Most of the time, the guys just ride their bicycles and they don't dress up (not even in casual pants and a collard shirt). It's usually jeans and a t-shirt for the attire. Walter was paired up with one of the preacher boys, Kristoff. They left and were gone for several hours.
You should have seen Walter when they got back! Bro. Kristoff had taken him everywhere! They rode quite the distance. Walter came in sweating and huffing and puffing! He was exhausted! He couldn't get a drink fast enough! The next Friday, Bro. Pritchard was dividing the men into teams again and he told Kristoff that he could take the car because the visits he was going to make were too long a distance to ride bikes. Walter immediately volunteered to go with him! Everyone laughed at that!
The Pritchards feed their staff on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. We had our first lunch with the staff that day.
This is LuCein (pronounced Loo Sin) - a preacher in training
LuCein is very small. I think I was almost a full head taller than him!
Notice the silly guy in the background!
Kristoff - a preacher in training
He's the one that met us at the airport.
Rado (pronounced Rah doo) and his wife Sophie
He's also a preacher in training
They are expecting their first baby in November!
Walter with Kristoff, Rado, and Ja (left to right)
Let me just say here that every one of the staff is incredible. They have a heart to serve Jesus Christ. They love the Lord! And Kristoff was hired to be a full time soul winner. Yep! He goes out for 8 hours every weekday soul winning! Can you imagine being hired specifically to be a soul winner - I mean that's your job title and your job title includes one thing and one thing only - and you see the fruit of your labor consistently????? That would be an incredible job! And people are getting saved, too! Bro. Pritchard will send him on a 10 minute errand sometimes and he'll be gone for 2 hours. He'll have found someone to witness to and almost always that person or persons will have gotten saved!
Later that afternoon, Ja needed to go to the doctor for his cough. Word got back to him that one of the teenage girls in their church had been sick for a couple of weeks. She was going to go to a doctor (which Ja calls a quack doctor) but Ja told her not to go and that he would pay for her to see a real doctor. So we picked her up and took her with us. It only costs $5 to go to the doctor (at least in Antsirabe).
This is Ephrazee. She's the one we took to the doctor with us. She's 16 and very sweet. She learned to speak English at the learning center the Pritchards started (although her English is still quite limited as she hasn't completed all the classes yet).
Pictures of the doctor's office. Somewhat primitive but it works.
LuCein is very small. I think I was almost a full head taller than him!
Notice the silly guy in the background!
Kristoff - a preacher in training
He's the one that met us at the airport.
Rado (pronounced Rah doo) and his wife Sophie
He's also a preacher in training
They are expecting their first baby in November!
Walter with Kristoff, Rado, and Ja (left to right)
Let me just say here that every one of the staff is incredible. They have a heart to serve Jesus Christ. They love the Lord! And Kristoff was hired to be a full time soul winner. Yep! He goes out for 8 hours every weekday soul winning! Can you imagine being hired specifically to be a soul winner - I mean that's your job title and your job title includes one thing and one thing only - and you see the fruit of your labor consistently????? That would be an incredible job! And people are getting saved, too! Bro. Pritchard will send him on a 10 minute errand sometimes and he'll be gone for 2 hours. He'll have found someone to witness to and almost always that person or persons will have gotten saved!
Later that afternoon, Ja needed to go to the doctor for his cough. Word got back to him that one of the teenage girls in their church had been sick for a couple of weeks. She was going to go to a doctor (which Ja calls a quack doctor) but Ja told her not to go and that he would pay for her to see a real doctor. So we picked her up and took her with us. It only costs $5 to go to the doctor (at least in Antsirabe).
Pictures of the doctor's office. Somewhat primitive but it works.
Now here's the incredibly sad part. While we were walking down the hallway I noticed 2 posters on the wall. I looked at one of them because it had pictures on it of different diseases but I couldn't really tell what they were. I didn't think anything of it until later when we were sitting in the hallway waiting for both Ja and Ephrazee to get done.
One of the posters was a very outdated AIDS poster. The information on it is so wrong. It was graphic in its pictures. It showed ways that were supposed to be safe so as not to get aids and ways that were high risk to get aids and ways that were medium risk! The other poster that I had been looking at before but couldn't make out (praise the Lord!) was a poster of different types of venerial diseases! Right there in the hallway for everyone to see! I was appalled!
Bro. Ja told us later that one of the saddest things about Malagasy children is that their innocency is completely gone by the time they grow up.
One of the posters was a very outdated AIDS poster. The information on it is so wrong. It was graphic in its pictures. It showed ways that were supposed to be safe so as not to get aids and ways that were high risk to get aids and ways that were medium risk! The other poster that I had been looking at before but couldn't make out (praise the Lord!) was a poster of different types of venerial diseases! Right there in the hallway for everyone to see! I was appalled!
Bro. Ja told us later that one of the saddest things about Malagasy children is that their innocency is completely gone by the time they grow up.
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