We want to make you aware of a very needy project for Malawi that is yet to be completed. On the property of our home church sits a 40 ft. container filled to the brim with much needed supplies for the children’s home and numerous other items that cannot be purchased in Malawi except with great cost. We must ship this container across the ocean before summer of this year. (Our goal!) The total cost pending is $11,500. This is a lot of money but with small donations from many people we together can make this possible. Perhaps someone or groups of people would like to make this a Malawi mission’s project to raise funds and help us launch this container. We will be most grateful to any assistance you can offer.
Regretfully, our recent trip to Malawi was temporarily postponed due to health complications. We are regaining our strength and hopeful to reschedule soon. Many thank yous for your concern and prayers for my recovery. Some of you stressed an interest to hear an update on our blog spot – we apologize for not keeping you informed or letting you know about us personally.
Please keep our national pastors before God’s throne as they are the spiritual hope of Malawi. As they grow spiritually the people grow spiritually. They need much encouragement and helps in their slow process of learning. Most of them receive $20 per month from loving donors across America with purpose to allow them time to leave their fields of work to help pastor their people. With the rise of inflation you can imagine how little this is to a starving family who lives from the small yield of crops they raise. Fertilizer is a luxury they cannot afford – for many water is far away and the rainy season can be a curse or a blessing – too little or too much. Some people have suggested we need to drop this amount of support and teach these pastors to become self supporting as a pastor and as a church. For those close to the cities this may be a reality. For those in the bush – to sell their crops from small garden plots would mean starvation to the family. All these people have to tithe is their small harvest of fruits and vegetables and a little kwacha amounting to pennies in our U.S. economy. Hopefully, this will bring understanding to those who are not fully aware of the lifestyle of these poor people who live in a country with no industries to earn money.
Our mission stories are unending – the prevailing plea for help meets us at every turn and movement in this poverty stricken society. Some we can help others we must turn away – due to human impossibilities. Always, we can offer the one who never slumbers or sleeps and who without fail will meet their desperate needs – He is the Almighty God, El Shaddai, the all Sufficient One, the Nourisher, the Strength-giver, the Satisfier, and Jesus Christ, their eternal salvation.
We have 430 churches. Many of them are still in need of iron sheeting for roofs to replace grass roofs that fall in the rainy season. There is a need for cement to replace dirt floors and cement pews to sit on. Some or mostly all need a baptistery. To prevent the thought of favoritism and the feelings of jealousy we try to help the older established churches first. Due to changes in government we are being forced with higher school fees for our school kids (Children’s Home) and higher paid certified teachers. The need list is never-ending and sometimes overwhelming when you are 2 or 3 lone full-time missionaries surrounded by thousands of needy people who are looking to you to help them in their dilemmas. The “CRY” of the missionaries is as loud and real as the “CRY” of the poor. May God help us all! And send laborers and financial aid and your prayers!! The Homeless – Naked – Hungry – Sick – Diseased – Sinful; the task is exhausting but rewarding when we personally see the hundreds come to Jesus Christ weekly!!
Regretfully, our recent trip to Malawi was temporarily postponed due to health complications. We are regaining our strength and hopeful to reschedule soon. Many thank yous for your concern and prayers for my recovery. Some of you stressed an interest to hear an update on our blog spot – we apologize for not keeping you informed or letting you know about us personally.
Please keep our national pastors before God’s throne as they are the spiritual hope of Malawi. As they grow spiritually the people grow spiritually. They need much encouragement and helps in their slow process of learning. Most of them receive $20 per month from loving donors across America with purpose to allow them time to leave their fields of work to help pastor their people. With the rise of inflation you can imagine how little this is to a starving family who lives from the small yield of crops they raise. Fertilizer is a luxury they cannot afford – for many water is far away and the rainy season can be a curse or a blessing – too little or too much. Some people have suggested we need to drop this amount of support and teach these pastors to become self supporting as a pastor and as a church. For those close to the cities this may be a reality. For those in the bush – to sell their crops from small garden plots would mean starvation to the family. All these people have to tithe is their small harvest of fruits and vegetables and a little kwacha amounting to pennies in our U.S. economy. Hopefully, this will bring understanding to those who are not fully aware of the lifestyle of these poor people who live in a country with no industries to earn money.
Our mission stories are unending – the prevailing plea for help meets us at every turn and movement in this poverty stricken society. Some we can help others we must turn away – due to human impossibilities. Always, we can offer the one who never slumbers or sleeps and who without fail will meet their desperate needs – He is the Almighty God, El Shaddai, the all Sufficient One, the Nourisher, the Strength-giver, the Satisfier, and Jesus Christ, their eternal salvation.
We have 430 churches. Many of them are still in need of iron sheeting for roofs to replace grass roofs that fall in the rainy season. There is a need for cement to replace dirt floors and cement pews to sit on. Some or mostly all need a baptistery. To prevent the thought of favoritism and the feelings of jealousy we try to help the older established churches first. Due to changes in government we are being forced with higher school fees for our school kids (Children’s Home) and higher paid certified teachers. The need list is never-ending and sometimes overwhelming when you are 2 or 3 lone full-time missionaries surrounded by thousands of needy people who are looking to you to help them in their dilemmas. The “CRY” of the missionaries is as loud and real as the “CRY” of the poor. May God help us all! And send laborers and financial aid and your prayers!! The Homeless – Naked – Hungry – Sick – Diseased – Sinful; the task is exhausting but rewarding when we personally see the hundreds come to Jesus Christ weekly!!
Sincerely in the work of Christ and His church,
Gardiner & Alice Gentry “The Beggars”
Please don’t forget:Container cost to ship $11,500 "II Cor. 1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.
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