Missionary profile – Felix Kalanzi

By Mercy Kambura

Felix Kalanzi

Malawian Missionary to an unreached nation in Malawi

As a passionate, newly born-again Christian ten-year-old, I faithfully and fervently preached to the trees in the bush behind my cousin’s house, asking them to receive Christ. I didn’t get any converts. But I’m now a missionary and a mobilizer to a more receptive audience—an unreached people group in Malawi and the Malawian Christians.

I lost my parents in a span of three years before I was nine! My cousin—who we all called “aunt”, took me in. She was a widowed Christian, and she’d take me to her church—the Pentecostal Holiness Association (PHA). When I was ten, I got saved.

I was always sad about losing my parents so young, but I was immediately filled with joy and peace. I decided to be a preacher; my nickname as a young lad was ‘pastor’.

A team of evangelists in PHA went from door to door preaching. I relished accompanying them, and seeing them preach to humans—not trees—gave me a lot of joy.

When I went to high school, I joined the Students Christian Organisation of Malawi (SCOM). After high school, I went to Lilongwe to look for a job. The fire to be a preacher was blazing on, and I was preaching everywhere—to my colleagues, prison and hospitals. I felt an urgency to preach Jesus to the lost.

In 2013, I moved to a different area of Lilongwe to live with another relative. She, too, was a believer, and I joined her church. Here, I found a pastor who loved evangelism. He’d let me tag along in his preaching sessions.

This pastor discovered a school of missions where we could go to learn more about evangelism. When we studied the course “Understanding World Evangelism” by Reuben Kachala of Frontiers Missions International (FMI), I was baffled to know that millions are dying without Christ.

It was here that I got a global vision for the world. I was very excited to learn about the unreached, and I knew that this is what God created me to do. I asked if I could join FMI as a volunteer.

The FMI leader picked me up and started mentoring me for missions. We have been mobilizing believers in Malawi since 2017. I have also been reaching out to an unreached nation in Malawi as I also learn how best to reach them from the missionaries there.

I have now started another missions training with Global Frontier Missions. Once I’m finished, I will go as back as a missionary to the same nation. But first, I have a fiancé I plan to marry in May of 2023. She too will go with me after her training.

As young people, we’re very strategic in finishing the Great Commission. If young men from England left their homes and brought Christianity to Malawi, we, too, can do it. It’s our time.

#Pray:

For me to have a zeal for missions and finish well.
For my future marriage and for Norah (my fiancé) and me to serve God wholeheartedly.
For my wedding preparations, that God would provide our needs.
For God’s wisdom in the journey of missions and for God’s grace as I am mobilizing the believers.