NEWS FROM MALAWI

BALAKA | Bro Harry Benito

I would like to thank you for providing me with a disc and the Gospel News. I still wait for more good and new things to happen to us and may God keep blessing you.

Here at Balata we have a church but it is only made with clay, so if it is possible please help us so that we may build it with cement. Secondly, this year we have ten members who have been baptised and need Chichewa Bibles, so please send us ten Bibles. We also want to preach and teach others about the Gospel so that they may know about God and Jesus Christ and the hope of eternal life, so please send us more preaching materials to use in spreading the Gospel. Thank you.

Student Estar James

CHIMIMBE | Sis Maicook

Thank you for the nice CD which I managed to get played at a friend’s and since he has been to the meetings.

My granddaughter Estar James has been attending the meeting and wants to be baptized which means there are now five preparing for baptism. I have been away to Mozambique to help my son and now back in Malawi we are moulding bricks and hope to buy some corrugated iron next year so as to build a beautiful hall like other meetings.

MZUZU | Bro Sylvester Tembo

The prophet Isaiah had this to say to Israel:

“But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you so that He will not hear.” Our sins may be one of the contributing factors for not knowing God who is above all things both in heaven and under heaven. The wise King of Israel, Solomon observed, “Only a fool can say there is no God.”

To know God needs wisdom. The Bible is clear regarding wisdom:- “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.” (Proverbs 1:7). How can we know God then? God has revealed himself to us through his own given instructions – the Bible.

In the first chapter of Genesis verse 1 we read: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” This is emphatic. We can know God through things He has created. Now because we are sinners, we might fail to come to this wonderful knowledge. To overcome this problem God has His own messengers who are sent out to proclaim His Name and wishes. Sometimes these messengers are known as preachers or witnesses. The preachers are aided by the spirit Word of God Himself which is His Word - the Bible. Read Mark 16:15-16. There we find Jesus’ instructions to the apostles: “And he said to them: you are to go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He that believes and is baptised shall be saved, but he that disbelieves shall be condemned.”

So you can see that knowledge of God gives responsibility. That is that believers, because of their knowledge of God will be saved. Hence disbelievers will be condemned.

PHALOMBE | Bro Thom Bicycle

I write to announce the death of my dear elder brother, Friday Bicycle, who died after a long illness lasting three years.

Comment: We do send our condolence to Bro Thom. MH

“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

SALIMA | Bro Austin Nyurenda

I sincerely report to you all my fellow Brothers, the demise of Brother Gamah who we have laid to rest. He left a wife, two children, and grand children.

I delivered the speech to the people who attended the ceremony from the following books; Genesis 2:7 (the origin of man), Genesis 3:19 (the state of sin upon man), Ecclesiastes 9:5-10 (the behaviour of dead people) and 1 Corinthians 15:20-26 (the resurrection of the mortal saints to judgement after the last trumpet), that is the hope of those who remain faithful to God until death.

I am just finishing harvesting maize and ground nuts. The rains were a bit favourable here in Salima district this year, but in some other areas it stopped while crops were flowering, therefore they will experience hunger situations towards the end of this year.

ZOMA| Brother Lameck Niwawala and his family who regularly study the scriptures together