Thanks be to God! Rev Delphin baptized 38 people on Sunday 23rd April in Mangily, on the coast just north of Toliara town.

He asks us to pray that God will continue to strengthen their faith because there are a big challenges in Mangily. Since he joined the Diocese of Toliara last year, he has baptized 102 Christians in Mangily, and also asks our prayers for him and his missions in Fenoarivo Parish.

In January, he asked for your prayers for his wife. He is very happy to report that, after six months of treatment, she is now fine.

Please pray for the evangelism conference currently happening in Antananarivo. Bishop Samy, Rev Berthier and Rev Gaston are present at it.

Today a team of Christians from Ambovombe, led by Rev. Gaston, cycled 14 miles to Andohalambo to open a new Church there.

Thanks be to God for their commitment to bring others into the Kingdom of God and help their faith to grow!

Dear Friends in Christ
Merry and joyful Christmas,
Happy  and hopeful New Year 2022,
Bishop Samitiana and Holy,
Toliara, Madagascar

BBC News reports that Madagascar is on the brink of experiencing the world’s first “climate change famine”. This is according to the United Nations, which says tens of thousands of people are already suffering “catastrophic” levels of hunger and food insecurity after four years without rain.

Even though rain fell earlier this year, the worst hit part of Madagascar is still in the Parish of Amboasary in the Diocese of Toliara, where people are eating locusts and cacti to survive. Click here to read the full article.

Please pray for the people of this region.

Information on how to give to help the Diocese provide food can be found here.

One of the supporters of the Diocese of Toliara wrote recently saying, my wife came across this passage today and we decided to pray it over the Malagasy in the south:

“The poor and needy search for water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. But I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs. I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set junipers in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together, so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.”‭‭

Isaiah‬ ‭41:17-20‬ ‭NIV‬‬

What a great passage!  We serve a God who knows about water projects, and we know how much it is needed!

We invite you to join us in praying this for southern Madagascar.

On April 17th, 2021, we held our first ever online fundraiser for the McGregor Toliara Endowment Fund. It was hosted and led by Bishop Todd and Rev Patsy McGregor who founded the Diocese of Toliara sixteen years ago.  
 
The McGregors created this Endowment to offer sustainability for one of the poorest regions in one of the poorest countries in the world in order to promote God’s legacy and to continue the great work God has begun.  

During the Zoom call, we watched a video inviting us to give to this Endowment Fund and support the Diocese. If you weren’t able to join us, or would like to share this video with others , you can find it at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFvrMuQhJes

CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE TO THE ENDOWMENT FROM THE USA:

1.     Enter the amount you want to give
2.     Under “Gift Type”, select “Give one time” or “Set up Recurring Gift”
3.     Under “Fund” select “McGregor Toliara Endowment”

or, if you wish to give by check, make it out to:
St Gregory’s Episcopal Church – memo McGregor Toliara Endowment
and mail it to:
St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church,   P.O. Box 1503, Boca Raton FL 33429

CLICK HERE TO DONATE ONLINE TO THE ENDOWMENT FROM THE UK

or make cheques payable to USPG (McGregor Toliara Endowment)
and send to: USPG, 5 Trinity Street, London, SE1 1DB

CONTACT US HERE IF YOU WISH TO DONATE TO THE ENDOWMENT FROM ANY OTHER COUNTRY

We join with our brothers and sisters in Christ, as they celebrate Maundy Thursday with a foot washing service, at the official opening of the church at Marodo Ankilimasy MAROALOKA – one of the newest churches in the Diocese of Toliara.