Jim and Jodi McGill
were appointed as mission co-workers in 1995. Their most recent
assignment is in Mzuzu, Malawi, two hours from Embangweni, where
they served for ten years. Jim and Jodi moved to Mzuzu at the
request of the Synod of Livingstonia of the Church of Central
Africa Presbyterian, the PC(USA)’s partner in Malawi.
Jodi writes about the importance of Livingstonia’s Secondary
School Scholarship Fund. Applicants send an essay with their
application form. One of the selected students wrote:
My father passed away in the year 1990 when I was very
young, and our mother remarried to another man. Our stepfather
didn’t allow us to stay with him, hence we children
were shared among my father’s relatives. My grandfather
and grandmother died in early 1993 and 1994 respectively.
My aunt died last year in August.
I am now under the care of my uncle, who is already
having three children at secondary school and caring for other
children from my aunt’s side who also lost their father
in the year 2004. At the meantime we’re about 15 children
plus parents under one roof. Although uncle is a parish minister
and aunt is working, the life we’re living is a very
difficult one since we’re many. Praise God we are not
in town but in the village where we can hoe gardens and plant
maize and other crops. Aunt at the meantime is a patient,
as she was involved in a car accident and sustained a broken
left arm.
I beg you if you can consider my application because
I love school.
Writes Jodi, “Although his situation is a little direr
than others, it is not uncommon and is one of the reasons the
fund was established.” Generous gifts to the fund enabled
the Synod of Livingstonia to provide scholarships to over 160
students in 2007. |
