More News From Malawi

If I sound like a broken record and keep pointing to what is happening in Malawi, that is because I am! I looked at Suffer The Little Children today, and was blown away with lots of posts about good food and smiling babies, beautiful pictures, strange weather (raining babies) and day to day life from a son's perspective.

What an adventure, and what stories these kids will have to tell the rest of their lives.

Bless the Langdons!

New Babies in Malawi

There is a great update over at Suffer The Little Children about the 2 babies in their lives. If you are wondering, this is the Langdon family who with their 6 kids moved to Malawi in the late Spring and have just started a new orphanage, and now have babies!

Also, we got an email that lists some needs they have, so if you feel inclined, they need support. Here is part of the email from Lisa Langdon:

Well, here’s my list of things that we need and that I can’t seem to find here or the quality is so poor and they are expensive:

• Crib and bassinet sheets (I have no bassinet sheets and only1 crib sheet and have never seen any here)
• Receiving blankets and warm blanketsWarm sleepers with feet (all sizes up to 24 months)
• Plastic pants or diaper wraps for cloth diapers—all sizes from newborn to 18 months.
• Cloth diapers for newborns to 18 months (I have some but I know that I will go through them fast

It is probably better to send small packages than larger ones. We will get them but it just takes awhile. Also remember that it is expensive to ship here.

Their mailing address is:

Andy Langdon

Ministry of Hope

PO Box 395

Mzuzu MALAWI

On their page they also have a link to the Langdon Kids blog, which is a kids perspective on living in Malawi.

Rich

Suffer The Little Children

God bless the Langdon family. While I don't know them personally, I feel like I do know something of their heart, and want to know and realize in myself their passion for going and doing. They are a family of 8 who used to live near us, and earlier this year packed up and moved to Malawi, Africa to start a new orphanage. I would say that they have heard and obeyed.

Based on what they have done, I think that they would say "right on" to Tom's post about Scary Books, my discussion about obedience, and Avery's holy rant about the good fight, as they are doing what most of us Christians in America say we all should do. They are walking their talk, and I pray that God blesses each step of their journey beyond what they could even hope for.

You can find them at Suffer The Little Children and read about their journey, the new babies in their lives, and better yet get connected to them to pray, support, or anything else God would have you do in response to what I would call their radical obedience.

Rich

The Uganda Orphans Fund

We have recently been supporting The Uganda Orphans Fund through some product sales they do and I thought I would give them a plug. Proceeds from the sales of their coffee and necklaces go to support their mission, which is:

Our goal is simple and straightforward: to continue building orphan homes and provide care for these needy Ugandan children as long as it takes to see them all housed and provided for.

The daughter of some of our friends recently got back from a mission trip to Uganda to visit many of the orphanages they run, and through their church we got wind of this organization.

Now it is the only coffee we are drinking, and it is awesome. I drink it really dark with sugar, Ethiopian style, while Lisa prefers hers as a wet cap preferrably served while still in bed.

The necklaces are simple and beautiful, and we have given them to everyone who is praying for our girls. Meklit and Marta are loved greatly and being prayed for lots because we have gone through lots of necklaces!

If you want to check them out, the link is above, or over there to the right under The Real World.

Rich