Please pray for Gabriel and Nestine, a husband and wife Malagasy missionary team, as they complete their formal training with Jesus Family and prepare for placement in Ambalagoavy beginning in October. Their vision is to see Tanala believers worshipping the Lord.

The survey in Ambalagoavy was completed and permission was given for the placement of 2 Malagasy missionaries. The Jesus Family organization has them in training now until October, and the missionaries will be placed soon thereafter. Pray that the training goes well and that the logistics of their placement are completed before the rainy season.

The survey is now set for mid-July. The purpose of the survey will be to make final arrangements and agreements for 2 missionaries to be placed in Ambalagoavy beginning next year.

Jesus Family has selected the 2 missionaries and they will be placed in the village of Ambalagoavy after their training is completed. A final survey in Ambalagoavy will take place later this month.

Jesus Family Madagascar has a vision for training 24 Malagasy missionaries and sending them in pairs to 12 villages in areas where there are unreached people groups. The training begins in July 2015. AIM will be partnered with them in the training, logistics and survery work. Jesus Family has committed to placing missionaries in a Tanala village south of Ikongo. Pray for Sedera, the director of Jesus Family, and for the workers going to reach the Tanala.

We did a survey of the villages south of Ikongo and found many remote villages without an evangelical church in the dialect. There was openness to having a team of Christian language and culture learners live among them in the forest.
Pray for Petera Solomandimby, a Tanala believer who has a burden for bringing the gospel back to his Tanala homeland. He has asked for some training that might equip him to plant churches and he has asked for co-workers to go with him. Pray for wisdom in how to enable Petera to get started.

The Tanala survey has been postponed to 22 – 26 September. Please keep Sylvestre (InterVarsity) and Rodrigo (AIM) in prayer as they travel through and visit with people from several Tanala villages around Ikongo.

The Tanala preliminary survey will take place 18 – 22 August around Ikongo. Please pray for safety in travel, good church contacts and clarity of vision.

We have made contact with 2 representatives from InterVarsity in the coastal towns of Manakara and Mananjary. These people have offered to help us arrange a survey to the Tanala central towns of Ikongo and Fort Carnot and to meet with pastors to talk about the Tanala people and to gain a better understanding of what a church planting team might look like in this densely forested and remote area.