Madagascar (Day Two Video Update)

Today we learned a lot about Madagascar. Matt Spann the Regional Director for Madagascar gave us an orientation in the morning. He taught us some general words (like misoatro, which means thank you in Malagasy) and customs. He also told us about the history of Christianity on the Island and why there are still unreached people.

We then toured around with Tessa, a young lady who does ministry at the local university (which has over 30,000 students). They were completing a “week of prayer,” where for the past five days they have had tents set up for students to come and pray from 6:00am until 6:00pm. It was great to see how many people were coming to the tents. Our team went there to pray with and for the students and the ministry there on campus. While we were there a Malagasy student was playing a guitar. When I went into the tent he had allowed Jad Walters to play. Jad led us in some spontaneous worship (in English, he hasn’t mastered Malagasy YET). Then the young man led us in some songs in Malagasy. He, Jad, and John Wyatt rotated playing songs while we all sang and talked with one another. After that we met again with Grant and Jodie Waller and talked to them about all God is doing in their ministry in the unreached villages. Grant has been translating 20 stories (from Creation to Resurrection) to share out in the bush. Hear from Bill Grimme and Tim Hockstad about day 2 here:

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