Mission Statement

Mission statement:
To have significant impact on health needs, food sources, security, raising children and community development in Malawi in a way which brings glory to God and demonstrates the love of Christ in works and endeavor.

A Broken Heart
While walking down a trail in the bush country of Malawi, Africa, I came upon an African man who was probably in his late twenties. In his broken English, he engaged me in a ‘sort of a conversation’. He wanted to know what I was doing there. I tried to explain that I was an electrician working on a new clinic being built in the bush country. Whether he understood or not I don’t know, but he smiled with teeth missing and said, “I dig for mice,” and turned and walked away. I stood there a while trying to grasp the significance of that statement. Then it hit me. This man had no other hope or ambition than to dig and eat mice! I walked away with a broken heart. We must be able to give these people a vision, some hope of a better life. Something that can lift them out of the poverty that for generations has held them down. We are trying very hard to teach and train these precious people to pull themselves out of this hole and enable them to be self sufficient. If they want to eat mice so be it, but not because they have to!

Who or what defines me

"I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols." Isaiah 42: 8 In the world there are whispers, rumors, and even intense declarations of who God is. People speak of Him in high and low places, in anger, in praise, His name is...

A Walk to the store

Almost daily we have walked to the little shopping center. It takes us an hour and sometimes we will eat at the little coffee shop, buy some groceries, or as today meet with Lepherson to give him another allotment for the orphanage work. We have noticed recently that...

Malawian Trucking Industry

Good day to all who are reading my blog today. These pictures show a bicycle that is carrying more than it was built to carry. When Don and I travel on the roads in the villages and even on the highways, men on bicycles are carrying all manner of goods to and from the...

Update On The Orphanage

Saturday Afternoon November 26, 2011 After a week of sheer bliss where I could pull my car into any gas station without a waiting line and say fill her up ,it stopped. For the past week there was no fuel to be found. Every day I would walk with my gas can trying to...