Since the beginning of October 2021, there has been much public preaching in Malawi after the government eased Coronavirus restrictions, allowing some 200-people gatherings.
We are in contact with church leadership to
establish how many have been baptized but so far we count about 70 new converts
baptized at Nkhata Bay and Chintheche SDA churches in Northern Malawi.
This is the story of one of the converts:
Toward the end of October 2021, 63-year old and mother of three Agness Msowoya was battling with High Blood Pressure and Diabetes when she noticed a passing lady clad in her white and crimson Dorcas Ministry uniform at Nkhata Bay.
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| Agness Msowoya and her husband at their home at Nkhata Bay, Malawi in October 2021/ Faith Reporters |
“It was a beautiful
uniform which I admired and wanted to know about the person wearing it. She
told me she was a Seventh-day Adventist [SDA] which I had heard about in the
past” she told Faith Reporters on Saturday 6th November 2021.
Prior to the
encounter with this Adventist foot soldier, Msowoya had been forsaken by the
church leadership of the denomination she belonged to on grounds that she had
been ill for too long.
“I was told there are
very many sick church members who had to be visited in the stead of me with
prolonged illness. When the Adventists visited me, I felt an urge to join the
church” she hopefully said.
Msowoya shared the
good tidings with her husband who is a deacon at their church, both preaching
to him and preparing him not to be surprised when she converts to a Seventh-day
Adventist.
“My husband was
reluctant to believe the Gospel but I had believed and wanted to be baptized
the way Jesus was baptized and worship on Sabbath of my Lord, not Sunday” she
said with a committed tone.
Weakened by illness,
this first Adventist in her family or close relatives said she wanted to be a
dedicated believer for the rest of her life.
“I regret the years
of unbelief. I would become a preacher right away if I had come in the days of
my youth” she regretted, asking to have a Dorcas uniform which she admires.
The church Elder
Joshua Nyirenda told Faith Reporters on Sunday 7th November 2021that
the husband is also willing to accept to be baptised as well as a granddaughter
“We’re asking the SDA
family to pray for this poor family because they accepted Jesus near the evening
of their lives” he said.
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| Church elders during the visit to Agness Msowoya family for preaching/ Faith Reporters |
Agnes Msowoya was
born in 1958 to a poor family at Nkhata Bay District in Northern Malawi, a
southern African country with about 60 percent of the population belonging to
protestant denominations, according to the 2018 census.
Msowoya left her
parents’ church and joined her husband’s denomination in 1985 when she married
him which means that this is her first time to decide to follow Jesus at
liberty, without the influence of the parents or husband.
According to Malawi
Union Conference statistics of June 2020, there are 613,630 Adventists
with 1,569 churches in the country of over 19 million people.
Malawi saw the first Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) missionary George James in 1893 but a mission station was established in 1902 at Malamulo, forty miles south of Blantyre.
Additional reporting by Elder Joshua Nyirenda, Nkhata Bay Church.
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May God bless you
We pray for Agnes and her family, may God uphold them and may she be God's tool to direct many of her family members and community to Christ.
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