September Newsletter

The Gentry's Malawi Africa

Dear Supporting Partners,

Thank you for your encouraging prayers, calls and cards during my period of recovery. We accepted the challenge, call of God and risk to work in a third world country to establish churches, win the lost and rescue abandoned orphans and much more. My body has been riddled with various illnesses due to the exposure of life threatening diseases in Africa. However, we are not complaining or turning our back on the call of God. Thousands would be without the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and others left hopeless had we not willingly placed our lives in the gap for them. We serve a mighty God who is well able to help us overcome anything the enemy sends our way. And so we continue the work victorious in whatever state we find ourselves. His grace is sufficient. Please don’t give up on us – your prayers and financial support are piercing the Dark Continent with the light of the gospel.

Bro. James LaCrone who prints thousands of gospel tracts and John and Romans booklets in Chichewa recently made two drop trips to Louisville, KY with hundreds of boxes of this precious cargo that we placed in another container for future shipping to Malawi. Thanks to many of you that are putting wings to the Word of God to reach the dying across the ocean. At the present we are still waiting for the financial funds to send the present container already full of urgent supplies. We need your help in this area as our missionaries eagerly wait for these much needed helps.

We have received requests for an update from our Malawi staff whom a lot of you met personally when they traveled with us in the states to visit your churches. President Henry Chatata and Children’s Home Director Thandiwe Chickufenji recently returned from a week’s trip to Mozambique where they visited our churches there and offered many helps to strengthen them in the Word of God. The team along with Bro. John Fullford and Ms. Sharon Goodman (School Administrator and Children's Home Assistant) were overwhelmed with the results of this journey, as they found these churches operating in dire poverty with joy abounding in His grace and mercy. Chris Gome our building and supply business manager is doing well and active again. Navigator Gome our government informer and numerous helps man, is now enrolled in a 4 year Bible College in Zambia where he desires to further his education in Bible to be a greater servant of Good Samaritan Ministries. President Henry Chatata is a very informative country man and tremendous teacher/preacher of the Word. He oversees the 400+ churches offering helps and keeping check on them through the evangelists under him. These men and women serve under the direction of Assistant Director of Good Samaritan Ministries John Fullford. Many other helpers assist these leaders named, in various and many ways to fully equip this vast ministry.

Thanks to our American staff and National staff for their tireless teamwork in ministering this great work and in advancing the gospel truth in Malawi. And especially to all of you stateside who dare to care by submitting your hard earned dollars to help finance this much needed cause for Jesus Christ. We are powerless without your prayer support also.

Listen come close and place your spiritual ear to this letter – can you hear the heartbeat of God for these needy people? His creation! Can you hear the heartbeat of this frail missionary, your partner, who desires to keep on keeping on to see more people saved from the fires of hell? Jesus is coming soon – time is running out – we must all do His work in some way. Psalms 4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayers. What is He telling you?

Gratefully in His love & service,

The Gentry’s (the beggars)