{"id":994,"date":"2015-11-01T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/?p=994"},"modified":"2015-11-01T21:41:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T21:41:49","slug":"bible-teaching-conference-and-calendar-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/bible-teaching-conference-and-calendar-distribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Bible Teaching Conference and Calendar Distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-wp-1446387770790.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-wp-1446387770790.jpeg?resize=195%2C338\" alt=\"image\" width=\"195\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016 Gospel calendar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>God willing, I set off for Malawi this Tuesday for a time of Bible Teaching and literature distribution.<\/p>\n<p>A 3-day conference has been arranged at the little assembly at Nsanama (Zomba district) and many people invited. Mostly, these people will not be familiar with &#8220;assembly&#8221; truths, and many may not even be truly saved, so a good deal of time will be spent on teaching the gospel, as we make our way through some of the key lessons of the Letter to the Galatians.<\/p>\n<p>I am looking forward to the company of Stephen Marshall (Falkirk) on this trip, and it will be good to have his fellowship, not to mention help with driving.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray that the calendars week be ready for distribution. I ordered 100,000 several weeks ago, but as of Wednesday past the printer had not started the job. As I&#8217;ve Bern saying, if things wrong in Malawi, they inevitably do!<\/p>\n<p>More details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God willing, I set off for Malawi this Tuesday for a time of Bible Teaching and literature distribution. A 3-day conference has been arranged at the little assembly at Nsanama (Zomba district) and many people invited. Mostly, these people will not be familiar with &#8220;assembly&#8221; truths, and many may not even be truly saved, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":993,"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":[20],"tags":[28,29],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-literature","tag-calendars","tag-conference"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wpid-wp-1446387770790.jpeg?fit=200%2C347&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6pE8C-g2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1015,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/bible-teaching-conference-begins-tomorrow-tuesday\/","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":0},"title":"Bible Teaching Conference begins tomorrow (Tuesday)","author":"Stephen","date":"9 November 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"For those following this trip prayerfully, we ask you to specially keep in mind the 3-day conference which is due to begin tomorrow, God willing. A number of attendees have already gathered and will spend their first night in the simple purpose-built dormitory constructed just adjacent to the hall at\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1017,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/conference-concluded-calendars-continuing\/","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":1},"title":"Conference Concluded &#8211; Calendars&#8230; Continuing!","author":"Stephen","date":"12 November 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"We thank the Lord for the past 3 days of Bible teaching at Nsanama. 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It has been good to see the literature work moving forward, and we continue to be really encouraged by the number of contacts generated \u2013 some expressing interest in salvation\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1004,"url":"https:\/\/www.goodnewsmalawi.com\/site\/please-pray-about-calendar-distribution\/","url_meta":{"origin":994,"position":5},"title":"Please pray about calendar distribution","author":"Stephen","date":"4 November 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Excerpt from email from printer just received: \"My sincere apologies. Your calendars is scheduled to print tonight. The entire country has been in power cuts for the last 7 days. 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