Roger Thoman’s Posterous

Prayer + Compassion = Recipe for Impacting People  

Two church-planters in the bush of Madagascar recently shared with me how they began to touch the lives of an unreached tribe. It struck me that these basic principles of prayer plus acts of compassion have the same powerful impact everywhere in the world: 

“We arrived in this village 3 weeks ago where we already had a contact. The villagers lent us a house that no one else wanted to use as it was “fady” (taboo, spooked) and would bring bad luck. At first, nobody wanted to visit us.  But we began to do warfare through prayer and literacy classes outside for the women.  Eventually the villagers saw that we were still alive! It was a testimony of God’s power! Further, they saw that we cared! And our house is not empty any more; we are sharing God’s word and lots of people are coming to us to ask for prayer.  We have begun to train up about 15 of these villagers to know God and share him with others.”

You help us support this exciting team in Madagascar that is seeing some amazing results:

• More people baptized and reached than ever.
• Existing leaders receiving ongoing training to develop and reproduce their churches
• By 2012 forty-five clinics will be established serving 200,000 people that would otherwise have no health care available

You can read more stories from the bush of Madagascar here!

And more here on Our Upcoming Trip to Africa (mid-June).