I have now preached in 6 different churches since I came to Malawi this time around and they are all quite different.
Malawi has an extremely young population with over 50% being under the age of 18 and many of the people moving from the countryside into the city. The cities are not growing by building up as in apartment buildings, but by consuming the lands around them with houses made from brick created from the earth next to the building site.
The same can be said of the majority of the church buildings. The first church was Emmanuel Baptist in Lilongwe ...