Mission Moments: Malawi
Rejoicing for a roof over their heads
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
As soon as Damson Samson received word that funding was coming from Canada for his proposed widows roofing project he ran out to share the good news.
“I went to the village to let them know how much God has done,” said Damson, Climbing For Christ’s Malawi-based missionary to East Africa.
“The woman in the field was very excited,” Damson said about the widow in the photo above. “She said she has been trying to bring back her fallen house. She contended that God answers prayers, but we don’t know or realize He does. She said, ‘One time I offered a prayer asking God to give me food and in the afternoon God provided.’”
We give thanks that God has used Climbing For Christ as the vessel to deliver food, love and encouragement through an expanded Project 1:27.
Project 1:27 – based on James 1:27, which states, “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world” – began in Malawi in 2010. It started as a partnership with Pastor Duncan Nyozani’s Searchlight Ministries (caring at the time for 15 orphans at the Far & Wide Children’s Home) and later expanded to Nepal.
Now, in support of brother Damson’s Spirit-led initiative to reach out to the many widows in villages in southern Malawi, we are looking after orphans and widows in their distress. This includes helping to put roofs over the heads of 10 long-suffering widows.
“We need 3,000 (U.S.) dollars to give them new small, one-bedroom (houses with) grass-thatched roofs within the burned bricks (of the old houses),” Damson requested in early April. “This development can start if the LORD provides funds for these mothers and fathers. They haven’t done something wrong to be sleeping in the bush. They need our support. Others die before their time due to our negligence.”
We appealed to Climbing For Christ members and supporters on April 4. C4C Canada was able to send Damson US$1,200 and Climbing For Christ will be sending another $1,000. More funding is needed to help the least of the least of these.
“I went down to the grandpa in blue, who was over the moon (about the news of God’s provision),” Damson said. “He showed me the few trees he had and said, ‘I am ready to contribute these small trees (to build homes). We don’t have much to contribute, but we really give thanks for this development.’”
Can you help?
Please contribute to the care of the least of these by sending a donation to Climbing For Christ c/o Malawi Widows Project at P.O. Box 16290, Rochester, NY 14616-0290 USA. Or CLICK HERE to give via PayPal and email info@ClimbingForChrist.org to alert us to your donation.
In Canada, make checks payable to The Great Commission Foundation, and on the memo line add Climbing For Christ CANADA c/o Malawi Widows Project. Mail your support to: The Great Commission Foundation, #3 – 1335 Trans Canada Way SE, Medicine Hat, AB T1B 1J1. Or give online at http://tgcfcanada.org/donate. Mark your contribution: “Climbing For Christ CANADA c/o Malawi Widows Project.”
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