Africa Outreach: Malawi

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Malawi

Malawi is a country infested by witchcraft beliefs. Many people claim allegiance to Christ, yet in their day to day walk they operate on the basis of unchristian witchcraft beliefs and fears. For example only last week a little girl was accused by a lady who claims to be a christian of having killed her husband who had recently died of cancer. The poor girl has been harassed and psychologically tortured because of such false beliefs. It is sad to see how the evil one uses such false beliefs to influence people's minds to such an extend that they no longer are able to distinguish good from evil and falsehood from truth. Please pray with us that God's will shall prevail and people in Malawi will experience a genuine repentance and true faith in Christ to replace the witchcraft beliefs and fears. We are evry much aware that this is a spiritual battle. Ever since we started to tackle these issues in the churches we have experienced the attacks of the evil one as he turns people against us and our ministry in Africa. As Paul says, we are beaten but not dismayed, hurt but not defeared for Christ has teh final word in all things, He is Victor. We are grateful that in spite of harassment, violence and intimidation the Lord has kept us safe, but even if He allows hardships and persecution, we know He remains faithful and His plans cannot be thwarted.

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Who are we and what do we do?

AFRICA OUTREACH was established in Malawi in 2004 by Afrika Zending, an interdenominational faith based mission in the Netherlands in 1997 with long and short-term missionaries from various African and European countries serving in mission together in Southern Africa. Since 2011 Africa Outreach has become an independent organization registered in Malawi as a social welfare organization. The organization continues to work in partnership with Afrika Zending as well as other agencies. We work various communities and with leaders from many different churches including Presbyterian/Reformed, Baptist, Evangelical and Pentecostal churches.

VISION

Africa Outreach seeks to build the capacity of the Christian Churches in Southern Africa so that they are better able to serve their communities and nations spiritually, socially and materially and to help the most vulnerable groups in their society

Activities:

We organise seminars and workshops on a bi-weekly basis to train church and community leaders so that they can serve their communities better. In addition to the capacity building of local Christian leadership we have established a rehabilitation centre for girls who found themselves in abusive situations such as domestic violence and prostitution. We also established two safe houses for children who have been accused of witchcraft to prevent them from being mistreated or murdered by the community.

Partners:

We partner with child care organizations in orphan, human and children's rights organizations, foreign donors and aid organisations as well as local government agencies.

For more information email: 'africaoutreach@gmail.com'

Donations

We welcome any donation, no matter how small. Donations can be made via our Netherlands account:

Account number: 5795209.
Account name: Stichting Afrika Zending.
Address: 2701AB, 21, Zoetermeer, Netherlands
Bank name: ING Bank
Bank address: FINANCIAL PLAZA BIJLMERDREEF 109, AMSTERDAM, ZIP Code: 1102 BW, Country: NETHERLANDS
IBAN: NL15INGB0005795209
SWIFT/BIC: INGBNL2A

If the gift is specifically meant for one of our projects or workers please indicate (i.e. Sevana & Shingayi, Girls Home, Erwin, Orphans, etc).