{"id":345,"date":"2017-08-02T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2017-08-03T00:13:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T00:13:15","slug":"reflections-on-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missions.nalcnetwork.com\/reflections-on-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pastor Ralph Easterhaus and I flew into Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, on Saturday, June 24th<\/sup>, after an unintended one-day layover in Johannesburg due to a missed connection. The planned 90-minute layover turned out to be 45 minutes too short, as our flight out of Frankfurt departed late. Thankfully, the night in Johannesburg gave us a chance to rest from the long travel day, so we arrived rested and acclimated to the local time zone. Malawi is about 2 hours northeast of Johannesburg by air, surrounded by Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Tanzania. We spent the first week in Lilongwe (population 2.2 million), and the second week in Salima (population 400,000), a town east of the capital on Lake Malawi, just north of Chipoka. Since we were in the Southern Hemisphere, Malawi was in the middle of winter; highs were in the upper 70s and low 80s, and evenings were in the mid-50s. Since few buildings are air conditioned, this made for a perfect teaching climate!<\/p>\n