‘David Mann has just come back from Madagascar. Pray for the AEF council as they meet to decide whether it is God’s will that the Mann family and others go to Madagascar to start an evangelistic medical work in the town of Mandritsara, working with the Association of Bible Baptist Churches.’

I found myself staring at the empty baggage carousel on my own at nearly midnight in Ivato airport, Antananarivo, Madagascar, my bags still stranded somewhere in Paris! It’s difficult to put into words the “out of my depth” feeling that struck me in that moment as I stood there alone and very far from home churning over a multitude of questions in my head

How does a twenty-something year-old lass from the Land Down Under end up in Northern Madagascar to teach missionary children? Good question! The short answer is by just a few aeroplane flights!

Mananara is a town on the coast, there is no road and the journey takes 4 days on foot in the dry season. The walk began before sunrise after finishing last minute packing late the night before.

Around 500 people have had their sight restored each year… there are only 25 eye surgeons in the whole of Madagascar, which has a population of 30 million.

The Mandritsara district covers about 10,500 sq kms. That is about three times as big as the county of Kent in SE England, or half the size of Wales. Over 90% of these people live…

The walls are now complete and the roof is being installed. It is still expected that the expanded maternity unit will be fully operational by…