2018 Face-to-Face Meeting
| The 2018 Malawi Mission Network Conference was held at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in Dallas, TX August 9th - August 12th, 2018
This was our 16th Annual Conference and we had about 66 people attending the conference. Our Keynote speakers were Rev. Vasco Kachipapa, the General Secretary of the Synod of Nkhoma CCAP and Rev. Colin Mbawa, the Secretary General of the General Assembly of CCAP. We also were honored to have Rev. Dr. Davidson Chifungo, National Director VERITAS Bible College; Rt. Rev. Dr. Timothy Nyasulu, Vice Chancellor of the Univ. of Livingstonia and Dr. Kondwani Zgambo, Medical
Officer in Charge, Embangweni Hospital sharing with us. Special guests were Tyler Holm and Jeremy Garbat-Welch - Mission Co-workers. |
See our AGENDA to see what all was covered.
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Check out our
Photo Album to see the faces and
activities at the conference.
(The photographs were taken by Jim Nussbaumer, Carol Nussbaumer, Ellen Sherby
and Dr. Kondwani Zgambo
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS |
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| We met on Friday at Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church
and on Saturday at the Embassy Suites Hotel; We opened with the keynote by Rev. Kachipapa. Among other things, he talked about "a team assembled by Christ, equipped by Christ and sent by Christ to fulfill his agenda." Later we were introduced to Cheryl Barnes, the newly hired Mission Co-Worker for Education in Malawi, working with CCAP. This position was initiated with the help of the MMN at previous conferences. We are excited to have her beginning her work soon. Friday evening we enjoyed a traditional Malawian dinner catered by a local chef. Saturday, we heard the keynote by Rev. Mbawa who enlightened us more details about the General Assembly which many of us were previously only vaguely familiar. In total, it includes 91 Presbyteries, with 1164 Congregations 6194 Prayer Houses and over 4 million members. With all of these worship places, there are only 720 ministers. We spent much of the day choosing from several interesting Workshops and interest groups. We did not make a decision on the next conference location but Colorado is the leading option. All seemed to agree this was one of the best conferences for several years. |
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