Duncan Shares His Experience in Mission Work

I have now been in Madagascar for one year and six months since I left Kenya.
In the month of October I organized an evangelistic mission from the 8th to 11th in a place called Betaola. This is a remote place about an hour from where I am based in Toliara.Twenty One missioners were there too, basically youth. I had a chance of preaching twice in the open airs and the first time the response was poor but the second time the response was very good as many people lifted their hands as a sign they wanted to accept Christ. Around here making altar-calls is rare so I am pioneering in that area.

We also went from house-to-house evangelism every morning and people were recieving Christ. The challenge of evangelism in Madagascar is discipleship and follow up, hence the fruits of the missions tend to be low in terms of the new converts who start regularly going to Church.

We also showed the Jesus film every evening.Christians in Tanambao , a village five minutes away from Betaola, subjected us to great pressure to show the Jesus Film there, but we could only tell them that we could do it some other time.

There were no bathrooms in Betaola ,so we had to use public natural pools, that all the villagers were, using for our hygiene.In tell you missions can really challenge the cormfot and conviniences that one is used to,but we have to preach the gospel.

I am now organizing yet another mission in a place known as Andaromena.This will take place from 5th to 8th of November and there after from the 9th to the 14th November from 3:00pm to 4:30pm we will be taeching the new converts on the basics of the christian faith.We will do the teachings in response to the need for discipleship.

Please continue to pray for what God is doing in Madagascar.