7/16 I've got the incredible privilege to be in Malawi, the warm heart of Africa. I haven't been here since 2019, and so many of us are gathering here together as leaders from Zimbabwe and Mozambique and Malawi, and there are even a few senior leaders like Blessings that arrived from Zambia, and Levy and Tyler from South Africa. Some of us haven't seen each other for three and a half years, and you know, some of these relationships have been going for longer than 15 years. And when we walked into that room and we met each other, the singing and the laughing and the rejoicing... Old friendships! Comrades coming together and enjoying each other and just singing and telling each other just how faithful God has been in our midst! We watched new leaders like Tanazio taking on the Service Centre, and as I watched him speaking to people, I could not believe what God has done in his life. This young, timid boy I met a number of years ago, just an incredible leader. There are also new people like Beatrice. Beatrice who used to be the coordinator from Mngwere (community), and now she's sat among us, eating from all these seasoned leaders... Madalitso, our bookkeeper in Malawi! You know, we always speak about different layers of people in Hands at Work, coming from all over the world, all over Africa and working together. Sometimes you see that difference even on the local level. If you look at Madalitso and Beatrice coming from the same wider community, working in the same Service Centre, but with such different backgrounds. Beatrice grew up in the poorest communities where she learned how to survive. She worked with that beautiful heart that God has given her, and she became our coordinator in Mngwere eventually, and now she's in the Service Centre. She understands the depths of poverty and suffering! And then you look at somebody like Madalitso, who's been well educated and worked in financial institutions, but also this burning heart for Jesus. And there she is, but she's managing our finances and our administration. They sit next to each other, and they learn from the senior leaders and their hearts get swallowed up by the beautiful stories that God has invited all of us to be part of. What a privilege, how beautiful it is. You are part of this. It's amazing.