REDONDO BEACH, Calif.—Pastor Kurt Dahlin and Los Angeles County-based Breakwater Church are launching a fundraising effort for medical supplies, food, and water purification equipment for victims of a cyclone that hit the East African nation of Malawi in February.
To date, 255 have died when the cyclone wreaked havoc with heavy rains and flooding on the small nation and 41 remain missing, according to wire reports.
For Dahlin, the calling to help Malawians came to him in the 1990s after visiting the impoverished nation on several missionary trips there. He subsequently founded the nonprofit Water Wells for Africa, to bring clean, safe water to the region’s villages….