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