Day Three: Cornerstone Ministries
Today we visited Cornerstone Ministries about an hour and a half east of Lilongwe near Lake Malawi. When Dave was here in 2014, Cornerstone held their ministries for children in a rented home and in public school buildings. But Cornerstone was one of the ministries that had not yet built nor begun building facilities to house the ministries on their own land. As we began the day sitting in that same rented house with the Cornerstone team — Danneck Falinya, his co-leader Leo Chanza, Tionge Matangula and Chikonti Chirwa, who all spent two years as a fellow in the U.S., and two younger leaders, Glory Munthali and Chikondi Khabaka, who may be fellows in the program next year — we talked about how they are doing so much with so little. Cornerstone faces the ongoing challenge of providing the resources needed in a fast growing ministry. This year they had to make the choice between buying books or taking the summer camp children on a trip to Lilongwe, which had been ...