Search Results for: Mark Thiesen

BOARD MEMBERS LEAVE FOR AND RETURN FROM MALAWI

It is not easy to get up in the middle of the night to catch a flight that will continue all day, all evening, all night, all morning, and only end around one in the afternoon. Yet that is what has taken place with three members of the Malawi Project’s Board of Directors. During the […]

BOARD MEMBERS LEAVE FOR AND RETURN FROM MALAWI Read More »

Final trailer and another successful year

The rain seemed to know when the trailer would reach Lebanon. This one would be the final shipment for 2021, and the ominous clouds were anything but reassuring.

Final trailer and another successful year Read More »

One Yank of the Cord

Thondwe, Malawi … Infrastructure is a critical term, and an essential element in the survival and development of a culture. Fire services, police protection, hospital care, government protection, and adherence to the rule of law are all needed for a society to grow, prosper and live in peace, safety, harmony and comfort. These are true

One Yank of the Cord Read More »

BUV Goes From Logs, to Food, to People

Imagine… …cutting wood for the fire to prepare breakfast, then having to carry it for 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile on your head back to your home. …walking far up the mountain to cultivate your family farm plot, while carrying a baby on your back and a heavy hoe over your shoulder. …walking to

BUV Goes From Logs, to Food, to People Read More »

Site Inspection Proves Pleasant

Site Inspection Proves Pleasant     Thondwe, Malawi … Reaching Malawi on Thursday late afternoon board members Dick and Suzi Stephens were taken to the Namikango Mission and Maternity Clinic for the evening. Reports on the progress of the Mission were reflective of so many ministries that rely on western funds in order to carry out

Site Inspection Proves Pleasant Read More »

At First it Looked Like Rubbish

Help Needed to Build Safe Kitchen At First It Looked Like Rubbish Thondwe, Malawi… From a distance it almost looks like a pile of metal stacked up near a clearing waiting to be thrown away. But as one walks along the path near the Namikango Maternity Clinic, and reaches a point near the rusted metal

At First it Looked Like Rubbish Read More »

BUV In Minutes

    Thondwe, Malawi…    “I was amazed at how easy it was to assemble the BUV’s.  In just a matter of moments the group of men had snapped them together. The vehicles are unlike anything I’ve ever seen, half-motorcycle and half car.  They look like they have the versatility to do multiple tasks in a place like

BUV In Minutes Read More »

V-Tractor Offers Hope For Progress Out of Poverty

Few Jobs, High Mortality, and Low Literacy Rates In these economically troubling times in the western nations it seems no job is certain.  As we watch the unemployment rate sneak up to 5%, 6%, and higher and we rightfully fret over our friends and family whose jobs may be threatened. Imagine 80% Unemployment Imagine a

V-Tractor Offers Hope For Progress Out of Poverty Read More »

Tembo Brings Expertise to Namikango

Tembo Family Move to Southern Region   “He brings a level of specialty that we absolutely need as we begin a new ministry,” according to Mark Thiesen of the Namikango Mission in Thondwe, Malawi. Mark continues, “The Malawi Project, a church-related ministry based in Indiana, has begun sending shipping containers of medical supplies that will

Tembo Brings Expertise to Namikango Read More »

Ready, Set, Receive

Mission Awaits First Shipment of Supplies Board members of the Malawi Project conducted a site evaluation of the Namikango Maternity Hospital, and the adjoining land and buildings in Thondwe in August 2008. Subsequent discussions centered on the location near Zomba, the former colonial capital of Malawi, becoming a second site in the southern region for

Ready, Set, Receive Read More »

Scroll to Top