Nuusbriewe uit Madagaskar – Page 3 of 8 – NG Kerk Groot-Brakrivier

12 Desember 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – The Week 1 Desember 2024

Madagaskar

It is that time of the year when all the ‘End of the Year’ activities start. Exams will kick off on Tuesday and after that we plan to have a fun day with the school Rangers and a Christmas crafts day with the Saturday Rangers. The Discovery Rangers completed the Tool Craft merit on Wednesday and there were some moments when I couldn’t help but laugh. The boys and girls had to put what they have learned into practice. This included using a wood saw and a bow saw, hammering in some nails and remove them, and using an axe. They put in a lot of effort to be able to swing that axe. Lavarel, who is in my patrol, is very small for his age and showed me his ‘muscles’ and asked whether I thought they were big enough for the task. I couldn’t disappoint him so I replied that he would do just fine. He managed well, but could not really make a dent in the trunk of the palm tree. I had to constantly remind them of the safety rules as they got so excited and I did not want anybody to loose some toes and fingers. We ended up with an audience of people walking by, probably wondering what we teach the children at our school. Some of the men commented on technique and offered some tips. That’s community living for you.

5 Desember 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – Lynette – Week 24 Desember 2024

Madagaskar 2024-1201

Dries and I are very thankful for our good health. So when we succumb to one of the sicknesses that goes around from time to time, we don’t complain. I was the one to end up in bed for a couple of days this time around. So did our neighbours and almost everyone at school. I think for once Dries was happy to go off to the boat and not catch what we all suffered from.

19 November 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus – Madagaskar: The week 10 November 2024

Madagaskar NG Kerk Groot-Brakrivier

The last two weeks were mostly spent on getting the Land Rover back on the road. That entailed waiting for the replacement parts to come from Antananarivo, removing what seemed to me most of the inside of the Land Rover, fitting the new clutch and then putting everything back. When you have to work alone, you use everything available to you to make life easier. In this case, bamboo was used to lower the gearbox. For those mechanical minds out there, this will all make sense, while to me it looked like chaos. Well, I am happy to report that the Landy is back on the road and Dries can return to the boat this coming week.

8 November 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus Madagaskar: Lynette se nuusbrief 27 Oktober 2024

Lynette Madagaskar

Dries and I spent the week working on Gabriel. We managed to get in a full week’s work. We had to get going early in the morning as the heat made work between one and at least half past three impossible. School was closed for the mid-term break and it made perfect sense for me to spend the week on the boat. I did my share of painting and cleaning, but it was more to be a support to Dries. It helps if he doesn’t have to worry about meal preparation.

23 Oktober 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus – Madagaskar: Die week 13 Oktober 2024

Madagaskar 13-10-2024

November is always the hottest month on our island. That uncomfortable heat arrived already well in October this year. There is not much of a breeze where Dries works on the boat and he needs a change of shirt a couple of times a day. I walk around with a little towel to wipe the sweat as I go through my day. Everything happens a little slower now.

12 Oktober 20248 November 2024

Sendingnuus Madagaskar: Die Week 29 September 2024

Sending Madagaskar

Euphrasie and I were off to Russian Bay after an early start on Thursday morning. We were suppose to make the trip on Tuesday, but the wind was strong throughout the night and the sea was subsequently too rough the next day.

4 Oktober 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus Madagaskar: Lynette skryf vir ons oor die week 22 September 2024

Madagaskar NG Kerk Groot-Brakrivier

Joshua Generation School, Lovako School and Royal Rangers are all under way after the school holiday.

Kids and Discovery Rangers meet every Wednesday afternoon. The Discoveries are a big group this year and they are packed like sardines into the classroom where we meet for prayer and worship before they disperse into their individual patrols. We are studying the Bible book of Ezra for the next five weeks and for the skills merit, they are learning all about the birds of Madagascar.

21 September 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus uit Madagaskar: Back to School

Madagaskar NG Kerk Groot-Brakrivier

t was the start of the new school year 2024/2025 this week. Or as they say here, ‘La Rentrée’. It consisted of the usual clean-up and organisation of classrooms. This year, we’ll have the complete pre-school program from 3 – 6 years. We are still short of one classroom as the new one does not seem to get past the foundation phase. The teachers organized themselves to allow for this and we trust that we’ll be up and running by December.

6 September 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus uit Madagaskar: I’m back

By lynettemadanews on September 1, 2024

I know that it has been a long time since we updated you. Not for a lack of news though. It has been school holiday and we got a lot done during these weeks.

25 Julie 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – Konsert 2024

“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.”

I Corinthians 15:10

“By the grace of God!” This was the theme of the school concert this year. As each year goes by, we are sure of one thing and that it is God’s grace which pulls us through and helps us to keep going. The concert was special in that the teachers chose the theme, did all the choreography and even had different coloured T-shirts with I Cor 15:10 printed on them. Victoria came to help Larisdiana with the practise as she was already eight months pregnant. Victoria also painted the backdrop. Randria opened with a message and it was good to see how much the parents enjoyed it all.

10 Julie 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – The week 30 June 2024

I finally received that small document which states that I have deposited my file for the renewing of my visa. I was relieved until I noticed that all the information concerning my passport and previous visa, was completely wrong. I want to say done on purpose, but let’s be positive. I have to go back and apply for a new one.

Dries is almost done with the work on the centre box of the boat. It is slow work, but has already made a big difference.

2 Julie 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus uit Madagaskar: Die Week 23 Junie 2024

….or rather The Weeks! The last few weeks have been busy and that explains the fact that I have not posted any news. Not for a lack of news though. The schools closed on Friday and we had our concert in the afternoon. I’ll do a special post about that.

So what have we been doing you might ask. Dries had a couple of demanding weeks. He got a lot done on the boat. Amidst that, the Land Rover decided to give trouble and that meant that he spent a week to get the starter fixed, together with some other problems waiting to happen.

3 Junie 20249 September 2025

Sendingnuus – Madagaskar: Paradise lost

Madagaskar Lynette 5-2-2023

Research was done by three International Mission Board (IMB) journalists and the following article was published. We were also interviewed for this exposé at the time. What prompted us to share this once more what we are experiencing with Mboty and Florette right at this moment. One of the reasons for the high incidence of sexual abuse in the family circle, is the attitude to prostitution and for that fact, child trafficking. It is not a moral issue and money trumps every objection that might remain. Dries felt strongly that people need to be made aware of this situation once again. What we have experienced in twenty-six of ministry is that the Gospel preached in the school milieu and the nurturing of children in all aspects of their lives, is how teenage pregnancy, prostitution and child abuse can be prevented and overcome. People will know how to pray once they know the reality of what happens in Madagascar and for that matter in most other countries in the world.

31 Mei 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus – Madagaskar: Vonjy maika!

Save urgently! The English translation for ‘vonjy maika’, is emergency. We had an emergency when we visited Lovako School in Ampamata at the end of April. You might wonder why I haven’t mentioned any of it, but besides being caught up in the aftermath, I prayed that God would provide the deliverance and that I could share it as a testimony to God’s grace.

23 Mei 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus – Madagaskar : The Week 12 May 2024

We took a couple of days after the work team had left to get our house in some kind of order. Moving between the boat and home means that we are forever looking for stuff, but we’ll get there. I am doing the last Royal Ranger preparation for the current school year this week. It feels as if this school year went by extremely quickly. Concert practise is in full swing and Larisdiana asked Victoria to help out as she is almost seven months pregnant. I am blessed by the fact that they don’t need me to concern myself with the planning of the end of year concert anymore.

13 Mei 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – Gabriel work team

Madagaskar

We said goodbye to the seven guys who gave it their all the past two weeks. We are so grateful for what Jan, Jacques, Ackerman, Joubert, Reuben, Ricus and Joseph had accomplished in such a short time.

The main objective was to remove and fix the smaller box on Gabriel’s stern. It had to be put back in place again and this required some muscle and teamwork.

1 Mei 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – The Week 21 April 2024

I have once again lost a couple of days along the way…but it has been BUSY! Dries and I finally got everything to the boat to be ready for the team to start work Monday morning. There were some challenges; it has been almost two weeks that we hardly have electricity, at most five hours a day. It is simply too expensive to run a generator full time, but we had to cart the generator all the way back to the house to refrigerate the meat for the team. Organising drinking water was also a major challenge. There are still shortages concerning vegetables and a Plan B is always required.

23 April 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – The week 21 April 2024

We said goodbye to Thesi on Tuesday. It was a time of refreshing for us to be together. She will always have a very special place in all of our hearts.

The rest of this week, we shall have to fire on all cylinders. The work team arrives next Sunday and I have so far two days worth of the menu written down. It will be camp style living and cooking…so if any of you have good ideas for tasty meals for ten people, don’t hesitate to share. 😉

17 April 202425 Maart 2025

Madagaskar : The Week – 07-04-2024

“For God so loved the world….”

Lovako team

Our time at Lovako School reminded me again of the fact that God gave His Son Jesus so that all people who believe in Him could have eternal life. From the most advanced and developed countries in the world, to the small fishing village of Ampamata where people are mostly illiterate and live in tiny houses made from palm leaves, God does not exclude anyone on the basis of background or position. Christ welcomes you as long as you come to Him in repentance and faith. This was the focus of the morning devotions and Euphrasie brought the children and teachers back to the profound and life giving message of John 3:16.

10 April 202425 Maart 2025

Sendingnuus: Madagaskar – The Week

Thesi arrived safely and we have had a wonderful week of catching up and spending time together. The teachers were happy to see her and somehow it felt as if she never left. she will be here for one more week. We had a blessed Ranger meeting on Thursday and the kids were so excited to learn a new song. Thesi and I worked on the actions for the song earlier in the week and we felt as if we had a proper workout after all the jumping around.