The Next Faithful Step: New York
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My name is Mwerapusa Mawindo and for the second time in two years, I am getting rid of all my possessions and leaving everything I know behind in the pursuit of a dream.
For almost as long as I’ve been alive the narrative that I have heard in relation to my small east African country Malawi is that we are poor. When I became a physician I saw this poverty in the long lines outside the public outpatient doors. I saw it every time we failed to operate because we did not have IV fluids and every time we sent patients off without medication because our pharmacy didn’t have what we prescribed. It wasn’t just in the health sector that I saw this poverty, it was in many of our systems. The final straw for me was seeing how this reality affected us in cross-cultural encounters. Encounters that should have worked to enrich and expand the parties involved instead reminded us of the inferiority complexes that we had inherited from decades of anthropological oppression.
Believing the promise for life and life in abundance to be a word for all that were made in the image of God I put aside my career in medicine, sold everything I had and came to seminary.
I came to Fuller because of the outstanding Intercultural Studies program. The emphasis in Urban Studies and International Development has been especially pertinent in helping me name the ills that I as a leader want to help tackle. I think it’s important that my generation and those to come be educated. Not just in the fields that teach us about the world and how to survive in it but about our place in it. I want us to know that God too had and has a plan for us. It is vital that the developmental conversation in Malawi be expanded to include young passionate voices that can help shape the Malawi that they want to leave to coming generations. This September I am moving from California to New York City where I have accepted an unpaid internship with the Malawi Mission to the United Nations. I believe this to be my next faithful step in this journey of leveraging my education, faith, and passion towards the service of my country and my people.
New York City, however, is incredibly expensive and with no job and no legal ability to get one as an international student, it will be especially hard. Please consider donating to this journey. Feel free to share the link and if you are a person of faith please pray for me. There are unfamiliar paths ahead of me and I need the ever present God to go before me and to hem me in. Help me by praying for courage, provision, and favor.
Blessings to you all.
For almost as long as I’ve been alive the narrative that I have heard in relation to my small east African country Malawi is that we are poor. When I became a physician I saw this poverty in the long lines outside the public outpatient doors. I saw it every time we failed to operate because we did not have IV fluids and every time we sent patients off without medication because our pharmacy didn’t have what we prescribed. It wasn’t just in the health sector that I saw this poverty, it was in many of our systems. The final straw for me was seeing how this reality affected us in cross-cultural encounters. Encounters that should have worked to enrich and expand the parties involved instead reminded us of the inferiority complexes that we had inherited from decades of anthropological oppression.
Believing the promise for life and life in abundance to be a word for all that were made in the image of God I put aside my career in medicine, sold everything I had and came to seminary.
I came to Fuller because of the outstanding Intercultural Studies program. The emphasis in Urban Studies and International Development has been especially pertinent in helping me name the ills that I as a leader want to help tackle. I think it’s important that my generation and those to come be educated. Not just in the fields that teach us about the world and how to survive in it but about our place in it. I want us to know that God too had and has a plan for us. It is vital that the developmental conversation in Malawi be expanded to include young passionate voices that can help shape the Malawi that they want to leave to coming generations. This September I am moving from California to New York City where I have accepted an unpaid internship with the Malawi Mission to the United Nations. I believe this to be my next faithful step in this journey of leveraging my education, faith, and passion towards the service of my country and my people.
New York City, however, is incredibly expensive and with no job and no legal ability to get one as an international student, it will be especially hard. Please consider donating to this journey. Feel free to share the link and if you are a person of faith please pray for me. There are unfamiliar paths ahead of me and I need the ever present God to go before me and to hem me in. Help me by praying for courage, provision, and favor.
Blessings to you all.
Organizer
Mwera Mawindo
Organizer
Pasadena, CA