Mission

Develop church sports and recreation trainings, build relationships with churches, train leaders and make disciples.​ 
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I love the Lord and sports, so I use my God given athletic abilities to serve Him and the Church. Changing life through sports outreach. Training and equipping local churches to do so.
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Family 
Wife: Domoina 

Kids:

• Anaiah  (Girl), 15 
• Benaia (Girl), 12
• Seraiah (Boy), 9

Domoina is on her fourth year of a five year Theological Studies program. She spends 60% of her time counselling women in pain, face to face and by phone calls. She is now counselling her friend who lost their 13 year old son by blood cancer. Her gifting of Women Ministry is confirmed by people. 

Ministry Updates

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2021

2020

March
- We praise the Lord for His faithfulness to protect all of us from this pandemic that threatens us.  As it is going internationally, Madagascar is not spared from it. People are scared and deeply afraid because the quarantine center has been full now. The Chinese would often come down to our country, and some people have already died by Covid-19.  

- We affirm that Covid-19 is here, and we really need prayers. If these poor people are caught by it, we are helpless; that’s why we need divine  interventions and your prayers. After a couple weeks, all things would change to worst here. Surely all schools, churches or any gatherings would be banned, and food would be the first problem because all stores would shut down. But we always trust in the Lord only. Our president officially declared that the Covid-19 is here, and the government urges people to be careful and follow all the details for protection. 

- This year we will have three big mission trips focusing on how to reach Malagasy people through Sports, Recreation and Fitness in May in Toamasina, July in Mahajanga and  Diego-Suarez in September. These three big towns have the strongest Malagasy influence in the country. 
We need $3,500 for these three mission trips.
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"The Lord will remove from you all sickness; and He will not put on you any of the harmful diseases of Egypt which you have known, but He will lay them on all who hate you."
— Deuteronomy 7:15, is the verse we have received recently, and we hope it can encourage you as well.

April

• From the first day the President announced the lock down on March 19th 2020, we started a new way of life which is unusual, staying at home 24/7, only 6 hours in the morning we are allowed to shopping, for others to work to earn money to feed their kids, some have 7 kids to feed every day. Many single moms have to find something to do to get money for their kids. The rate of domestic violence and aggression to women has been increased, number of robbing, killing, stealing increased also. Hearing the number of deaths with Covid-19 all around the World, we were threatened, anxious and scared.
• There are some friends, church members, neighbors knocking in our door to ask for foods or money for they don't have nothing to eat so we give and share the small we have, we can't stand not giving, we can't be selfish. This encourages us to be more generous and totally depend on the Lord's provision. 
• The verse that encourages us too much during the lock down is "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seeks Him." (Hebrew 11.6) We have seen that God exists, He is a living God,  He provides, He works and moves amidst all the events, all things change but He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. 
• God opens doors to evangelize and make disciples our neighbors. 10 couples and 8 young people have received Jesus Christ and have been followed up. Four of them are athletes. They understood the Gospel and made firm decision to follow Christ. Till now, we don't stop but still continue to reach them out. Due to the recurrent lessons, we have to create follow up lessons; 8 lessons have been created, written but not laid out and printed yet. They have been written and conceived in sport minded. They are still in our language, Malagasy. Hopefully they would be translated in English so that we can send it to our CSRM partners across the world.

May
Family life: The lock down helped us as a family to get closer, to continue to know each other, to love each other and focus more on God and His Words than before. As a couple, Domoina and I have the opportunity to often evaluate and discuss more about marriage issues and to try to resolve them one by one, step by step in order to not repeat the mistakes we did before and to live normally according to Words of God. Our main marriage issue has been the lack of balance between family life, marriage relationship and ministries. As result of it, we love each other much than before and have more strength to encourage other couples. Our kids are happy with this. That helps them to develop and grow spiritually, mentally and socially.

Domoina’s new ministry position at CSRM: During lock down, the Lord has led her to use her gift. As she sought the Lord in prayer, she told me that she has burden of encourage, empower, counsel and train women working and involved in CSRM (Church Sports and Recreation Ministries), Global Network Partners (GNP)’s wives and women through social medias such as Whatsapp of Facebook. As she was interviewed by the directors, this position has been granted to her from June 2020.

Military Pro-athletes Ministries: This year 5 disciples have started to take action. After years of training, discipling and equipping now, they have boldness to witness and share their faith. The one did the 5 minutes sharing God’s Word every Tuesday morning. The work continues, we hope that the Lord would send out more workers into His harvest field.

Neighbor Ministries  
Within two months of lock down of reaching out to neighbors for Christ and making them disciples, we have discovered that people are more open to the Gospel than with normal life; they are more hungry for the Words, concentrate and give more time to listen and study the Words. Everyday, I have at least one appointment with a couple or family to preach the Gospel or following them up with Christian Basic Lessons. People are interested in the Gospel as result of this, there are changed lives among men mainly, they are giving up from drinking alcohol, and smoking cigarettes, stopping violence to their wives. With women, their point of view of God and themselves have changed, their faith increased and more dependent to God. But, there are always those who criticize, oppose, and persecute. We have prayed for them. God has the right time for them to repent from their sins and believe in Christ to be saved.
I created Follow-up of Christian Life Basic Lessons, curriculum of same lessons for all, unfortunately our printer has been broken and can’t print any more. In May, 7 couples have received Christ as their own Lord and Savior and being followed up. All the men are athletes; soccer players who would be trained and equipped to minister to the sports fields and lead Church Sports Ministries in their respective local church in the future.

Domestic Violence Issues  
As we have preached the Gospel to the neighborhood and made them disciples while locked down, we encountered other issues- domestic violences which increased quickly in number. We found out because these women are coming by us to ask for counsel and help. They don't come to other persons but to us first; to Domoina mainly, they are more confident to her. These cases are not the first time, they are recurrent acts of violence. We have to help them to flee from their home to protect the women and their children and help them to proceed to the law regulations so that these men won’t remake evil things like this any more, counsel and pray for and with them. We are working with municipality agents and police for this.

June
Our plans to restart our ministry are:
1. to set one day fasting and prayer to seek God's face and guide
2. to make a list of pastors and church denominations who are doing, liking sports ministries then to contact them if they would be interested on Church Sports and Recreation Ministries online training. We will start to contact them in July.  Because, lockdown will continue at least 6 months.

We can't come out of the capital for mission trips because of the lock down, but we still trust in the Lord to accomplish our plan to reach the North of Madagascar to train an equip local churches there on CSRM.

The verse that encourages us too much during the lock down is "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seeks Him." (Hebrew 11.6) We have seen that God exists, He is a living God,  He provides, He works and moves amidst all the events, all things change, but He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. 

2019

December 2019

• We had the Year End Sports Missions with the Reformed Church SAFIF SPORTS Basketball with which we are working closely and coaching. This church sent the most participants to the training. There were eight. Every year they do Year End Sports Missions. They invited us as a family to assist them for this mission in which my kids could understand and see how mission works.
• We visited Mahajanga on the West of Madagascar to share the Faith to Malagasy players there. They have a strong animistic and ancestral belief. Some of the kids could do right but some were still timid, shy and fear. Hopefully we would improve in the future.
• ​Next month we will train METM Church on Sports Ministry

​September 2019

• Domoina and I got to visit the US for a CSRM Board Meeting and a Missions Festival in Oklahoma City.
• During the flights, we could talk, forgive each other and renewed our marriage vows, set up new goals in marriage and ministries, to sharping vision: ready to start a new step again
• In North Canton, Ohio, we attended the CSRM Board Meeting as well as visited First Friends Church and Christ Presbyterian Church.
• The most significant activities we had were the opportunities to present the Gospel to the soccer kids under 8 years old and their parents during the Outreach Day on September 14th, as well as have devotions with the men's basketball league and Domoina to the women basketball team. 
• In Oklahoma City, we attended the Missions Festival 2019 with which we could meet our old friends and could make new friends as well.
  • Our friends there cared for us very much by sending back some ministry important tools, clothes and shoes for our kids, we are so thankful to them also, we got Mini Jesus Film Kit that we could use to present the Gospel to people in remote places.

August 2019

• We trained 19 leaders from different church denominations on CSRM curriculum.
• Out of this, three churches want CSRM to train and equip them in 2020. The plan is to use sports and recreation to reach the people of Madagascar for Christ. 

Summer 2019

• The conference in Antananarivo City slated for June 19-22 2019 is on hold because we have not found a venue for it.  A CSRM principle is not to rent a venue, it should be done at a church venue free in charge. We contacted pastors, elders, different denominations, and theirs are not available. Some rent their venues with high costs, and some are afraid of sects. So we must wait for God's perfect time. Believing God will open doors. We worship Him while waiting. We are helping and empowering existing Church Sports Ministries while waiting by giving counsels, basketball coaching tips, Missions, evangelism and discipleship skills. 
  • We expect 100 participants for this one.
• ​On June 22nd, nine students at the Biblical School have graduated. They have been taught, trained and equipped on Church Sports Ministries during nine months. Five of them are going to start Sports Ministries in their churches.
• Discipleship to the Military pro-athletes
  • ​I have a weekly discipleship meeting with two young officers. They are sportsmen, who are thirsty for the Word, hopefully they would able to make disciples of the others in the future (2 Timothy 2.2). This is the only one effective strategy so they would be able to join the discipleship team.

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We got to interview N'Jaka & Domoina the last time they were in the US!

• I love the Lord and sports, so I use my God given athletic abilities to serve Him and the Church.

Madagascar Facts

Population: Approx 24.5 million
Religions*: 

• Indigenous beliefs 52%
• Christian 41%
• Muslim 7%

*worldatlas.com