
Connect Issue 6 – Mission field to mission force
Exploring how AIM is helping to encourage the African church to mobilise (prepare and send) missionaries and look at their impact in the 21st century.
The worldโs fourth biggest island boasting flora and fauna that exist nowhere else on earth. 92% of the population exist on less than ยฃ2 per day. 41% of the population identify with Christianity, 7% with Islam, the majority follow Traditional African Religions.
In 1979 Colin & Christine Molyneux began AIMโs work in Madagascar. Initially working with the Malagasy Bible Society the plan was for AIM mission partners to engage in farm projects that would support poor communities, and encourage Christians in these communities to share the gospel. Quickly, however, it became clear to the Molyneuxโs that there was a tremendous need for evangelism and Bible teaching across all of Madagascar. Whilst many in Madagascar professed the Christian faith, few knew Christ.
Today the task continues, Madagascar is still in need of Bible teaching and there remains ten people groups who are still waiting to hear the gospel for the first time. AIMโs goal is to reach these unreached people with the good news of Christ, and to see Christ-centred churches across Madagascar, and the rest of Africa.
Exploring how AIM is helping to encourage the African church to mobilise (prepare and send) missionaries and look at their impact in the 21st century.
We explore the unique impact women have. Journey alongside our female missionaries as they share both the joys and challenges.
Are you a Church or Mission leader who could play a part for 1 – 2 weeks in outreach ministries in Madagascar?
Do you have a passion for the unreached? Would you like to complete a year of on-field mission training?
Live and breathe missions in the midst of the Sakalava people group.
For many missionaries, the call to the mission field involves crossing borders, cultures and languages. But Rosina Ferdinandโs story is a bit different. Now AIMโs country leader for Madagascar, she is a missionary living and working to share the gospel among her own people, the Sakalava, on the very island she
grew up on.ย