Food Shortage in Malawi

I had the opportunity to visit with both of my family’s World Vision sponsored children. Our little girl lives with her four siblings, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. They are all amazing women and I am always so blessed to visit with them. Our little boy’s family is challenged by divorce and he lives alone with his material grandmother since his mother remarried and in Malawian culture the new father does not want another man’s children.

I was moved by the challenges these young children face, like only getting one meal a day during the dry season. The last harvest was not good in Malawi and now many are facing days without food. Please pray that the rains will come soon, so they can planT their fields. Then pray that the rains will be slow and steady from December through March, so the harvest will be better next year.

When our church team visited in 2012, we saw the work that FTS and Chiefs Ministry are doing to introduce Farming God’s Way. Farming God’s Way is not just a technology, but a well-balanced biblical, management and technological solution for the agricultural domain, to come out of poverty with what God has put in their hands, and to reveal the fullness of His promised abundant life. Farmers who have begun to use Farming God’s Way have reaped harvests that our multiple times bigger than their neighbors. Pray that more farmers will try this method in order to provide more food for themselves and take better care of the earth.

You can learn more about the trip to Malawi, our Y-Malwi partners and the possibility of an SCPC Y-Malawi trip in 2014 at the “What’s up with Y-Malawi?” presentation on Sunday, December 8 during both the 9:00 am and 10:45 am services in Room 207.