By 8am the hospital Land Cruiser, which seats nine people, was loaded up with folk from the churches in Mandritsara, Julian and Debbie Hardyman, and us two and we were on the “road”. Julian was driving.

We recently celebrated Mother’s Day here in Madagascar and it reminded me of a story that I would like to share from Mother’s Day last year. It concerns a woman I will call Lala.

What spiritual teaching is this ‘Before and After’ picture illustrating? Perhaps an illustration of Ezekiel 16 – God’s grace and love to His people?

When Rasoa first arrived at our hospital 4 years ago, she was teetering on the edge of life and death.

Today we are asking for you to pray for something very specific. Something which Jesus Himself asked the disciples to pray about.

How important is the laboratory to the work of the Good News Hospital in Mandritsara? The answer is that the laboratory has a vital role to play:

Three generations ago, around the end of the 19th century, the grandfather of Kotomalala, who was the founder and leader of the Bible Baptist Church in Beangezoka, came from Africa to Madagascar as a slave. He was probably still a teenager. He was well treated by his master who was a pastor in a Lutheran church. Slavery was officially banned in 1877,