Updated APRIL 1, 2024
April 2024 Prayer Requests:
“But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.” – 1 John 3:17-18
Fatima was a baby SAFE saved with formula when her mother died, and when her gogo’s home collapsed from Cyclone Freddy, people prayed, God supplied, and a beautiful home was just finished for them.
Thank you Lord . . .
For the good news, after years of praying, Zomba City Council has accepted SAFE's proposal to develop the park where SAFE Haven operates!!! Keep praying for the many details yet to be decided and worked out.
For SAFE Haven’s good volunteer, Hassan Bimah, who has been given a permanent job in government.
For the many children in primary schools who have accepted Jesus into their hearts as their Savior during the last few months through the showings of the Story of Jesus for Children film.
For the numerous village chiefs and their wives in Kachindamoto who are welcoming the gospel of Jesus and are accepting Him to be their Lord and Savior.
That SAFE has been granted another opportunity to continue with the Prison Ministry with inmates in 3 prisons in Zomba.
For the Thowolo parenting group giving back to their community. The group is making sanitary pads as an Income Generating Activity. They donated their first lot of pads to needy girls at Bungano Primary School.
For the good job done by the caregivers in assessing the CBCC preschoolers at the end of term two.
For the successful Community, CBCC, (Preschool) Gogo, and Parenting groups Leadership Empowerment Training Workshops which were done in all Zomba-sponsored village communities. Everything from biblical parenting, child development, assets for income generating, servant leadership, and workshops to make play and learning materials for their CBCCs (preschools) and young children in their communities.
For Lake Chilwa Evangelism team members who are able to buy and sell maize as an income-generating activity for their ministry.
Ongoing praise for the faithful SAFE/Gogo groups, churches and supporters who pray for the SAFE ministries in Malawi and give to support SAFE's mission to change lives in vulnerable communities as they share God's love and truth in words and action.
Praying for. . .
Pray for Malawi currently in a state of disaster. The President has called for assistance as 23 out of 28 districts of the country are worst hit by El-Nino, wiping out over 700,000 hectares of maize, the staple grain, and pushing close to 2,000,000 farming households into hunger. Pray for the most vulnerable to get food.
Pray for our LOVE WINS Malawi Walkabout starting this month which will help spread the love of Jesus to thousands of needy children in our 20 preschools and help provide fertilizer inputs for over 2,300 gogos’ gardens!
Pray for Mary Phiri’s husband who lost his mother on March 27. May the Lord’s sufficient grace be with the bereaved family as they pass through these dark and trying moments.
Pray for the Kachindamoto and Zomba Why Wait? teacher trainings April 2-5 & 9–12. Pray for God to touch the teachers’ lives during these trainings and they will be given a passion to implement these Biblicalbased Life skills with their students.
Pray an assistant for Cathy Cheonga (Coordinator for Why Wait?). The recruitment is ongoing this month to find the person God has prepared for this role. Pray as Why Wait? expands to 11 more schools.
Pray for God to give SAFE Haven a new team of 3 volunteers. The current team winded up their service at the end of March. May God give SAFE Haven a new team that loves the Lord and the children.
Pray for our Standard 8, Form 2, and Form 4 students who are preparing for their national examinations, in May and June. Especially pray for Matias, a SAFE bursary student sitting for his Malawi School Certificate of Education examinations in a few months. His life was changed by a Why Wait teacher.
Pray for Malawi experiencing an outbreak of conjunctivitis disease. 3,570 are students and 1,119 inmates and officers from prisons. 11 have completely lost their eyesight.
Pray for this year’s Easter to be meaningful to non-believers in Kachindamoto (and all our village communities). Pray that God should open their eyes to see the wonderful work that Jesus did on the cross to redeem us and give us salvation.
Pray for the funding needed for SAFE’s Leadership Empowerment Training Workshops in the remaining villages at Lake Chilwa, Kachindamoto, Luzi, Thowolo and Chipayika.
Pray for Silvia Pilo a student at Chilanga Primary School, she is a Christian but from a Muslim family and is being discriminated by her parents because of her faith in Christ Jesus.
Pray for the Bible Mailbox Club training workshops which are taking place at Mikuyu One, Mikuyu two, and Domasi Prisons --that God will use them to bear much fruit in the inmates’ lives.
Pray for the nation of Malawi as they are preparing for the 2025 Tripartite Elections. Pray for God’s guidance.
Ongoing Prayer Items . . .
Praying for our SAFE staff and volunteers who faithfully teach, love, and serve the young and old in Jesus’
name in the villages, schools, prisons, and at SAFE Haven.
Pray for the SAFE staff and their families in Malawi…
• Benjamin Khoswe, Executive Director and Director of Finance
• Mary Phiri, Director of ECD & Gogo Grandmothers
• Precious Ntibula, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer
• Catherine Cheonga, Regional Why Wait? Education Coordinator
• Lameck Kananji, Jesus Film Coordinator
• Aaron Gondwe, SAFE Haven Supervisor
• Brenda Lisimba, Community Supervisor-Zomba
• Michael Mvundula Khumalo, Community Supervisor-Kachindamoto
• Timaleni Biswick, Accounts Assistant
• Sydney Kapindu, Driver/mechanic
• Gloria Gama, Community Supervisor for the Northern Region