Dear Everyone,

Greetings in His precious name!

We are still in Malawi and it seems that we will spend another 2 months in this beautiful, but poverty stricken nation.

This month was extremely fulfilling, except for being arrested one afternoon. That day a police officer stopped us and requested car insurance. As we gave our paper to him, he notified us that we had no car insurance. We then realized with a shock that we purchased the wrong insurance! They immediately arrested us and with lots of discussion and prayer they confiscated the vehicle until we got insurance. So they released us. We then had to take a taxi to buy the correct insurance. When we returned with the needed insurance they released the vehicle, so we took the chance to preach loudly to everyone inside the police station, even the commissioner! Thank God for the boldness and favor that day!

We also got robbed! This time it was baboons! They climbed into the vehicle and took whatever they wanted! Even while we were standing next to the vehicle! It happened several times. That is why we bought some catapults (Ketties)!

As we went back to Lilongwe to purchase some supplies we stayed in the backpackers called Kiboko. Here we had opportunities to share the Gospel to quite a few tourists. As we left for Cape MacClear (On the Southern end of the Lake) we gave 2 ladies, Cathy Elsworth from the UK and a Jewish lady named Naomi from Israel a lift. We shared the Good News with both of them for many hours. Naomi left the next morning with the knowledge of Jesus as her Messiah. We kept on sharing the Gospel with Cathy for many more days. We continually prayed for her and late one night as she got into bed, she heard a voice saying to her, “The Kingdom is here”. Needless to say she was flabbergasted and terrified. As she left we kept on asking Jesus to make Himself real to her. A couple of days later our prayers were answered when we received an e-mail saying, “I asked God to come in to my life and prayed the salvation prayer- is that what you call it? … I am now a Christian!!! Wow! ... God is good! Wow! He loves us! Wow! It's true!” We give Him the Glory.

We started to go to the villages and minister to the people and handed out tracts. One day we went to some missionary graves on a hill. As we arrived, 16 youths from school aging between 13 to 20 came to see what we were up to. We shared Jesus for more than an hour and they all prayed the prayer of Salvation. Some of these youth came to the backpackers where we stayed at the time with so many questions. We discipled them for many hours. They are now on fire for God. All they want to do is preach the Gospel. Glory to God!

We tried to preach in a local CCAP Church, but they didn’t want us to preach there. (We think it was because we did not wear the proper clothes) We then preached to them outside of the church before their service started anyway, also to many others who were on their way to church. We had an opportunity to share in the Assemblies of God in Monkey Bay and also spoke to about 20 youths. Most of the youths were not sure of their salvation, so all of them received surety of salvation that morning.

Friends of ours, Susan Greeff from Swakopmund en Dawie Steyn from Port Elizabeth, came to visit and assist us with short term outreach. As the Lord gave us a greater vision to show the Jesus movie and the Passion of the Christ in the villages, these precious friends supported us with most of the equipment. We gave it a test run a couple of days ago and in one village, with very short notification, more than a thousand people arrived late at night!! Unfortunately we could not finish the movie due to battery failure.

We will pray and develop in showing these movies and will hold open air crusades as soon as we receive sound equipment. We had wonderful opportunities to share the Gospel to many Muslims, tourists and Jehovah Witnesses. Sometimes we experience resistance and other times such openness to God’s Word. This month was so full of highs and we experience the closeness of the Holy Spirit on a daily basis. One day we climbed a mountain and spent the whole day in prayer and fasting. We prayed for many people and for souls and also to experience His intimacy.

One of our lows this month was our car in regards with the exhaust and fuel system. We had to take it in for repairs a couple of times and also we ate something that did not correspond with our digestive systems. Some other lows was seeing our dear friends leave and to see the poverty, hunger, lack of education and desperation, but not being able to help every person. Even the smallest children in every area are begging… “Give me money! Give me money!”

We desire to fulfill the call of Mark 16:15 to “Go onto the entire world and preach the Gospel” and we also desire for you to fulfill that call as well. Your donation will aid us as we preach the Gospel in remote and unreached areas, impact others who will in turn impact others who will impact all generations worldwide with the truth and power of the Gospel. All gifts, great or small, will be appreciated.

Please visit our web site, www.travelmissions.org to see some photos of our latest experiences. For those of you that might have missed a few, our old newsletters are also available for viewing on our web site.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

In His service

Len and Jono (father and son serving Father and Son)