Malawi
Current Churches & Ministries
Because of the labor of love of former missionaries and pastors, there are many churches and a beautiful orphanage with 75+ children called Good Samaritan Orphanage as well as a 4-5 week summer teaching seminar for several hundred pastors, deacons, and their wives around the southern area of Malawi. There are presently no BIMI missionaries permanently residing in Malawi, but the works are continuing under the leadership of the dedicated national leaders as well as a BIMI representative and committed Stateside pastors. God is now using the ministries in Malawi to train pastors and establish churches in neighboring Mozambique. May God send more laborers into this ripened field!
Unreached areas/peoples
Malawi is a country that is one of the poorest in the world. It is landlocked and without major industries to create paying jobs for its citizens. There are many tea fields and a large sugar cane plantation, yet over 90% of the population do not have jobs but farm subsistently and trade crafts and vegetables for income. Those who live in the cities work in shops owned mostly by merchants of middle eastern decent. The few who can speak and write English have a chance to earn wages as clerks at banks and businesses, but most citizens live in the villages, walk everywhere, cook over an open fire, live in a mud or brick hut with a straw roof, and plant small crops of maize and vegetables. There are close to 13 million people who live in the strip of land between Zambia and Mozambique, about the same population as the much larger country of Zambia. Hence, Malawi is a country teeming with people in need of churches which preach the truth of the Gospel.
AIDS has produced almost 2 million orphans. Often the orphans are abandoned, and seeing a wandering youth caring for his or her orphaned siblings is a common sight.
Special projects/opportunities
Where 98% of the people do not have any significant church, Malawi is a nation in great need of the gospel. There is a great need for dedicated missionaries to establish churches in this ripe harvest field and to help continue the training of national leadership. There is also a need to establish a Baptist Bible College to further train these leaders. Short-term summer missions trips are available for those who would feel God’s calling to help teach the national leaders and their wives. Doctors, nurses, and dentists would also be welcomed to participate in a summer medical missions trip.