Good Samaritan News!

Dear Fellow Laborers,

What a great day we had today in Malawi! In the morning we went soul winning to the village of Kautuka #1. Forty Six souls trusted Christ as their Savior and Lord willing they will attend the new church we have started in this village last Sunday; Good Samaritan Kautuka Baptist Church. President Henry conducted the first service and this Sunday the pastor we are looking at sending to this village will teach and preach to them. What was really the icing on the cake was the start of the Good Samaritan Junior Bible College at Mapanga. For many months we have been concerned with the fact that not much spiritual meat was being fed to the orphan teens other than Sunday and Wednesday. The Lord laid on my heart the desire to have classes in a college setting for the teen orphans. Well, we set it up and today we had the first classes. We are meeting every Saturday at 2pm with classes lasting 40 minutes with 15 minute breaks. There are 5 classes, The Study of Proverbs, Homiletics, The Life of Christ, Women of Character, & New Testament Survey. I am teaching Proverbs, Navigator Homiletics, Lloyd the Life of Christ, Darcy & Ms. Goodman Women of Character, & Henry NTS. We provided notebooks, study materials, pencils, pens, Chichewa & English (KJV) Bibles, and personal study/information books. Darcy & Ms. Goodman teach their class while Navigator is teaching Homiletics, other than that we are all together. It is really exciting to see this! We have 17 boys & 10 girls signed up and Lord willing they will stick to it. We are trusting God to smooth and iron out wrinkles and the wiles of the devil that I am sure that will come our way.

I wanted to share this day with all of you as I know that I am generally Mr. Doom and Gloom but I know that God blesses the ministries that desire to honor Him! I desire His very best for this ministry and for those workers and orphans that are involved in it.

Thank you for your prayers and Lord willing we will see you shortly.

By His Grace & Mercy,
John