Malawi 2011 > The Past Five Years
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2006
The Grace Alliance Church invites Len and Karen Roller to partner with them for ministry to orphaned children and for development in Malawi, Africa.
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2006
The Grace Center campus is purchased.
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2006
Pastor Phiri, Karen and Pastor Ngwangwa enjoy a moment of fun.
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2007
Pastor Phiri and Chikumbutso (orphan) caught the eye of Debbie Brownlow. She prayed for months for this little boy before traveling to Malawi to meet him. Debbie now serves on the COH board.
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2007
Debbie meets Chikumbutso. His need for a blanket sparked a miracle and every child at the Grace Center received a new blanket. The team didn't have that much money, but God's resources stretch much farther than we can imagine.
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2007
The Grace Alliance church comes to meet our first COH team to visit Malawi.
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2007
There was absolutely nothing on the Grace Center campus except a little grass fence when we arrived. We took sticks to scrape the ground and make a smooth place for our tents.
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2007
Much hard work and back breaking labor has gone into the shaping of the Grace Center campus.
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2008
Skip to 2008! The classroom is the third building on the Grace Center Campus built in partnership with Wilmore Elementary school.
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2008
Our first reaching out beyond the Grace Center into the local community began with a public school teachers seminar.
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2008
Extreme Hut Makeovers...need we say more?
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2008
Putting the roof on the building right before we "Move that TRUCK!"
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2009
The first children move into Timothy's Home.
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2010
A year +11 kids later, Timothy's Home is filled with thriving, laughing, growing children!
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2009
The Grace Alliance Church lays the foundations for the Worship Center.
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2009
Fresh vegetables become part of the staple diet for the children.
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2009 to the present
Women from the local community are learning to sew and weave.
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2009
The gift of electricity is given to the Grace Center. We are still waiting for the electric company to hook us into the power grid.
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2009
The library arrives in Malawi. Another gift from Wilmore Elementary School.
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2011
The Preschool begins with 35 children. It has grown to 298!
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2011
Worship doesn't always need a building. The umbrella church was amazing on this Sunday morning.
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2011
Medical work begins with our home-based care givers being trained in Community Health Evangelism.
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2011
Medical work grows as we partner with Texas Tech University to check hemoglobin levels and study iron deficiencies.
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2011
Dr. Ben Edwards examined 500 children at our Grace Center and Chipoka programs as well as teaching our Community Health Evangelists about wound care and how to check hemoglobin levels.
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2011
The goat herd is part of the Texas Tech project.
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2009
We've come a long was from that day in 2006 when we stood on the empty property and dreamed of what God would do through us. In 2009, as we prayed, this rainbow lit up the sky. It has become for us a sign of the promise that God will do great things at the Grace Center. We invite you to partner with us to see what the next five years will bring!