Easter Calendar 2012

Today marks the start of the Holy Week with the celebration of Palm Sunday or Tsiku la Kanjedza in most Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches all over the country. This is the day that Jesus made the triumphant entry into Jerusalem before he was crucified.

 

—Saint Michael and All Angels Church CCAP will hold Holy week prayers starting from Monday till Easter Friday.

—Keswick Convention Committee Blantyre has organised Easter Sunrise Service at Chichiri Primary School ground on Sunday the resurrection day. The prayers are scheduled to start at 5:30 am this year’s preacher will be Blantyre Synod director of Missions and Evangelism Reverend Paul Mawaya.

—United Living Gospel Church will mark this year’s Easter convention with the ordination of five associate pastors who have been on observation for two and a half years. The church’s leader Bishop James Mkoko said the convention will start with the Lord’s Supper on April 5 and climax on Easter Sunday with the ordination of John Arberto, Phillip Makoti, George Harrison, Dalitso Makoka and Hastings Mfune as pastors. He said the five played a crucial role in the growth of the church within and outside the country. The convention, whose theme is Jesus Took Our Infirmities and Carried Our Sorrows drawn from Isaiah 53:4, will bring together the church’s faithful from all regions of the country, Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania.

—Hossanah Christian Ministries will from April 6-8 hold revival meetings in Mozambique at Lidowo ground in the Angonia region in Tete Province while in Thyolo it will take place at Nsungwi ground in Namagonya village also known as Mukhiwa in TA Chimaliro. This year’s theme ‘Salvation starts in your house’ taken from saint Luke 19 verses 5.

—Four Seventh Day Adventist Churches in Lilongwe City have teamed up to hold a cluster camp meeting which will run between April 1-8, 2012 at Lilongwe SDA

Central Church. Pastor Robert Williams from the United Kingdom will be guest preacher at the camp meeting, the first of its kind to be held in what is called Malawi Central Conference of the SDA Church. The theme of the meeting is: “Revival and Reformation, getting ready for heaven.” Pastor Williams was born in the UK and grew up in Jamaica, West Indies where he started preaching at the age of 18.

Religious Sisters called to listen to the simple in society

The Charge d’ Affaires to Malawi Monsignor Hubertus van Megen has called on the religious sisters to listen carefully to the simple people in society.

Monsignor van Megen said this during the closing mass of a five day conference that the Consecrated Women in Eastern and Central Africa (ACWECA) organised for formators in Lilongwe at Msamba (St. Theresa House).

“We have to listen carefully to the poor in our villages, in our cities, to the uneducated, to the people who also live at the periphery of the church,” he said.

He said we have to learn to read in between the lines in order to understand how Jesus speaks through the poor, how he speaks through the uneducated, how he speaks with those who are outcast.

He added, “Like Nicodemus, God is calling us to give more in our lives, to have a more radical style of life and to give up everything we have. Do it now… and don’t wait to last moment,” he said.—ECM