One of the biggest challenges of living and working here is that the problems and difficulties never stop coming. Just when you think that one thing is sorted out, another comes. The finances have been a big challenge, but there is now in place a good accounting system, with regular accurate reports on income and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Church of Scotland’
Finding rest
Posted in World Mission, tagged Christmas, Church of Scotland, devotional, hospital, Nkhoma, Nkhoma Hospital, rest on February 15, 2011 | 1 Comment »
news from our Prayer Letter
Posted in World Mission, tagged Children's ward, Church of Scotland, God's provision, Malawi, Nkhoma Hospital, Prayer on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are making some progress in Chichewa. Sindifunanso lero (I don’t want any today) and Ndilibe ndalama (I do not have money), to the multiple sellers of various things at the door and to the children who greet us with ‘Give me money’. Or, to one of my patients, Mufuna kupita lero (Do you want [...]
Update from Rebecca: New job
Posted in World Mission, tagged Children's ward, Church of Scotland, death, Lilongwe, malaria, Malawi, new job, Nkhoma Hospital, poetry on February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I have started my job as ward clerk in the children’s ward. I really like it and it is also helping me to practice my Chichewa. The children’s ward has about 40 beds and is pretty much at 200% occupancy. Last weekend there were 95 children in the ward. On Monday morning we discharged about [...]
Nkhoma Orphan Care Project
Posted in World Mission, tagged Church of Scotland, Hospital chaplain, Lilongwe, Malawi, Nkhoma Hospital, Orphan Care Project on January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A visit to the Lake
Posted in World Mission, tagged CCAP, Church of Scotland, Lake Malawi, Malawi, relaxation on January 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Jan 15: CCAP Staff Retreat David relaxing by the lake shore
New Year Update
Posted in World Mission, tagged Church of Scotland, Lilongwe, Malawi, Nkhoma Hospital, Prayer on January 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
From our January 2010 Prayer Letter: We have finished our first month in Malawi at Nkhoma Hospital. There have been more deaths on the medical ward here in this first month, than in a year of my previous practice in Bellevue. This past week we have lost an HIV patient, a woman five months pregnant [...]
Christmas in Malawi
Posted in World Mission, tagged Christmas, Church of Scotland, Lilongwe, Malawi, World Mission Council on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Christmas in Malawi – a poem by Rebecca Soft coughing at the early morning door Festive wooden candle holders for sale MP3/Bose speakers transformed and adapted Cattle lowing at the front entrance Patient hands receiving plastic bags of sugar and soap Red candles at Santa Plaza (store in Lilongwe) Choir practice floating in the front [...]
Safe Arrival
Posted in World Mission, tagged Church of Scotland, Malawi, World Mission Council on December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
4 Dec 2009: We have arrived, safe flight, no hassles through immigration or customs, and a decent nights sleep our first night at Nkhoma. Internet is slow, took me 45 minutes to get on gmail! The big problem here is a serious fuel shortage so people cannot get around very easily. However we are so [...]
Poem for St Andrew’s Day
Posted in World Mission, tagged Church of Scotland, Malawi, poetry, Scotland, St Andrew's Day, World Mission Council on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Scottish Poem At the end of the day Things went a bit pear shaped Even when I got my skates on I couldn’t sort things out The queue at the shop was a wee bit long The trolley was bent and so was my brolly At the end of the day it was dreich [...]
Towards Malawi
Posted in World Mission, tagged Church of Scotland, David Livingstone, ICC, Lilongwe, Malawi on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
19 November 2009 : Two weeks from today we are scheduled to arrive in Lilongwe, Malawi. We fly out of Edinburgh Wednesday afternoon December 2, on KLM going through Amsterdam and Nairobi and arriving in Malawi around noon on Thursday, December 3. We finished our course work at International Christian College in Glasgow earlier this [...]
