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from Blantyre, we hope that you are all well!

Since our last update we carved some time out of our normal schedule in Blantyre and took the 5 hour trip north to the capital city, Lilongwe, so that we could have a long overdue catch up with the wonderful Dalitso Trust Team.

We first met this amazing team 8 years ago & visited them annually prior to moving here. We really love these special people, and they have graciously allowed us to call their ministry our Malawi home village, and it always does feel like going home there in Malawi.

We had a wonderful time with them, initially hearing what they had been up to since we had last seen them. Wow, they have been through a challenging season but are seeing amazing pursuits for the Kingdom of God. They are continuing with the Kingdom Expansion which once a month on their day off they go out into the communities and pray for the sick to be healed, salvations and miracles and they are seeing it!! We heard exciting testimonies of salvations, healings including people speaking for the first time, and ears opened, and they said totally matter of factly they were just waiting to have the opportunity to raise the dead! We reflected with them, when we first met them, would they have foreseen themselves doing this 8 years later? They have grown SO much and are such an example of what can be accomplished for the Kingdom in rural Malawi. 

They are also seeing amazing growth both in numbers but also maturity of their newly planted Malingunde Vineyard Church, it was a privilege to hear about how they are sowing Kingdom culture in a culture that is very opposite to Kingdom culture.  

We both led a time of teaching with the team, Mark taught on Identity and Laura taught on Jesus coming to reveal the Father & the Father heart of God.  

As always we had a time of prayer ministry but this time made a point of not leading in any way, we just watched and let the team do all of the ministry. The lady being prayed for was suffering from asthma and during the prayer time her symptoms fully left her!

SOME OF THE TEACHING NOTES FROM OUR TEACHING

We also had the privilege of being able to serve the couple who lead Dalitso Trust through their first Sozo session.

 

Blantyre

We continue to serve in Blantyre through church leadership, mentoring, Encounter evenings, and Sozos. We’ve had some great sessions with our rural Pastors we’re training recently focusing on the subject or Grace vs. Works. There is very much a mentality within the rural communities I must do X, Y & Z to guarantee salvation. We were able to teach against this lie that is prevalent about the truth that our salvation was won for us entirely by Jesus at the Cross, we could see the revelation dawn on the pastors face’s and as always we encouraged they share this message with their congregations.   

  

We’d really appreciate prayers into these final 6 weeks before our visit to England. We’re already in the throes of the logistics of arranging our schedule, with always too much to do in too little a time, alongside carrying on our normal ministry and preparing resources for our absence. However we are very excited about our trip home, it will have been a year, and we’re ready for our fill of Fish & Chips and all of the other wonderful English delicacies!