Today the teacher from Fort Dodge Iowa headed back to the States and 7 new visitors from Indiana arrived in Malawi. In this group of visitors, there is one man and six women. It is their first time to visit Malawi. Mrs. Gentry stated that two or three are teachers and there is a grandmother and teenage granddaughter in the group. Two of the visitors are staying a month the rest are staying a couple weeks. The pastor of the church that this group is from used to teach at Brother Gentry's school back in Louisville Kentucky.
On March 14th and April 14th I sent a package to Malawi. The box sent on March 14th had food and some other goodies for Thandie and Peace. That box still hasn't arrived. I didn't have enough money at the time to send it air mail, I think it went by donkey....no sign of it as of yet. The box sent on April 14th arrived on May 22nd. It contained some Sunday clothes for the boys and hair ribbons for the girls. Junior had been praying for a belt for quite some time, he received one in this box from a sponsor. He was so happy! Thandie waited till Sunday to distribute the clothes. She said the boys looked "smart" and took lots of pictures. I Should have the pictures very soon.
Thandie's Uncle is improving (Kidney failure - on dialysis). Her brother had a biopsy done last week on the boil or ulcer that is in his throat. The results will be in on Monday. Please keep Thandie's family in prayer. The children at Good Samaritan are all healthy and doing well.
On Wednesday May 30th a staff member at a nearby orphanage was brutally attacked. The thieves bound up the guards and attacked the woman staying in the main house. The thieves had guns and machetes and were dressed in strips of material. They beat the woman with a machete and slashed her clothes off. The woman begged them in the name of Jesus to leave her alone. The men fled. Unfortunately, they went to the next house outside of the orphanage compound and stabbed some people in that house, shot and killed someone and raped a young girl. Please pray that these men will be caught and kept from hurting anyone else. Brother Gentry is adding some security measures at Good Samaritan to prevent a situation like this happening there. Security can be difficult when you have a large compound with many different people coming and going for different projects and tasks. Often times these attacks are done by people who had access to the facility or knowledge of the layout. Please pray for the safety of the Good Samaritan staff as well as the staff of the nearby orphanage. I don't have permission to report the name of the other orphanage, but many of you might know it as many of Brother Gentry's visitors tour the orphanage while visiting Malawi.
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