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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

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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!

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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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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. 



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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 BBBCpdx@gmail.com 
 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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