“We would appreciate your prayers this week especially. This is the third week of the residential Bible training for village church leaders (CITAF). During the first week there were around 80 village church leaders here as we welcomed many of the other leaders who are not yet part of the CITAF training. Mat and Pastor Julien have shared most of the teaching during these first two weeks, and they will continue teaching some sessions in the next fortnight, but we are grateful that Ken Brownell is back and teaching for most of this coming week. This is Ken’s fourth visit to Mandritsara to be involved with the training under the auspices of Pastor Training International. Ken’s wife Alison is a consultant haematologist and will be working in the hospital, and particularly training in the lab.”