St. John’s + Malawi Partnership

The St. John’s Malawi Partnership exists to encourage one another and to help spread and strengthen the gospel in the Anglican Diocese of Upper Shire, Malawi

This partnership has been in place since 2003.  Under the Missions Committee, the Malawi committee meets regularly and is in regular communication with people in the Diocese of Upper Shire.  Over the years, several Malawian priests and others have visited St. John’s, and members of the committee have visited the Anglican Diocese of Upper Shire.  We seek to support our brothers and sisters in Christ through friendship, regular communication, monetary assistance, and prayer.

Malawi, formerly known as Nyasaland, is a land-locked nation in south-eastern Africa.  It is one of the poorest countries in the world where the economy is based mainly on agriculture, but alternating floods and droughts, as well as AIDS, have threatened peoples’ lives and livelihoods.  Of the population of 21 million people, approximately 77% are Christian.   

The Anglican Church came to Malawi with the missionaries in 1861.  The Anglican Diocese of Upper Shire, one of four dioceses in Malawi, has 40 parishes, 280 outstations and 51 priests.  Besides training for lay and ordained leadership, the Diocese also runs 2 national secondary boarding schools, 55 primary schools, 12 community day secondary schools, a health sciences college, 2 hospitals and 8 community health care centres.