USA

  • Provision to be able to return in March

  • Wisdom to raise our children as we aught

Pastor Daniel & Nafe

Baby Joy

Youth Group CBC

Youth group meeting

Evangelist Mark Anthony

Recent Baptisms

Pastor Alex & Sara

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Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Greetings Dear Fellow Servants

What a blessing it is to write to you again from a mission field which is still about as open as open gets in 2022. While lockdown measures and wars play a role against foreign mission efforts around the world, we are thankful that doors of ministry remain wide open to us here in Malawi.

Blessed Bible Institute Efforts in Chitipa:

As mentioned in a previous letter, the Lord has opened an incredible door of ministry opportunity to us in Chitipa, the northernmost tip of Malawi. Logistically, it has been a bit of a nightmare to be able to minister there due to the difficulties of travel, accommodations, food, and physical safety. Chitipa is a border area sandwiched between no man’s land Tanzania, no man’s land Zambia, and no man’s land Malawi. Due to the physical location, none of the mentioned countries are concerned to do much governing in the area. Roads are not maintained, there is no more than a vague semblance of a police “force” in the area, and there is no feasible way for the government to control or regulate all the trade, crime and trafficking of goods and persons that happen in the area. Business is done in these areas as though no such governments even exist.

Chitipa, Malawi

Chitipa Google Maps

Official borders, although they may seem “clear” to the casual observer on google maps, do not actually function on the ground in the capacity one may expect. In fact, these borders are being operated just as they did long before the British, French and Germans ever sat in the Belgian and drew circles on maps declaring their “right” to these areas. Borders here are based on languages. Wherever your language stops being spoken, that’s where your border ends. Once you reach the place you can’t hear what the people are saying… that is when you are in someone else’s territory. It’s as simple as that. Once you are in someone else’s territory, if you abide by the rules of that territory you are fine. If you don’t you need to go back to where you come from or be put to death. So as trade goes on through these fluid “borders” people inevitably rip each other off and as one would expect, revenge would be sought.

Surprisingly, shady business rip offs are not as “rampant” of a problem as you may expect. The reason for this may also come as a surprise. The hindrance against crime is specifically because people are aware that Chitipa and its neighbouring district of Karonga is the “headquarters”of witchcraft in this region of Africa.

That Malawi as a whole is in umpteen times worse condition than any of its neighbouring countries is common knowledge to everyone in this region of the world. If you talk to the average Tanzanian, or Zambian, from anywhere in the vicinity and ask them why Malawi is in so much worse condition than their country, they will always respond with two answers. 1) Too much Envy, (Proverbs 27:4 )and 2) “Too much witchcraft”(Deut 18:9-14). They are not wrong. People here do not forgo wrong doing of any kind because they fear any kind of justice system, nor do they forgo crime due to the fear of offending God. It is simple. If they do wrong, they will be killed or plagued through witchcraft.


Of course I realize that most of the “First World” audience of this prayer letter will arrogantly chuckle at the “silly” “superstitious beliefs” of the “ignorant heathen” who think witchcraft is real. I also know that there aren’t enough pages in this letter to convey the REASONS why God commanded witches, dealers in familiar spirits, and sorcerers to be put to death in the O.T. none of which were because, “only superstitious people believe in that stuff. My intention is most certainly NOT to glorify or draw attention to dark spiritual power. However, having worked in this context for many years, it is painfully obvious that it is a very real force to be reckoned with in ministry here.

In any case, Chitipa has very little governance, and absolutely no way to prevent revenge seekers or criminals from coming and going as they please. This absence of governance is certainly felt every time I am there. I have not been there even once without passing by a scene where something terrifically terrible happened in the area. On one of my journeys a man was disemboweled in the night less than 100 meters from where I was sleeping. Another morning on my way to teach I passed by the aftermath of a young boy had been “degroined” (fatal of course) for witchcraft ritual purposes.

One evening as I was about to doze off to sleep five thieves surrounded my “house” and tried to get in. I was startled awake from my dozing by the banging around. I wasn’t as spiritual as many of you, of whom I’m sure would have prayed calmly through the whole situation. Being as carnal as I am, I went into a complete adrenaline rush, and resorted to brandishing my machete through the window and communicating to them in their language, the negative results which would befall them should they successfully make it into the house. Let’s just say I didn’t exactly sleep well that night. The Lord helped me to teach the scripture for over eight hours the following day with no sleep at all. I have had at least one “pastor” leave the institute, and make it his ministry to tell everyone in Chitipa that I am “a Satanic” (whatever that means). Most recently I was sent a message by an unknown person in the area who swears I will not leave Chitipa alive. What a blessing.

Wisdom Needed

As of right now we have twenty-eight pastors who are in the institute. Eight of them have requested me to instruct them on what they need to do in order to “become” Independent Baptist Pastors. I need prayer concerning how to handle these men since I have personally led to Christ, discipled, and trained for ministry all the men who are currently in ministry leadership in our churches.

Preaching In One of These Churches

I have never been involved in rebranding national in order to “grow the work faster” (a tactic which is unfortunately all too common in third world missions all around the world) Fake missions work, driven by the desire for large numbers, has never been my cup of tea. In this situation however, there is a genuine need to handle things in wisdom.

One of the challenges of missions work is that you are always involved in situations where there is no “playbook”. There is no automatic answer and there is no way that I can know what to do outside of God revealing His will in the situation through the scriptures as highlighted by the Holy Spirit.

While many of the student pastors are content to carry on within the conforms of a denomination headquarters, in spite of the truth they have heard, others have come to the conclusion that a radical change in their ministry is necessary.

Some of these pastors who are now waiting on instructions to join our work were the most heated during classroom battles as the doctrine of scriptures was being taught. I have little doubt as to the genuine work of the Lord bringing these men to the point of being willing to give up an established position in a structured denomination, in order to have the liberty to preach and teach the truth. One thing is for sure, if indeed these men are serious, there are some serious trials of their faith which lay ahead in order to depart from falsehood and preach the truth. I need prayer concerning how and when to handle this.

New Church Started

Aside from these men, there is also a man that trained in our institute years ago who has started the first ever Bible Believing Independent Baptist Church to ever be started in the Chitipa region. His name is Pastor Justin Kayange.

Please pray for him, as he faces many challenges to pastor this genuine work of faith. The other Bible Believing Malawian pastors and I are working carefully with him to provide support in every practical way possible. I am blessed to see this brand new church get started and I believe the Lord will bless it.

Light Baptist Church Building Delays

Malawi as a country has faced some serious weather challenges throughout the monsoon season of the early part of this year. Several years ago we built a building smack dab in the middle of the monsoon season. I figured we would be able to do it again, so we initiated the raising of funds, and paperwork with the officials in order to start building the new church building for Light Baptist Church. You all responded by giving over 75% of the needed funding within just a few weeks.

Unfortunately the weather has proven to be too much for us this time around. This is not a case of Prov 20:4/ Ecc 11:4 “he that observeth the wind…”. There has been mass flooding, washed out roads, washed out bridges, broken supply chains and a number of other weather related challenges that have prevented us from really cranking up the progress for this project. So far as we know, we have everything possible lined up in order to start and we expect to do so within the month of April. I can’t thank you enough for the finances which were directed towards this building and I look forward to sharing the progress once we are able to get underway.

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Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting

Some of you may remember the ministry which we started back in 2015 which is called “Handfuls Of Purpose Everlasting”. I don’t mention it alot in my letters because I could never organize it enough for it to solidify into a “real” organization. If the Lord ever gives me the finances and necessary personnel, I would love to see that come to pass. In the mean time while it is not a “big to do”, there are several kids who are in very difficult circumstances who all “eat of my table”. By the grace of God, I select them, sustain them, pay their school fees, uniforms costs, books, transportation, and many other things. I meet with them and their extended family as often as possible and mentor them from the scriptures. I have them memorize Bible verses pertaining to personal salvation, and many other subjects.

Mphatso Memoizing James 4:6

Pray For Him And His Family To Get Saved

New Enablement

Speaking of thankfulness, I am incredibly THANKFUL for the men and women in our Bible Believing Churches that simply act in faith, and put their hard earned money into the genuine needs of missionaries around the world. Such was the case with my transportation needs as of late. During the monsoon season, travel to the villages is extremely difficult. I cannot exactly leave my family without a vehicle when I go to the villages so I usually try to bum rides from one of the national pastors here. Usually this involves pushing a small Toyota hatchback through many Kilometers of knee deep mud, and hiring locals to help us “forge” the bad spots. (Sometimes out in the bush the same locals dig up the road in order to provide a job for themselves the next time a vehicle wants to get through)

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By halfway through the Monsoon season there was only one guy who would still say “yes” when I asked him to take me to the villages. I have spent plenty of time worried about the logistics of how to get stuff done without a proper vehicle that I could rely on.

When a ride is not available I am left in a situation where the only way I could plan my efforts is to walk out of my house with whatever I could carry in my backpack as I use a glorified method of hitchhiking. Usually I can just pay small amounts to various vehicles who are passing by on the way I needed to go. I go as far as they can take me, get out on the side of the road, wait/ walk until another vehicle passed by and eventually get to where I needed to go.


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This is obviously not ideal when it's raining, and of course it always puts my Bible and notes at risk of getting wet. Long story slightly shorter, after one particularly long day of traveling to a remote village in such a manner, I got on my knees and plainly asked the Lord if I could have a 4x4 Toyota Hilux. I mentioned to the Lord that He has already given me more than I deserve, and that, I know that He sees the difficulty that is involved with traveling this way. I asked a missionary friend of mine to pray with me on the subject. He really prayed about it with me, shortly after that he was contacted by an anonymous brother in Christ who expressed his desire to help a missionary need. I have no idea on the details of what was discussed or what all happened, all I know is that adequate money was sent within two weeks in order for me to purchase a reliable 4x4 Toyota Hilux! I have already put over 1500 miles on it in the short time I’ve had it! I praise, and thank the Lord, for the brother who did this. May the owner of the cattle on a thousand hills, the creator of heaven and earth, reward him many times over according to his faith. THANK YOU BROTHER!

Vehicle Put to Good Use

I drove that vehicle to a village church where I was invited to preach last week. I preached the gospel and afterwards the pastor called for an invitation to respond to the message. He did a fantastic job of allowing the Holy Spirit to do the work without clouding up the conviction with a bunch of humanistic emotional pressure. Four people came forward for salvation! It was a village church with no piano, no choir, and no coaxing. There was just a Holy Ghost of God sense of conviction and a deafening silence. In a day and age of EMOTIONALISM, I thought all odds were against anyone responding. I was led by the Lord to tell them each to pray in the best way they know how to receive the Lord by calling on him in faith. On their knees they did so one by one. My heart rejoiced and tears filled my eyes as I knew that a few more souls would not suffer the wrath of God and that these folks chose to submit to God's will for their salvation. What a blessing.

The Family

Thankfully we are all doing well. Our last born (Hope)recently got initiated into the Malaria club. It was her first time to get the deadly parasite.

Recently, a business man friend of mine here in town lost his fifteen year old daughter to the same strain. A six year old in our area succumbed to Malaria a few weeks ago as well. Both were otherwise perfectly healthy kids.

In our case, it was several days without sleep, lots of vomiting and all the usual stress of dealing with a potentially dying child which my poor wife has gone through so many times. It’s always worse the first time because each child reacts a bit differently. By now we know the signs for the rest of the family, so we can start administering the proper remedies early on. The Lord is merciful and she is fine now. As soon as there was a case in the house we implemented our normal anti-malarial precautions since it is a mosquito born sickness and there is a high likelihood of further issues.

Charity sleeps in the same room and, not surprisingly, took sick with it not long afterwards. We were able to handle it quickly and she responded well so she bounced back after only three days.

Otherwise most days around here have the kids busy with schoolwork, farm chores, poultry management classes, Taekwondo and boxing training from two hand to hand combat officers in the Malawi Defense Force.

Pray for Joseph to either GET saved or GET RIGHT. He says he is saved but he has no passion to serve the Lord. His Church background is nominal Roman Catholicism. His life is 100% devoted to martial arts. He is a VERY good young man and he is incredibly talented in the fighting arts. He has competed and won medals all over Africa and some in Korea. I need the Lord to open his heart.

Overall we are doing fine because of your prayers. Please don’t ever let go of your end of the rope.

David Robinson

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Greetings!

Dear Brother and Sisters in Christ,

Warm holiday greetings from the warm heart of Africa. We hope and trust you are doing well. We are continually reminded of your care for us and for the work you are enabling us to do. We thank the Lord for you all, and we pray the Lord's richest blessing as your reward. You will only know in glory what all has been accomplished for his names sake here in Malawi through your prayers and support.

We are all doing well and are upholden daily by his grace. We can truly say that though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Pastor Alex’ Church Building Project

I have a number of things to share with you so let me begin by praising the Lord for Light Baptist Church and Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe’ family and ministry. As those of you know who follow our prayer letters, Brother Alex got saved back in 2008 and I have been witness of the amazing grace of God in his life, family, and his ministry over the past several years.

In my last prayer letter I mentioned that we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for this church situated along the main road of Mzuzu. We have now started the building process for the church building! We are excited to get this building built and to have church services right along the main road! Having a proper building in a prime location will certainly be a game changer for this church. One of the biggest blessings to me was to see how the brothers and sisters from the other churches have responded to this need from within Malawi. I was blessed to receive several text messages and phone calls from folks here that expressed their desire to help get this building started. In one case, cash was brought to my house and I was told to let pastor Alex know that it was for his church but it is to be given anonymously. All that has been given thus far has been given by those who truly can not “afford” to give. Progress is certainly slow but work is being done in direct proportion to the funding that trickles in.

Church Property

I mention this here because the situation has become a bit more urgent in the past few weeks. We were all shocked to find that the usual meeting hall which they have been renting was suddenly housing an occupant as we showed up for Sunday morning services! Rental “agreements” are very non-binding here in Malawi and unfortunately for us, the owner of the building decided to erect a house on the property and change the use of the church building. So, without notice Light Baptist has no sure place to meet. Everyone is in good spirits considering the situation and that the monsoon rainy season is just around the corner. They are considering putting up a blue tarp building on the new property until funds become available for construction of a building but decisions are still up in the air. Your prayer for good decisions to be made is greatly appreciated. They need around $35,000 to get into the new building. We are helping as much as we possibly can and are encouraging anyone who may be able to give towards this need to do so as the Lord leads. I can give assurance that, although you have never gotten to meet Pastor Alex, his family or his ministry, they are indeed your faithful Bible Believing Independent Baptist Brothers and Sisters in Christ. I will be happy to pass along any finances that are given for this need and it will be an enormous blessing to this congregation.

Everything demarcated for “Alex Church Building” or “Light Baptist Building'' will go straight into this project. I realize that many of you are not in a financial position to be able to give, we do covet your prayers for this need. Through YOUR prayer, God can and will make the necessary arrangements for the funding of this building. Please mention it to the Lord.

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Open Doors in Chitipa

Through a Mzuzu Bible Institute student, Justin Kayange, the Lord has now opened doors for us to minister in the very furthest northern tip of Malawi. It is a place called Chitipa, and it is situated on a map, directly where Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia converge. Due to its location and history there are over thirty-six completely different languages spoken there. Fortunately, the language that I minister in, Chitumbuka, is still the most common trade language spoken there. For several years I have been making efforts in learning a second language here which I can now hear the majority of, I would appreciate your prayers for my ability to speak it. I think it would broaden our scope of influence if I could eventually preach/ teach in it as well.

The road to Chitipa is no easy one, I am traveling about a six hours drive north of where we live in Mzuzu every two weeks to teach a doctrinal course to around 25 pastors in the Chitipa area. Keep in mind that these “pastors” are not necessarily Independent Bible Believing Baptist. We offered this course to anyone and everyone who wanted to learn the Bible in the entire area. We printed posters, sent letters of invitation, and spread the invitation by word of mouth through the former institute student to the entire area.

It just so happened that the majority of those who registered to become students, happened to be several of the area’s spiritual leaders. This ministry endeavor has me teaching the local spiritual leaders of the area through an institute course focused on SOUND BIBLE DOCTRINE! Let’s just say that our classes can sometimes become very very “lively”! It is truly amazing to watch the word of our God do its work of convincing men of TRUTH. I told the participants at the beginning of the course that I would teach the truth as it stands in the book, and that if it differs from that which they believe, they are welcome to either change their beliefs, or dispute with me in front of all the participants provided things are done decently and in order and that the scriptures would stand as the final authority. The fact is that TRUE BIBLE DOCTRINE can not be refuted by pseudo-spiritual fakers. Ministering on the mission field is quite often standing toe to toe with those who absolutely DO NOT believe the truth. More times than not, it is a hostile environment which resembles the description given in Acts 17:17. This effort is intended to openly challenge the spiritual leaders of the area, and then simultaneously provide an opportunity for folks to choose to submit to the truth.

Acts 17:17 Therefore disputed he in the synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in the market daily with them that met with him.

Having started with forty-two men it didn't take long for some of them to realize that this “focus on truth“ wasn't their cup of tea. I had expected for some of the chaff to blow away as we opened the book, it didn't take long to go from over forty down to twenty-five. I do not only expect to lose students as true colors are shown but I also fully expect to get to know men in the area who want the truth. I have already seen some men who have the attitude of Apollos in Acts 18, who are so incredibly thankful for the TRUE Bible doctrine! I would like to work with Brother Kayange to open an Independent Baptist Church in Chitipa one day if the Lord permits, and if some of the other men desire to preach and teach the truth as it is in scripture, I will do as much as I can for them to help them establish Independent Baptist Churches as well as the Lord leads. Much is in the works already and it is quite possible that we may soon see the Lord open a church in this area through that institute student. Please pray for the Lord to guide this very potentially wonderful church plant situation and to help me in these classes as it really is a challenge for me.

Acts 18:26 And he began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.

Brother Chatonda’ New Evangelism Ministry

Chatonda Mwangonde from Charity Baptist Church has started an evangelistic ministry which is intended to be a nation wide effort. Chatonda has been mentioned in the prayer letters in the past and I appreciate your prayer for him. He was a young man who I had the opportunity to start working with in 2009. He got saved at a Bible study in 2009 and then jumped into the scriptures and became totally dedicated to the Lord.

Years ago he went to South Africa in search of work with nothing more than the shirt on his back. The Lord richly blessed his integrity and he is careful to give God all the glory for it. He now owns a small logistics company and has a few semi-trucks which carry goods from South Africa to Malawi and back. He is one of the best preachers you will ever have the opportunity to listen to. He is spot on doctrinally, and is absolutely “apt to teach”.

If I could “give him a calling” I would have him pastoring a church in no time. He is confident that he is not called to pastor but that he is definitely called to preach, teach, and win souls. His vision is to “mobilize” doctrinally sound people from the Independent Baptist Churches here to go on short missions trips to areas of Malawi where there are no gospel preaching churches.

It is really amazing to see the Lord at work in his life. Pray for his ministry to really encourage others to participate. For now they are using public transport but he would eventually like to get a 4x4 which will be able to get into areas which don’t have good transportation options. As a missionary, I would not hesitate for a moment to help him with the vehicle if I had the finances to do so. Pray the Lord will provide the right vehicle, at the right time, in the right way.

Visit From Brother Dave Darling With Campaigns For Christ!

Earlier this month we had the privilege of having brother Dave Darling from Campaigns for Christ, come to Malawi for a mission trip. The primary objective of the mission trip was to plan the logistics for a larger mission effort in August of 2022. Lord willing, Bro Darling will lead a team of around 20-25 folks from the USA over to Malawi to distribute 100,000 John and Romans Scriptures. Please pray for that effort as there will be plenty of spiritual opposition to such an endeavor. Find out more about the plan and how best to pray by following this link to his website.

While brother Darling was here, we invited everyone from the Independent Baptist churches around Mzuzu to come for a special preaching meeting. It was really a blessing. After Brother Darling preached the morning services we had dinner on the grounds followed by popcorn preaching and some volleyball matches in the afternoon. There were a few hundred people there and the fellowship has never been sweeter. I praise the Lord for what he did to encourage our hearts on that day.

Young Preacher Stepping Into Ministry!

Brother Kumwenda is a 26 year old young man here who has been around since 2015 or so. He got saved after a Bible study at the mission in 2016 and since then he has grown quite a bit. Before brother Resmondo went to open the Harvest Baptist Church in Zomba (ten hours drive from Mzuzu) Kumwenda had the opportunity to work with him doing some translation work as well as helping in the ministry in various ways. He certainly learned a lot and it is clear that the Lord used that time to teach him many invaluable lessons. He is definitely called to preach, mentally he is sharp, and personality wise he is a natural leader. He strongly desires to start Living Word Baptist Church. I have no doubts as to his calling to pastor.

I am confident that starting a Church is indeed within the Lords will, my concern is timing. I am not sure that it is the right time for him to step into that position. For now, he is helping pastor Banda as associate pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Lusangazi, as well as teaching Bible study classes at the Mzuzu Bible Institute. He is helping me in countless ministry tasks on a daily basis, so for now, I am encouraging him to wait. While for now we are waiting, I am also chomping at the bits to help him get out there and get a church started. Pray for me to be sensitive to the Lord concerning timing and to give good counsel. I do not want to hinder anything by either rushing him into the ministry, or by delaying what the Lord would have him to do. Prayer is needed.

More Precious Souls Saved!

Every time a person get saved, the precious news trickles through our ranks quite naturally, just for the sake of encouragement, and joining the choirs of heaven in praise that another soul has been won! In the last week or two, off the top of my head, I can remember that we had seven saved through public preaching, three were saved on the streets through visitation, one was saved through a gospel tract, one was saved at our daily Bible study. Many many more of course heard the gospel preached. There very well may be more that I haven’t heard of yet. Please continue to pray for the lost here in Malawi.

Thank You All!

Let me close by thanking you all for enabling this work to be done. Our family is the first (that we know of) Independent Baptist Missionaries to ever work in this northern area of Malawi. As of now we are the only ones who are currently working north of the Capitol. It is no small privilege to be sent by Bible Believing Independent Baptist brothers and sisters to labor in the Lord’s harvest.


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November/December 2021

Dear Brother and Sisters in Christ, 

Warm holiday greetings from the warm heart of Africa. We hope and trust you are doing well. We are continually reminded of your care for us and for the work you are enabling us to do. We thank the Lord for you all, and we pray the Lord's richest blessing as your reward. 
We are all doing well and are upholden daily by his grace. We can truly say that though the outward man perish the inward man is renewed day by day. 
I have a number of things to share with you so let me begin by praising the Lord for Light Baptist Church and Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe’ family and ministry. As those of you know who follow our prayer letters, Brother Alex got saved back in 2008 and I have been witness of the amazing grace of God in his life, family, and his ministry over the past several years. 
In my last prayer letter I mentioned that we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for this church and I want to mention here that we have started the building process for a $35,000 church building. One of the biggest blessings to me was to see how the brothers from the other churches have responded to their need from within Malawi. I was blessed to receive several text messages and phone calls from folks here that expressed their desire to help get this building started. In one case cash was brought to my house and I was told to let pastor Alex know that it was for his church but it is to be given anonymously. All that has been given thus far has been given by those who truly can not “afford” to give. Unfortunately circumstances like this here in Malawi are riddled with envy and jealousy. I am blessed to say that it has been quite the opposite from the churches here in Mzuzu. Although I’m sure you may not be able to fully appreciate what a miracle is taking place, I assure you that  these are things that never happen here in Malawi. I praise the Lord for it. Thus far, around $1,500 has come in for this project and we are encouraging everyone from the states who would like to pitch in to go ahead and do so as soon as possible. 
Everything demarcated for “Alex Church Building” or “Light Baptist Building'' will go straight into this project. I realize that many are not in a financial position to be able to give, we do covet your prayers for this need. Through YOUR prayer, God can and will make the necessary arrangements for this building. Please mention it to the Lord. 
    Through a former Mzuzu Bible Institute student the Lord has now opened doors for us to open a ministry in the very furthest northern tip of Malawi. I am traveling about six hours drive north of where we live every two weeks to teach a doctrinal course to around forty “pastors” in the Chitipa area. Keep in mind that these “pastors” are not Independent Baptist by any stretch of the imagination. Some of them are not even saved according to their own testimonies. We offered this course to anyone and everyone who wanted to learn the Bible in the entire area. We printed posters, sent letters of invitation, and spread the word by word of mouth to the entire area. This endeavour has me teaching a bunch of Pentecostal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, etc Pastors through a course focused on SOUND BIBLE DOCTRINE! Let’s just say that our classes are “lively”. It is truly amazing to watch the word of our God do its work of convincing men of TRUTH. I told them at the beginning of the course that I would teach the truth, and that if it differs from that which they believe, they are welcome to either change their beliefs, or disagree and dispute with me in front of all the participants provided things are done decently and in order. The fact is that TRUE BIBLE DOCTRINE can not be refuted by pseudo-spiritual fakes. Teaching on the mission field is quite often standing toe to toe with those who absolutely DO NOT believe the truth. More times than not, it is a hostile environment which resembles the description given in Acts 17:17. This ministry effort is intended to challenge the openly spiritual leaders of the area, and then provide an opportunity for folks to choose to submit to the truth. Obviously I expect people to leave the class along the way but I also expect to get to know men in the area who want the truth. I would like to work with Brother Kayange to open an Independent Baptist Church in Chitipa one day if the Lord permits. Please pray for the Lord to help me in these classes as it really is a challenge for me. 
    Chatonda Mwangonde from Charity Baptist Church has started an evangelistic ministry which is intended to be a nation wide effort. Chatonda has been mentioned in the prayer letters in the past and I appreciate your prayer for him. He was a young man who I had the opportunity to start working with in 2009. He got saved at a Bible study in 2009 and then jumped into the scriptures and became totally dedicated to the Lord. Years ago he went to South Africa in search of work with nothing more than the shirt on his back. The Lord richly blessed his integrity and he is careful to give God all the glory for it. He now owns a logistics company and has a few semi-trucks which carry goods from South Africa to Malawi and back. He is one of the best preachers you will ever have the opportunity to listen to. He is spot on doctrinally and is absolutely “apt to teach”. His vision is to “mobilize” doctrinally sound people from the churches here to go on short missions trips to areas of Malawi where there are no gospel preaching churches. It is really amazing to see the Lord at work in his life. Pray for his ministry to really encourage others to participate. For now they are using public transport but he would eventually like to get a 4x4 which will be able to get into areas which don’t have good transportation options. As a missionary, I would not hesitate for a moment to help him with the vehicle if I had the finances to do so. Pray the Lord will provide the right vehicle, at the right time, in the right way. 
    Earlier this month we had the privilege of having brother Dave Darling from Campaigns for Christ, come to Malawi for a mission trip. The primary objective of the mission trip was to plan the logistics for a larger mission effort in August of 2022. Lord willing, Bro Darling will lead a team of around 20-25 folks from the USA over to Malawi to distribute 100,000 John and Romans Scriptures. Please pray for that effort as there will be plenty of spiritual opposition to such an endeavor. 
    While brother Darling was here, we invited everyone from the Independent Baptist churches around Mzuzu to come for a special preaching meeting. It was really a blessing. After Brother Darling preached the morning services we had dinner on the grounds followed by popcorn preaching and some volleyball matches in the afternoon. There were a few hundred people there and the fellowship has never been sweeter. I praise the Lord for what he did to encourage our hearts on that day. 
    Brother Kumwenda is a 26 year old young man here who has been around since 2015 or so. He got saved after a bible study at the mission back then and since then he has grown quite a bit. Before brother Resmondo went to open the Harvest Baptist Church in Zomba (ten hours drive from Mzuzu) Kumwenda had the opportunity to work with him doing some translation work as well as helping in the ministry in various ways. He certainly learned a lot and it is clear that the Lord used that time to teach him many invaluable lessons. He is definitely called to preach and personality wise he is a natural leader, and mentally he is sharp. He strongly desires to start a church and I have no doubts as to his calling to pastor. My concern is timing. I am not sure that it is the right time for him to step into that position. For now, he is helping pastor Banda as associate pastor of Faith Baptist Church in Lusangazi, as well as teaching Bible classes daily at the Mzuzu Bible Institute. I am encouraging him to wait, and yet I am also chomping at the bits to see him get out there and get a ministry started. Pray for me to give good counsel, as I do not want to hinder anything by either rushing him into the ministry, or by delaying what the Lord would have him to do. 

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Dear Faithful Friends and Supporters,
As many of you know we have made it safely and soundly back to Malawi. Challenges with flight patterns, luggage handling, and jet lag were certainly felt but all in all our travels were blessed.

After one of the busiest times of our existence (furlough), it is good to be back in a place where I can distribute an average of over 450+ gospel tracts per hour! It has been amazing to once again experience ministering to a people who are generally comfortable with the idea that God, indeed exists. In my experience, no matter how far off someone's view of God or deity is, it is almost always more fruitful to deal with someone who at the very least, does acknowledge God as the creator. It is hard to see how far things have drifted in our own country, and to understand the impact that is had by the never ending narrative of atheistic evolution, until you step back out of the first world setting, and speak to common folks about the subject of God. I can think of countless incidents over the past year and a half in the USA, where just the very mention of the subject of the Bible, or Jesus, or church was unfortunately enough to ruin someone’s day! Through these experiences I developed a great admiration for soul winners and personal workers who are still called to win souls in the hard soil of the USA. I Praise the Lord for you and the work that you are doing! Praise the Lord for the faithful pastors who are still in their pulpits, the men and women who are still on the firing line and for the souls still being saved! I truly believe that God calls us, and prepares each of us for the field he desires to use us in.

Getting re-established here in Malawi has been filled with mixed emotions and reality checks. Without a doubt it has made the biggest impact on the older kids. The little ones simply feel that all is well and normal. Jennie and I are well aware of our decisions of faith and we are trusting that the Lord has his purpose in all the ways he directs our footsteps. Joshua and Bekah however, are fifteen and thirteen respectively, and they have faced some very real trials of their faith. It has always been our prayer that our children would neither become bitter at God through their experience on the mission field, nor would they become the typical missionary kid that can’t seem to function later on in normal life. It is our desire to equip them to live by faith wherever God may call them to serve. Thanks be to God who has given them the victory in this transition, they have both handled the transitions like champs! They are truly doing better than I ever would have when I was their age and for that I am grateful. I would ask you to consider their age and all that the enemy throws at a young person at this time of life, and I would ask you to pray that God would continue to move in their hearts to comfort, guide, teach, and keep them. Missionary kids truly face challenges and trials that the rest of us can only observe as bystanders. I realize that it's not just my children who have been called away from “normal life” through the calling of their parents. I believe we would do well to pray for all of the missionaries teens out there wherever they are serving.

I do still strongly believe that it is always best to be wherever God tells you to be and, for us, there is no doubt about where the Lord has us serving for now. Since our arrival here, we have seen amazing doors of ministry opening left and right. The doors of ministry opportunities such as preaching in the churches , door to door visitation, market tracking, public preaching, village to village outreach, and small group discipleship have absolutely FLOWN OPEN. Mzuzu Bible Institute has restarted & I have been preaching or teaching seven days a week. Believe it or not, it has never been easier! The Lord is pouring out his messages and is sustaining the strength!

Last Sunday I preached in Manyamura, a village about three hours from here by motorcycle. I street preached there a few weeks ago, and then some people who happened to be there at the time, subsequently sent an invitation for me to come “formally” and preach in their village. I preached for over two hours to around three hundred people who had gathered to hear. From there I drove my motorcycle from village to village for the next eight hours, preaching publicly in eight different villages! I distributed hundreds of tracts in these places wherever I stopped and returned home exhausted after riding over a hundred miles in sand. Monday morning I didn't miss a beat as I woke up ready to face the building projects which are currently underway at the Lusangazi Mission Station. For those of you who are aware of my health condition, just know that I am praising the Lord every day that I am able to function. I am following the recommended terrible exercises given to me by the physiotherapist and am thankful to be upright!

Our current building project is a security wall which will enclose our hands on technical skills training center. (Carpentry, Electrical, Solar, Etc. ) We are soon to start our first class through a Malawi government certified course in our soon to open “Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center”. This will be a very “Galatians 6:10'' type of ministry. In this particular aspect of the ministry, I will oversee trainers who will teach through the curriculums which are provided by government for hands on skills training. My objective will be bringing a heavy emphasis on scripture, personal salvation, and personal discipleship throughout the course. I am really looking forward to how this will provide me “side-by-side” time with the students. There is a mix of students in this first class between church members, ministry leaders of the various congregations, and completely lost people. Pray for us to have many opportunities to witness to the unsaved as well as to strengthen the hands of the believers. These skills, if learned and applied, could be a huge help to the families of the churches, as well as to the ministries of the churches.

I would also like to ask for prayer for Mr. James Phiri. After preaching in a church of a pastor I taught several years ago, Mr. James came forward and kneeled in front of the church and prayed one of the most sincere prayers of calling on the Lord I have ever heard. After praying, he testified to the over three hundred people in attendance to his history of being born and raised a Muslim and having “this day, found the truth of salvation which I have been searching for all these years”! What a blessing it is to see another soul brought to the saving knowledge of Christ even in this late hour of the church! I recently received a message that Mr. Phiri has asked me to dedicate some time for further teaching. Please pray for his growth. The pastor NOT mentioned by name here is a man who was indeed called and trained in our ministry several years ago. Unfortunately however, his faith wavered when it came to opening his ministry. Instead of trusting the Lord to provide a way, he opted to minister under the “umbrella“ of a large established denominational organization, which could provide him the “network of support” which he thought was so necessary. I still go and preach there when he asks me to, but I do not consider him one of our churches nor a real part of our ministry. I would have much rather seen him pastoring one of our churches, but the door of our ministry is always open. Open to come in and open to leave . I do not try to “control“ peoples decisions. At least he is doing something for the Lord!

Preaching in all these different churches and villages makes me more appreciative of the churches which the Lord has used us to start from scratch. Since our return I have had the opportunity to rotate through the Bible Believing, Independent Baptist, KJV Churches which God has raised up here in the north of Malawi. I have a genuine appreciation and love for these churches and for the pastors who are standing faithfully in the doctrine which they were taught. Coming back and seeing these men who are faithfully preaching and teaching in their pulpits has been such a reward. In the short time remaining before the Lord comes I want to do all I can do to help these pastors with whatever they need in the ministry. Pastor Daniel Nyirenda just finished discipleship courses with another small group of five people. They decided to have a small “graduation ceremony“ to honor their efforts and they invited me to attend the ceremony and then preach to them. It was really a blessing to see another five people who had been taught through the doctrinal course WITHOUT ME!!!


By God's grace we were able to purchase a prime piece of property for Light Baptist Church directly on the main highway that goes through Mzuzu! It is amazing to have the opportunity to purchase such a property. As a direct result of your faithfulness and support we were able to take action when the property became available. In the past this church had been renting a community building tucked away in the village. Now they are excited to build the church where no one in town can miss it! I am very excited to help them develop the property and get a church building built. By God’s grace, and as you enable us, we will help as much as possible. What a blessing to see a Bible Believing Baptist Church get prime Real Estate!!!

We have so many praises in our short time of being back on the field that it is hard to know where to start and stop this letter. Let me close by thanking all of you once again who made this transition back onto the field possible. You really cannot imagine how our financial needs were met in such an exact way. We were truly able to come back to the field and step right into ministry again. We returned to Malawi with no financial debt, and we were able to purchase a very adequate vehicle upon our arrival. We thank the Lord for your generosity. By God’s grace, we have been serving in full-time mission work since 2006, it is humbling to see the Lord continue to pave the way one step at a time.

Our Vehicle…THANK YOU!!

(Special Thanks to Open Door Baptist Church for enabling us to purchase this vehicle!)

Lusangazi Mission Station

So many projects DONE! GOD IS USING YOU to help us reach souls with these facilities!

Security Wall for the Technical Training Center

Lusangazi Mission Technical Training Center

Kids Enjoying the Simple Things in Life!

Joshua & I at the top of Njewe Mountain

Joshua’s Mountain Top Experience!

Looking due west from where we were, there is not another Bible Believing, IBC, Gospel Preaching Church for HUNDREDS if not a THOUSAND miles… HELP US CHANGE THAT!

Preaching the Gospel to the Mountain Guides.

I preached to these guys for a long time in their language… I can never thank you all enough for supporting us through the long process of learning the Chitumbuka language. I am so thankful to be able to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the most rural herdsman or farmer, knowing that he can hear the Good News in his native tongue!

Mzuzu Bible Institute Classes

I am teaching all classes now in Chitumbuka. The teaching and preaching of GODS “W-O-R-D-S” has the power to mobilize the “weak“ and “base“ people of this world to confound the wise! Pray for Mzuzu Bible Institute!

C.B.C. Discipleship Group

Preaching From Village to Village

This would be a typical “location“ which is sort of an unofficial housing settlement village which is close to a town.

Typical Village Setting

This is is a normal village house setting! Be sure to put “Preaching from village to village in Malawi” on your bucket list! SEE HOW TO JOIN US THIS YEAR!!

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March 2021 Prayer Letter 


Ecclesiastes 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Greetings and Blessings from the Robinsons,
To everything in life and ministry there truly is a time and season. In many cases we may know what the Lord wants us to do, but it is always a trial of faith to wait for his time to do it. We have been in the States now for longer than we had originally expected, and to us it has seemed TOO LONG! We have trusted the Lord in the matter all along and we have continually presented ourselves before the Lord to seek his face in what he is doing in our ministry and lives.
During our time in the States we have served the Lord with all our hearts as we would in any other physical location; aside from strengthening the hands of the local churches around the USA, we have been able to financially and prayerfully support many efforts in Malawi through the ministries that have been established over the years. Although we have been doing as much as possible using internet communications and phone calls, I have hesitated to write to the churches frequently simply due to the fact that we have not been on the ground doing the work which we have always done in person.
I am more thankful now than ever before that the Lord raised up good ministers of the gospel in Malawi who have carried on so faithfully in our physical absence. This period of waiting has proven to me that they truly are autonomous, self governing, and being used by God for the ministry of the word! Please keep them in your prayers. Alex, Daniel, Marc Anthony, Nchachi, Chatonda, Goli, Miya, are amongst those who I pray for on a daily basis. The enemy greatly desires to weaken their hands, and their faith, but your prayers WILL strengthen and help them and I covet even just one earnest prayer on their behalf. 2 Corinthians 1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer...
As I mentioned before, timing is everything. There is indeed a time to wait and when the Lord says “Go” there is a time to take action! After a long season of waiting has passed, we are thrilled to let everyone know that the time for us to return to the field HAS
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As many of you know, my older brother John is the Pastor of Bible Believers Baptist Church in Hillsboro, OR. After knowing of our intention to return to the field for quite some time, and having prayed for us in the matter, he called and more or less asked me “what the hold up is”. I explained the financial restraints that were keeping us from being able to purchase tickets and make other necessary arrangements to return to the field. He asked me if my supporters know of our needs. My response was that the Lord knew and that I hesitate to mention our financial needs in our prayer letters because mission work is littered with “moochinaries” who always “need more money”. After giving me sound counsel on the matter, in his zeal for the Lord, he almost immediately started an online fundraising campaign, organized through their local church, mentioning that it would allow the saints to “carry us forward” on our journey “after a godly sort”, “lacking nothing”. We have been blown away to see the Lord’s people step up to help us get back to the field in downright quick order! I told Jennie that we must have been a bigger pain in the backside than we realized because you all are scrambling at the chance to get us out of here! All kidding aside, I believe that most of our supporters know and understand, as we do, that the time is short to work before the Lord comes and that the work must be done while opportunity remains. Within 24hrs we received enough one time support to be able to purchase tickets, and to pull out all the stops to making arrangements to head over to Malawi.
“Excited”, does not even begin to describe how we feel and “thankful” almost seems to be an understatement. Your generosity and care for lost souls around the world makes me thankful to be your missionary and to fulfill my part in your ministry in Malawi. May the Lord richly bless all who are financially making our soon return possible. May he also equally bless those many of you, who I have met over the years, who rejoice with us in the Lord's provision, but don't have the means to give towards this endeavour. I hope you know that we deeply appreciate your prayers for our family and the ministry which the Lord would have us fulfill.
As if this was not hard enough to believe, we also received a call from one of our supporting church pastors. He informed me that the Lord had given his church some missions funding, and that God put it on his heart to PURCHASE A VEHICLE for us when we get back to the field! I am blown away by what GOD is doing! Most of the time I am not the smartest guy in the room, but even I can see that GOD’s time has come!
After working, believing, and acting as though we had things set in order to go, God has moved and so now we are going. As you know, finances are only a necessary tool to help enable the work of the ministry. The unseen enemies that seek to hinder us from boldly sowing the seed, as we ought and which seek to stop the eyes and ears of the lost masses from the “hearing of the word” must equally be moved out of the way. We are no more able to do that by ourselves than we were able to provide the funds for ourselves. So we go knowing that the spiritual condition of the world-wide atmosphere has changed forever, and that it is more opposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ than ever before. We go with a deeper sense than ever before of our need for his divine protection and the necessity for God to move in the ministries which he will fulfill by our hand. Please pray for us and, never hesitate to send me specific needs that I can pray for you as well.
Psalms 27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. 



​January 2021

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Dear Brethren, 

 

I hope and trust this letter finds you well and that you are faithfully abiding in your place of service. We are doing well thanks to the grace of God and are thankful for your prayers for our ministry and family. 

As many of you know, I have struggled with chronic health issues for quite a while now. I appreciate your prayers for me as it has had such an instrumental influence in our lives over the past few years. It truly has been a time of hard trials and it is certainly not something that any of us would have chosen to involve in my life. That being said, I believe God is not only aware of this trial of affliction in my life but that he is also using it for my good and for the good of his work. 

Pain is not something that can be avoided in life. Fortunately, many people are not called upon to deal with it as a chronic issue or until their elderly years. One way or another I know that we all have to deal with living in dying bodies. (for now Phil 3:21) I believe that living this way for a while now has had an effect on my outlook in life and my way of thinking. It has caused me to further perceive my own frailty (Psalms 39:4) and vulnerability on the grand scheme of things. 

Thankfully, I continue to improve physically and I am learning how to identify what I CAN do and what I CAN NOT do. Furthermore, I am focussing my thoughts on appreciating some of the things that have happened as a direct result of the physical ailments which have become such an unwelcome part of my life. 

Several months ago, after “trying” just about everything under the sun to find a remedy, I finally reached the point of realizing that I could not keep “putting off” my back issues, and decided to invest the time and finances required to make some headway on it. The main issue revolved around the fact that, to do any sort of medical procedure, you have to go through the rigamarole of the medical processes which requires you have to stay in one place for a while. 

“Staying put”, especially while I was not on my field, did not mesh well with our ministry priorities at the time, but looking back on the past “chapter” of our ministry shows me that the Lord had a purpose in it all. Once I finally made the decision to find a physician and “stay put” for a while, the Lord brought a ministry situation across our path which I will forever be grateful for. 

In the same area where there was a highly recommended doctor in southern Oregon, we were also made aware of a church that, “needed help”. After considerable prayer, council, and scriptural confirmation, we opted to rent a house in that area and start the process of my back procedures while serving this church that we were asked to help. 

Once we were moved into the area, we took the leadership role in the church there with a fragmented handful of discombobulated people. The situation entailed a dead southern baptist church, around 400$ in the bank, a horrific church constitution, a pastor who had just given a two week notice, and a handful of people of whom more than half of them COULD NOT give me ANY kind of an actual testimony of their own personal salvation. In layman's terms it was a “soup sandwich”! Like many of you, I would have tucked tail and ran as far in the other direction as I could had it not been for the undeniable confirmation the Lord had given for his will there. 

Due to the particulars of the situation, the Lord led me to depend heavily on the council of our sending church pastor as well as the local church pastors of Bible Believing Churches who serve in the Northwest. 

Pastors in the Northwest of the USA generally see the incredible deficit of Bible Believing Churches in that area of the country as “an excuse” to support ANY Bible Believing effort being made in hopes of seeing an additional church come to be in the Northwest. This was especially true of the case in Grants Pass Oregon. Several pastors in the Northwest took it upon themselves to pray, call, write, and generally care about this work. Some of them came to preach at the church there and were a GREAT source of encouragement! The guidance and experience of these pastors who have worked in the area for years was invaluable. 

There was really nothing to do with that “soup sandwich” other than to pull it out of the convention, rebuild the constitution, get out and knock doors, preach on the streets, restart with a new congregation, then hand it over to a Bible Believing Pastor. The “mission” had become clear. As the medical procedures went on, so did the Lord's work! It was with a GREAT deal of adversity, endurance, and God's good GRACE that Dayspring Baptist Church was started as a Bible Believing Church. 

Although the mission was clear, the fact still remained that I DID NOT KNOW who was eventually supposed to come and take the long term pastoral ministry of this church. All we could do was to PREACH, TEACH, WIN SOULS, PRAY, and DISCIPLE anyone and everyone who showed any interest in it at all. Some folks got saved and baptized. A few availed themselves of regular discipleship, and overall the Lord put his hand over the work. 

The word was put out that the church was looking for a pastor and we had some very good men come to consider the pastorate. The first few men did not get any real confirmation or leading from God to actually take the church. By God’s grace, brother Gus Richardson and his wife Victoria came to consider the work in March of this year. The Lord moved in Brother Gus’s heart and gave him scriptural confirmation. Brother Gus was voted in as pastor in May of 2020! Additionally, the Trevor Glynn family (a family who was saved and discipled in the church in Portland) followed the Lord's leading to be sent out from the church which my brother John pastors, to go and help pastor Gus in the Lord's work in Grants Pass.

In ten months of “staying put” there, by God’s grace, the Lord was able to use us to take the leadership of a soup sandwich baptist church, constitutionally replace the constitution and bylaws, formally disassociate the church with previous affiliations, establish a spirit and attitude of reverence for the KING JAMES BIBLE, teach through a few books of the Bible, and hand over the church!  https://dayspringbaptistgp.com/

To provide clarity as to our intentions of being there, we made sure to never take any funds or support from the church itself even as the Lord began to bring in miraculous provision. The Lord provided for our needs through your faithful support and that allowed us to leave the church in a good situation for the future. Dayspring Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Richardson has now taken us on for monthly support as well as a few other Bible Believing Missionaries. Please pray for Pastor Gus as he has his hands full and has a great responsibility. The Orthopedic Dr. in Oregon has transferred us to a Dr. in Tennessee where we are finishing procedures and awaiting the re-opening of flights into Malawi.
 

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July 2020 Prayer Letter

Dear Brethren, 

I hope and trust this letter finds you well and that you are faithfully abiding in your place of service. We are doing well thanks to the grace of God and are thankful for your prayers for our ministry and family. 
    As many of you know, I have struggled with chronic health issues for quite a while now. I appreciate your prayers for me as it has had such an instrumental influence in our lives over the past few years. It truly has been a time of hard trials and it is certainly not something that any of us would have chosen to involve in my life. That being said, I believe God is not only aware of this trial of affliction in my life but that he is also using it for my good and for the good of his work. 
    Pain is not something that can be avoided in life. Thankfully, many people are not called upon to deal with it as a chronic issue or until their elderly years. One way or another I know that we all have to deal with living in dying bodies. (for now Phil 3:21) I believe that living this way for a while now has had an effect on my outlook in life and my way of thinking. It has caused me to further perceive my own frailty (Psalms 39:4) and vulnerability on the grand scheme of things. 
    Thankfully, I continue to improve physically and I am learning how to identify what I CAN do and what I CAN NOT do. Furthermore, I am focussing my thoughts on appreciating some of the things that have happened as a direct result of the physical ailments which have become such an unwelcome part of my life. 
    Several months ago, after “trying” just about everything under the sun to find a remedy, I finally reached the point of realizing that I could not keep “putting off” my back issues, and decided to invest the time and finances required to make some headway on it. The main issue revolved around the fact that, to do any sort of medical procedure, you have to go through the rigamarole of the medical processes which requires you have to stay in one place for a while. 
“Staying put”, especially while I was not on my field, did not mesh well with our ministry priorities at the time, but looking back on the past “chapter” of our ministry shows me that the Lord had a purpose in it all. Once I finally made the decision to find a physician and “stay put” for a while, the Lord brought a ministry situation across our path which I will forever be grateful for. 
In the same area where there was a highly recommended doctor in southern Oregon, we were also made aware of a church that, “needed help”. After considerable prayer, council, and scriptural confirmation, we opted to rent a house in that area and start the process of my back procedures while serving this church that we were asked to help. 
Once we were moved into the area, we took the leadership role in the church there with a fragmented handful of discombobulated people. The situation entailed a dead southern baptist church, around 400$ in the bank, a horrific church constitution, a pastor who had just given a two week notice, and a handful of people of whom more than half of them COULD NOT give me ANY kind of an actual testimony of their own personal salvation. In layman's terms it was a “soup sandwich”! Like many of you, I would have tucked tail and ran as far in the other direction as I could had it not been for the undeniable confirmation the Lord had given for his will there. 
Due to the particulars of the situation, the Lord led me to depend heavily on the council of our sending church pastor as well as the local church pastors of Bible Believing Churches who serve in the Northwest. 
Pastors in the Northwest of the USA generally see the incredible deficit of Bible Believing Churches in that area of the country as “an excuse” to support ANY Bible Believing effort being made in hopes of seeing an additional church come to be in the Northwest. This was especially true of the case in Grants Pass Oregon. Several pastors in the Northwest took it upon themselves to pray, call, write, and generally care about this work. Some of them came to preach at the church there and were a GREAT source of encouragement! The guidance and experience of these pastors who have worked in the area for years was invaluable.
There was really nothing to do with that “soup sandwich” other than to pull it out of the convention, rebuild the constitution, get out and knock doors, preach on the streets, restart with a new congregation, then hand it over to a Bible Believing Pastor. The “mission” had become clear. As the medical procedures went on, so did the Lord's work! It was with a GREAT deal of adversity, endurance, and God's good GRACE that Dayspring Baptist Church was started as a Bible Believing Church. 
Although the mission was clear, the fact still remained that I DID NOT KNOW who was eventually supposed to come and take the long term pastoral ministry of this church. All we could do was to PREACH, TEACH, WIN SOULS, PRAY, and DISCIPLE anyone and everyone who showed any interest in it at all. Some folks got saved and baptized. A few availed themselves of regular discipleship, and overall the Lord put his hand over the work. 
The word was put out that the church was looking for a pastor and we had some very wonderful men come to consider the pastorate. The first few men did not get any real confirmation or leading from God to actually take the church. By God’s grace, brother Gus Richardson and his wife Victoria came to consider the work in March of this year. The Lord moved in Brother Gus’s heart and gave him scriptural confirmation. Brother Gus was voted in as pastor in May of 2020. Additionally, the Glynn family (a family who was saved and discipled in the church in Portland) followed the Lord's leading to be sent out from the church which my brother John pastors, to go and help pastor Gus in the Lord's work in Grants Pass.
In ten months of “staying put” there, by God’s grace, the Lord was able to use us to take the leadership of a soup sandwich baptist church, constitutionally replace the constitution and bylaws, formally disassociate the church with previous affiliations, establish a spirit and attitude of reverence for the KING JAMES BIBLE, teach through a few books of the Bible, and hand over the church! https://dayspringbaptistgp.com/ 
To provide clarity as to our intentions of being there, we made sure to never take any funds or support from the church itself even as the Lord began to bring in miraculous provision. The Lord provided for our needs through your faithful support and that allowed us to leave the church in a good situation for the future. Dayspring Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Richardson has now taken us on for monthly support as well as a few other Bible Believing Missionaries. Please pray for Pastor Gus as he has his hands full and has a great responsibility. The Orthopedic Dr. in Oregon has transferred us to a Dr. in Tennessee where we are finishing procedures and awaiting the re-opening of flights into Malawi.We will be basing out of East Tn visiting churches while we are waiting. God Bless You!


March 2020 Prayer Letter 


Greetings,

Proverbs 27:1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.


Let me start by saying thank you to the many who prayed for us over the past several weeks, especially concerning the dysfunctional condition of my lower back. There is no doubt that the past few months, for us, have been a bit of a valley, but praise the Lord for his manifold mercies! Before, during, and after my first round of back procedures, I have had the blessing of receiving text messages, cards, emails, and phone calls from brothers and sisters who have been praying for healing in my lower back. These notes of encouragement have meant a great deal to me and the Lord has used them to really bless me at times when I really needed the extra encouragement. I am thankful to report that the Lord is indeed answering your prayers and that my back is recovering very very well! Thank you to all who asked the Lord for mercies on my behalf. I feel blessed to see God‘s healing hand at work and I have no doubt that it is because of your prayers. Thank you to each who prayed. The Doctor has me needing a total of four more procedures (none as intensive as that first one) so please pray for me to have wisdom on which ones to do, or not do, as we are trying to get back to the field as soon as it becomes possible.
Throughout the course of my recent back procedures I have endeavoured to maintain an attitude of faith, trusting that the Lord knows exactly what is happening, and that he has a perfect purpose in all of it. When I find my mind wandering down the paths of doubt or fear I have made repentance of such thoughts and feelings as a regular course of action.
I have been in regular contact with the folks in Malawi where political marches, mass public demonstrations, and even rioting have become more “normal” than at any time in the history of the nation. This political strife has an underlying “tribal factor” to it which is a major “no no” to publicly acknowledge. It is a long time fact that the the Tumbuka people have been outnumbered by the Chewa people since the creation of the political boundaries that were implemented during the colonial times. Whether this is the source of the conflict, or whether it is just an additional agitation to major political rivals, the fact of civil unrest continues. 
As challenging as the civil unrest in Malawi has been, of late, it has taken a back seat to the pandemonium created by the world wide reaction to the current health concerns. Undoubtedly, Malawi must be amongst the least prepared nations for such challenges. Nationwide lock down has been nearly impossible to implement since most people live from day to day and generally depend on that day's work for that day's food. So far our churches are still having services, but everything is uncertain and subject to change from day to day. 

1 Thessalonians 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.
I was particularly blessed over the past few days to receive text messages from some of the men in Malawi. Seeing their response to the spiritual, political, and financial shifts that are taking place in response to the virus has reaffirmed in my heart that the men that are leading the ministries there are able to discern the imminent return of Jesus Christ. I will pass this one along to you all because it reflects a great attitude for ANY christian ANYWHERE to maintain in these times. In my conversation with him about his thoughts on this whole situation, Mac Anthony Mwandirire (Evangelist) said, ;

“Lets minister like we are about to be raptured tomorrow”

“even in this disease we can win some to Christ”

“we have worked a lot...I believe Jesus is near with my rewards in hand!”. 

Hearing the absence of fear in his attitude, the anticipation for our blessed hope, and seeing his confidence at Christ’ soon coming was a great encouragement to me.
  We are continuing to make plans for my remaining health procedures and our pending departure back to the field. Planning out logistics right now is very challenging and we would appreciate your prayers on our behalf for these things. Furthermore, please be prayerful for the hundreds of missionaries who are strewn throughout the world and are experiencing lockdowns and restrictions in foreign lands. Please be in diligent prayer for divine wisdom, and clarity for each individual missionary concerning what God wants them to do in their particular circumstances. Also be in prayer for the Bible Believing pastors and churches all over the USA, many pastors are finding themselves limited and challenged as they navigate how to best feed the flock that God has given them oversight of. 
 Please pray for Josh, Barron, & Cameil, each of these are folks around the town we are based out of right now and are recently saved but really need grace to surrender to the Lord’s leading in their lives. 



November/ December Prayer Letter 2019
Greetings to All, 

I hope and trust that you are all well. The past several weeks have involved everything from church building and roof repairs, to brand new open doors in jail ministry. I am excited and  blessed with ongoing reports from the pastors, and christian workers in Malawi. I am including some of the text messages that I have received recently in hopes that they will be as much of a blessing to you as they have been to me. It is really a privilege to watch these men continue to grow and to see them ministering in the faith that only God could build into them through His words. Here are a few snippets from my regular communications with my guys in Malawi.  

“We just had a blessed time at the prison, Pastor Daniel preached and over 42 prisoners made the decision to receive Jesus Christ. I don’t have words to describe it, the Lord has just shown HIS might! It was really great! It looks like the Lord has opened up an ongoing prison ministry us here and they have asked us to write a letter to The Commissioner of Prison.”  Mac Anthony Mwandirire (Evangelist)  

“We had a strange situation at church today. We had a visiting young lady who was clearly attacked by a wicked spirit in the middle of a sunday school teaching. I was teaching about the heresy which denies the literal burning hell/everlasting fire and why the devil manipulates false teachers to teach this false doctrine. I was specifically teaching about how the Devil convinces the whole world to continue sinning and live a life without the fear of the Lord and his terror because the devil knows that hell was prepared for him and his angels. Suddenly the women jumped up and ran out the door and started shaking uncontrollably. She started crying out  for help and barking like a dog. Then she started crying out in pain because fire was moving all over her body. She was completely overpowered. Man, it was terrible, we took her into an empty Sunday school class room and began praying for her. She gained her consciousness and told us that she was involved with vimbuza. [a traditional cult that utilizes the possession of evil spirits for healing and prophecy]. We then preached to her Jesus Christ and showed her from the scriptures that her involvement in vimbusa is a wicked sin before God. She was well convinced about the truth we had preached to her and afterwards she received Jesus Christ as her personal Lord and saviour. Afterwards we continued the service with her in her right mind. I believe she really made a sincere decision of trusting Jesus Christ.” Pastor Daniel Nyirenda 

We also had Pastor Mtonga from a village about three hours from Mzuzu come and visit both Charity & Light Baptist Church. Pastor Mtonga was not trained by me but I believe him to be a sincere and faithful minister of the gospel. Since I met him a few years ago he has been faithfully involved in planting churches and ministering in local village congregations. He is a bricklayer by trade and seems to always be involved in personal work and church planting, wherever his trade takes him. He recently reached out to me about helping him purchase some roofing materials for his most recent church plant. I asked him if he would be willing to present his needs and preach in the local churches in the Mzuzu area. He agreed and then we set everything in motion for him to come and stay with Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe. Pastor Alex and his wife Sarah graciously invited him to stay in their home and took care of him throughout the duration of the visit. I told both of the pastors that I approve who they approve and that my decision to support this effort would be based on their assessment of the situation!
 1 Corinthians 16:3...whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters… With their approval I was blessed to put money towards the completion of his church roof! 

My most recent MRI on my lumbar spine shows a terrific “annular tear” in my L5/SI disc. Additionally, the L4/L5 disc is bulging and pressing into my spinal nerve column. My most recent flare up has left me unable to walk for the past thirteen days. I am confined to bed rest for now and am looking to the Lord, trusting that He truly is still on the throne and knows what I have need of. 
Unfortunately this is NOT the kind of back pain that “we all experience” in our lives! Back pain that can be treated with a bit of rest and a hot water bottle is normal. My back issues originated from a two story fall on a framing jobsite many years ago. Evidently, my youth is no longer able to simply “pick up the slack”. I am emphasizing this so as to help you best know how to pray for my situation. 
Over the past few years, I have been systematically working through MANY possible solutions starting with the least expensive and least intrusive options, and gradually moving on to more progressive treatment options. Starting with massive weight reduction, complete dietary changes, personal exercise routines, we have eliminated known possible solutions, one by one, over the past few years leaving us with only a few real options on the table at this point. Due to the extensive research I have undergone, I am opting to forgo the final step of fusing my vertebrae together until I have exhausted ALL other available directions. 
Episodes like this have happened multiple times while I was in Malawi, requiring me to drive myself, in horrendous pain, almost five hours to the capital, book an airplane ticket to South Africa (the closest country to Malawi with medical help) and then pay for accommodations and transportation, while I was attended to by the physicians in SA. 
These situations have inevitably left my poor wife stranded in Malawi taking care of the kids, the mission property, the ministry staff, and whatever other aftermath there was from my sudden departure from the country without notice. Needless to say every time this has happened it has been tremendously hard on her. 
Things with my back have gotten progressively worse, although it has not been for lack of trying. I am now scheduled for a procedure on January 6 at an orthopedic medical clinic in Medford Oregon. At my most recent visit with the doctor I was informed that this treatment will require a minimum of three to six months of total treatment & rehab. I hate to use up this much space to talk about my back, but the fact is that it has become a major part of our circumstances. The physical demands that come along with living in, and working in a third-world African country are greatly hindered by physical inabilities like this. I know that many of you are praying, but I am asking you to pray even more earnestly and fervently than you have in the past for the healing of my back. Jennie and I are looking to the Lord every step of the way as we have not yet faced this type of trial of our faith. Please pray for the Lord to intervene.I have no doubt that He could solve this problem with one look of his eye. For right now, our lives are somewhat “on hold” while we wait for my procedure which is scheduled for January sixth. Please pray for the Doctor who will be doing the procedure to be guided by the Lord. On a positive note, two souls have been saved in this area since we have been here. Philippians 1:12 But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;


September 2019

Dear Saints,
Well the past several weeks have seen us yet again “hither and yon”, involving us in some ministerial efforts that we had seen coming and others that we could have never expected. As we have mentioned in the past letters, we are blessed to have about as good of status in the country of Malawi as any missionary could want. We work under what is called a “Permanent Residence Permit”, a highly sought after permit amongst the expatriate community in Malawi and, undoubtedly we only received this status because of the prayers of the saints in years gone by. While our status is recognized as “permanent” by the Malawian government we are still required to “maintain” our visa once every year which required me to be physically present in Lilongwe at the beginning of September 2019. We were well aware of this date and had purchased tickets for me briefly return to Malawi towards the end of August in order to handle this and other administrative obligations at that time. As we mentioned in our previous letters, the country of Malawi is a bit more volatile lately than it usually is due to frustrations in recent elections. There have been riots in the streets and protests for the past few months which seemed to be coming to a head right at the time I was scheduled to arrive! Just days before my arrival the opposition leaders stated their intention to “seize” all the borders of Malawi, not allowing any person or cargo to exit or enter the country without their permission. I was scheduled to preach in three different churches on this trip and each of the pastors from Malawi contacted me separately notifying me of the situation and asking me to reconsider my plans to come. It truly was a fearful situation to think of flying into a “hot zone” of political upheaval, but the Lord gave me a certain peace about it so we prayerfully continued as planned. The day before my arrival in country the Malawi Government issued a fourteen day ban on all of the opposition plans and deployed the Malawi Defence Force soldiers from one end of the country to the other. Although the atmosphere was far from the “Warm Heart of Africa”, it was at least controlled, and completely non-threatening. I was picked up at the airport by my first convert and long-standing friend Alex Mwenekifungwe, pastor of Light Baptist Church. The preaching went on as planned and God seemed to move in a special way in each of the services. Although we stay in almost daily communication with the pastors and church leaders, I was blessed to see things in place that I had not even heard about during my months of absence. Pastor Daniel  and Charity Baptist seemed to be doing better than ever before. They had done several things to the property and building to improve it including putting up a badly needed fence all around the church property. There were new chairs, new decorations, but most importantly, new faces! Pastor Daniel had gone through a lot over the time we have been on furlough. Possibly one of the most difficult issues was an attempt from representatives of a large “reformed theology ministry” based in Zambia and South Africa, attempted to subvert him and Pastor Alex to convert to the ideologies of Hyper-Calvanisitic theology. The subversion attempt was complete with dinners at expensive restaurants and offers of financial compensation. Thankfully both of these guys saw through the smoke and mirrors and were not deterred from the truth. In fact I could see more steadfastness in their doctrinal positions than ever before. The church Pastor Alex is pastoring is currently renting a single room building as a meeting place but will eventually need to be in a more stable situation. Please pray that the Lord will give me wisdom and grace to know how best to help him and encourage him in this area. 
As many of you know, the unseen logistical challenges that missionaries deal with in the background of deputation and furlough, to make it from meeting to meeting, are laughable at best and downright terrible at least half the time. As missionaries, we tend to see the “Good the Bad and the Ugly” of everything involved with Foriegn Missions! From blown transmissions, and leaking RV roofs to church splits and church feuds, we see it all! Honestly, the good things we see and learn so far outweighs the negative, it is almost not even worth mentioning the latter! During the course of seeing all these things we also learn to mind our own business and run our own race, or at least we are supposed to. From time to time though, we do run across situations that really demand our attention and truly can be helped because of the nature of our missionary work. Such is the kind of situation we recently found ourselves aware of, in the south western town of Grants Pass Oregon. 
During our furlough travels we were introduced to a fledgeling church that is in real need of some help. The 83 year old pastor recently retired and left the pastorate in a complete void. Currently the gap of leadership is being filled by Bible Believers Baptist Church in Hillsboro Or, some four hours drive north of Grants Pass. B.B.B.C. Hillsboro is pastored by my older brother John Robinson, and the church there is doing all they can to organize church services, supply the pulpit, and call for pastoral candidates until a permanent pastor is called to take this work and go forward with it. Having had personal interaction with this church and having been there when the pastor resigned, impressed on me the need to mention this in my prayer letter, and to ask for prayer for Dayspring Baptist Church ( https://dayspringbaptistgp.com/ )to receive the Man of God who God would want to go to Grants Pass and pastor this church. If you are currently pastoring a Bible Believing Independent Baptist Church and you would like more details about this church’s need, please contact Pastor John Robinson at [email protected] 
 Thank you to all of you who faithfully pray for us and support our ministry. Please pray specifically for the following:


  • Dayspring Baptist Church to have a Bible Believing Man of God to pastor it. 
  • My Back Pain Issues to be handled well before returning to Malawi.
  • Our remaining Church visits on furlough.
  • Our return to Malawi in Gods time.
  • The Churches and ministries in Malawi to continue prospering. 
  • Pastor Daniel Nyirenda & Pastor Alex Mwenekifungwe  



July Prayer Letter 2019

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Dear Saints,

Thank you so much to those of you who pray for our ministry and family. The last few weeks have seen us quite busy as usual. One thing I remember hearing over and over in my earlier years was the fact that,“Serving the Lord is NEVER boring, it may be hard at times, and it may not always be what you expect, but it will not be boring! My life and ministry thus far will certainly attest to the validity of that statement! 
    One interesting door which was opened up to me in recent weeks was the opportunity to preach in both Australia as well as Papua New Guinea. Late in 2018 we were invited by, brother Jason Young to come and preach in Australia. Since that time, we began to pray about heading over there during this furlough. A few weeks ago during a missions conference the Lord used a national pastor from PNG (pastor Willy) to bless me beyond measure! Missionary Joey Anderson was planning a missions trip back to PNG and he invited me to go help him. I was happy to go.  As you may know, the flight patterns in that part of the world are such that Australia is a common hub for traveling in and out of PNG. With a few arrangements made concerning my furlough schedule the Lord miraculously made for me to go in every way. I immediately began to ask the Lord for souls in both Australia as well as PNG. 
    I was picked up from the Sydney airport and taken to the regularly scheduled Saturday street preaching outreach in Sydney. After a great time of street preaching and tract distribution,we were about to roll it up when we were approached by a 53 year old man named Ryan. It was clear that the Lord had been dealing with this guy and that he was under great conviction. While I DID expect the Lord to answer my prayers about having some fruit there in the land down under, I didn't realize it would be through street preaching within the first few hours of landing. So far as I know, Ryan was the first Australian I have ever gotten to lead to Christ! I hope he will not be the last. 
    The highlight of the Papua New Guinea portion of the trip was, undoubtedly, the preaching of brother Anderson in the PNG prison. He preached on, “The man after God's own heart” and GOD showed up there in that prison! There was truly a deep sense of God's hand working as the word was preached and many responded in an attitude of faith to the invitation. I was given a group of men that spoke enough English to be dealt with without a translator. The Lord once again answered prayer and allowed me to be a part of several grown PNG men coming to know Christ as their personal savior! 
    Since returning from that trip we have carried on with ministering in the local churches in the Northwest. We are so thankful for the many and unique opportunities that the Lord gives us to serve him while we are in the USA. We found out many years ago that visiting the churches is not just about raising support levels. It is about being faithful in “doing the work of an evangelist” in churches that may or may not support the work. It is not about filling out the status quo, but it is about ministering in the churches in the unique capacities he allows us opportunity. 
    The churches in Malawi are doing just fine. We are in contact with the leadership on a weekly basis as they continue to grow in their own ministries. Charity Baptist Church choir just finished recording their first gospel singing album and the choir director sent me a copy. I was so blessed to pick out the voices of folks who are now singing for the Lord. 
    Please pray that the Lord will give me guidance as of what to do for my back. It has become a real point of concern over the past few years and I am not really sure of how the story will end. It seems like it is ok for a while and then inevitably it relapses and when it does I become nearly worthless. It is totally debilitating. Since being back in the states, we have gone through an extensive process of eliminating solutions in order of how invasive the options would be. Starting with changes to the diet, weight loss, more exercise, learning proper body mechanics, stretching routines, etc. All of this is being done in order to avoid having the discectomy surgery on the herniated disc. I realize that I am too young to be having health problems, but I guess my back didn’t get the memo. I have had some really great times of pain free relief, but inevitably the same problem returns. We are now looking to take the next step in the search for a solution that can give me time to fully recover before heading back to the field. Please pray that the Lord will guide our decisions and that ultimately my back would be healed.
    






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May Prayer Letter 2019

Dear Saints


        I hope and trust this letter finds you well. We are all doing very well. Let me say a special  thank you to all of you who have prayed for my back as I seem to be having a season of relief. The blessing of this relief can not be overstated, THANK! YOU! to all who prayed. 
        I have continued to bounce around all over the country attending meetings and trying to be a blessing to the churches. Several people have expressed concern about the need for us to be “getting more rest” while on furlough. Please be assured that just because I am traveling a lot doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m not getting the rest I need on furlough. It is still a privilege to sleep for an average of six to seven hours nearly every night somewhere on some soft mattress and in some safe environment. Although I do sometimes feel exhausted I remind myself that every man who is thirty-seven years old (who is worth his salt) is burning the candle at both ends in one way or another. Please pray for continued grace in all of our furlough responsibilities. 
        Many of you realize that a sending church for any missionary is their greatest resource and lifeline outside of the Lord himself. Although our sending church in Fairbanks Alaska is a little off the beaten path, even when we are Stateside, I was recently afforded the opportunity to participate at the ordination services for my younger brother Paul. A few years ago after several years of faithful service as associate pastor Paul courageously accepted the ministry of senior pastor at North Star Baptist Church in Fairbanks Alaska. Having the opportunity attend his ordination was such a blessing to me. I was amazed at how the church has grown and prospered since our last attendance in person in 2014. What a blessing it is to see men and women still offering their lives as a living sacrifice to serve others in the pastoral ministry of the local church! 
        On the home front we are thankful to be traveling again as a family. After attending a Christian school in the Portland Oregon for the past few months, the kids are happy to be on summer break and I am happy to have everyone together again. Currently we are still out west attending missions conferences and visiting churches. Please pray for us to be a blessing wherever we go, and that the Lord will use us for his glory. We truly serve a great God who truly deserves the love and worship of our whole heart and soul, and mind. 
          We continue to hear good things from Malawi from pastor Nyirenda and pastor Mwenekefungwe. I was recently encouraged to hear of new converts in Charity Baptist Church two of whom walked the isle at invitation in a Sunday morning preaching hour. One thing that I have emphasized over the years is the need for basic discipleship once someone is saved. I am glad to hear that discipleship courses for those who have been saved are still carrying on in my  absence. 
         Aside from the church people I receive messages and emails almost every day from random people in the Mzuzu area and really the whole north of Malawi. To say that we have a good report among the people there would be an understatement. Many times I have felt like our work is invisible to these people and that if we fell off the planet tomorrow that they wouldn’t even miss a beat. The constant greetings and messages I receive tell me that even if the people don’t respond to the gospel the way I wish they would, they DO know that we are there for a purpose and that there has been at least a some influence in their lives by our ministry there. 
         Please pray for the elections in Malawi which take place on May 21 2019. Our hope is not in politics or politicians, but we also know that wicked and unreasonable men can hinder the work of missions. Pray that the outcome of these elections would enable us to lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. Pray also that we would be able to continue to make the right decisions for the remainder of our time in the states, and that the Lord would direct our decisions as to the timing of our return to Malawi. ​
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