{"id":720,"date":"2015-08-11T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/?p=720"},"modified":"2015-08-11T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T14:22:42","slug":"720","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/720\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the bus depot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today was our first day with the full team of workers in place. We are grateful for such a willing group, each of whom had really thrown themselves into the work without reserve.<\/p>\n

We have been working today in Zomba, first in the town centre by the bus depot, where we have held open air meetings for three years now.<\/p>\n

It was very encouraging to meet some of the truck drivers who wait there for a hire who remembered us from each of the former years. One told me her still has the texts from those visits.<\/p>\n

From there we made our way to Mpondabwino FOR another open air meeting and text distribution. The uptake was typically overwhelming and we quickly exhausted the remainder of the 2000 or so literature packs we had brought with us.<\/p>\n

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After lunch, and a restock, we returned to Mpunga, Zomba, where we distributed around another 800 or so packs.<\/p>\n

A conservative estimate of the number of people who have heard the gospel today would be not less than 3500. Pray for blessing on God’s Word.<\/p>\n

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People listening carefully add Euan preaches the gospel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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