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ppened one day in august i read isaiah 58 12 which says some of you will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities then you will be known as a rebuilder of walls and a restorer of homes god whispered in my heart that i had a new job to restore that which is broken it was then i realized he wanted me to not just work in the foster care system but to adopt teenage girls in the system who probably have no hope of having a forever family at their age and in an instant god replaced the burden that had filled my heart for ten years with a deep love for my daughters and a desire to do whatever it takes even leaving all that i love to raise them up to be passionate followers of jesus and mighty warriors who enter the fight and serve their lord this summer i will be heading back to the states and preparing to do things i never thought i would have to think about things like finding a job as a special education teacher buying a house and car and living in the states again while the prospect is still intimidating i know beyond a shadow of a doubt that god is calling and i am simply following him so while i am sad to see this season of living in madagascar go i am excited about the season ahead of continuing to follow god and seeing him transform my daughters lives the views as we travel from one school to another are stunning madagascar is truly a beautiful island this is one of my new good news clubs of second and third graders that hasina and i teach at a small private school fanja pastor diavolana s wife hasina and i often teach at the same schools we took a vacation together over christmas break and went to the coastal town of morondava on the south western side of madagascar we got to see spectacular baobab trees which none of us had ever seen first hand go to parks in the area and best of all spend a lot of time together prayer requests pray for wisdom for me as i prepare to hand christian youth in action cyia over to my team this year pray that god will continue to prepare rinoh landry hasina and nirina as they take over cyia pray that the hundreds of kids who come to good news club each week will become passionate followers of jesus and grow in their walks with god praise reports praise god for the cyia team he has raised up to take over the work praise god for each of the good news club prayer partners he provided over the school year posted by tara at monday january 11 2016 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 2 3 15 god is always working even in the rain dark gray clouds hung low over antananarivo the pounding rain had finally dwindled to a drizzle by late afternoon the weather was so terrible that a lot of the schools canceled classes yet a tall thin man stood in his slacks and suit jacket in the muddy school yard shielded by a small umbrella waiting it all started five days earlier when hasina and i went out looking for a new school to fill our thursday morning time slot we went to a small school nearby and were greeted by the two teachers we asked to speak to the principal and they told us that he had two schools and lived far away but they could give him a message and set up a time for him to stop by and meet with us so we explained who we were and that we would love to have good news clubs at their school once a week to our complete surprise both teachers absolutely loved the idea that their students might be able to hear the word of god they went on and on about how much their students needed the lord and how wonderful it would be to have us teach them so they told us to come back in five days and they would send a message to the principal that we wanted to meet with him as we left we were hopeful that the teachers would pass on not just the information but their enthusiasm for the good news clubs as well and that the principal would be just as excited as they were five days later i woke up to rain pounding on the roof it rained and poured all morning in the afternoon hasina stopped by and we headed out to the school in the drizzling muddy mess we wondered if the principal would show up the weather was terrible and he lived far away he would have to make a special trip just for us but we went anyway as we climbed out of the bus near the school we were so proud of how perfectly on time we were the bus had taken forever to fill up with people and be on it s way so we thought we would be late as we climbed the muddy hill to the school a tall thin man stood in his slacks and suit jacket in the muddy school yard shielded by a small umbrella waiting we stared at each other in shock first that he had shown up and second that he was early and waiting for us after introductions were made he chatted away as though he had known us for a long time we went through our spill about good news club what we teach and showed him the visuals we use but it didn t matter at that point we knew he was already totally excited about having good news clubs at his school then we got to the tricky part we couldn t work around whatever schedule they might have we only had time on thursday mornings so we hesitantly asked about the time and he replied whenever you can come works just great for us when you come knocking we will be ready and with that the time was set thursday morning by this time his little nephew had come down the hill and was standing by his uncle when there was a break in the conversation he shyly said hi zoky hasina we both did a double take wondering how he knew hasina since we had never taught in this part of town turns out he goes to the school by my house and is in one of hasina s good news clubs there his uncle who had teasingly told us that once we started he wanted us to come every week but not just when we felt like it seemed to take note and was amazed that his nephew had good news clubs in his school too we were serious about wanting to teach his kids and he was serious about wanting his kids taught the word of god we walked away in complete shock he had come all this way to meet us we had arrived on time even though we should have been late with how long the bus took good news clubs had been set up standing in the rain in a muddy school yard he was excited the teachers were excited and even his nephew went to good news club and thursday mornings worked for them we looked at each other and asked what just happened what a god thing so bright and early thursday morning two new good news clubs will be starting up at a brand new school we praise god for all he did and can t wait to teach these precious kids posted by tara at tuesday february 03 2015 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 12 22 14 christmas party club 2014 saturday was the big day the christmas party club that 2500 good news club kids were coming to from all over madagascar many government officials pastors and principals had also been invited to this event that was kicking off the 20 year anniversary of cef in madagascar everything that you can possibly imagine went wrong it all started with my hair straightner dying and seeing that my kittens had covered my entire kitchen in a bag of sugar as i walked out the door while i thought these things were about as bad as it could get i was wrong i arrive at the school that i was going to the party with our bus filled with excited children and took off toward the party only to get stuck in traffic for two hours our fed up bus driver stopped about a 20 minute walk from the party and told us we could walk the rest of the way he was done and had an appointment he was already late for we walked the rest of the way and arrived only to find that we weren t the only ones who were late the entire chapter that i work with was late because the road was closed the school i went with didn t know about the closed road and was on the detour route that everyone else had to take j how the main road heading into town gets closed the last saturday before christmas is beyond me but it happened one school walked the entire way other schools took long detours hasina showed up at one of our schools only to find that both buses they had counted on where stuck in traffic and couldn t make it because of the closed road with excited children and parents waiting in the school yard hasina and a teacher went out to try to locate another bus all the drivers refused hoping for a day off because of the closed road finally one driver agreed hours after the kids were suppose to arrive kids from our chapter finally began to trickle in thankfully the kids were asked to arrive early so even this delay wasn t as bad as it could have been my job during the club was to stand at the bottom of the bleachers and hold visuals i stood there holding visuals and looking that the kids that had come from three of the schools hasina and i teach at all three schools we had just started a little over a month ago the teachers principals and parents knew nothing about cef other than that hasina and i showed up each week to teach the bible to their kids i couldn t help but praise god for each of our students the room was filled with about 2500 kids each of the five chapters here in tana had their kids wearing a different color of ribbon from the wordless book around their neck hasina s and my kids were wearing black ribbons cef workers lined the bottom of the bleachers holding visuals we got to the invitation at the end of the bible lesson and they were asked to raise their hands if they were ready to accept jesus then led in a prayer i watched as a parents who had come with one of our schools raised her hand along with many other hands all over the gym her lips moved as she prayed accepting jesus as her lord and savior right then and there i wanted to cry as i realized that all the traffic and bus issues didn t matter at all god was still at work this was worth everything not only was there a club for the kids but people stood up and shared their stories of how god was using cef in their schools in their lives and in the lives of their children to wrap up the children who traveled from regions outside of tana put on a short program here are some of the cyia students from ranomafana along with some gnc kids afterwards as the children filed out the teachers and principals of our schools stopped to talk to me they were all smiles they went on and on about how wonderful it had all been and about how excited they were about cef two of them said excitedly this is amazing whenever you put on anything we will be here and if we can t be here to support you we will send others to go for us then today monday we went to their school christmas party one of the teachers stood up infront of the parents and explained how excited she was about cef and how amazing saturday had been she retold a testimony from a principal who had shared saying she couldn t stop thinking about what he had said after the chrismas party club wrapped up the kids had left and we had cleaned up we were all starting to think of going home but there weren t any buses heading back toward the south where my friends and i live but we didn t walk home we hitched a ride in the back of a covered pick up truck that was taking supplies back to pastor d s house and just happened to have room for the seven of us isn t god amazing today as i walked home i knew that despite all that had happened with traffic buses and road closures god had worked in the lives of those who had come and isn t that what the day was all about anyway best of all there is no way to explain this event other than that it was truly a god thing only he could have brought it all together posted by tara at monday december 22 2014 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 11 3 14 october newsletter meet the teens veronique last year veronique attended christian youth in action for the first time she struggled and was scared to teach the kids but after cyia she told me she wanted to be a missionary like me this year she was back but things were very different she did an amazing job teaching she spoke with enthusiasm and was very animated as she taught she stayed up late the night before she was to teach the missionary story working on the story and all during practice time the next morning she prepared diligently but when she got up to do a demo for her team she couldn t get through the story and ended up crying during lunch i worked with her on the story after talking to her supervisor we decided to give her a choice whether or not she would teach or let her supervisor do it we saw she had worked very hard and we didn t want it to be a bad experience at club she chose to do it the reason she had worked so hard was because of how much she wanted to teach and she wasn t looking for a way out her supervisor excitedly shared with me after club that she had told the story so well she got the children involved told the story in an engaging way and even would put down the book to act things out she learned that day that as she worked hard god would help her and speak through her the cef director told me later she had seen that veronique had written in a school paper that she wanted to be a missionary ismael and setra both of these boys mothers told us that since cyia last year they were different they are now good examples to their younger sisters and brothers and help around the house that is what cyia is all about it s not just about training teens teach 5 day clubs it s also about helping them grow in their walk with god and become good examples to the kids they teach malala although malala is quiet and reserved she doesn t let that stop her from teaching 5 day clubs one day after clubs we all walked up to her house because she lives up on one of the mountains surrounding the village and from her house you can see for forever the front of the house was hardly wider than my arm span and the peak of the roof was hardly taller than me nine people live in her house she literally has nothing and yet has everything because she loves god s and is ready to serve him even if it means doing things that are outside of her comfort zone the next morning she came to henriette s house carrying an arm load of gifts a tall stalk of sugar cane and a backpack full of mangahazo as she shyly presented her gifts to us i wanted to cry how could she having seemingly nothing still give us so much then and there i thanked god for her and the example she had given me of true generosity and asked him to give me a heart like hers the staff behind the teens one by one the teens stood up and introduced themselves on the first day of christian youth in action each of them stated their name and who their good news club teacher was behind each teen who comes to cyia there is a gnc teacher who has been pouring into their life harline harline is our cef education director and also works with the northern antananarivo chapter after the first day of cyia she was tel...