The harvest in a good soil

 THE HARVEST IN A GOOD SOIL

Jean & Diana Alexis

Missionaries in Madagascar

Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.

Mark 4:8

For those who are new reading our news here in Madagascar, here is the context: Last year, we dedicated ourselves to sowing the seed of the Gospel. Glory be to God, opportunities were opened to us to visit several families and share the Gospel with them each week. To evangelize them, we established Bible studies at home.

From these studies, we have obtained a baptized disciple and 5 women who are little by little understanding the Word of God and two of them are very soon to be baptized. Through visits to these families, we have also had access to their children, bringing them the Word of God every Sunday.

We are now looking for child and adult leaders to begin training them to continue a life of service to God.

A REVOLUTION HAS STARTED HERE

In this last week of January, we have begun training our disciples so that they can reach others with the Gospel. At this time, what we intend is to challenge believers to fulfill their role as faithful witnesses as chosen and loved servants of God.

Launching God's vision for the world: being saved through Jesus

Our disciples are learning to thank God through prayer and to worship Him through praise, something that previously could be said they were not accustomed to doing.

Something I want to emphasize is that we are also teaching them to memorize verses that make them understand the heart of God for the world.

Reading Bible verses and memorizing them

ANKIZY SAROBIDY (PRECIOUS CHILDREN) KIDS MINISTRY 

For this year we have acquired new teachers' books to be able to continue the teaching program. These books are not available here in our place and the vast majority of them are in French, but thank God we had the opportunity to be in another city for a team meeting and there was a Christian bookstore there.

We continued with our two groups (those from the countryside and the city) making them paint and memorizing the Scriptures. We used to ask them questions about the Bible stories we had told them and they answered everything, they are very intelligent.

Kids from the bush

Kids from town

OUR FIRST DISCIPLE

We continue teaching our disciple at home, and we are sharing more time with him. The good news is that his wife and young daughter are already hearing the Word with us. The 5 of us meet once a week to pray together, worship together, and read the Bible together.

PRAY FOR

• The new year of teaching Scriptures to children.

• Believers who have been listening to the Gospel all this time to make decisions to be baptized.

• The new visits, to encourage other believers to do the Great Commission.