The Work in Malawi
Bob and Flo Calderwood retired from their secular jobs in 1987 to do mission work.
Bob had been an Air Controller for the FAA and Flo worked for the State of South Carolina. They went to Guyana,
South America, to do their mission work. They found the climate to be very hot and very wet. In 1992 an opportunity
presented itself to go to Malawi, Africa, and after much prayer and consideration they decided to continue their mission work
there. After 15 years, they have no regrets about the change.
Both are graduates of the International Bible Institute and Bob continues to teach those courses
to the native preachers in Malawi. Flo teaches the native women to train their children and other women. She also teaches
the women on nutritional cooking.
Check out Bob and Flo's latest newsletter!
Our mission aim is two fold.
First to encourage and edify the church
throughout Malawi. This is done by conducting classes at the Lubagha Mission. One set of classes are geared toward providing
traveling evangelists with material to teach and distribute amongst the Christians that they have extensive contact with.
The other is through offering an on-site campus of the International Bible Institute of Cape Town, South Africa. We teach
and offer 165 credit hours towards a diploma in Bible which is recognized in Africa and the USA.
Our second aim
is to reach the lost and we accomplish this through the offering of nine Bible study centers throughout Malawi. These centers
distribute Bible lessons similar to WBS, however they cover much more material and are a much more extensive in-depth study
compared with WBS. (Incidentally, these courses were co-ordinated with WBS in Austin, TX.) In addition we are getting a series
of morality courses, built around Biblical teaching, into the public school systems of Malawi. And finally, we are putting
copies of the Study New Testament into the hands of willing students. This is our current fund raising goal. At a total cost
of three dollars ($3) we can print and ship to Malawi, from South Africa, a complete N.T. with a beautiful hard cover. This
N.T. also contains a New Testament background, Chronology of the Life of Jesus, Monies, weights and measurements, the Jewish
Calendar, a Practical study guide of first principles, a section on the New Testament church and the complete N.T. All for
$3 inc luding shipping costs.
I hope this short synopsis will be an encouragement to you all to contribute towards
this tremendous undertaking.
