Housing project a sweet dream for Malawi widows
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
No more nightmares for smiling Malita Seven, right, with Climbing For Christ’s Damson Samson.
Malita Seven suffered from bad dreams. But since workers began to r...
Dancing for the houses
Story by Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Photos by Damson Samson, C4C missionary to East Africa
Even as their new houses are being built, the widows blessed beyond their imaginations feel like dancing. Sometimes they literally do so.
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Tears of joy for food in Malawi
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Giving praise for maize. (Photos by Damson Samson)
If you are building houses on the Rock, you would be wise to remember these words: “For I was hungry and you gave me something...
More ‘miracle’ houses in Malawi
Asidaya Chikwane outside the new house Climbing For Christ is building for her. (Photos by Damson Samson)
Asidaya Chikwane is blind. “She is physically challenged on top of being a widow,” said Damson Samson. “She had ...
Giving thanks for housing the forgotten widows
By Gary Fallesen
President, Climbing For Christ
Fages Chipesu confessed to feeling as if she was a dog. “Nobody wanted me,” said the widow from Ngoma village in impoverished southern Malawi.
“I am very than...
Building miracle houses: ‘we can’t do without Him’
Story by Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Photos and reporting by Damson Samson, C4C missionary to East Africa
Damson with smiling Emily as workers build her a house.
Emily Patisi...
Homes, sweet homes
Story by Gary Fallesen, founding president Climbing For Christ
Photos by Damson Samson, C4C’s missionary to East Africa
The expressions on their faces and the language of their bodies have changed dramatically in the months since our Mission: Malawi team first met...
Damson Samson, right, harvests a field of bricks to build more homes for widows in southern Malawi.
Ten houses have been built for widows in southern Malawi as part of our Project 1:27, based on James 1:27, which tells us “to look after orphans and widows in their distress....
Seeing and walking with God in His creation
Damson Samson heads for the hills in southern Malawi.
In his 33 years of walking the earth, Damson Samson never had experienced anything like “evangelism week” on Malawi’s Mulanje Massif in June.
Climbing For Christ’s mis...
Damson, right, giving out jackets to widows in villages around him in southern Malawi.
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me… Th...