Mission updates and prayer requests from One Africa Team
God’s Call brought the Nitz family to Malawi and now His Call is taking them out.
26 years 8 months later.
5 kids later.
4 in-country moves later.
12 furloughs later.
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When I tell others that I live in Malawi one of the first questions they ask me is, “What do you do there? What is your job? How do you spend your time?”
For many years my answer was, “I’m a housewife.” Taking care of the kids, husband and home took up most of my time (and still does, minus the kids). In spite of our “exotic” location living in Africa, the laundry, grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning has to be done here as anywhere else in the world. I get the impression that some people imagine that my life is very interesting. Perhaps it felt like that a little bit when we first moved to Africa 22 years ago. But the novelty has long since worn off…
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Go in without expectations. That’s a maxim I’ve found useful when I’ve had to cross cultures. Many years ago as a seminary graduate, I moved to Malawi to serve as a missionary. I tried to go in “empty”, but it wasn’t easy to do.
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