To My Beautiful Friends & Family, Thank\u00a0you for your prayers and support! \u00a0I am in awe of what God is up to for Malawi.\u00a0 He is bringing together people who have the same commitment to making a difference for The Warm Heart of Africa.<\/p>\n
Today I spoke with Sharyn Curtis from LitNet in Montana who has been working with her husband on teacher training and an early literacy curriculum for Uganda. Sound familiar? As Sharyn shared at her church about LitNet and her recent connection to me, a woman told her that she has been praying for Malawi for 20 years and now she knows why. Twenty years ago God put Malawi (a country that many people don’t even know exists) on her heart and she has been praying ever since. Sharyn and David Curtis are sending me their curriculum to take to Malawi. It is my hope that they both can visit Malawi soon. Please check out their website link. www.litnet.info<\/a> You will be amazed how\u00a0similar the work they have been doing inUganda is to the Malawi Montessori Project.<\/p>\n This week, Pastor Jeff Kreiser and I met with Senior Pastor Kirk Bottomly and Mission’s Pastor Paulette Lambertson from\u00a0Fair Oaks Presbyterian, a neighboring church 30 minutes from Lakeside. Fair Oaks\u00a0Presbyterian is working with an organization called\u00a0Miqlat to empower\u00a0local villages in Malawi to\u00a0better care for the\u00a0children who have lost parents.\u00a0Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church\u00a0is now drilling a well and soon to build a Hope Center in Chiradzulu, Malawi, 30 minutes or so from our project in Ndirande, Malawi.\u00a0\u00a0Thank you Paulette and Kirk! I am forever grateful for you\u00a0both and your church! I look forward to seeing your project in Malawi and seeing how we can help!\u00a0 You can check out what they are doing on the section for blogging to the right on this website.\u00a0 Miqlat is listed as a link too. www.miqlat.com<\/a><\/p>\n God is still searching the earth and looking for anyone who is willing to stand in the gap for those\u00a0He loves. \u00a0How long will it be acceptable for us as Americans\u00a0to eat, when other people go hungry? To go to school, when others have no access to education? To sleep in comfort and peace, when others live in fear of their safety? And as Christians to know the love and grace of God, when others live without hope?\u00a0 And how will people know about our God and His goodness and His\u00a0power to make a difference in their lives, unless we go and\u00a0tell them and show\u00a0them that He does indeed care about them.<\/p>\n In the Bible there are letters written by people who\u00a0worshipped God and His Son, Jesus Christ. One of these men, named John, wrote this, “But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?”\u00a01John 3:17<\/p>\n Thank you for your your prayers and love for me! Thank you for sending me to Malawi! We can make a difference –\u00a0together.<\/p>\n Love, Maribeth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To My Beautiful Friends & Family, Thank\u00a0you for your prayers and support! \u00a0I am in awe of what God is up to for Malawi.\u00a0 He is bringing together people who have the same commitment to making a difference for The Warm Heart of Africa. Today I spoke with Sharyn Curtis from LitNet in Montana who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malawimontessoriproject.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}