Dear supporters of New Fields Ministries, as we wrote in the previous letter, God put in our hearts to open a school for church leaders in Blantyre – Malawi. Our people are very open but without training and instruction, it will be difficult for them to remain clear to the doctrine of the Gospel. To open new churches in remote areas and rural areas, we need educated pastors.
To sponsor pastoral training, we will need financial support of $100 per month for 2 years. We plan to train up to 20 pastors a year to plant new churches.
Currently, we have announced to the churches our first group 20 pastors who are willing to open up churches in northern Malawi. We believe that in January 2020, they will begin their training. We pray that the Lord will encourage you to participate in this matter!
Here in Maasai, people depend on livestock such as goats, cows, sheep and donkeys. This is their favorite work. When a baby is born, the first thing it learns is to simply graze cattle. Many Maasai do not know that children should go to school! I was lucky, because in my family, I was the only girl who went to school. My father had five wives and my mother was his first wife. She gave birth to nine children. I was not even seven years old when my father approved that I can go to school.
I finished eighth grade in 1995 and wanted to continue my education. But my father decided for me to get married. He called a friend and said: “if you have a boy who is ready to marry, then I have a wife for him.” In our tribe you cannot disobey what your father says and in 1996, at the age of 14, I married Morris Ntikoysa. He was not a pastor at the time but was a born-again Christian. I gave birth to our first son named Francis, after one year into the marriage. Then a girl Esther, a boy Boniface, a girl Sylvia and the last girl Everin. In 2004, my husband was ordained for a pastoral ministry. We had a very difficult life, barely enough food to survive, but God helped us in everything. Thanks to your support, all my children are doing well at school. One boy is even a scout commander. Girls are studying very well.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for opening a new school in our tribe, where I can teach children the alphabet and their native language!
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!
By teaching church leaders, we are able to grow quantitatively and qualitatively. Churches opening in rural and very poor areas. Here, most people live off farming and their livestock. New believers will need to learn to support the pastor. When the church grows stronger and can support the pastor, we will need help with sponsoring the pastors, and help with the rental of premises. For 2 years we will need the support of $100 per month for each pastor. We plan to train up to 20 pastors a year to plant new churches.
We currently have 10 pastors who are ready to open churches in northern Malawi in the districts of Dove, Chitip, Chikangawa, Chintech, Nyungwi, Rumphi, Borelio, Kasante and Karong.
Please help us to begin this work for the glory of God! We will pray that the Lord will encourage you to work with us!
The Zambezi Gospel Church was founded by an Australian missionary, Joseph Booth, in 1892. In 1964, the leadership of the church was transferred to the indigenous people. From 1964 to 1986 there were only 35 ministers. They served in 50 mother churches and in 100 subsidiary churches.
In 1987, a biblical college was established to prepare leaders of planting new churches. Every year we graduate around 20 to 30 pastors. They received a diploma with the contingent to open a new church. Every 2-3 months they went to evangelize. Thanks to this training our union has grown several times. At the moment, funding for the Bible college has stopped, and we were forced to close it. But since we still have the building, we want to provide courses for pastors who want to plant new churches.
We have 5 districts in the north of Malawi where Islam dominates. Here we would like to establish new churches. We wish to train 20 pastors during the year, who will begin this ministry in Malawi and Mozambique. The cost of accommodation, food and tuition per person will be $ 100 per month. We believe that this ministry is pleasing to God!
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.
