2008 Update: Mat and Katy with Phoebe (2) and Jonah (6 months) Linley are currently
studying at Redcliffe Bible College in Gloucester for one year in
preparation for returning to Mandritsara.
Mat and Katy spent a year at HVM 2003-04 with Mat working with the Community Health Team helping to develop a
water supply programme for the villages and Katy working as a doctor in the
hospital. They felt that God confirmed their call to overseas mission
during this time and particularly to Madagascar and the work of HVM.
It is hoped that Mat will be able to help with Bible teaching to support
village church leaders as well as working with the community health team and
Katy will work part-time in the hospital.
They are currently going through
the application process with Aim International (formerly Africa Inland
Mission). Their home church is Sutton Bonington Baptist Church near
Nottingham. They will spend the summer back in Sutton Bonington while they
prepare to leave and for Katy to gain further experience as a doctor in
obstetrics.
They plan to leave the UK in Autumn/Winter 08, possibly via
France to brush up their French language skills. Once in Madagascar they
will study Malagasy in Antsirabe before moving up to Mandritsara.
Annie McColm
Annie is an Australian missionary from Brisbane, sent through SIM by her home assembly, Ashgrove Christian Assembly.
Annie trained as a laboratory technician at the University of Technology, Brisbane, qualifying in 1981, and then worked at Queensland Medical Laboratories in Brisbane.
She also studied at the Bible College of Queensland from 1990-91.
She worked as a lab technician at Luampa Hospital in Zambia with AEF from 1989-90.
She arrived in Antananarivo in 1993 and spent some months learning Malagasy before moving to Mandritsara in 1994.
In Mandritsara she has been responsible for setting up the laboratory and training Jean Pierre Njamany, the Malagasy assistant lab technician.
She is also involved with the church women's group in Mandritsara, whose aim is to bring other women to know the Lord Jesus Christ.
Esther is a Swiss missionary, sent through Swiss Mission Fellowship by her home church, Free Evangelical Church, Heiden.
Esther trained as administrator in the hospital of Thun, qualifying in 1995.
For five years Esther worked at the headquarters of Helimission in Switzerland.
She arrived in Madagascar in January 2003 and worked for 1 year as administrator for Helimission in Antananarivo.
From January 2004 Esther studied Malagasy during three months in Antsirabe before coming to Mandritsara in April 2004 to work as mission administrator.
She is taking over many of David's administrative tasks - sending emails, keeping the mission finances, organising the MAF flights, looking after the Bible bookstall.
Esther is enrolled in a correspondence bible school in Germany.
She is involved in the Church Choir.
Dr. Patrick Aimé & Madeleine Andriatsimangina
Patrick qualified in medicine in 2003 from the University of Madagascar, Mahajanga.
He has worked at Mandritsara since 2004 in general medicine.
Patrick and Madeleine have two children: Patricia and Yasmina.
Paul and Joan Steinkuller
Paul and Joan are American missionaries sent through Christoffel Blinden Mission. They arrived in Mandritsara in January 2003.
Paul and Joan met at medical school in Washington and married in May 1966.
They have four children, Anne,(married to Tom), Paul, John and Fozia, all of whom are living in the States.
They have previously worked in Kenya and Malawi.
For ten years they worked at Texas Children's hospital, USA.
Paul is an ophthalmologist and is training Dr Hanitra in eye surgery.
Joan is a paediatrician, and cares for children on the in-patient ward and in clinic.
Irene
Irene is a Swiss missionary sent by SMG.
Irene trained as a nurse in her native Switzerland.
She has worked in Rwanda on three occasions.
In Mandritsara she has responsibilities in outpatients and on the ward.
Dr Rabengodona
Rabe qualified in medicine in 19.. from the University of Madagascar, Antananarivo.
He has been working at Mandritsara since late 2001 in general medicine.
His wife is …… and they have two daughters, Marianne and Gracia.
John and Mair Pugh
John and Mair Pugh, both nursing lecturers from England, run the School of Nursing, which completed its first year of teaching in 2007.
They have come to Madagascar with their daughter Nell.
