Malawi Champions Conference 2011

5 September 2011
 

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Around 60-70 trainers, farmers and leaders from other ministries and charities gathered in Blantyre for Foundations for Farming Malawi’s second annual Champions’ conference.

Last year’s conference had the theme ‘the Times of Change’ (the title of the Foundations for Farming film made by Johann van der Ham, who heads up Foundations for Farming in Malawi). At this year’s conference there was a definite feeling that times are changing and so the teaching centred around God’s faithfulness in the face of adversity.

Craig Deall, the CEO of Foundations for Farming in Zimbabwe and Darryl Edwards, who manages a Foundations for Farming training centre in Manicaland Zimbabwe, came for the conference. Darryl Edwards taught a session on profitable farming and how to make the most out of the crops that you grow, he also lead a theoretical and practical session on composting.

Johann van der Ham and Billy Bray (who helps Johann lead the Foundations for Farming base in Malawi) are also working with Crown Financial Ministries in Malawi and were very blessed to have Crown’s Vice President for Africa Andre Stryger and Jan Strydom Vice President for Global Career Development visiting for the Champions conference.

Crown Financial Ministries teaches faithfulness and good stewardship of money, business and resources and so their teachings go very well with the teachings of Foundations for Farming. Billy Bray lead a session on God’s economy vs man’s economy, and Jan Strydom lead a session based on the widow and the oil story from 2 Kings 4: 1-7 focussing on the fact that God can use the little we have if we are faithful with it. So many in Malawi have a piece of land and yet are still hungry. Foundations for Farming and Crown Financial Ministries want to see that changed in Malawi and across the globe.