It’s now been a week since Pam went back to Ireland. Her journey was trouble free and she arrived in Belfast last Friday (16 May) having made all her connections…
Area 24 Baptist Church, Lilongwe
Language is a funny thing. Even with fellow English speakers, the definition of words can cause confusion and misunderstanding. Living in a country where English…
Team challenges during staff training in Lilongwe, April 2014
Part of my role with SU is training staff and preparing them for their work in schools and on camps. It…
Rudyard Kipling – The Female of the Species
In 1911 Rudyard Kipling published a poem entitled “The Female of the Species”. The poem begins with illustrations of the greater deadliness…
With the healthy balance of sunshine and rain we have been having in Lilongwe in the past few weeks, you could be mistaken for being in Ireland with the vivid…
The shoreline at Kande.
When I first came to Malawi in 1999, I was introduced to an exciting project that Scripture Union was embarking on. Situated 312km from Lilongwe, on…
The most asked question I received before leaving Northern Ireland for Malawi was what I would be doing. This was a difficult question to answer as I had been given…
On Tuesday of last week (12 November) Pam and I were invited to the home of a Scripture Union of Malawi (SUM) national executive member for our official welcome to…
We arrived in Malawi a week ago to the sights, sounds and smells that are so familiar to us. The journey from the airport to our new home was in…