Personal letter from Thandie

June 23, 2008

Dear Friends,
Warm Christian greetings in the name of Jesus Christ who saved us from our Sins and is making a home for us in heaven and coming soon to take us home.
It is early morning hours 5am here in Malawi Africa we call it first light. I keep telling myself I have got to write to my friends in America before they think I have forgotten them. “ I pray for you and your church every day God knows my heart.” I will be getting ready for school (college) in one hour I’m in my second year it’s very hard but the Government wants me to have more school if I am to be an orphan home director. I was doing good with out it but you know how governments are. It’s not the government that gives you love and care for the 100 + orphans and workers it comes from God the government gives Laws and Regulations but God gives Love and Regeneration. Amen! We are in the middle of winter, cold at night about 40 degrees and 70 degrees in the daytime. Many people are sick because of this, hospitals are full, most people have no blankets and they sleep on the floor in their mud huts. Thank You for your help with our orphans they have a bed and blankets in their children home to sleep in. God Bless YOU!
Just to speak a little bit about our immediate and desperate needs for the Children’s home every where just like the USA time are very hard because of inflation every thing is going up up up. Your gas in America is now $4.25 our is $12.53 up from $10.00 one week ago and they say by 15 July it will go up again. We have 21 High School kids we must bus to school Monday – Friday, school fees $1.50 a day plus $100.00 for 3 months for tuition. We have had to cut our budget to the bone and have laid off 15 workers; garden workers, Guards, cleaners and care givers. We have also cut our milk, bread, meat and other things like cooking oil, potatoes, rice and some other things. Our support from the states is getting smaller every month. Last month we had a short fall of three hundred dollars that we had to borrow this month $225.00. Please pray for us. Brother Frank Zacharius from the states is here with his adopted son Rodric, Friday before he leaves for the states he is going to buy $800.00 in used shoes from the market for the kids you cannot go to school (High School) without shoes and uniforms. Brother Chuck Miller took $600.00 from another project he had and bought 39 bags of 110 lbs each of corn, our main food. We use 1 1/2 bags a day, because of good care the kids are growing and their clothes are to small and it’s hard to hand them down because they are worn out.
Now for some good news: They now have seven choirs and they can sing heaven down. Even the little kids have the melody choir. They will bless you and they have no instruments or music tapes just their hands and feet. I wish I could bring them to America. Miss Vickie from Gospel Light Baptist Church, Fresno California is here for 2 months. Miss Vickie has been teaching the big Teen girls soul winning and they are now winning many souls. Even at school Miss Vickie is also teaching them about the Bus Ministry. We have 1 – 32 passenger bus but on week one they had 122, week 2 they had 148, week three 160. Of course they had to make 3 & 4 trips to get them all in to church. This week she starts teaching the boys where will we put them? I don’t know we have another bus but it’s broke down. The mechanic says $1,200.00 will fix it. The orphans are making very big gardens to help us to have more food. One garden has 1,050 tomato plants 6” high, other with cabbage, spinach, lettuce, pumpkins, sugar cane and sweet potatoes. They are very happy. In closing let me beg you to pray much for us and our needs and God will bless you and we will do the same for you.
Miss Tandie
The mother of 101 children

Good Samaritan Children’s Home

God is still on the throne and Miss Thandie our orphan’s home director is still surviving but it is not easy as so many people and churches have had to cut back on their giving to missionaries because of the high cost of gas and weak economy. We have the same problem here, as gas is now $12.50 a gallon and we have had to cut back to the bare bones, no milk, no bread, no meat and many other items like body oil. We don’t run the washer and dryer, as electricity is high, I preached by candle light Sunday night. I could go on and on with the negative and hardships but let me beg you please pray about these needs, the orphans have no one to turn to but us. Please before this letter gets laid aside do something to help a little. Please read James 1:27 I beg you in Jesus name, we have no radio or T.V. outlet to make our plea. Every cent you send goes to the children’s home, we have three children with AIDS and are being treated with steroids that make them have a real heavy appetite and we must give them extra food each day to keep the hunger pain away, these funds come from our personal pockets. There are no extra funds available for things such as these.

The orphans are not setting under a pity tree crying, they are busy saving souls, washing clothes by hand, working in the garden, taking corn to the mill for grinding. The corn bags weigh 150 pounds each and are carried to the mill each day, sing in one of the seven choirs, clean the orphanage rooms and dinning areas and anything else that needs doing to make the place their home. One of the greatest things they do is in the area of prayer and fasting, it will break your heart to go into one of their prayer meetings and hear them pray, I know God hears their prayers.

What are the major needs of the Good Samaritan’s Orphanage?

Pray for them every day as they pray for you.

1. $1000.00 for corn, corn that was 700K a 10Lb bag in April is now 2,500k a bag. That is approx. $21.00 US.
2. Personal Items such as skin oil, under garments for young and older kids
3. School fees for H.S. kids @ $100.00 per kid (21) every 3 months
4. Gas to run the school bus for H.S. is $40.00 a day
5. Money to buy 50 pair of shoes for the bigger orphans, they have to have shoes and uniforms to go to school.
6. Someone to write them a letter once a month with a dollar inside so they can buy an envelope and a stamp to answer you back.

Gardiner Gentry

In the work of Christ and His Church

“The Beggar”

1 Chronicles 4:10

April, May and June report for 2008

First, praise the Lord for we are now eight years old and God has been so good to this ministry. As of June 15^th church 425 was started. It is sponsored by Bible Way Baptist Church in Milton, Fl. They have been sponsoring the Orphanage for over three years now. The new church had over 120 the first week with 67 being saved. It has been adding souls and now has a membership of 87.

We were not able to do the mobile college this spring due to lack of funds, so great emphasis is being placed on soul winning; no exaggeration thousands have been saved and many being baptized.

Brother Frank Zacharias from Nashville, TN had never been soul winning but after being with Bro. Chuck Miller for 2-3 hours Chuck cut him loose on his own. Frank was a little nervous for the first few times but the Lord gave him the words and courage and after he won two or three to the Lord there was no stopping him. He won 67 to the Lord that day and the next Saturday he went to a private girl’s high school to follow up on a student that had gotten saved at church the week before at Bible Way Baptist Good Samaritan Church. The English teacher invited him to address the whole class of 39, all 39 got saved and so did the teacher, and Frank’s feet have not touched the ground yet. Praise the Lord for men like Frank. We are planning a baptism service this coming week for the saved. This is a weekly happening at most of the 435 churches. THE FIELDS ARE RIPE UNTO HARVEST, we need your help in the following areas:

Bibles @ $7.00 each in cases of 20

1. Sheet metal for a church roof @ approx. $425.00 per roof
2. Gas for transportation @ $12.50 per gal. Over $100.00 to fill our vehicle
3. Your prayers always please don’t forget us.

Your lovable beggar,

Dr. G. Gentry

709 P/bag Limbe

Malawi, Africa

The Presses have been running!

Evangelist Andrew Nyenga has been busy translating the King James Bible into the native language of Chichewa. Andrew has also translated tracts, discipleship books and training books for the Bible College. Bible Way Press in Milton Florida has been busy printing the books to be delivered to Good Samaritan Baptist Bible College in June.

Here is Pastor William Wright and Pressman John Hyman at work!

June

Dr. Gentry is in Malawi and has visitors to help him with the work.
Roderick and his dad Frank Zeharius is visiting and Chuck Miller. Soon the Fulford family will be there to help with the new property North. Dr. Gentry has an email address now that is working if you would like to send a personal note. victoryworldoutreach@yahoo.com In Malawi the dial up is very slooooowww so email may not happen for you quickly but a personal note is a welcome to encourage. Chuck Miller is updating his blog just about every day and you can get to it by way of www.charlessheilamiller.blogspot.com We look forward to sharing the weeks with you and We THANK YOU for your prayers.