Honoring Pastor Dennis Singini
In this blogpost, I want to highlight and celebrate our longest serving team member of WorldHope Corps: Pastor Dennis Singini, Director of WorldHope Corps Malawi.
Dr Michael with Pastor Dennis
I first met him in 2006 when he was working for the Malawian government Department of Tourism in the capital city of Lilongwe, arranging tours for international guests and visiting groups. We first recruited him to join the staff of Citihope International (with whom I worked at the time) as Program Director for humanitarian aid distribution. After WorldHope Corps was started in 2008, we convinced him to help us drill villages wells and he eventually became National Director.
Pr Dennis
Over the years Pastor Dennis has continued to increase the scope of his leadership and ministry: planting 5 churches, drilling over 75 village wells, overseeing Hope Scholarships, securing a ministry house, running relief and development programs for people with AIDS, Malaria and COViD, and attracting international donors and sponsors. Married to Ellah (a nurse and midwife at the Ministry of Health), he also has raised a happy family and is blessed with three girls: Tumaini, Marvelous, and Shalom.
Pastor Dennis’ daughter, Tumaini Singini, who will be graduating from the University of Livingstonia with a BSc degree in Social Science majoring in Community Development Studies
2024 has been an extraordinary and fruitful year of life and ministry for Dennis. After 3 years of study, he received his Masters Degree in contextualized ministry from Northwind Theological Seminary. He also completed a course of study in the Pentecostal tradition. Having been a circuit-riding preacher for over 15 years and planting many churches, Dennis was chosen in June to be the pastor of one of the churches in his circuit. On July 14, in the Mzuzu Evening Light Tabernacle in Malawi, he was ordained by Bishop Martin Mkandawire with seven pastors to be the pastor of the Jenda church, near where we drilled a community well several years ago.
Pr Dennis at his ordination
Before the end of the year he hopes to build a school near his church, embark on a month-long ‘friend-raising’ and fundraising tour in the USA, and see his youngest daughter Tumamaini Shalom graduate from college on October 10th, 2024,
WorldHope Corps USA is so proud of our brother Dennis who we have known and supported for nearly 20 years! And we all can be inspired by his prayerful, faithful, and visionary life and ministry which he attributes to claiming the “Prayer of Jabez” as his Bible verse for life:
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, “Oh, that You would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let Your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted his request. (1 Chronicles 4:9-10)
Dr. Michael J. Christensen
Founder and Director
