Stories
A sick woman was brought in by her mother from a distant village. She weighed less than 30kg and looked at once younger and older than her 35 years. The story was vague and the patient perhaps confused but she was so weak that she could not sit up and all her bones showed.
The Good News Project has always depended on the Lord to provide the financial needs of the Project, and He has graciously supplied the needs of the Project for the past 25 years. He is truly “The Lord who provides”. Read the updates from FoMT Treasurer, Richard Bulmer.
Louise Little and Cathy Armstrong are nurses from the UK working at the Good News Hospital. This month they are keen to share a story that has encouraged them.
Beangezoka is a village about 13km North East of Mandritsara accessible by some challengingly muddy roads. A church was planted there some years ago now. Sadly, the pastor Rakotomalala passed away in December 2019, and so the church is now being led by a young man called John.
The 2021 Prayer Calendar is now available for you to download and use as you pray for The Good News Hospital! Work through the calendar each day of the month to pray for the different team members and teams working at the Good News Hospital.
This week we'd like to introduce to Miora, who is a close friend of many of the missionaries and we'd love you to pray for her as she takes on a new role - I am originally from the capital, Tana, but moved with my family to Mandritsara 13 years ago. I have worked at the hospital for four years now.
Berton is one of the hospital evangelists. He has been leading a team who is involved in church planting in a town called Mananara on the East coast of Madagascar. It is a materially wealthy town compared to Mandritsara due to the booming vanilla trade. However, the spiritual need of the area has been keenly felt by the project leadership for some years now.
We were not prepared for leaving Mandritsara and Madagascar to be so difficult. I think it is fair to say that much thought and preparation goes into cross-cultural service; much less goes into home-country re-entry. And so well over a year after having left Madagascar, we feel we are still in the transition state.
Bako has been the Malagasy language teacher for the missionaries in Mandritsara for many years. She’s suffered two retinal detachments and after much prayer and seeking a way, she was able to travel to Kenya on 7 January to see a retina surgeon in Nairobi.
There has been some rain in Mandritsara and the Mangarahara River is flowing again, though a lot more is still needed for a good rice harvest. There is also good news of a trickle of new workers coming to Mandritsara again after a long period of lockdown and almost no international traffic into the country. Most of this letter will tell you about new workers, but first we want to ask you to pray for Bako.
