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Missionary Matters

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August

Megumi and Helen Fazakerley will be coming to the UK from Malawi in September for a six-month home assignment, and are eagerly anticipating sharing life with their family for a few months. In October their daughter Mary will marry Trevor; it will be wonderful for the whole family to be together for this, unlike at daughter Elizabeth’s wedding in Australia a couple of years ago, which they could only follow online – when Megumi walked her down the aisle on Elizabeth's iPad! Hopefully Megumi and Helen will visit St Christopher’s one Sunday in the autumn. Megumi writes: ‘At the end of May, we marked the 30th anniversary of our arrival in Malawi. We enjoyed a special fellowship gathering which a couple of our long-time friends had kindly organised for the occasion. Many things come to our mind as we look back, which help us to shape our perspective on the future. We don't know how many years are left for our service in Malawi, but we don't want them to be a mere continuation or extension of what has been. Please join us to pray that our remaining time in Malawi will count for God's Kingdom (rather than someone's idea of mission, in the form of vision statement, strategic focus, development plan, etc.).’ Although not currently teaching at the Evangelical Bible College of Malawi (EBCoM), Megumi was asked to help with the database he had devised for keeping students' personal and grade information. Megumi hopes that EBCoM will become more independent as they develop the skills they need to run a modern college. I mentioned before the Japanese girl Yuki who had come to faith in Malawi and was returning home to a nonChristian family for a visit. Megumi writes: ‘Thank you for praying for Yuki, the Japanese girl we tried to help get prepared for her first home visit after making a choice to follow Christ. We heard that her time at home has gone well, reconnecting with family, friends and a local church... She is scheduled to come back to Blantyre to continue her work with a small Japanese NGO (running projects for constructing classroom blocks for schools in a rural district). Two interns are expected to join her shortly. Helen and I are prayerfully waiting to see how the Lord might orchestrate for a regular (weekly?) social occasion with informal Bible study/discussion. Please pray that the Lord will work in the hearts of those new interns, so that they may be open and interested in meeting to discover what the Bible has to say.’