VOHMalawi http://vohmalawi.org Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 05 May 2012 21:26:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 April 2012 Newsletter http://vohmalawi.org/2012/april-2012-newsletter/ http://vohmalawi.org/2012/april-2012-newsletter/#comments Sat, 05 May 2012 21:26:17 +0000 David http://vohmalawi.org/?p=269 We want to start off by thanking you all for your prayers for us personally and for Village of Hope! The month of April has been very different than we anticipated, but through it all we have clearly seen God`s hand at work!

Although we had not planned on making a trip to Canada until the fall, we are sitting here, writing to you from Waterloo, ON. At the beginning of this month, it was determined that a lesion on Connie`s leg was cancerous. Simply receiving this diagnosis in Malawi was a miracle as there are only 1 or 2 pathologists in the whole country. The biopsy that was performed in Malawi showed that it was a squamous cell carcinoma (not the most serious type of skin cancer, but not the most benign), and it was recommended to us by our American doctor friend (another blessing) to return to Canada as soon as possible to have it removed (and reduce the risk of spread). So on April 13 we flew into Toronto, on that Monday Connie was seen by our family doctor and by the specialist, and the next Friday the lesion was removed. Connie is recovering well and we are planning on returning to Malawi at the end of May, after we receive confirmation that all of the cancerous tissue has been removed. Please join us in praying that the doctors were successful in removing all the cancer the first time around!

(read more of our newsletter in the .pdf below)

]]> http://vohmalawi.org/2012/april-2012-newsletter/feed/ 0 March 2012 Newsletter http://vohmalawi.org/2012/march-2012-newsletter/ http://vohmalawi.org/2012/march-2012-newsletter/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:26:26 +0000 David http://vohmalawi.org/?p=264 March has been a month of welcoming many visitors to Village of Hope! A special thank you to Rev. Clarence Buckle, his wife Wanda, and to Junior & Ivy Andrews (all from the Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland and Labrador), who visited VOH this month. The Andrews served in Malawi as the directors of Village of Hope before us, and this was an exciting opportunity for Junior and Ivy to see the growth of the children and the ministry that they started. They also saw their vision of a nursery school as a reality! [read more via the .pdf below]

]]> http://vohmalawi.org/2012/march-2012-newsletter/feed/ 0 February 2012 Newsletter http://vohmalawi.org/2012/february-2012-newsletter/ http://vohmalawi.org/2012/february-2012-newsletter/#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 14:10:49 +0000 David http://vohmalawi.org/?p=257 February has been a month filled with many challenges! However, God is with us and His blessings are abundant. A team from our home church, Waterloo Pentecostal Assembly, came for 2 weeks and painted Waterloo House. One of the team members, Ted, a farmer from Southern Ontario, taught Frances (one of the VOH employees) how to drive and care for our new tractor! What a huge blessing! WPA also sent a container with various supplies, including all the furnishings for the house. The container is still en-route but when it arrives the Waterloo House will be ready to open! Thank you, WPA!  (read more via the included .pdf below)

]]> http://vohmalawi.org/2012/february-2012-newsletter/feed/ 0 January 2012 Newsletter http://vohmalawi.org/2012/january-2012-newsletter/ http://vohmalawi.org/2012/january-2012-newsletter/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:14:10 +0000 David http://vohmalawi.org/?p=251 GOD IS FAITHFUL!!! The last few months have been quite the journey, as we have been going through the process of applying to have our TEP (Temporary Employment Permit) renewed. It seems that  everything that could have possibly gone “off the rails” in the process of applying for this permit, did in fact go off the rails (from hold ups with David’s passport renewal to new forms and processes on the Malawian side that suddenly appeared overnight). But despite it all, our God has shown Himself faithful, and in the end it has all worked out!… (read more in the .pdf below)

]]> http://vohmalawi.org/2012/january-2012-newsletter/feed/ 0 January Newsletter http://vohmalawi.org/2012/january-newsletter/ http://vohmalawi.org/2012/january-newsletter/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:59:18 +0000 David http://vohmalawi.org/?p=246 HAPPY NEW YEAR! We are very thankful for God’s love and strength during 2011 and we are looking forward to great things in 2012. New Year’s Day we worshipped at Capital City Pentecostal Church and were challenged to step out and do what seems impossible!

December has been a great month! We missed our family, but we are thankful for good friends, the Purdy’s (PAOC missionaries running the Bible College in Lilongwe) and Leuw’s (new missionaries working with Lifeline Malawi) who joined us for Christmas day!

…read more via the .pdf below

]]> http://vohmalawi.org/2012/january-newsletter/feed/ 0 December 2011 Newsletter http://vohmalawi.org/2011/december-2011-newsletter/ http://vohmalawi.org/2011/december-2011-newsletter/#comments Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:51:53 +0000 Darren http://vohmalawi.org/?p=241 MERRY CHRISTMAS! So hard to believe it is time to celebrate our Saviour’s birth again! But so thankful that He came!

November was a very busy month for Connie in Canada – passports, missions conventions, graduation and moving of our youngest daughter to Thunder Bay. It was great that Connie was able to visit 7 churches in the month that she was there!

David remained at VOH to keep things going. Jones, our child protection offer was still off recuperating from his hip surgery.

(read more via the .pdf below)

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Jones Mwengo, our Child Protection Officer, had hip surgery and it went very well! His recovery is going faster than anticipated and he surprised us by coming into the office today! He will be back with us full time in 3 weeks. Please continue to pray for a speedy recovery. We need him at Village of Hope!

(…read the rest of the newsletter via the .pdf file below)

 

]]> http://vohmalawi.org/2011/october-2011-newsletter/feed/ 0 September 2011 Newsletter http://vohmalawi.org/2011/september-2011-newsletter/ http://vohmalawi.org/2011/september-2011-newsletter/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 12:53:49 +0000 David http://vohmalawi.org/?p=232 PRAISE THE LORD! Lilongwe Hope Academy, the primary school at VOH is officially open! We received approval for the school from the Ministry of Education the day before it was scheduled to open – God always answers prayer just in time!  (read more in our .pdf newsletter below)

]]> http://vohmalawi.org/2011/september-2011-newsletter/feed/ 0 August 2011 http://vohmalawi.org/2011/august-2011/ http://vohmalawi.org/2011/august-2011/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:56:57 +0000 Darren http://vohmalawi.org/?p=227 Our most exciting news this month is that we hired three teachers for our new school, Lilongwe Hope Academy! They were so excited that they all wanted to started work the day after they were hired, much earlier than just a week before school started. They have been busy preparing their lessons and are enthusiastically looking forward to the start of the school year in September… (read more below)

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Lindy is here completing her final placement in her Physician Assistant program at Baylor HIV/Aids Clinic (where several of our children receive treatment), so she has been off to work every day. Each time she comes to VOH, her doctor skills are put to use. Thanks for being a blessing, Lindy! … (read more of our newsletter below)

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