Ministry Report October 2011
We decided to stay home this August and raise as much money as we could. It has paid great dividens. I am pleased to announce that we have drilled wells number 9,10, and 11 in the last two months. All wells are in use even though the wall around them is not yet finished. One well is near an orphanage that has had two children die this year because of the water. They are so happy this will never happen again.
The RUTF or peanut butter supplemental food is doing well. It always seems that when Pastor Francis runs out the donations come in for more. Many lives have been saved with this blessing from God. LuAnn and I would like to thank all who have donated to this ministry. If you have any questions please feel free to call or email us. We would love to hear from you.
Ministry Reports for 2010
Dear Brethren,
I would love to thank you all for your timely, sacrificial, financial and prayer support you have give to us for the past year. There is no way we could do anything without you. It is only eternity that will show you what you have exactly done to us in Malawi. Once again, thank you for your support.
The year 2010 has been such a wonderful and blessed year in our ministry. Challenges will always be there and we take them as stepping stones to the next higher level,
Crusades: When the Lord spoke to my heart to quit pastering and go for evangelism full time, little did I know what He really wanted me to be involved in. Since 2004 with my wife Maggie and the team working with me I have seen plenty of people coming to Jesus and making Him Lord and Savior of their lives. It has been so humbling to see people coming in their large numbers to the alter call during our crusades, and getting healed of their infirmities.
Out of the 28 crusades we planned for this year, we have so far done 21 crusades with 12 new churches planted. In some places they have been absolute Muslim areas.
Church Planting: It is through the crusades that churches are planted in the remotest areas. These are areas where not many ministers go and minister. I have been privileged to have planted 12 churches this year. Bringing Bible Believing churches to where people are in the dusty, remote areas.
Pastor’s Conference: In our quest to have the Gospel preached, and preached well to the lost and have the new converts well natured for. 120 and 70 pastors attended the two conferences respectively this year. The power of God just showed up during these conferences. We saw pastors lives being transformed and changed for the better. These are conferences which help the pastor to put off the denominational, tinted glasses and put on the KINGDOM glasses. Biblically learning about Forgiveness, Hearing God’s Voice, Son-ship, The Church, etc, helped the pastors to do well in their ministry.
Challenges: There is a great need of having such conferences. Many of our pastors can hardly read materials both in the vernacular and English language. They need refreshments if they are to do accomplish their calling well. How I wish we could have several of such meetings per year.
Prison Ministry: Ministering to the in-mates is quite a blessing. As they are led to the Lord, we organize Bible Studies and church services. We have a program of following them up to their homes after they have been released from prison. Providing soap, body lotion, and clothes to them on a regular basis as we go along with them.
Challenges: There are so many needs among the in-mates brothers and sister ranging from Bibles, hymn books, physical needs, soap, body lotions, tooth brushes and tooth paste, drugs etc
Safe Waters: Water is life. Most of our people die because of water borne diseases such as: Bilharzias, cholera, dysentery, etc. A lot of times it is children and women who suffer a lot under these circumstances of no-safe waters. Women wake up early in the morning, walking long distances just to draw a bucket of water from a cistern where goats, cows also use. With the wells we have drilled, life has been made simple to the communities.
“No more deaths and drinking water together with animals….” One chief commented as we handed over a bole hole. An average number of people using each bole hole is 350. A bole hole costs $5,500:00 at a special price. This year we have drilled 3 bole holes. Making a total of 8.
Challenges: There are so many areas in great need of safe waters waiting for us to go there and give them the gift of safe water. We need the Lord to move His people to donate towards this project.
School Fees for needy orphans: Most of the orphaned young girls go for early marriage or prostitution as they drop out from school due to lack of fees. Boys, too quick school so that they can work and fend for themselves. This year we have been paying school fees for more than 35 children. Starting from nursery school to Colleges.
Challenges: There is such along list of boys and girls waiting to be assisted. These are genuine, needy poor orphans.
Child Sponsorship: We have a child sponsorship program. With $30 per month we are able to put the child at school, provide for school materials, feed, clothe. Basically, providing basic needs for the orphaned sponsored child.
Challenges: Meanwhile we have so many children within our reach and many more far from where we are in great need of being sponsored.
Feeding The Hungry: Each year in Malawi, there are people who go to bed without a meal. These include needy orphans, the aged widows, the chronically sick persons, the disabled etc. We have shared tones of food items to these friends of ours this year. Maize, rice, beans, cooking oil, soap, salt, sugar, ect. What a privilege we had in alleviating hunger related diseases among them all.
Supplimentary Foods: People who are taking ARVs and TB drugs, including children which are under-malnourished, do need supplementary foods. These people are completely worn out and need the urgency of the supplementary foods. Drugs and normal food alone can not bring them back to life. Pea-Nut (Rutuff, locally known as Chiponde) and some other supplementary foods are given to them. We do this through Compassionate Missions Clinic. On a monthly basis we have 55 people coming to get the much needed supplementary food. We also do it mobile. That is, there are those who can not afford to come to the clinic, either they are so young, so sick or live so far from us. We go to where they are.
Challenge: We are currently using 10 cartoons of Chiponde per month. We run short of it before the month comes to an end. There is a need to add 5 more cases.
Feeding Program: We have just started a feeding program at Compassionate. We feed more than 40 during breakfast and more than 80 needy orphaned children during lunch. five days a week. These children are orphaned and hardly get a meal in their homes as they are doing right now. We also have street children coming to our feeding program as we get them back to school.
Challenges: One night we sat down figuring out what we are going to feed the children the following day? We need food supplies, a good shelter, tables, gas stoves, good chairs, etc.
Health Care Services: Many poor people in Malawi die for lack of knowledge and proper medication. Because they do not have a name, or no one knows them in the medical circles, they are hardly attended to properly. At Compassionate Missions Clinic we respond to anyone as God’s creations. In our quest to have a drug revolving fund, we charge a minimal amount. Most of the times we give free drugs to our targeted people. We are doing Under Five Clinic, OPD, HIV/AIDS testing, Family Planning, Laboratory Tests etc. People who would have been no more today, are alive through the efforts of the clinic.
Challenges: Lack of basic, essential drugs. Lack of a good laboratory working equipment. These drugs are available in our pharmacy stores and the lab equipment can be found in the shops. What is needed is money
Mobile Clinic: Twice this year we have done mobile clinics. Going to where the most needy, sick people are. Where there are outbreaks.
Challenges? Many times we have no enough fuel for the long distant bushy trips.
Paliative Care: With St. Luke’s Hospital we partnered with them in palliative care. As they provide with health workers and drugs, we do provide with transport supplementary foods, physical support, and above all, spiritual support to the patients.
Challenges: sometimes we fail to go for palliative care as we have no fuel in our cars.
New Hospital Project: One morning I stood in front of a collapsed 14 by 20 meter hospital building, weeping like a small child. I had so many questions to the Lord. I heard nothing from HIM that day. It is either He was talking to me but both my heart and mind were crowded or He chose to be silent!
Phase one of this big project is almost over. Iam trusting the Lord that by January 2011 we must be in this new facility.
Challenges: The Hospital need to be furnished with laboratory, medical equipment and furnisher.
Orphanage: The feeding program is in preparation for the orphanage we are going to open at our current buildings housing the clinic. There are so many changes and renovations we have to make at for the orphanage to take run smoothly.
Microfinance: The people we minister to must be empowered. We can not keep on being a recipient of donations from precious brothers and sisters. We need to be on our both feet. This year we have empowered the poor of the poorest small farmers with farm in-puts, e.g.: seeds and fertilizer. They will pay back next year during harvest time. They are 37 in total. As the loans will be paid back, we shall empower some small business women and men.
Challenge: There is a great need for us to start our own incoming generating activity. This would empower us to be self reliable. We would love to start
a- Maize Mill Income generating activity. This will help us to be making our own fortified Likuni Phala and some nutritious foods, which will be used at our feeding programs at all levels as well as make huge sums of money in sells.
b- Transportation- like having a minibus or two or so.
Ministry to The Disabled: We have been privileged this year to be a blessing to people living with disabilities. We have provided three wheel chairs, blankets, mosquito nets to our disabled brothers and sister.
Challenge: I am yet to see how we are going to help the two disabled brothers who do nothing but just lay down 24 hors a day. They absolutely disturb my heart.
Housing the Homeless: My heart broke this year when I pumped into an old couple who had something like a house; it was grass thatched and full of holes. The wall had huge cracks which a goat could go through. It was in bad condition. As I prayed for him, gave him some money, he just broke into tears living me crying like a child too! We have so many needy people like them who need houses. This year, we have built 7 complete houses and helped renovate 12 houses roofing with grass and plastic paper.
Challenges: When I go around the villages during our crusades, I see so many aged widows, and orphans who have no where to stay in. Sometimes it needs a complete new house to be built. Some times just a renovation and proper thatching. Can we help them?
Clothing the naked: One day we were at a crusade in one of the most remote areas. There was an open market and children which came to our children ministry most of them were naked. We took them all to the market and bought them clothes! They kept on coming and our money could not dry out!! This year we have donated clothes to those in great need of clothes not only at the said crusade.
Challenges: I still need used good clothes for both sex and all ages.
Mosquito Nets, Beddings: Malaria is number one killer disease in Malawi. In our quest to alleviate deaths which can be prevented, we have provided mosquito nets to most of our targeted people. Not only have we done that, but also with blankets at least to keep the people warm during the night.
Challenge: Can we prevent some deaths from malaria, pneumonia etc by donating mosquito nets, blankets, etc to these needy of the needy people?
Once again, I thank you all for your heart in supporting this ministry. Look to having you partner more with us in the year 2011.
Stay blessed.
Francis & Maggie Mpinganjira
September 22, 2010
Hi Gang,
I have been very busy getting caught up in all the things that were left go while I was in Malawi. I finally am able to get some letters out to the people who support us.
Wow what a trip! We spent three weeks in Malawi this trip. Every day was an adventure. We went deeper into the bush that we had ever. We got stuck in sand, water, and rocks. We had bridges wash out, flat tires, ran out of gas or petrol as they call it. But I never was concerned by any of it. We always came out smelling like a rose because we were on a mission from Daddy.
We concentrated mostly on Muslim villages for the salvation crusades and we saw thousands give their heart to Jesus. We had a team member, Diane Detwalier who would give her testimonies about floods destroying her garden that they could really identify with. When she would make the call for salvation they would flood to her. Pastor Francis was amazed. Muslim women are not allowed to speak and he was unsure how they would react, but react they did in a positive way.
We saw hundreds of healings. Another team member Michele Mcelwee was given words of knowledge. We saw cataracts disappear right before our eyes, tumors disappear, crossed eyes healed. One night God told me to punch a man in the mouth who had a tooth ache. Thank God he was healed immediately.
We saw all the wells that have been drilled, 8 so far and had a Member of Parliament invite us to lunch at his brothers’ house and begged us to continue the work in Malawi. We met so many people that had benefited from the peanut butter based food supplement. From small children to nursing mothers and those with TB, HIV Aids. The deeper we went into the bush the more children with swollen bellies and the hard months are not till November and December.
We held 2 pastors conferences this year. The first one had 108 pastors attending and the second had 74. The first conference was 2 days long and we had the Malawi pastors do all the speaking except for the last two talks which Gary and I did. Everyone was so blessed that they all said it was the best conference they had ever attended and did not want to leave. But the best part is they realized that they did it themselves and did not need outside help. At Compassionate Malawi we always try to teach a man to fish instead of giving him a fish. The impact that can be made by those 182 pastors is mind boggling.
Sorry this is so long but I have only scratched the surface of what happened this year. I could talk for hours and never cover it all. Last but not least I want to thank you for supporting Compassionate Malawi. Without you things would not change. The water would be deadly, the bellies would be swollen, the old would be hungry and the Muslim villages would still be Muslim. I invite you to come along next August and experience it for yourself. The only thing I can promise is that you will see more poverty and suffering yet feel more love that you have in you life.
Love,
Randy & LuAnn
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NOVEMBER 2009
Dear Friends,
As you wind up this year, let it be known that it is through Him we have all made it.
I would like to thank you for both the prayer and financial support you have once again given us in this year to make sure that what the Lord has laid upon our hearts comes to pass. We could not do anything without the Lord using you. Here are some items being done this year. Find the attached with photos:
The Gospel preached: The Lord spoke to us in 2004 to quit church pastoring for evangelism and plant churches. This year alone we are going to do 21 Gospel Crusades with 18 churches planted! We have seen so many people coming to Jesus and being set free by His power. Our targeted people groups are the least reached ones, the Muslims, mainly in the, deep remote areas where not many ministers are interested in going to.
Gospel Equipment Replaced: Our Gospel equipment was replaced sometime this year after the one we had was burnt. The most expensive one being the Projector. Buying a new strong generator was makes us smile each time we are in the villages where there is no sign of electric power.
Pastor’s Conference: Out of the 100 pastors we planned for and invited, 79 came for a two day pastors’ conference. What a time we had. The message was simple, loud and clear: Forgiveness, Hearing from God. One would never expect pastors to harbor grudges and un-forgiveness. This was exposed by the power of God as His Spirit swept through among the pastors. What a time we had.
Feeding the Hungry: The hungry are being fed. These are mostly the chronically sick, the disabled, the orphaned, the old widowed, etc. This is being in the form of maize, rice, peanut butter, milk, beans, sugar, salt and some daily basic needs like, soap, body lotion etc. Where ever we go for a crusade, we find people who need our help. That is how we get people to be ministered to holistically.
Feeding The Under malnourished and Sick People: We have just started feeding both the terribly and moderately sick with Pea-Nut, at a very large scale. Very nutritious foods for them. In 14 days they are back to their feet!
Nursery School: In the mean time we have three Islamic Communities where we are doing kindergarten. We are feeding those children on a daily basis, five days a week. We need to open many of such places as a strategic plan to win so many Muslim children to Christ
Child Sponsorship: Through this program, the sponsored children’s lives are being changed for the better. They have school materials uniforms, shoes, and eat on a daily basis. There are so many poor orphaned children in Malawi and who come to us in need of this program.
Beddings: Mosquito nets and beddings have been given to so many people. This is in quest to alleviate the cause of malaria and at least give some warmth to in the night to those without any covering.
Eye Glasses: We are a joy in providing free eye glasses to those with eye sight problems.
Clothes: The naked have enjoyed plenty in getting both new and good used clothes.
Housing the Home-Less: We have built four houses this year. One man who has benefited from this is a crippled one. Now he sleeps in a well ventilated house with iron sheets!!
Health Services: We are in the mean time doing OPD, Under Five Clinic, Voluntary Counseling and Testing of Blood. We are providing these with a minimal charge so as to have a drug revolving fund. Many times we give free drugs to our poor patients as they can not afford to pay anything. Very expensive drugs are to be bought for so many of those poor patients.
Palliative Care: In conjunction with Malosa Anglican Hospital, we are doing palliative care. Our major part is to provide transportation four times a month, give spiritual support to patients, and provide to them their dally needs.
Transport for Individuals and HIV/AIDS groups: We are able to provide transport to individuals and HIV/AIDS groups on a monthly basis so that they get the much needed drugs, ARVs. We have twice done Mobile Clinics deep into the villages for free.
Safe Water: Seeing so many people dying of water related diseases, we have been able to provide safe water to the communities through drilling of boreholes. So far we have done Four Wells. The need to drill so many boreholes is so great. We need more of these safe water facilities so as o minimize the water borne diseases.
New Hospital Building: This is one of the biggest projects we have just embarked on. The first phase of the project consists of a 14 room building, 20 by 14 meters. We have finished the raising of the walls and we need to roof it as quickly as possible. Just finish off the building.
Once again, we thank you for your financial support. It is my hope that one day eternity will be able to show you what you are doing.
Yours in His Name.
Pastor Francis & Maggie
