MISSIONARY
REPORT FROM
MALAWI

Dear brothers, sisters and friends in the truth, Greetings from Malawi with the Lord's blessings as found in Matthew 24: 14. "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come."

Malawi is a Central African state bordering on Mozambique in the east, Zambia in the west and Tanzania in the north. Malawi covers an área of 118,500 square kilometres including 5 lakes.
Malawi's population of about 13 mil-lion inhabitants is comprised of 3 main tribes: Tumbuka in the north, Chewa in central and south Malawi and Zaos in the southeastern part of the southern región. The official languages are Chichewa and English.

Dr. David Livingstone, an English missionary, ñrst preached the gospel to Malawi around 1850. Since then many Christian religions have penetrated the

country so that today 70% of the popu­lation is Christian. The remaining 25% are Muslim, 5% have traditional African religions. The Adventist faith entered this tropical country around 1902 and since then has spread throughout.

With God's help the message of Reformation reached Malawi in 1981 when brother Mwabwagilo from Tan­zania passed the message on to his friend in Malawi brother Kayira, who was blind. Soon several other Adventist brothers and sisters including brother L.M.N. Mwalukasa became interested in the Reform message and later that year brother L.M.N. Mwalukasa together with brother Kayira travelled to the missionary headquarters in Tanzania to study the whole truth especially the prophetic testimonies concerning this message of Reformation. By the grace of God, and the united, tireless efforts of those early pioneers the precious truth was carried to all parts of the country.

Today there are 300 members in the South Central African Unión. The believers are generally farmers on a very low income who can barely afford many basic needs. The small offerings rendered by the members are used to support the workers including transport with no funds remaining for other mis­sionary activities. Plans have been made to extend the work into other áreas of Malawi as well as spiritually encourag-ing the Lord's small flock of members.

It has been proposed that 3 ñeld headquartersbeconstructedaswel

as churches, church schools, publishing houses and a sanatorium. Some office equipment is also essential such as a pho-tocopier, computers and typewriters with accessories.

In order to achieve our targets before the Lord forever closes human probation, we need the support of the brothers and sisters around the world. God's mercy to us has been recorded in Matthew 7:7 where we are encouraged to ask, knock and seek help for our urgent needs. We hope that this promise will be wonderfully fulñlled through you dear brothers and sis­ters around the world, as your hearts are touched by the knowledge of our needs as described above.

We kindly appeal to your united sympathy with Christ's work in this region of Africa just as He sympathized with our hopeless situation by suffering a painful death on the cross on our behalf.

"Greater love
hath no man that
this that a man
lay down his life
for his friends."
John 15:13.

May the Lord bless you in a special way that you in turn can be a blessing to others. Please accept our united thanks in advance for your generous ñnancial and spiritual support.
-Your brothers in Christ from the Malawian fíelas.

MISSIONARY
REPORT
FROM
CHINA

China is the third largest country with 22% of the world's population. By the grace of God, the Reform Movement established the ñrst church in this country at the beginning of the new millennium, May 2000.
Within a short time, there were 270 baptized members (mostly from the sepa-rated movement) and an organised union with 3 ñelds. The message of the ángel of Revelation 18 reached China from the church in Korea.
Officially, the People's Republic of China still considers communism to be their God, even after its fall in the Soviet Union. The Chinese once believed that communism would bring them to a heav-enly paradise but it has not met their expectations and has left a vacuum in their hearts. Many people are therefore searching for something to replace their shattered hopes and this gives us a great opportunity to preach the gospel in this country.
The Chinese government claims to permit freedom of religion but complete freedom is still prohibited. Religious activi-ties of foreign, unregistered missions are especially repressed; therefore there are no official foreign missionaries in China. Offi¬cially registered religious organisations are inñltrated and controlled. Restricted missionary work is only possible in the provinces where members a living.

Nevertheless, the light of the gospel is being preached in this coun¬try under such dangerous conditions. We claim that the Lord's coming is near but how can we expect the Lord to return when 1.4 billion people are still in total darkness?
We are to sow the seed of the gospel in this large country too. Let us be wise and use this great opportunity to preach the message of Revelation 18 and three angel's message in China, which has been isolated behind the iron curtain for so many years.
Those missionaries that enter China ñrst, will have the largest land and richest fruit. Many very large churches in the world are waiting, increasing their ñnancial resources and training people to enter China and preach the gospel as soon as China opens its door to them. But the door remains closed and so we, who have lim-ited resources, now have the wonderful opportunity of working for the Lord. If we are prepared to labour in dangerous situations then there are many places where the gospel can be preached and many souls can be won.
Dear Brothers and Sisters around the world, listen to the Macedonian cry, which is coming from China the home of 1.4 billion people. The many Christian books so common in western countries are rare in China. The people are eager to read anything even detrimental books. Those people need a living message. Sending books is difñcult instead litera-ture could be printed, at some risk, in the country.
Although the church is not regis¬tered, it is growing and it needs a head-quarters building. The recent rapid, eco-nomic growth in China means that the price of real state is soaring especially in the big cities. The time to purchase a building is now.

Dear Brothers and sisters, the Chinese church needs your help. E. G. White saw in a vision that many souls were saved in China.

"In heathen
Africa
... in China,
in India, in the
islands ofthe sea,
and in all the
dark corners ofthe
earth, God has
in reserve afir-
mament ofchosen
ones that will yet
shine forth amidst
the darkness,
revealing clearly to
an apostate world
the transforming
power ofobedience
toHis law."

-Prophets and Kings, p 189.
I sincerely hope that this prophecy will be fulñlled through your prayers and generous offerings and so hasten the coming of our Lord.
-Kang Dai Chun Far East Asia Representative

MSIONARY
REPORT
FROM
PARAGUAY


May the grace and peace of our Father and the Lord Jesús Christ be with you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesús Christ, who blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places for Christ's sale. He chose us before the foundation of the world, for the love He bore us, so that we would be holy and without spot before Him, predestinating us to be adopted as the children of Jesús Christ, according to the puré affection of His will and for praising the glory of His grace, with which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Local confererence at María Au¬xiliadora church.
It was here that we held a course for future elders of the church, and at the end of the week we held a conference, in which R. Ga-ona was annointed as an eider. In the centre of the ñrst picture you can see brother Lezcano, my wife and myself, Alfre¬do Fisicaro. Br. Lezcano visited us from Uru¬guay, since he is the president of that ñeld and the secretary of the Southern Unión.
One of the pictures is with the brethren already mentioned and in the third picture there is with br. A Gutiérrez, his wife, four children, my wife and myself. This family was adventist, the father used to be an eider thre but the entire family decided to stand for the truth and join the people of God.

In the following days there will be a conference in Asunción, the capital city of the country followed by a baptism.
There are also a few others who are pre-paring themselves for baptism.
May the Lord bless the work in Paraguay.
-Alfredo Fisicaro, Paraguay