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ABUNDANT LIFE MISSIONS 2019 report

To God Be The Glory

Greetings Co-laborers and Partners

The members of Abundant Life Missions give God all the glory and praise for the things He did through us in 2019. In fact since our last newsletter there have been more blessings than we can enumerate in this article.

LOCAL MINISTRY

We continue to minister at one of the Los Angeles Transition Center facilities. The Center has moved three times but for more than 13 years we have followed them to each new location. On special days and holidays the residents receive toiletry gifts. On Christmas all of their children under 15 receive gifts of clothes, toys and gift cards. Many souls have been saved and others rededicated their lives to the Lord.

Several homeless women with children were assisted throughout the year with rent, food, clothing other living essentials and Christmas gifts. There are many homeless in our community, and periodically we drive around the area to give them something to eat.

We partnered with several other ministries to provide food, socks and toiletries to the homeless on skid row, nursing home residents, homeless students and others who were in need. Many visits were made to the sick and shut-in.

INTERNATIONALLY

Annually we continue to travel in the month of August to minister to the people in the rural areas of South East Malawi. Our donors have been faithful in their support of the work the Lord has assigned to us.

Two additional missionaries joined us in August 2019. Evangelist Marcia Wilson taught all of the classes and preached a sermon every day for the week she was there. Missionary Makeda Cowan, a Registered Nurse, worked daily in the health clinics for the two weeks we were in Malawi. God is faithful to send laborers into the vineyard..

The Dallas Foundation through the Mitchell/Tufts Foundation Designated Fund contributed the largest grant ever received from them in the amount of $14, 781.00 in 2019. Mr. Sanford Mitchell (deceased) and his sister, Elder Sandra Tufts are personal friends of our President, Missionary Phyllis Leftwich. Elder Tufts is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

We were able to pay the rent for one year for three women who were victims of the terrible cyclone that struck Mozambique and Malawi early in 2019. They are now reestablished in their own housing. Praise the Lord!

We completed the building of New Vision Pentecost Church which is the Headquarters church of Malawi Second Jurisdiction, under the leadership of Bishop Chifundo Mwanandi.

The Tailoring Program graduated four students who received their sewing machines and have started their own businesses. That brings the total number of graduates to twenty-two. Hallelujah!

We are in the fourth phase of building our third Church of God in Christ, Faith Chapel COGIC, which will be completed when the rains stop. West Angeles Church of God in Christ, which gives us a quarterly grant, has donated additional funds for the well to be dug at Faith Chapel. A well was dug in another area in August , 2019.

The Bicycle project continues. Four bicycles were purchased for Pastors and church leaders to facilitate their travel to villages to spread the gospel..

Two pre-school teachers received additional training and a number of pre-school students progressed to Form 1(first grade) in the government school.

This is the Lord's doing, it is marvelous in our eyes. Psalm 118:23