The Joseph Project

 

When my cousin, Caroline with her husband Julian and two teenage children went out to Malawi they knew they would be working with other missionaries to found, and sustain, local churches.  Many of the people they came in contact with had never heard the Gospel and were bound by fear.

The Lott family had been there over a year before they decided to found the Joseph Project.  This was to enable them to help meet the basic needs of many they came in contact with.  During the last few years the money raised has:

  • Helped support a family of triplets, through their first fifteen months, with food, blankets and medical care.

  • Give blankets to several hundred elderly people and to orphaned children.

  • Run feeding programmes in twelve villages for vulnerable children and elderly.  (At one point they were supplying 2,000 meals three times a week.)

  • Provide women, in several villages, with education in hygiene, health care and basic agriculture; thus enabling them to feed their families.

  • Support a government primary school with uniforms, pens & books, for the children of particularly poor families.

  • Foster five orphans, living on the compound, and cared for by two local women.

Caroline was over in the UK in November and told me that these five children have settled in well and are able to go to school.  Paul is 7 and there are two brothers, Macca aged 8 & Semus, 6.  They have been joined by sisters, Lunea, 7 & Brenda, 4.  All ages approximate, as birthdays not known!

Please pray for the work of the Joseph Project and also for the Lott family. There is much resistance to the Christian message, and antagonism to those who bring it.

 

Gill Davidson

Home