Malawi

Malawi is a small country (118,484 sq.km.) in Central African along Lake Malawi and its outflow river, the Shire. The population of Malawi is over 11,000,000 people made up of twenty-two Bantu peoples. The official languages are Chewa and English though there are 17 languages spoken in the country.

Malawi first heard the Gospel under David Livingstone and the country was a British colony until it gained its independence from Britain in 1964. Lilongwe is the ministerial and financial capital and Blantyre its commercial and judicial capital. Each capital has approximately 500,000 people. Malawi is well-watered and fertile but impoverished by overpopulation, geography (civil wars in Mozambique), falling world prices for tobacco, tea and sugar, poor communications to the outside world and AIDS. Freedom of religion is guaranteed but some suspect a favouring of the 13% Muslim minority.

Grace Ministries International began ministering in Malawi in 2000 when two Zambian Bible School graduates were sent as short-term missionaries to that country. In January 2005 Rev. and Mrs. Kennedy Simtowe, GMI missionaries to Zambia, moved to Malawi to strengthen the work by establishing a training center and expanding the evangelistic outreach and church planting ministries.

At the present time the training center in Lilongwe is offering module programs for the leadership of the churches. Two Malawians are presently studying at the Zambia Grace Bible Institute in Kabwe, Zambia. Several churches have been planted in Lilongwe and several elsewhere plus 20 preaching points which will eventually become church plants.

Missionaries

• Johannes and Marie Matthee
• Kennedy and Sofia Simtowe
• Titus and Kristy Lloyd

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