Some fun facts about Madagascar:
- It is the speculated Garden of Eden by some Bible Scholars, one reason being that over 90% of its plant life is not found anywhere else in the world. We have had pear apples, lovingly named Papples by us, a fruit that looks like a tomato but it actually sweet and has the texture of a mango, and the sweetest pineapple I have ever had. We’ve had several veggies that we don’t recognize and that I cannot even begin to pronounce.
- Madagascar is not considered on this side of the Globe to be part of Africa. Countries in Africa (Madagascar, Swaziland, South Africa) and Madagascar identify the Island as a separate entity. The people here are not African, but Malagasy.
- Madagascar’s government is a republic. (Everywhere we go, we get asked about American Politics, and it’s one of my favorite things.)
Daughters of Grace will be working with a local Protestant church in Ambodimita, Madagascar. We will be ministering to some of the 20,000 people living below the poverty line through teaching English, visiting homes to encourage believers, childcare, and hospital care for cancer patients. That’s a lot to jam pack in the short three weeks we will be here, but we are anticipating The Lord to move in magnificent ways.
ALSO IM SO READY FOR THURSDAY BECAUSE OUR MINISTRY HOSTS ARE TAKING US FISHING. We get to catch lunch. 😀
“By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.”
1 John 3:16-18
