Prayer Day

Rainy Season 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘄𝗶 🌦 In Malawi, it is the middle of rainy season and that means most families are nervously anticipating a new harvest 🌽

Sow, Work, Harvest: Every autumn, everyone reseeds their piece of land. Usually with corn but in the drier areas they seed millet. Some people have money for manure, others have to do without. Fertilizer is critical in the production of successful crops. In December, the first plants carefully emerge after the first drops of rain. How good the harvest will be depends very much on the amount of rain received. In some places there has been a lot of rain - and the question is whether the plants will wash away or drown - and in other places they have only received very little - and the question is whether the plants will survive the drought.

Will you pray along with us? This week is Prayer Day in many places in Canada, USA and the Netherlands. Will you join us in praying for a good harvest? That, like Agur's prayer, not too much, but also not too little, rain may fall.

 As we were preparing this special Prayer Day blog post we received news of a Tropical Storm Warning from Malawi - this is worrisome for many, especially as the memories of the last Tropical Storm a couple years ago are still fresh in their minds.

Malawi's Ministry of Natural Resources and Climate Change is issuing a warning signal today that according to the weather forecast, Tropical Cyclone Freddy will reach southern Malawi on Friday. The residents of Southern Malawi are being asked to prepare for gale-force winds, torrential rain and flooding at the end of this week. Understandably so, warnings of tropical storms bring on many complicated emotions for everyone in previously affected areas.

Please join in prayer that this cyclone will not affect Southern Malawi and other surrounding countries?