Malawi

Short-term trips: Five lessons learned

Five things I’ve learned about being on a short term team

First VSL training & another CHE vision seminar

After many months of preparation, last week marked the first training of trainers for the Village Savings and Loans program! This entailed a full three days of training for 29 selected trainers (both men and women) from Rumphi, Mzimba, Machinga, Zomba and Mulanje. The primary task of the training was to get the trainees preparedContinue reading “First VSL training & another CHE vision seminar”

How you begin determines where you end: The difficult but formative process of starting a new program in Malawi

For those of you who know that we are working to implement two new programs of Village Savings and Loans and CHE (Community Health Evangelism), you will invariably remember us saying “we are working on it” for about 2 years now. So, in order to better convey where we are now, and so that youContinue reading “How you begin determines where you end: The difficult but formative process of starting a new program in Malawi”

Missionary Feet

My daughter, like many others, loves to put on my shoes. Strangely my sturdy Tevas are not as picturesque as a pair of heels. The first time she tried them on, my pulse quickened with concern. My shoes are with me everywhere. The street. The dirt. Drop toilets. Everywhere. And in wanting to be likeContinue reading “Missionary Feet”