Updates on Visitors from America

On Monday May 19th, the Boekoff family had a fellowship get-together with all the children at Good Samaritan. The Boekoff’s presented two plays to the children. One was about sharing and the other was about appropriate behavior of children in church. The Good Samaritan staff translated the plays in Chichewa. The children lisented intently and enjoyed the performances very much. The Boekoff family presented each girl with a jump rope and each boy with a Frisbee. All of the children received a bag of candy. They were thrilled! I hope to get pictures eventually to post on the blog. The family also made balloon animals for each child. Thandie said the children are still talking about the balloon animals. They had never seen anything like that before. Everybody had a wonderful time fellowshipping together. The Boekoff Family left Malawi Wednesday May 21st.

Brother Chuck Miller from Florida arrived safely in Malawi on Tuesday May 20th. He is staying with Brother Gentry at his home on BCA Hill.

Visitor Vickie Valle from Fresno California was scheduled to arrive in Blantyre, Malawi on Wednesday May 21st but had to be re-routed through Lilongwe. She had to spend the night in the capitol city and arrived to Blantyre first thing Thursday morning, but without any of her luggage. Vickie arrived to the Good Samaritan Campus while the children were taking a morning break from school. She immediately started interacting with the children and formed an instant mutual bond. Thandie said she had never seen such a quick connection formed between the children and a visitor. The staff tried to send the children back to class and the kids were really struggling being separated from Vickie. Some that went back to class couldn’t focus and were looking through the windows at Vickie who was still playing outside. So they sent the teachers home and cancelled school for the rest of the day. Vickie was exhausted from the long trip, but didn’t let it show. She played games including basketball with the kids all day long non-stop. Vickie is staying at the Round House with two of the older orphan girls, Betty and Mercia. Both girls were recently featured on the blog as star kids. Today (Friday May 23nd), Vickie began teaching the girls about soul winning. Tomorrow Vickie, Pastor Beta and the teen girls will take the church bus and go hut to hut soul winning. The teen girls are looking forward to this opportunity! Vickie has only been in Malawi for two days and has hit the ground running…..please pray for her throughout her two month stay.