Deacon Radson Mulozowa sent the following report and most of the photos:
TERRY NELSON VISIT TO MALAWI.
During their visit they visited the following congregation both Malawi and Mozambique:
- MWANZA Mwanza , Tulonkhondo, Kajiya, Chileka gathered together at Mwanza yet other other congregation could not come due to transportation.
Mwanza congregants
- Njenjete and Kachingwe congregation were at Mwanza.
Njenjete congregants
Radson Mulozowa, Terry Nelson, Evans Ochieng
- SUNUDZI Sunudzi and Willie congregation were at Sunudzi.
Sunudzi congregants
- MAMBUCHA IN MOZAMBIQUE Domasi, Chindola, Nankhombe, Muguliwa, Nasiyaya. Mukhulumba, Nagaga were at Mambucha. Mkwamba congregation could not come because of transportation since its very far from where the meeting were held.
Mozambique congregants
- MIGOWI Migowi, Chiringa, and Migowi congregation were at Migowi.
Migowi congregants and the Nelsons
TOPICS THAT TERRY COVERED.
- How the Continuing Church of God Differs from Most Protestants
- Tithes and Offering
- A short summary on the books he brought to Malawi since he distributed to every host in each congregation including the Chief in Mozambique since he knows English.
PLANS OF THE WORK
Pastor Evans and Terry said:
- The plans of Poultry farming where by {many} congregations can have 100 chickens to care so that the {members will have more} so that church can have funds to help preaching the gospel.
- Irrigation programme. We have place that sustain water through out the year so Evans told me that he will discuss with you so that 2 engine pumps can be bought to start that, in so doing we can elevate hunger problem among brethren.
- Terry promised to assist the elderly in the church who met them at Sunudzi since many of them can not care themselves.
- Upon seeing unfinished hall at Migowi he said he will talk with you so that we can finish it and put chairs since it has started raining again it show that our hall will be at risk if the rains continue. Bearing in mind that this is centre church for all the congregation both Malawi and Mozambique .
His visit has brought great change to the work and truth about the kingdom.
(Terry Nelson and Bob Thiel discussed the chicken project, which is similar to something that Steve Dupuie and Bob Thiel had discussed in the past. Depending upon donations, we hope to try to begin this in a couple of places in the Spring of this year. We will have to see how it goes before we attempt to involve more congregations. As of this instant, we do not know the costs of the irrigation pumps, so do not know if we will be able to do this or not. We do provide some support for widows, the elderly, and orphans, but am not sure how much more we can provide at this time. Terry Nelson and Bob Thiel did discuss the unfinished hall in Migowi, but no one has let me know how much that would cost, so Bob Thiel has not committed to that yet. We will see. A concern is that without more cement it may collapse in the rainy season. As far as other plans, we have been working to get more materials in the Chichewa language. We believe that this will not only serve the brethren, but will result in more people learning the truth.)
Deacon Radson Mulozowa also sent a chart:
CONTINUING CHURCH OF GOD MARCH REPORT
Num. CONGREGATION DISTRICT MEMBERSHIP 1 MIGOWI PHALOMBE 40 2 PHALONI PHALOMBE 18 3 CHIRINGA PHALOMBE 18 4 SUNUDZI ZOMBA 114 5 WILLIE ZOMBA 21 6 NJENJETE ZOMBA 96 7 KACHINGWE MULANJE 35 8 MWANZA MWANZA 122 9 TULONKHONDO MWANZA 89 10 KAJIYA MWANZA 64 11 NENO NENO 50 12 CHILEKA BLANTYRE 30 13 FALAWE NENO 78 14 MALOWA BLANTYRE 54 15 NAKHOMBE MILANJE MOZAMBIQUE 40 16 NASIYAYA MULUMBU, MOZAMBIQUE 65 17 MUGULIWA MULUMBU, MOZAMBIQUE 35 18 CHINDOLA MILANJE, MOZAMBIQUE 28 19 DOMASI MILANJE ,MOZAMBIQUE 39 20 NAGAGA MILANJE, MOZAMBIQUE 32 21 MUKHULUMBA MULUMBU, MOZAMBIQUE 12 22 MKWAMBA MKWAMBA, MOZAMBIQUE 70
According to the above report, we have 829 in Malawi with us and 321 in Mozambique. As we work in the area, while we ultimately expect more growth, we also anticipate various hostile issues.