{"id":1434,"date":"2016-08-16T21:26:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/?p=1434"},"modified":"2016-08-16T21:26:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T20:26:15","slug":"back-to-p-i-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/back-to-p-i-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to P.I.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We returned to PIM today for a second bite of the cherry \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Last week we were very frustrated when the PA system&#8217;s battery went flat early in the open air (nobody&#8217;s fault but mine) , so we decided to go back another time.<\/p>\n<p>It was such an encouragement to see dozens of people standing listening attentively to the Gospel clearly preached there, and again at Blantyre market in the afternoon when we all agreed that the Lord gave very definite help and appeared to be speaking to souls.<\/p>\n<p>We have now distributed almost 25,000 of the 40,000 texts we produced for this trip, and Harold continues to receive many calls each day. &nbsp;It&#8217;s encouraging to hear that some of these contacts have serious interest in their salvation.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-1541496359jpg.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-1541496359jpg.jpg?resize=250%2C140\" title=\"\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1433\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isaac preaching at Blantyre market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We returned to PIM today for a second bite of the cherry \ud83d\ude42 Last week we were very frustrated when the PA system&#8217;s battery went flat early in the open air (nobody&#8217;s fault but mine) , so we decided to go back another time. It was such an encouragement to see dozens of people standing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1433,"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-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mgo2016"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/wp-image-1541496359jpg.jpg?fit=500%2C281&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pE8C-n8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":716,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/god-with-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":1434,"position":0},"title":"God with us!","author":"Stephen","date":"11 August 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"As we were had to meet the final two team members (Ruth and Deborah) at Chileka airport (Blantyre) on Monday afternoon, we spent the morning in Blantyre with open air meetings at the main market in the city, and later at Ndirande township, \"the Soweto of Malawi\". 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