July 16, 2007 - from Lilongwe

Hello all -

Well, this is probably one of the last e-mails to be written from the country of Malawi. Lord willing, in a week, those of us remaining will be heading back to theStates on Monday the 23rd, arriving back in SoCal on Tuesday the 24th. In case youhaven't heard, Michelle made it back safely last week, and has already been back towork for a little bit. She wants to be back in Africa though!!

Not much has happened in the past week. We have been busy preparing text versionsof our lectures for the students to have as a resource as well as grading exams. Saturday we were all under the weather, so that wasn't the best of days. Fortunately, now we are all feeling a lot better and hopefully all our illness isover so our flights will be as pain-free as possible.

I was able to preach again this past Sunday at a "revival" service or a "crusade". I cannot tell if the Spirit was working or not - if he was, it was in Chichewa! Pretty much the only thing different about this service was that it was outdoors,and that 4 people preached. So the service essentially lasted, all told, 5 hours!!! Thankfully I was underneath shade for the whole time, but a majority of theaudience was not. So I don't want to hear anything from any of you when a servicegoes over by five minutes while you sit in air-conditioning!!

I look forward to talking to a lot of you in person soon. Keep us in your prayersas we finish our work here. Thanks again for all your support. There would havebeen no way for Michelle and I to serve the church here in Malawi without yourprayers and financial support.

God Bless,
Mark