'Winter' in Malawi....and it's cold in the tropics!  But 461 very needy Gogos and other poor are now warm at night, due to the love and 'warmth' of you Gogos in the States.  How we as a SAFE team wish you could have been with us---sitting with the Gogos...reading the Word, praying, and then to see them going home with blankets on their heads... singing and dancing! 

What JOY you have brought to them and to us!  Thank You from the SAFE Team; Mary, Cathy, Kim and Charlotte.

Blankets were given at Makungula, Simiyoni, Mwaiwandigwera, Kondanani, Kawiya Tadziwana, Kawiya Takonda villages  Some blankets were taken directly to the village huts of the 'shut-ins' and to the hospital.  Blankets will be given in the North Region, also.

 So many stories....

.... Gogo Nico Kajawa and his wife, whose son and daughter-in-law died, are caring for their 4 orphaned grandchildren, ages 1-11. Kim, Cathy and Char visited and gave them  blankets. Gogo Nico is very sick...with a gangrenous foot, and no means of getting to a hospital. With his wife who will be his caretaker/nurse, we have him now settled in Zomba Hospital awaiting amputation. At their home,we had a time of prayer ...sharing the Good News and Hope in Jesus. He is at peace and looking forward to the operation and a new life without pain.

... When giving out the blankets, we share the Word of God and as Mary Phiri spoke of Jesus as our Shepherd and His love for us, one Muslim man was heard saying, "Yes, that it what I need, that is what I want".

 ...As SAFE got such a good price for first quality blankets, we gave some to other very needy persons.  One little boy in the Malnutrition Ward  at Zomba Hospital went home with his gogo and a blanket.  That ward listens to the Word of God on a Proclaimer player....hearing of Jesus in their own language, Chichewa.

 ...In Simiyoni village, the little woman chief captured the hearts of all the gogos as she spoke of the love of Christ shown to them from the US gogos

 ...When doing data collection for the SEEDS Soy for Joy agricultural project, many of the gogos when asked what assets they had, they said, "Blankets"!

 "She extends a helping hand to the poor and opens her arms to the needy" Proverb 31:20

 YOU have made this love of Christ a reality to these, the old and poor.

 "Oh, the joys of those who are kind to the poor!" Psalm 41:1