Manna for Malawi 2019
Manna for Malawi 2019 was a great success!!
This fifth annual event raised approximately $44,000. These funds will be used to purchase a truck for the farm in Malawi, for education for high school students, and food for the children.
The event featured the Johnny Holm Band which was very popular. Despite the rain fans stayed and listened to the music and danced. Everyone was enjoying the music.
Thank you to Maucieri’s Italian Bistro for the meal and to Mixed Company A Kava
House for the beverages. A special thank you to The Woodtick Inn for hosting this event.
As soon as possible $40,898 will be wired to Malawi. Of that money $30,000 will be used for the truck, $5,898 will be used for education, and $5,000 will be used for food.
There were activities for all ages, including a silent auction, face painting, hula hoops, balloon sculptures, and more!
Mark your calendars now for Manna For Malawi 2020 which will be held Sunday, June 28th and will feature the Johnny Holm Band.
Johnny Holm Band to Perform for Manna for Malawi this weekend!
Johnny Holm will turn 70 this year. Yeah, 70 going on 35.
And he and the band will be in Cuyuna this weekend. The Johnny Holm Band will perform at this year’s Manna for Malawi fund raiser on Sunday, June 23rd at the Woodtick in Cuyuna, Minnesota. There is no admission to the four hour event, only a free will offering. The event runs from 4-8pm.
Holm is starting his show these days with the admission that he’s been doing this for 50 years. And thinks he’d like to stick around for another five or six! Holm says he feels good, pays attention to his health, and has even begun a yoga practice. As if running around on and off the stage during the show band’s rock and roll performance isn’t enough exercise for anyone, especially someone who is closing in on seven decades on the planet.
The regional band has been attracting audiences around the United States, primarily in the five-state area around where he began. Holm began his musical journey just down the road where he went to high school in Brainerd. One memory has it that Johnny was taking classes in Fargo for something or other and playing guitar in a local club. And the money was better at the club. Fast forward fifty years through countless bars, county fairs, bowling alleys, proms and late night private parties and the energy is as strong, infectious and invigorating as its ever been. Bring your dancing shoes. Johnny will insist on it.
Manna for Malawi 2019 runs from 4:00pm to 8:00pm. In addition to music, those who attend get to eat Italian food from Maucieri’s while they’re checking out the silent auction items.
Pastor Paul Mattson said his heart was touched as he saw first hand what Manna for Malawi has done and continues to do. Malawi is in southeastern Africa, the poorest nation in the world. Average income is less than $2 a day.
“When we were invited to help the mission 13 years ago, volunteers fed 400 hundred, once a week. Now, feeding takes place six days a week and gives up to a thousand African orphans get their only meal of the day,” Mattson added. Last year’s event raised more than $35,000 to help the organization buy a tractor for the farm bought the year before. Money raised this year will go for the feeding program, farm equipment, and education for orphan children.
Kids give more than $10,000!!
Lebanon Lutheran School in Lebanon, WI has donated over $10,000 over the past 5 years!!!! They donate their offerings from their chapel services for a semester each school year. These are some of their pictures.
Over the years, their donations have been used to purchase blankets for the children, provide food for the feeding program, provide scholarships for high school students, and to help start the chicken/egg business.
Not one of these children can afford to donate $1,000 or $2,000 alone. However, many people’s donations over several years have made a positive impact on the children in Malawi!! Thank you, Lebanon Lutheran School!!!
Precious Masula’s Success!
Your investment in the children of Malawi is making a difference in their lives!
Precious Masula passed his exit exams from high school with such high scores that he is able to attend any college in Malawi as long as he can pass the college’s entrance exam. Precious was a scholarship recipient at Kanyenyeva Ministries throughout his high school career.
No one from the Kanyenyeva area has scored this high on their high school exit exams before Precious!!! (In Malawi, to graduate from high school you must pass an exit exam.)
Thank you to everyone who provides scholarship money for the students at Kanyenyeva. Your investment is making a positive difference in their lives! Click here to learn more about high school scholarships. Please prayerfully consider sponsoring another student in high school so they have the same opportunities as Precious does.
Tuition for a university is $825/year.
Room and board is $2,760/year.
Money for books, transportation, etc. is $1,120/year.
Total needed for Precious to attend college in Malawi is $4,705 per year.
Please prayerfully consider if you are being called to help sponsor Precious through his college career.
