After an over night flight and early morning stop in Addis Ababba, we touched down at Lilongwe under lovely warm sun at Kamuzu airport. Once we were through immigration, collected all our baggage and through customs, we were met by our friends, Rev William Tembo, Beatrice Nyirongo and Joel Kandodo Phiri.
We were soon crossing a leafy African city, home of around four million people, full of new sights, sounds and smells which were challenging our minds. After a short rest at the Kasamba Church manse, we walked down, through fields of soya and beans to the Church. What a wonderful welcome we received with loud welcome songs filling the air as we approached and a dancing throng at door. This church, which is a young church, is no ordinary church - it is situated in a former hotel. Like a large function room with a low roof, with a mezzanine floor and a split platform area at the front. It seats around four hundred.....with different choirs coming forward to greet us.
Beth, our youngest, was soon whisked off by the Youth Guild, to see downtown Lilongwe, enjoy a milkshake, before heading to her hosts for a welcome night's sleep.
Access to wifi has been very limited, so I shall be posting a few 'skeleton' blogs from this location and adding detail in due course.
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