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A
Presbyterian nursery in Lilongwe, the political capital of the
country, for infants who have lost one or both parents to AIDS.
Sometimes, a parent unable to care for the baby will abandon it. Police
or other people who find babies abandoned on the streets are in fields
take the babies to this nursery. This nursery was started by Nancy
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Ben Sparks, the pastor of Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, is on
the right. The other man is Don Falls, one of the team members. The
photo was taken at the nursery. The woman on the left is the
administrator of the nursery and the woman on the right is one of the
nurses. |
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Children in front of a nutrition center for AIDS orphans that was
constructed with funds from Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond. The
center is the building in the background on the left. |
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The nutrition center. |
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A
woman cooking a meal for the children over an open fire. |
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A
nutrition center that young people from Second Church helped to
construct three years ago.
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A
village near the feeding station. |
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woman who lives in the village. |
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Children being fed at the nutrition center. |
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The chief of Dzuwa village greeted us. Each of us wore a necklace
made by Jim Young, a woodcarver using wood from our church that dated to
the 1840s when the church was built. The necklace consisted of raw
hide with a carved piece of wood shaped like a tear drop, the center of
which included a painted cross and the date of the church carved on the
front edge. Before we left the village, Ben presented his necklace to
the chief. The chiefs we met in rural villages wore old clothes with no
trappings of power; however, they were highly revered by the people.
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Two children at the same village. Children loved to have their picture
taken with digital cameras so that they could see their photos. They
would crowd around and yell with excitement when they saw photos of
themselves or their friends. (There were instances in some rural
villages where the children had never seen white people. Some were
afraid and ran away.) |
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Several members of Parliament spoke to our group. The woman in the
center right is Gertrude Mkandawire. Her brother lives in Richmond.
Shortly after we returned, she came to Richmond to visit her brother and
spoke at Second Presbyterian Church.
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Lake Malawi is a large fresh water lake that runs the length of the
country from north to south.
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Bus photo of distant mountains reflecting the setting sun. |
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St. Mary’s and All Angels, the oldest Presbyterian church in Malawi.
Christianity was introduced into Malawi by the famous explorer and
missionary, David Livingston. There are more Presbyterians in Malawi
than there are in the U.S and yet Malawi is a nation of only 12 million
people. |
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Barbara, a lawyer and a leader at St. James Presbyterian Church in
Blantyre. |
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A
huge grasshopper that our Malawian host found in a tree. |
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The Shire River (prounced shy--ree) runs from the southern end of Lake
Malawi, across Malawi, through Mozambique, and empties into the Indian
Ocean. Malawi is a landlocked country; however, there are plans to
dredge the river, widen it, and open shipping from the Indian Ocean to
Malawi. Mozambique and Malawi, which have not gotten along historically,
have signed agreements permitting Malawi access to the sea. |
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Farewell sunset taken from the bus. |
