APRIL 03, 2008
Emeish Family News March 2008
It has been such a blessing over the past few months to be a part of what God is doing in Madagascar. We have been very busy in preparations for arrival of new missionary families. This past year we grew with 2 additional families and now we are anticipating the arrival of yet another career family and 4 On Hand missionaries (these individuals will serve in the Malagasy University ministry for 5 mos.) PTL. God is moving in Madagascar.He has answered your prayers.
Because of the rainy season we are limited on the trips we can make to the bush. So,, we delight in ministry we can do right here in the Capital. Madagascar has been hit by two cyclones thus far this year. This past cyclone hit strongest along the coast leaving hundreds homeless. Please pray for this country, they have been devastated, while still recovering from the six Cyclones of 2007 that destroyed so much of this country.
We had to make a trip to South Africa for leadership training. We were blessed to have a missionary family volunteer to adoptJasmine and Sami for the week. The kids were really excited that they were able to join this family in their ministry, doing puppet evangelism for the Malagasy children in the Capital, that live in tents, do to the Cyclone washing away their homes.
Pray as our family anticipates a trip to the bush soon after Easter.We will join the Malagasy Baptist partners in doing a day camp for 36 children. This is a 6 hour trip from our home on some very rough road. We ask that you pray for the roads to dry up during that visit. Most of all, we pray that the hearts of those children will come to the Lord. Also, pray that the experience we have will rub off on the nationals so they will learn the importance of children being reached with the gospel.
We feel led to tell you that our life as missionaries to Madagascar is, unlike a volunteer mission trip, in that, big ministry is not done everyday non stop. As much as we would like that, we have come to be content in knowing that we have made a life here. We are missionaries, but we still have God given responsibilities just as you do, as Father, Mother and Children. As a father Taisir must be balanced in ministry and family. Throwing the football with Sami in the presence of malagasy men, is in some ways as much of a ministry to the Malagasy as any other. Considering how many of the fathers here abuse or abandon their children. When, as a mother Kristi takes care of the needs of her household whether physically or spiritually that’s ministry. When we pray with someone that brings their sick child to the door, or invite a street child in our home to bath and have a hot meal, unbelievers see it. They wonder what makes us different from the other foreigners. This opens ways for us to share Jesus. When as husband and wife they see us respecting each other in love, that’s a witness to a people that have so much alcohol abuse, spousal abuse, and infidelity in their families. When Jasmine and Sami go to school and befriend and show love to Muslims, Atheists, Hindus, etc. that’s ministry. We felt a need to tell you this, because as missionaries we sometimes feel that you folks back home may believe we are doing BIG things all the time. When the truth is,sometimes just like you, were just living, the difference is that were living in a country that needs to see Christian examples. If we preach to them and yet they never see how to live and experience a Christian life then we’ve defeated the purpose of living here, Madagascar is a country that needs to see Jesus. Please, even as you look at your own lives remember that sometimes the greatest witness to the lost, is in the small day by day things they see you do as we live out our Christian lives. You never know who’s watching.
It has been such a blessing over the past few months to be a part of what God is doing in Madagascar. We have been very busy in preparations for arrival of new missionary families. This past year we grew with 2 additional families and now we are anticipating the arrival of yet another career family and 4 On Hand missionaries (these individuals will serve in the Malagasy University ministry for 5 mos.) PTL. God is moving in Madagascar.He has answered your prayers.
Because of the rainy season we are limited on the trips we can make to the bush. So,, we delight in ministry we can do right here in the Capital. Madagascar has been hit by two cyclones thus far this year. This past cyclone hit strongest along the coast leaving hundreds homeless. Please pray for this country, they have been devastated, while still recovering from the six Cyclones of 2007 that destroyed so much of this country.
We had to make a trip to South Africa for leadership training. We were blessed to have a missionary family volunteer to adoptJasmine and Sami for the week. The kids were really excited that they were able to join this family in their ministry, doing puppet evangelism for the Malagasy children in the Capital, that live in tents, do to the Cyclone washing away their homes.
Pray as our family anticipates a trip to the bush soon after Easter.We will join the Malagasy Baptist partners in doing a day camp for 36 children. This is a 6 hour trip from our home on some very rough road. We ask that you pray for the roads to dry up during that visit. Most of all, we pray that the hearts of those children will come to the Lord. Also, pray that the experience we have will rub off on the nationals so they will learn the importance of children being reached with the gospel.
We feel led to tell you that our life as missionaries to Madagascar is, unlike a volunteer mission trip, in that, big ministry is not done everyday non stop. As much as we would like that, we have come to be content in knowing that we have made a life here. We are missionaries, but we still have God given responsibilities just as you do, as Father, Mother and Children. As a father Taisir must be balanced in ministry and family. Throwing the football with Sami in the presence of malagasy men, is in some ways as much of a ministry to the Malagasy as any other. Considering how many of the fathers here abuse or abandon their children. When, as a mother Kristi takes care of the needs of her household whether physically or spiritually that’s ministry. When we pray with someone that brings their sick child to the door, or invite a street child in our home to bath and have a hot meal, unbelievers see it. They wonder what makes us different from the other foreigners. This opens ways for us to share Jesus. When as husband and wife they see us respecting each other in love, that’s a witness to a people that have so much alcohol abuse, spousal abuse, and infidelity in their families. When Jasmine and Sami go to school and befriend and show love to Muslims, Atheists, Hindus, etc. that’s ministry. We felt a need to tell you this, because as missionaries we sometimes feel that you folks back home may believe we are doing BIG things all the time. When the truth is,sometimes just like you, were just living, the difference is that were living in a country that needs to see Christian examples. If we preach to them and yet they never see how to live and experience a Christian life then we’ve defeated the purpose of living here, Madagascar is a country that needs to see Jesus. Please, even as you look at your own lives remember that sometimes the greatest witness to the lost, is in the small day by day things they see you do as we live out our Christian lives. You never know who’s watching.
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