{"id":1677,"date":"2018-07-28T14:06:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T13:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2018-07-28T14:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T13:06:36","slug":"malawi-gospel-outreach-2018-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/malawi-gospel-outreach-2018-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Gospel Outreach 2018 Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are eagerly anticipating our annual Gospel Outreach effort in Malawi, which is now only a couple of weeks away.&nbsp; Gail and I fly to Johannesburg on 6 August, where I have a conference engagement later that week, and will proceed to Malawi on 10 August, Lord willing.<\/p>\n<p>In previous years our team of volunteers has&nbsp;been based at our rented home in Thondwe, however it is getting much-needed repairs (the roof has leaked for years) and is presently unavailable, so we will be based in guesthouse accommodation in Lilongwe, the capital city.<\/p>\n<p>We have had a couple of brothers pull out at the last minute due to unavoidable personal circumstances (we wish them the Lord\u2019s rich blessing), but we are glad to have a number of believers returning, in some cases for a third (or more) time, together with some new faces,&nbsp;and we will look to the Lord to give us the enablement we need.&nbsp; We have just printed 25,000 Seed Sower texts and around 400,000 assorted Gospel Tracts.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>safe travel (in the air and on the roads)<\/li>\n<li>good health for each volunteer<\/li>\n<li>safety from accident \/ harm of any kind<\/li>\n<li>help in preaching the Gospel daily in market-places etc.<\/li>\n<li>discernment in handling contacts with the people<\/li>\n<li>blessing in Salvation<\/li>\n<li>life-transforming impressions in the experience of the volunteers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you would like to follow the progress of this year\u2019s effort, we will try to post updates to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/mgo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/mgo&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1532868519999000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG1iARdeMVIkqHFUtjWbcS5Yh11Rw\">www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/mgo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is very encouraging to be able to report some progress in the literature work in Malawi.&nbsp; We have managed to acquire 3 shipping containers as regional storage \/ distribution depots, and we will continue to add to their number in the coming months, as we are able.&nbsp; There are increasing opportunities for distribution of literature, concerning which I will write on another occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are eagerly anticipating our annual Gospel Outreach effort in Malawi, which is now only a couple of weeks away.&nbsp; Gail and I fly to Johannesburg on 6 August, where I have a conference engagement later that week, and will proceed to Malawi on 10 August, Lord willing. 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It's from our trip in 2013 and brought back some wonderful memories.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Malawi Gospel Outreach&quot;","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\/2015\/07\/IMG_5788.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5788.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5788.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5788.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/IMG_5788.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}