{"id":716,"date":"2015-08-11T14:54:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/?p=716"},"modified":"2015-08-11T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:22:59","slug":"god-with-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/god-with-us\/","title":{"rendered":"God with us!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;the Soweto of Malawi&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-wp-1439300516742.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignleft size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-wp-1439300516742.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the vendors at Blantyre market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As always, the reception was extremely encouraging, with almost no refusals and many people lining up to receive the Word of God.<\/p>\n<p>At Ndirande we were positioned about 10 feet from a Leaflet stands of the so-called Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses, and as we preached it was wonderful to be able to emphasize the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, the one called Immanuel, God with us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-wp-1439300967970.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full\"  alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-wp-1439300967970.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;the Soweto of Malawi&#8221;. As always, the reception was extremely encouraging, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"open","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":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-mgo2015"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/wpid-wp-1439300516742.jpg?fit=400%2C225&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pE8C-by","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1434,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/back-to-p-i-m\/","url_meta":{"origin":716,"position":0},"title":"Back to P.I.M.","author":"Stephen","date":"16 August 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We returned to PIM today for a second bite of the cherry :) Last week we were very frustrated when the PA system's battery went flat early in the open air (nobody's fault but mine) , so we decided to go back another time. 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