Planned Developments For The Future (“the wish list”):
- Agricultural development involving irrigation
- Maintenance garage for servicing vehicles and carpentry shop to train people in community
- Warehouse for short term storage of relief food for distribution.
- Pastors’ office and meeting room on Iris property near Lilongwe for central region ministries
- Soap making factory/facility
- Bakery
- Basketball court
Developments and Infrastructure on the Iris Africa Ministry Base Since 2003:
- 17 hectares of property owned by Iris Africa in Bangula.
- 3 bore holes with 20,000 litre water reserve capacity
- Electricity including 200 Kva transformer and 45 Kva back up generator power.
- 3 dormitories for pastor students (including 1 women’s dormitory)
- 2 classrooms for Bible school students
- Pit toilets with showers and clothes washing station for pastor students
- 6 homes for children with 2 central kitchens – one for each group of 4 homes.
- Morrison’s house with small garage for vehicle maintenance
- Missionary house (4 individual apartments for missionaries)
- Guard house and brick security wall around property
- Container storage (6 x 20’ containers and 4 x 40’ containers) with loading dock and lift crane
- 3 Primary school buildings for classes pre-school to grade 8, teachers offices, library, resource room and computer lab.
- Administrative office (for director, operations manager and administrator)
- Satellite internet
- Kitchen, eating area, and large hall for church services and assemblies
- 2 playing fields with soccer goal posts
- Demonstration fields growing maize, vegetables, and fruits
- Vehicles: 4 Pinzgauer trucks, 2 Steyr 4 Ton trucks, 1 Toyota Dyna lorry truck, 5 Yamaha 200cc motorcycles, 1 Toyota Surf, 1 Toyota Prado, 1 John Deere tractor, and 1 Pinzgauer ambulance.
- Irrigation pond (also used to ‘cool off’ and for children’s swimming lessons)
- Iris Africa has provided metal roofing for 34 Partners In Harvest churches throughout Malawi.
- Iris Africa Malawi also owns land near Lilongwe (central region) and in Chilumba (northern region). In Chilumba there is a pastors’ office and meeting room, and church.
- Bore hole on Lilongwe property.
- Visitor accommodation at Iris base (sleeps up to 20 people)
- Staff house for Timothy Makwalo and his family (director of Bible school)
- Electricity sub station (for directing electricity to developments on extended property)
- Aquaponic Fish Farm (with breeding tanks, grow out tanks, and vegetable growing tanks)
- Missionary Housing – house for Daryl & Rebekah Martin and their family.
- Distribution base with storage facility, drop toilets, church shelter, and conference stage.
- Outdoor children’s playground.
