Foaie de Informare Madagascar Martie 2015

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Newsletter from Madagascar“ As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.” – John 20:21

PASSIONS actuated by the empty Grave

Dear friends – brothers and sisters in Christ,

We are happy again to be able to share with you moments or events from ourlife, to give your heart and imagination

the opportunity to travel for a few

minutes in the African atmosphere from

the south of the Black Continent.

We would like to be able to

teleport you alongside us just for a half

of a day, far away from the speed

civilization, computers, and paved

streets, and being able to enjoy a bit of

the ground’s heath, slowness, cram, pungent odours and dust alongside an African

day. These are outstanding moments just as the ones from childhood: walking

barefoot on the streets of the village in which you were born, when, giving up the

crowded life of the city, you hurry to your home in order to hug your old and dear

parents.

Jesus is alive! – a reality which actuates polemics and passions

We gave it a good thought when we chose the title of this letter. I was

thinking about not being too discordant or defective for some of the people, but as

much as I searched, I wasn’t able to find only synonyms which were not clear enoughin order to suggest our intention of presenting the conflict which was present around

the empty Grave, but also the energies that were actuated between the both sides:

disciples and enemies. One thing is sure, that JESUS IS ALIVE, no matter how hard

some people may struggle to deny this truth.

Some, enemies, like Saul of Tarsus and the Jewish Synedrion had such a

MEAN PASSION in their hearts, that they tried to kill the disciples which were boldly

proclaiming the event that had marked their lives so deeply. But the course of history

of Christianity was not able to be stopped by the tens of persecutions started by the

enemies of the Life, regardless of their names.

MARCH 2015

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Newsletter from Madagascar – Șaitiș Family – March 2015


Is not just the thing that you talked with us about Jesus Christ, but you showed Him

through your lives and through what you did for us” , Remy was saying, one of the parents of

these children.

“When you came we were unclothed, living in misery and we had rats in our house, but

now we have clothes for changing, we are cleaner and healthier ”, Fenosoa confessed. “Welearned beautiful songs about Jesus and we thought them to other children”, one day Zina, a 13

year old girl had told us. “We married after 8 years of living in sin and having 4 children, with

your help, when we understood that God likes Order in the family life ”, confessed Rasoa full of

gratefulness.

Pray for this ministry, for the children that are involved in it, for their parents and for us,

to have the wisdom to lead them to Christ in their own way of understanding.

Visible fruits from the evangelizing ministry: 8 people made a

covenant with Christ through the waters of Baptism

This year we’ve been working quite a lot together with pastor Tina, in spreading the

Gospel on the streets or in houses in two places: in Tritriva area, 20 km away from Antsirabe and

in one of the city’s neighbourhoods, to a group of

deaf and blind people which welcomed us to visit

them weekly.

God made their hearts to bring fruit, so

that, before Easter, in the Church from South

Aboimena, together with pastor Tina, we were

given the grace and joy to baptise 8 people which

decided to follow Christ.

Joy could be felt in the Church and in the

hearts of these people, the joy of the one who

planted the seed and now sees the fruit in the

hearts. Marcel had the honour to preach about the

baptism with water and its significance. The

baptism took place in the church yard, in a pool,

and it was followed by a rich Malagasy lunch with

rice and loka. Together with us at this event was a

family of German missionaries, which came in Madagascar only for a period of time, but who

want to return for a longer one in our area.

A big project before the Resurrection of Christ: 500 packages for 400

children

The fire of the resurrection motivated us to dare for big things this year and through

them to be able to spread the Name of Jesus Christ. This way, when the Resurrection of

Christ was coming closer, we bought more bales of clothes which came from Europe and a

few sacks of shoes. We managed to dress approximately 400 children and for 100 of themwe also bought shoes. Without your help we wouldn’t have been able to do this.



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We thought about helping two schools with over 230 children, teachers’ children being

also included – La Promesse and Les Pigeons. We saw the children from the church from

Antanikatsaka bare foot, with their clothes ripped

and very dirty, and we went there having packages

with clothes and shoes for 45 children. The Biblical

School Good News, welcomed us with another 50

children, and in South Aboimena area, around the

church, there has been made a list with over 40

children. In the Literacy programme we have 8

children and their brothers and sisters, around 20

children in total. For the pastor’s families which live

in the area, we offered shoes and clothes, so a

number of another 30 people was added.

The process of preparing the packages was not easy. We selected the good clothes, we

washed them and put them in groups according

to different ages and we made packages with the

name of each child written on it. With the shoes

we did the same way. We received the lists with

the names, ages and the gender of the children,

boy or girl, as we asked them to do. This way we

were sure that every child will go home with a

package containing 2 or 3 clothes. It was an

enormous work, but Ioana worked with joy

praying for each child in the moment when she

was preparing their package.Then, we started their distribution. We offered each package as a gift from our Lord

Jesus Christ and as a sign of love from the Romanian Evangelical Churches. Before giving them

the packages we had a

time of singing and

praying together and

also a divine service, at

that time being the

Holy Week, and we

glorified God with

thankfulness. After theholydays we will have

to more meetings in

which we will give away

the rest of the clothes.

Our greatest joy

was to be able to

recognise the clothes

which were now worn

by the children from these churches and schools. A deep content and a thankfulness, hard to

describe, are in our hearts. We thank you because you were together with us and you sustainedthis ministry. You have blessed hundreds of children.



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Christ is risen! This is our motivation for living and serving a fallen world!

Look at another small picture from our life. A fragment of what we are doing together, usand you. But the foundation on which we are building is no other than the life, death and

resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. He is

the reason for our lives which are searching

for holiness, the engine and the passion

which pulls us on to action so far away

from home, among strangers. He makes

these rough and faraway places to slowly

become familiar and loved by us, but also

by you, which are far away with your

bodies, but close with your heart.His resurrection is the reason for

your constant sacrifice together with us.

Even if you are not able to feel the love of the African sun physically, your prayers, your words

full of encouragement or the gifts that you dearly sent were made through hard work and the

burning sun from Romania which was harsh confronted with the burden of an ailing economy or

through sweating from the hard work in constructions or other tough works from Europe or

America of our days. You could have chosen not to care! But you choose to care for Africa! You

choose to feel for Madagascar!

We thank you because for His sake, and for His glory, for His Kingdome and for making

possible a meeting between these far away people with His Word. You still share your bread withthe African people, in a community which overpasses the borders and cultures. The blood that

was shed on Golgotha, makes us brothers, His resurrection brought us in the same House –

citizens of Heaven. Christ is risen!

With great love and cherish,

Saitis Marcel si Ioana, together with our children Alessia, Ruth si Filip

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