We are back from Khuyu Village...

Hello friends and family....We survived the trip... It was amazing to do something bigger than just ABC! We went to a students home where he has a heart to reach his village for Jesus. We were officially in the middle of nowhere Africa. We drove about 6 hours north with part of that 2 hours on a dirt road. I wondered how come there was even a road. A dirt road. That was amazing that was even a road. They say tobacco trucks use them as the tobacco farmers are up there. Ok... So we traveled to a village of Khuyu on the dirt road. We showed up at the primary school there. Just buildings with a chalk board. Exactly what you imagine, it is...

Do you see the kids on the side of the road... They love to wave... they have the most beautiful smiles!

Here is the primary school that we were mainly at...

Analise and Fanny talking to the children there. Analise was using her as a translator... Too cute...
Nya and Analise with our friends Fanny and Funa with the kids...
Teaching them how to play duck duck gooose...
We showed the Jesus film at the school that night, by the time the movie was going on there were about 300 hundred people... We sang and also shared the gospel...

The next morning we spoke at the primary school again. I shared how we have to be connected to Jesus as He challenges us to be the branches and He is the vine...

Nya and Bob talking to the kids...

That afternoon we went door to door to reach out to the village... As you can see Analise loves it and loves the dirt... Seriously she didn't stay clean unless she was sleeping... after her bath

The local villagers dancing for me...

Here is where we stayed at a local tobacco farmers house. It was not a mud house but there was no electricity and no running water... So we bathed by buckets and sat by candlelight.

Analise loving the bucket water baths... Do you see the water she was sooo dirty!

Here we are at the Sunday church service... On Friday and Saturday We shared the Jesus film to 2 more villages and also did door to door there. We then did discipleship training teaching Bible basics, how to have an active prayer life, evangelism, understanding the Gospel and who we are in Christ. About 50 people had that training. On Friday I taught a class how to be a woman of God. It went so good. They asked lots of questions and we got to answer them!

We taught the kids "this little light of Mine" Analise and Nya sang in the microphones....

Bob with the local Pastors of the churches in that village... that cute little boy wanted to sit with Bob the whole time.

Nya took this Picture can you find me!

The village at the church service... Mind you it was 4 hours long. WOW!

Here is Bob teaching the people that God gave a free gift when He gave Jesus to us. We have hope for the future because of that. We are not saved by what we do but what He has done for us...

Daddy loving on his girls...

Here is Bob giving the local pastors Bible in thier language. They don't even have a bible. How can a pastor do it without a bible. That was a treat see that. During the training we were able to give about 50 bibles away. Amazing. I have 5 in my house and somedon't have even a page.

Here is the team at the house... And the people that took care of us...

Of course we could do it without an african break down. Do you see that chain. Our friend Ronald towed us because our clutch went out in the middle of nowhere... We were towed about a 100 miles with that chain. It was a long ride home....

Of course you can't forget to hold the chickens while your broken down. Oh the adventure of it all....

So what an opportunity to give and serve. Of course in those moments of giving I didn't always see my best side and I didn't be the person I wanted to be. Stretching is an understatement. But when it is said and done. It was worth it. So our adventures will continue here. Thanks for being apart of our lives and reading my stories... Love - Amy Louise for the Stauffacher family

So you remember when Bob went to the Village of Khuyu...

Well we are headed there tomorrow for 5 days. We will be showing the Jesus Film in an area that has never happened. We are honored to be apart of that. We Mostly Bob will be teaching leadership seminars with the students from ABC. The village is one of the students home and really has a heart to reach them for the Lord. So we will be handing out bibles and do more discipleship with the people there. So awesome to be apart of something deep. So we would love your prayers as we are gone through this Monday. The girls and I will be there too with them. Great experience for all of us. Love- The Stauffacher family!

Not just faces anymore...

I know many of you have wondering what we having been doing these last few weeks. We have been so busy with the end of the year activities and Finals ! Oh do you remember those college days. I have added pictures over the last year we have been here. Those cute Malawians faces you have been seeing are not just faces to me. I realized that they are my dear friends. So I am going to put some pictures of our friends here and what we have been investing in.

Here are the some of the senior girls... Thats me taking the picture on the left at the bottom. Catherine, Atupele, Thomison, Mwai, Chokondi, and Neke. They were all so excited to be apart of the Baccaluarette Service they do every year...

Here are all the seniors seated down in the first 2 rows of the chapel. Friends and Family come to see this special service. The seniors get all dressed in their finest. They were presented in front of everyone. They were radiating. Can you find Bob and Analise? They are in the middle!

My friends Atupele and Joel. Both Graduating this year! They are planning to get married in 2 years. Atupele has been our sweet friend and babysitter over the last year. The girls love love love her. And so do Bob and I!

Here are the Founders of African Bible Colleges, Dr. Jack and Nell Chinchen and our guest Speaker for the Baccalaruatte Service and Graduation from San Diego Matt Hammett - Flood Church Senior Pastor, and the President of the College Campus, Paul Chinchen

Here are Two Professors at the college. Maggie and Laura waiting for the ceremony to start.

We had a after Baccalaruatte service get together. I got some people together and we decorated the dining hall. About 450 people came. It was fun.

Then we had a senior dinner Banquet (last night where I helped decorate again. It was prettier than prom!) where all the seniors get to share how God has used ABC in their lives and their favorite teachers and favorite stories and what they are doing after they Graduate. It was amazing to hear all the stories. And it was soooo refreshing to be reminded why we are here. To teach and impact the lives and reach Africa through Africans. I personally Loved every minute of this banquet. I cried every time one of my girls got up to share!

Here is Henry! Rosemary , Fanny and Muzanji- All enjoying the Senior Dinner Banquet

Tonight we had a special Concert! The ABC Choir put on an amazing performance. I will put on video of the singing tomorrow!

Of course it wouldn't be complete with out African drums. I will never get tired of African Music. I love it.

Anyways just to update you with pictures. Thank you all for your prayers and support! We are here loving these friends of ours and using the skills we are trained for to equip and train these African Friends to reach more African Friends. They do it the best!

Love- Amy Louise, Bob, Nya and Analise

He came home in one piece...

Bob with a friend in Luwanga, Zambia. His name is McDonald ( we always think of french fries when we say his name. ) McDonald is going to be a full time missionary out in a village! He will be doing what ABC is all about. Training Africans to reach and teach other Africans!
One of the big cats on the safari trip and that is with out zooming in!
Here is the Senior Class this year. Remember the girls from the Pancakes. Those are my girls.
On the way to Safari
God's Beautiful Creation!!!

He said it was a great time. He said he was soo close to the lions he was even a little bit scared. What Bob be scared?!? The seniors had a great time. Doesn't anyone want to come and visit? We would love to have you. Come and have fun with us!

So today we start our busy end of the year stuff. We are hosting a team from San Diego Flood church. They will be here for 8 days. We have a 2 day conference this weekend and then we have Baccalaurette to prepare for and off we go in to Graduation week.

So I will have more pictures to come from this week!

Love you and will keep more stories coming! Amy Louise

Hello friends and Family...

So Bob is in Zambia on the College Senior Trip. The College sends them to a safari retreat. So they will be there until Saturday Night. We then have one more week until all the Graduation end of the year activities come. We are definetly excited to be apart of all of that!

Here is a email I sent out for those who didn't get to read it...
We are so excited to see our first Graduation here in Africa. Our kids are graduating...That is our Senior ABC Students are graduating. On June 7th we will be there! We have guest speakers and fun graduation events to be apart until then. On June 8th we are going to be apart of our Church as it gets commissioned here in Lilongwe as a branch church of the Flood church in San Diego. So fun for us. We are all well here. We have been super busy with the students investing as much time in them before they leave to work in the big world out there. Some of them are only 21 years old and others are 50 years old. Many are planning to be missionaries in villages. A couple of them are planning to be pastors and teachers. We will be putting pictures on our blog. Anyways just wanted update you all as we continue on in our journey here in Malawi.

Please remember prayer for us-
- as we have only 3 weeks until School is done here.
- as we go back to the village of Khuyu on June 12 -16 to do more discipleship with those who received Christ in March with the first team. Nya and Analise are coming too. It will be an amazing experience for them to stay in the village! With all the goats cows and chickens.....
-continue to show the Jesus film to new crowds and share the gospel and disciple local Malawians.

We are thankful for all your prayer and love and support. We definitely would not be here if it wasn't for you!
Love the stauffachers

the island pictures finally and what we are up to...

Hi so sorry it has taken sooooo long to get these pictures. I can't believe that it was 3 weeks ago. We had a spectacular time with the students. Yes I did say spectacular. This first picture is on our way. It took a 2 hour car ride and a 2 hour boat ride. The island on the right is where we stayed.

This is main area that we hung out and in it had a place where we could get drinks. Yippee they had Coke. We did bring our own food and cooked it... Here is where we slept! Here is Analise helping with the dishes. The girls did soooo great the entire time. They loved hanging with the all the teenagers!

So we have been super busy even with a kidney infection. I am much better now. Thank you for you love and prayers. We have been super healthy for the last 4 months. It has been refreshing. We have really enjoyed having deeper relationships with the students. I pretty much now know all the girls names. With Names like Mwai, Chimwewe, Atupele, Hennelise, Chifundo, Kisa, Chokondi, Mtendere, Dyna, Mufunasa It gets complicated. I love being apart of their lives and really investing. We had all the seniors over for French Toast this week . How fun to feed people something they have never really had. Then I had the senior girls over for Tacos ( you know that means in Chichewa -Butt) I know wow I got to feed them Butt! They loved the tacos. We then got to watch a movie and feed them my favorite thing in life here - POPCORN! Then this morning I got to feed them and teach them how to Make Pancakes and Waffles. Oh so fun. They were all crowded around and loving it all. I tell that is fun. We have fun feeding and spiritually feeding these people. They are now trusting us with deeper things and coming to Bob and I for Guidance in many areas of their spiritual journeys. Yippee! We love it. We love being challanged and growing too.

Here they all are trying to get as close as possible to the pancakes! See cute Analise in the back of Chikondi. So Cute.

Please pray for Bob this weekend. He will be traveling to a village of a students here at ABC about 1 1/2 hour away to preach at a local church and secondary school There will be about 1000 people that will hear how God can change your life! So if you remember to pray that Lives will be changed and also impacted. He has been really loving going to the villages and impacting people lives. He went and showed the Jesus film to the village I had put on a previous blog. He connected with the head chief of the village and will continue to reach this unreached area as we continue on here at ABC. The head chief is head of about 10 villages or more Bob tells me. WOW! that is what I call Impacting what God has put us.

thank you for all your love and financial support. We could be here and sharing the gospel and loving people for Jesus if it wasn't for you. Your team support is amazing. Love - amy louise for the stauffacher family

Well it was 5 hour trip to the island...

But the island was great. thank you for your prayers...I will post some pictures on the blog hopefully by monday! I have been down with a kidney infection, so i would appreciate some prayers... I am on antibiotics to I should be feeling better soon! thank you- Amy louise

So are off...

We are headed to Lake Malawi to stay on a island. WIth Bob's class he teaches at the academyIt is a senior high retreat we are chaperoning. We will be devotionals with 17 of them. So pray for us for safety and that these kids would deepen their walk with Christ. We will have updates later. thank you for all your love and support. We have 5 weeks until school is done. WOW!
Zikomo- Thank you in Chichewa
Amy Louise

Hi just a quick follow up!

So you remember that cute little girl. So last week Bob went to the Village and saw them. Her eye is completely normal and she is continually smiling so her mother says. What a treat! She looked like a totally different girl so said Bob. thank you for your prayers and love- The stauffacher family

So this is what it is all about...

So you remember I had nothing new to share. How that changes in a day-the next day it all changed. Bob took the seniors to their outreach (remember the village of Mchoka - a previous post I did)and while they were there they saw a little girl with an eye infection. Of course there is no doctors for miles and miles. Bob over heard the leaders Rosemary and Joseph talking and saying to them "we will bring medicine next week" Okay so Bob swung into action and no lets take to the ABC clinic and get her to see the the doctor. So that is what we did. They have never been in a car much less in a city much less in a clinic! Amazing... We got to be apart of all that. That is why we are here. To impact!

Little Melenia here with her Momma Theresa... Her eye is swollen shut and unable to open.

Here is Melenia and Momma Theresa with the leaders (Rosemary and Joseph) of the outreach with my girls... We were able to get medicine and we will bring her back to the doctor to check up on her. You the amazing thing that if they werent going to that village who know what would of happened. What Rosemary and Joseph say probably she would lose sight with such a bad infection. They say it happens all time. We are so spoiled with our opportunities to go to the doctor whenever! So pray that the medicine takes affect and that Theresa eye would be better!

So that night we went to the Junior/ Senior banquet. That is where the Juniors serve the Seniors dinner... and us too!

All the students and staff waiting for the Junior to come and serve...
Here are all the Juniors getting ready to serve us

A special Singing performance

here is Mary and Tendeli and me!

Here I am with my friend Pam. She works with the Navigators here at ABC and other colleges... She has become a really treat to have in my Life... She is from Ireland and has lived here in Lilongwe for the last 5 years. Here are the Juniors waiting to serve us! MMMM doesn't look good?

Here is more friends... Rosemary, Me, Linda and Funa (Roesamary is the leader on the Outreach, Linda is a Freshman that is an amazing singer and Funa went to the Village with Bob over easter Holiday)

Here is a picture of Lisa (sixth grade teacher at the Acedemy) and Me and Ari the preschool teacher here!

Here is Catherine a senior with her Boyfriend Russel. She goes with me everyweek to teach Bible at a local Girls High school. She is one of my favorite students here. Love her

Here is a group together. Michelle the white tall lady is a missonary here helping put together the new Pediactric Ward and organize the Baby Ward and overnight clinic here. The girls and Cute Momma with the Baby Is Joshua, The is the Nasson Family! Friends of ours Remember from Nya birthday. Maya and Faith were there.

Here is Neke a senior with Nell Chinchin who started ABC along with her husband. Neke is from Liberia and has amazing stories to tell about surviving civil war in Liberia.

Analise was staying with a friend while all this was happening but it ran late so She got to come in her PJs. Here she is with Atupele. She is a senior also and she comes and hangs out with us alot! We love her! And so do the girls!

Lastly here is Bob with Roland. He and Bob are really good friends. Roland is a graduate of ABC and will be a missonary to a village out in Dzuwa in August. He has been the on campus maintaince person! Our friends from san diego will be coming in July to take His place. Josh and Emily are coming! Pray for them as you remember them

So that all for Now! Lots of love- Amy Louise

hello...we are still kicking over here...

Wow time has flown by since my last blog. First of all my internet was down for a week. that really doesn't help. I could check email sometimes but that was it. So really I felt of out the loop. We are busy with School. As you know Bob is teaching 4 classes and I am teaching a bible study with the Senior girls. Nya is busy with school and Analise is dreaming that she was in School. I have been able to meet with some of the college girls and other girls here on campus for one on one what should we call it - counseling or mentoring ( I am too young to be a mentor) or discipleship. I have really enjoyed it so much. Really I have been stretched and learned so much about myself through it. We are on our 9th month here and man we really can't believe it.

So here are questions for you the readers. What is that I have not told about Malawi or here at ABC. What questions do you have for me about Africa. What pictures or videos do you want that I haven't given you. My mind is blank in what to give you next. So Email at amystauffacher@yahoo.com I will answer here on the blog if it not too personal! I will do anthing for my readers.

thank you for your love and support and prayers... Love all of us the stauffy family

This is our outreach....

Here are some videos and pictures of our Outreach... Please read the first post at the bottom of the videos and then watch the videos. If you have it sent to your email you will have to go to my blog to see the videos... www.stauffacherfamily.blogspot.com

Love - amy louise

Praying for our journey to the Village

Starting out and Starting out singing

Still Singing and Analise is Asleep and Nya ears are ringing

Driving to Village Mchoka

Arriving at Mchoka

Kids singing at the Village Mchoka

Saying Goodbye

Hey you want to join us for our outreach?

So here it is. We went with Bob with his Open Air Outreach that he does every Thursday. These are the seniors of the class... The students designed a ministry in this class and make it happen every week. They do door to door evangelism and work with the local church to disciple the people they bring to the Lord. They are doing a great Job and so here are some pictures...

Here we are beginning our journey at ABC... We left at 1:30pm (during Analise's naptime...) It takes about 1 hour to get to the village of Mchoka.
Inside the bus
On the Road called M14. It is the landscape is beautiful
Here is Cecelia Christopher and her kids and Nya and I... We shared the gospel with her with our door to door evanglism...
Nya and Chokandi as we walk back to the bus...

Here are my girls with the kids...

Our family with the cute kids

So I put videos of us on our journey... Please enjoy... thanks for joining us as we go and love the students of ABC and the people of Mchoka...