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GOOD NEWS IN THE AIR
Luke the beloved physician greets you
At the age of eight years, my ten-year-old brother died in an accident. By God’s grace, that day I understood that I was a sinner and separated from my Creator, the God of Love and the Good Shepherd.
A New Beginning: The First baby born in our new Mother and Baby Unit
Concerned that the labour had not progressed, she arranged for her daughter to make the journey to the Good News Hospital. Their only option for getting there was a taximoto…
On the trails of the past
At the end of October 1993, I left Switzerland and travelled to Madagascar with 40 kg of luggage and many unanswered questions…
A life saved – A Helicopter Mission to Belalona
The day started like any other. But before the morning meeting in the surgery department at Hopitaly Vaovao Mahafaly could begin, a sense of urgency arose. A critical emergency was underway:
GOOD NEWS FOR THE POOR
There is no National Health Service in Madagascar. Services are not free for patients at government or private hospitals. So how do the poor cope, given that the vast majority of the population are poor, or very poor?
Reaching the “Regions Beyond” Mandritsara - The story of Mananara
It is a hard place to get to, and is separated from Mandritsara by an escarpment covered by dense rain forest and several rivers. There is no road from Mandritsara – if you wanted to drive, it would be almost a thousand miles, travelling through Antananarivo, and the last 70 miles is one of the worst roads in Madagascar (and that is saying something!) Other options are boat or plane
A Return to Mandritsara
So, what have I discovered since I was last working here in 2019?...There has been a huge expansion in the Good News Hospital facilities.
VISITING THE GOOD NEWS HOSPITAL AND PROJECT
‘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.’
AT HOME, THOUGH FAR FROM HOME
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