A Few Facts About Malawi
Malawi is one of the worlds least-developed countries.
It is very hard to perform an accurate census in Malawi, but according to the last censes done in July 2018, the estimated population of Malawi is 18,143,217.
The economy primarily depends on agriculture, 80% of the population is involved is some type of farming. Tobacco, sugar cane, cotton, tea, corn are some of the agricultural products.
HIV/AIDS is highly prevalent.
Malawi has a low life expectancy and high infant mortality rate.
Updates from Gideon
Mission School Sports Day
8.30.2022
We are clearing bush and thorns at the bottom of our property next to the little brook for planting moringa trees when the rainy season starts. We have about 80 people working all over the mission at the moment.
We were able to buy this gas saver for up and down driving short distances
All this is possible through your support to Gods work in Malawi. We thank the Lord from the depths of our hearts.
Tomorrow, Lord willing we will be trained on the machines to press oil from soya and moringa seeds.
Next week we hope to drill for water to plant many more mango trees and to put it under irrigation. I will send updates on that.
Friday we will Lord willing have our sports day at the school and next week our price giving at the school.
We are so grateful to our Lord.
Thank you dearly for your support
Letter from Gideon
03.22.2021
KSB Tulsa,
We hereby thankyou dearly for donating towards the following uplifment projects at Malawi Mission, Africa in 2021. The very poor in rural Malawi benefitted from these donations.
In 2021 55 jobs were created. We now created 20 more jobs as seen on this picture.
Buildings build in 2021
School
We added 2 classrooms of metal on top of the four containers.
$5000
Workshop for agriculture added on the side of shed and built with concrete blocks. 6 meters x24meters. $2500
We purchased value adding machines
for soya oil and moringa oil
$13750
Planting of mango trees
We started planting the first 500 trees of 3000 trees during 2021
$600
We are committed to continue to support the neglected people in rural areas, and your support makes everything possible.
Gideon Jacobs
Director Malawi Mission
01.26.2022
We had 180mm from cyclone Ana.
No damagem just wonderful rain.
Few pictures of maize or corn fields and planting the last chilly this week.
Weeds also grow fast, next weeks we will do weeding.
We are grateful everything looks good by Gods grace.
01.18.2022
We thank the Lord for the maize and soya that germinated well.
First house for the orphans!
Building will be finished tomorrow, then its tiling, plumbing and ceiling.
Should be done by the end of February. We hope to start on building the second house by Thursday.
03.23.2021
We fill up the inside of our shed with anthill soil as a floor to keep maize out of rain until we can dry it outside.
Tractor and tip trailer is a gift from heaven for which we thank the Lord continually.
03.13.2021
We visited a little group of people yesterda, this is the church they have made to come together.
03.03.2021
I visited this family this afternoon.
The man was a witch doctor but gave his life to the Lord and is working at the mission. This is his harvest of corn.
He had to harvest it because of elephants eating it. There is actually good news. The Park is putting up a second electrified fence inside the existing fence. They have finished it up to the mission and we really see elephants respecting it. We have no trouble anymore, but the fence is not finished everywhere. But for these people the extra fence will do wonders next year. The Lord really heard our prayers concerning elephants.
In the picture is the dirty water this whole village has to drink because there is just no other water. I remember when I was a farmer my animals on the farm never had such dirty water to drink. But also here is good news. The company who helped us with a borehole also approved a new borehole fir this village. So we see the hand of the Lord even in elephant and water matters and we rejoice.
02.25.2021
Some of the churches who invited us. I remember in Virginia we preached in many different churches over many years on invitaiotn. Today, I still keep in contact with some of those people we met and befriended then. It was a privilege to bring them the Gospel.
Now we see the same thing happening here. We get more and more invitations to churches around us.
What a privilege to visit them with the Gospel.
01.21.2021
A little update of how things are at the Mission in Malawi
We have 4 teachers. Christelle, my daughter, Tabitha and Diana from the US and a Malawian man. We thank the Lord for them, they really give their life for the learners. Christelle is now fluent in the Yao language which is a great help.
We really need classrooms seeing that our grass structures have been badly damaged by very strong winds.
Our Clinic could not start yet, because of no one to run it. We trust the Lord for it. It can be such a wonderful instrument for the Gospel.
Our church building.
We had extremely strong winds sometime ago and it was damaged. We want to change all the grass for steel.
Our school choir.
The school has started again with just over a 100 learners.
The Lord gave these two buildings as a boarding school.
We want to put a floor and ceiling on the top so that it can be used.
Some of our school boys on a Sunday.
Our Workers
We have about 55 permanent workers and make use of another 50 temporary workers from time to time. We really have a wonderful team of people who has grown into a big family.
It's really a blessing to see how the Lord takes the people forward spiritually and materially. It brings such joy to think they are ex-Muslim.
Every morning we start with a devotion at 5:30am and then we work up to 11:30am. This gives the workers time to also do work in their own fields in the afternoon. We have managers who take responsibility for the work.
Our farm shed, two containers with a shed in the middle with a roof over.
We store our maize in one container and in the other container is our maize mill and tool room. We still need a cement floor in the shed but we are so grateful up to now.
Leaders At The Mission
Wyson and Mercy
Benson and Mercy
Eric and Beatrice.
They run the maize mill.
Chrissy and Cecilia
01.06.2021
Just to give you some idea of what the Lord is doing here at the mission in Malawi.
We are left with about 15ha to clear from bush next season. This is what we could have planted so far.
01.01.2021
It is going well at the mission in Malawi by Gods grace.
We were able to cultivate and plant all the available fields and we are almost finished cleaning it all. It really looks good.
The Lord has sent enough rain so far and we are looking forward to a good harvest. For the first time we trust to generate our own money and hope to be able to pay the salaries ourselves from June this year. This will enable us to have more money free for new developments so much needed.
We also trust to open our school again soon, after everything was shut down due to covid. We also plan some improvements on classrooms this year.
We also receive more and more invitations to other areas of the country to preach the Gospel.
Ladies cleaning the fields.
We had more than a hundred helping us now and its such an opportunity for the Gospel
11.24.2020
The Lord helped me to build a house.
Construction hands on experience for the school boys. Our schoolboys are so eager to learn about everything and therefore they always help everywhere.
