Missionary profile – Rev. Reuben Kachala

By Mercy Kambura

Malawian Missionary to South Asia/Mobilizer

From the beginning of this year, I have been a shofar, standing on the imaginary walls of Malawi, making noise about one thing—the decade of mission mobilization. This is an initiative by Frontier Missions, an organization my wife and I started in 2015, to see the Church of Malawi mobilized in the next decade. Our vision is to turn Malawi from a mission field into a mission force.

It’s a hefty goal, but how will we do it? This will not happen until every congregation becomes a sending church!

Having been born into a Christian family, I can smell nominalism a mile away. My father was a church elder, and my mom was also very involved in church. Yet, I didn’t have a relationship with Jesus. I was busy memorizing scriptures, singing in the choir, and participating in church activities—but I wasn’t a Christian. That is still happening today.

Reading paved the way for me to see my error. I stumbled upon the book, “The Lordship of Christ” by Alexander Stewart. It hit me like a table to the pinky toe—I was not born again! I knelt and prayed, “Lord, come into my life.”

I had a call to go and study to become a pastor. I went to Bible school and encountered missions in the first semester of Bible school. We prayed for the nations daily, and I felt I needed to do more in missions than pastoral work. Years later, my wife and I went as missionaries to South Asia.

We were there for four years, then returned to Malawi to renew our visas. We felt God leading us to mobilize Malawians to go just as we had done. The task was immense; we needed more workers.

Since then, we have been urging the Malawian Church to get involved in missions. Mobilization is discipleship. As we learn to follow Jesus, we learn to take His name to the nations. It’s about educating, activating, and inspiring believers to get involved in taking the Gospel to the world.

The best mobilization is your character. Who you are and what you do will attract more people to be involved than what you say. Mobilization is more caught than taught. If they see you praying, going, and giving towards missions, they, too, will catch it. Be the person you want them to become. Don’t just tell; you have to model it.

This is the zeitgeist of our mobilization efforts.