Your Mission & Service Ministry Team distributed Mission funds in May 2026 as follows:

• $1,200.00 to Friends of Madagascar Mission: Supporting 2 programs that are committed to spreading the Gospel and thereby transforming lives of the Malagasy People. madagascarmission.org

• Nofy i Androy Program ($400 sponsors 2 students): The Androy region, located in southwestern Madagascar, is one of the poorest regions of the country. The region suffers from periodic drought, famine, and harmful cultural practices. The local tribe has been a male-dominated culture which has limited the value of women and girls to baby production and raising a family. As a result, the Androy region has alarmingly high rates of child marriage and child pregnancies making the adolescent girls much more likely to drop out of school and often harming their health. Parents trapped in desperate poverty have been documented to marry off their daughters as young as ten years old as a quick fix to their financial problems, and often much older husbands frequently prevent the girls from attending school and reaching their highest potentials. The Nofy i Androy program tutors and mentors students from public schools. The students receive scholarship support through middle school, high school, and on to university if they so choose. The teacher/student ratio is kept low for the best results and incorporates a curriculum and atmosphere of female empowerment, individual motivation, and self-confidence. The program also has a female evangelist of the Malagasy Lutheran Church who teaches and gives Christian guidance to the students, parents, & staff.

• Evangelist Sponsorship - Randriamanana Tovohery ($800): This Evangelist’s journey began in 2013, preaching the Gospel to people who do not yet know about God’s Kingdom. He is on an evangelical holy mission in dark places around the place where he lives. He encourages members of his congregation and Christians he encounters to also evangelize. He teaches confirmation classes, on Sundays leads services, and also encourages Christians who have walked away from their churches to come back and live their faith again. He is grateful for Faith’s sponsorship and asks for our graceful God to bless us for what we are doing through him to extend God’s Kingdom.