MMM

I'm off to Malawi once again! Leaving the country soon for a few days in Liverpool to visit with Rhona and Isabella whom I lived with in Nkhoma. Then to Lilongwe with Marion Medical Mission for the rest of October! Here is a letter from MMM founder Tom Logan and I'll be updating as much as possible !  

  We are in over our heads beyond what we can do. We need to pray hard and ask others (friends, Churches, Sunday School Classes, the organizations we belong to) to commit to pray daily until the end of November. And when we pray…let’s move our feet (An African proverb I like). 

            Pray for the volunteers safety and efforts, pray for our African partners (the Field Officers, Installation Supervisors, well builders, and the 2,550 village communities hoping to have a source of safe drinking water they can maintain themselves, pray the funds necessary will be available)

            In Malawi there are six million people at risk of starvation due to the drought/famine caused by El Nino. Pray MMM will get maize to those at risk, and do so safely.

            A $20 donation to Marion Medical Mission buys and distributes a 110 pound bag of maize to a family providing them with the necessary food assistance needed for a month (no overhead in the US and less than 3% in Malawi). MMM has promised the Synod of Nkhoma Church of Central Africa Presbyterian it will provide 15,760  110 pound bags of maize ($20 x 15,760 = $315,200) to those most at risk.

            Within the last month, Marion Medical Mission has purchased and distributed 4,000  bags of maize. MMM has raised less than 50% of what is needed...yet, we must buy maize when we can find it.       

            $400 provides a rural village in Africa with a sustainable source of safe drinking water. Marion Medical Mission’s 2016 goal is to build 2,550 wells before the rains come in November; in an area covering roughly 57,000 square miles.  All 2,550 villages have been selected and they are in the process of making the brick, gathering stone and sand; 25,550  110 pound bags of cement have been purchased; subsistence farmers have made around 2,800 pumps; 1050 African builders are ready to start construction September 1.

            MMM has received funding for 1,053 of the wells leaving 1497 that need to be funded.

            Where will the funds for maize and wells come from?  It can’t be done. It is impossible. Marion Medical Mission has been here before...last year, and the year before, and the year before, and the year before...

            You are needed. Only together can we be who God created us to be. Together the impossible is possible. Apart the possible is impossible. 

            Tax deductible donations can be sent to Marion Medical Mission, 1412 Shawnee Drive, Marion, IL 62959. 

            To donate online, go to www.mmmwater.org  

            Tom Logan, Marion Medical Mission