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Thanks to local leaders’ passion for church planting, the Ambovombe Zone in southern Madagascar has added more than 20 new Churches of the Nazarene in the last three years. Three days of training equipped these leaders for continued evangelism and discipleship in their communities.

Agriculture trainings in the south of Madagascar have helped local residents raise and sell crops to feed and support their families. The trainings have also led to many conversations and several new preaching points.

Since September 1, 2009, the Church of the Nazarene's Global Ministry Center (GMC) proudly flies a flag each week of one of the many nations in which the denomination is present in ministry. Leaders were invited to send a national flag to be flown at the GMC alongside the flag of the United States*.

Madagascar has experienced slow growth in the Church of the Nazarene for many years. Recently, District Superintendent Georges Patrice Ratovoarilala led a drive to evangelize and plant churches in the northern part of Madagascar.

Over the last 20 years, thousands of children have come through the doors of the AMI-4 Street Kids Center , a Nazarene compassionate ministry center, to receive holistic development through physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual support. In observance of its 20th anniversary, the center

Antananarivo, Madagascar At the Nazarene district center in Antananarivo, rooms that used to sit vacant are now alive with activity as students learn English, study the Bible, and gain computer skills. The new learning center, called Living Hope School, opened 13 January through Nazarene

As in most African cultures, family is very important in the Malagasy culture of Madagascar, an island nation southeast of the African continent. Even when children are grown, they often live close to their parents; getting together for family functions is very important for the Malagasy. Julien and