One year and Three months long and still going strong.

19th August

It is now one year and three months since I came to Madagascar. I am presently organizing a crusade in an area known as Anketraka.
We have a church there but it has few members and my hope is that this crusade will enable the church to grow numerically. So pray the planning goes well.

The crusade is scheduled for 24-26 September. Two weeks after that I am preparing to go to a place called Betaola. We have a church there. Indeed it is the only church in the area. Most men of the area do not go to church but engage in social vices and crime such as cattle rustling and murder. The evangelist in charge of that area wants a crusade to reach these men and this is scheduled to take place from 8-11 October.

I am still looking for a public address system to hire so pray that the Lord provides. My bishop here went to Fort Dauphin two weeks ago. This is the place I went in April/May for five weeks and a church was planted there. He reported that 125 people attended the Sunday service and he baptized around 50 people! It is proving to be an extremely successful church-plant.
Pray that we will be able to start many churches in the province of Toliara.

The problem is we do not have personnel to handle new churches so if the Lord is calling you here you are welcome since the work is vast but the workers are few. Lastly, I am very excited because we are expecting Reverend Alfred Apela here in Toliara, Madagascar to be the key-note speaker in a youth conference from 7-11 September. Victor is the main organizer of this conference.

Pray that the ministry of Reverend Apela may have a great impact among the youth here.

Duncan.