In Malawi, many children have lost their parents due to HIV / AIDS. Children grow up on the streets and face many challenges. Many parents, if they are alive, live in poverty and make their children to sell things in order to earn money for the family.
Such children do not go to school and as a result of they remain without education. Often left to their own devices, such children turn into criminals. We have children who have lost both parents, and the eldest of them leads the family of his brothers and sisters. We have opened a children’s ministry to solve this problem and to help children come to Jesus Christ. We teach children the Word of God to sing hymns of worship. We teach them to share the Gospel and food with hungry friends.
Child trafficking is becoming a big problem in Malawi because of the poverty some parents are willing to sell their children.
Pray with us that the Lord will help us expand our ministry with children in all regions of our country. Thank you for participating in this project!
Malawi has a population of 18.1 million, and 40% of them are young people under the age of 15. Most children have lost both parents. Many families are headed by an older child who takes care of the younger ones. Economic difficulties force children to go to the streets and beg, or steal.
Children need both, daily bread and the Word of God. We would like to lend a helping hand and invite them to the children’s camp. Here they will experience the love of God, and will be able to eat plenty. We have not conducted children’s camps before, but we see this as an unique opportunity to reach not only the children with the Gospel, but also the parents, we, for our part, are ready to do everything to start this ministry!
Please send us workers who can teach our people how to effectively conduct children’s camps. Share your experience with us. Through this ministry, many children who have never heard of Christ will be able to get to know Him. It is not difficult for us to gather 200-300 children for several days in the camp. Help us to make it happen. To sustain one child in the camp will cost us around $3.00 daily. Thank you for participation in this ministry.
I have over 300 children as each month more children are registering. The children who do not know Jesus are just too many. I would like to bring more children to Christ. There are serious threats for our children as Islam is growing so fast and they are enticing children to join Islam. The Muslim Community takes advantage of the poverty in our community and uses money, food, clothes, and scholarship. Most of our children are coming from very poor families, who cannot afford such things.
Camp meetings will help to bring many children & youth to Christ. I will invite them to attend such camps in order to reach them for Christ. This concept is new in Malawi that is why I would like to invite your team to come and train us. After training we will be able to train other congregations.
I am also a youth leader. Youth Camp will also be required to reach out our youth I will need your assistance. We have limited resources to motivate and reach out other youths. This will be treated as a training of youth or empowering the youth spiritual growth and training them to reach out the lost.
National youth leaders need your assistance too to develop it to reach out its fellow youths in the country. Our youth needs recourse to enable it trains its leaders for effective leadership. Major priorities are training in discipleship and spiritual leadership. We would be glad if you can assist us with such training or funding such trading programs. We have a little over 10,000 youthmemebrs who we would like to train and use for the great commission.
The youth program has been extended from churches to public institutions like primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities. We have access to both government and private institutions to share the word of God. With your help we could do more as far as training and equipping the church for ministry. Well trained youth is a very important tool for the expound of Gods kingdom.
Psalm 127:3-5 3 Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one’s youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate.
GIRLS BRIGADE
We also have another department of girl child empowerment. An African girl is disadvantaged because of cultural beliefs. Women have been treated not as equal partners but were taken like a property of a husband. Because of this cultural understanding, girls has been denied opportunities to go for higher education like their male counterparts.
This department helps young girls to rediscover her identity as God created them in His own image. Young girls are freed from bad cultural practices and develop them to serve her family and God as intended. Girls are trained how to take care of her home, children and her husband according to the Word of God
On this picture are the national leaders of the department of the Girls Brigade. I will need your support to equip this group as well as to make resources available for training needs.
Girls are the majority of our members. They are dedicated but without resources we have too many challenges.
