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We just spent an hour or two at Thondwe preaching the gospel and giving out around 3500 texts and Gospel magazines.<\/p>\n

A few minutes after leaving Thondwe the team witnessed a fatal accident immediately in front of the minibus, in fact, a second or two could have seen our minibus involved in a head on collision.<\/p>\n

Some of the team have been a bit traumatised by what they saw, but we are so thankful that the Lord preserved us from being personally involved.The experience reminds us of how urgent the work of the Gospel is.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your prayers.<\/p>\n

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We just spent an hour or two at Thondwe preaching the gospel and giving out around 3500 texts and Gospel magazines. A few minutes after leaving Thondwe the team witnessed a fatal accident immediately in front of the minibus, in fact, a second or two could have seen our minibus involved in a head on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mgo2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pE8C-mj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1591,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/mgo-2017-hill-dale\/","url_meta":{"origin":1383,"position":0},"title":"MGO 2017 – Over hill and down dale","author":"Stephen","date":"29 September 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Wednesday 9 August Wednesday is market day at Thondwe, and also at Dzaone, a small rural settlement about 30 mins from Thondwe on a bumpy dirt road heading south towards the Phalombe plain.\u00a0 We have been visiting Dzaone for a a couple of years and made a return visit there\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Malawi Gospel Outreach"","block_context":{"text":"Malawi Gospel Outreach","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/category\/mgo\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170810_143138-e1506425929857.jpg?fit=675%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170810_143138-e1506425929857.jpg?fit=675%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/20170810_143138-e1506425929857.jpg?fit=675%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1404,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/hundreds-hear-the-gospel\/","url_meta":{"origin":1383,"position":1},"title":"Hundreds hear the Gospel","author":"Stephen","date":"10 August 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"What a privilege to preach to such a large crowd of people just a short distance from our base at Thondwe, many of whom came aside to listen carefully to the Gospel. 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