{"id":1465,"date":"2016-09-08T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2016-09-08T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:02:45","slug":"what-a-privilege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/what-a-privilege\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What a privilege&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Alan Gaston: &#8220;<span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.64px; line-height: 23.296px;\">What a privilege it was to be part of a great team of 16 workers from various countries on this trip in August 2016<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.64px; line-height: 23.296px;\"><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.64px; line-height: 23.296px;\">What a joy to see people as they stood in the heat to listened to the Gospel proclaimed and their reception of the literature that was handed out at many markets . Some very interesting conversation were had with people and explaining that the Lord Jesus was the only way to heaven.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.64px; line-height: 23.296px;\">The prison was a wonderful experience &#8211; so many prisoners listened to the Gospel so attentively. Some of those that listened do Emmaus course\u2018s on a monthly basis.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.64px; line-height: 23.296px;\">This was my second trip and was well worth the effort and such a blessing.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.64px; line-height: 23.296px;\">I would encourage others to pray for the work done and consider a visit to Malawi 2017 (DV).&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Alan Gaston: &#8220;What a privilege it was to be part of a great team of 16 workers from various countries on this trip in August 2016 What a joy to see people as they stood in the heat to listened to the Gospel proclaimed and their reception of the literature that was handed out [&hellip;]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pE8C-nD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1459,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/life-changing\/","url_meta":{"origin":1465,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Life changing&#8221;","author":"Stephen","date":"26 August 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Rob Gratton: \"Truly amazing opportunity to share in a gospel outreach. 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