Several videos about life and our work here in Madagascar!

 

On Distant Shores: Church-Planting Among the Antakarana on Nosy Mitsio, Madagascar

 

This video is a short introduction to our ongoing mission to reach the unreached Antakarana people of Madagascar. It showcases the lifestyle of the Antakarana on Nosy Mitsio, their religious beliefs and rituals, and our team’s different ministry efforts at church-planting among them. All of the footage is from 2013-2016.

 

 

Four weeks together with the Nosy Mitsio team

 

Some new missionary colleagues, Jurgen and Katja Hofmann, spent a month visiting us and our team on Nosy Mitsio. They made a great video about their visit. It has lots of footage about our lives and team work here that we haven’t had a chance to show yet. If you’d like to see more of what things are like here, then you’ll enjoy watching this!  There’s not much footage specifically of our family in this video, since we direct each of the different ministry projects and lead the team as a whole. But this is a pretty good simple overview of our lives and our whole team. (Some of it is also specific to the Hoffmans’ experiences on their visit, so if you’re curious if one aspect or another is the exact same as for us, then don’t hesitate to ask!)

 

 

Nosy Mitsio | 001

 

This is the first (and apparently last) in a series of short videos introducing the Antakarana people, our team, and our work on Nosy Mitsio.  All the footage is of the Antakarana people, most of it on Nosy Mitsio, but some taking place at their traditional sites on mainland Madagascar.  This video was made by Tori Alverson, an AIM TIMO member from the nearby island of Nosy Be where she worked among the Sakalava people. Unfortunately, it appears that the other intended videos in the series won’t be completed.

 

 

Building a Home on Nosy Mitsio

 

This video shows the process of building our home on Nosy Mitiso, where we moved in 2013 to begin an outreach to the Antakarana people. Our home is made with local materials and similar to the local style, so it shows a lot of scenes from our island and village. It also shows a walkthrough of our home after it was finished and after we’ve been living in it for a few months. (Some of the video of home construction isn’t from our home, but was taken at the sites of the homes we built for our upcoming team members, who will also move to Nosy Mitsio – all the same style houses.)

 

 

On a Mission to Madagascar

 

This is a short introduction to the country of Madagascar, to our work in the rural villages of the east with YWAM Tamatave, and to our upcoming work to the Antakarana tribe, where we’ll be living among them on the remote island of Nosy Mitsio.

 

 

Bound to the Past from AIM On-Field Media


Here is an excellent video narrative developed by AIM, telling the story of both the Antakarana and the Sakalava (another mid-northern tribe in Madagascar).

 

 

What is TIMO? from AIM On-Field Media


Here is another great and short video made by AIM explaining the type of team we’ll be leading on Nosy Mitsio. It’s called a TIMO team – Training in Ministry Outreach.

 

 

YWAM Tamatave DTS 2012 Slideshow

 

This is a slideshow (with a few videos) put together by me and one of the students for the party at the end of the Discipleship Training School at YWAM Tamatave (Madagascar) in October 2012.  Because it highlights all of the students, none of it is written in English (most the students are Malagasy) and there are several inside jokes.  But, even for those not familiar with YWAM Tamatave or Madagascar (i.e., our friends anywhere else in the world) I think you’ll still find interesting photos and video of our last 5 months of life here, including quite a lot from our work (through the 3 different teams) in the rural villages.  The music is a Malagasy praise song about Jesus.

 

 

Along the Roads and Streets of Madagascar

 

If you came to Madagascar and drove around for the day, this is what you’d likely see. There’s a little footage from when we arrived in Madagascar in the capital city; quite a lot from the major roads in the town we’re currently living in (Antsirabe) where we’re soon to complete our Malagasy language study; and a bit more from the roadsides in-between – to give a glimpse of what the rural areas of Madagascar look like – though most of Madagascar’s rural population are far more removed from the roads than what you see here. It’s all just a glimpse at some of the typical roadside sights of Madagascar, with music by “Tarika” (“Retany” is the name of the song), one of my favorite Malagasy bands.