Zomba blog post by Colin Hale

Hello everyone,

We had some both interesting and amazing moments this weekend. We began by making the 6 hour trip from Lilongwe to Zomba, to meet with the students of Domasi Teaching College and Chancellor’s College. We arrived in time to join worship at the Domasi service. Following worship Moriah shared her testimony and Jenny preached out of Hebrews 11. Both the testimony and preaching were extremely encouraging. The preaching specifically showed us the faith of the Old Testament patriarchs, and how we fit into the continuing line of Christians, as well our call to also walk in faith. The meeting ended by the patron (faculty representative of SCOM) giving our team words of encouragement, that what we are doing here in Malawi is truly God’s work. After staying the night in a hostel, we got up and met with the leadership teams of Domasi and Chancellor’s Colleges. Inside these meetings the teams told us all the parts of their ministry that were both challenging and excelling. Some things that were challenging to these students were changing venues for their services, how to start or continue reaching to incoming students more effectively and because of the distance for staff to travel they require more presence from the associates and regional committees. The travel itself was extremely trying, due to poor road surfaces vehicle maintenance is require often, and for long trips break downs are a frequent occurrence. Our vehicle experienced this reality, as we were stopped for nearly an hour fixing a tire that had fallen off, by God’s provision the incident occurred in a village of people that were willing to assist us repair the wheel.

Some of our prayer requests are for continued safety in traveling, for the associates program of SCOM to increase to continue providing for the ministry, along with the associates please include a prayer of thanks for the associates that are present and constantly sacrificing for the ministry.

God Bless.