Blog posts from the group that is travelling to Malawi, Africa in April of 2023.
A day to slowly get up with fresh coffee, roosters crowing (much to Kareys delight) and German shepherd puppies playing. Today we focused on tying up lots of odds and ends, talking and spending some time with Ovi, Lita and the kids. The Lord has been gentle and gracious with me this trip (as He always is). He has taught me the…
May 4th, 2023 One final day to get everything accomplished so we can head out early tomorrow and be ready for the flight out at 3:00 pm, which is 9:00 am for you. The final day is always a day to reflect, time is given over to us pouring over the Word in our bible…
Happy birthday, Markl! May 4, 2023 My final blog for this trip…it’s bittersweet. A few days ago, Ed asked us to be thinking about some part of this trip that has really stood out to us so we could talk about it tonight. As I thought about it the past couple days the one thing that really stood out to me was…
This village has quite a history with Hope for the Future and Highland Park, you could tell my teammates had a true heart for this Church and community. We began by meeting at the Pastors home and walked to home where the man did not attend church. His name was Simon and I had a chance to talk with him a little,…
May 3, 2023 I read from 2 Corinthians 10 this morning. Verses 3-4 struck me today. “For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.” Just wait until you hear how our day went and keep in…
What a beautiful morning in Africa. God is good and coffee taste delicious again. Thank you for all the prayers and the text messages over the last few days. I have felt them and have felt very loved by all of you. I feel like I’ve been through a rite of passage. After our morning devotions in Joshua, the team headed out…
May 3rd, 2023 Well, hello there, I didn’t know if you would make it back today with us! Glad you are here—this is Africa. At no other time, on no other trip has that saying rang more true. Africa is different, in Africa you must expect the unexpected. Today was to be our last day…
Day started rough with some of our teammates, Janine had a rough night recovering from Malaria 1, Ovi went to the Doctor and has Malaria stage 2. On the mission field plans change, Ovi got a call from his high ranking police friend Anderson who wanted us to pass out bibles to the group of workers who didn’t recieve bibles the first…
May 2, 2023 Happy 75th birthday to my step-dad, Bob Lange! Woke up thinking we were going to Nasedegu to hand out tracts and visit hut to hut, but, as is very common here and in serving the Lord, plans changed! Janine is still down with malaria and Ovi just tested positive as well. This is his 10th time having it! They…
May 2nd, 2023 Hello there again; glad you could make it back today. First off, an update on Janine. She was still having issues keeping food down as of this afternoon, along with other common issues with Malaria. She has one more day of meds and then she should start to recover. Talking with Lita…