Teichert Family Update ... “Gospel Movement in the Madagascar Rainforest”

The family of Karl and Jenny Teichert are serving the Lord as missionaries with OC Africa, in South Africa. They moved to Johannesburg in November, 1997 with their four children; Ann, Scott, Stephen and John. Karl serves as the Southern Africa Director of the Southern Africa Regional Team. Their vision is to see a healthy, Bible-based church established in every unreached village and community in South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia and beyond. Their strategy is to partner with key African church leaders to research, train, and mobilize the body of Christ to complete the Great Commission. They are striving to equip local leaders in Southern Africa to reach their nations for Christ and send missionaries into other countries as well.

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“Gospel Movement in the Madagascar Rainforest”

Dear friends and family,

Since 2010, Karl has had the privilege of coming alongside Dinah to launch a movement of disciple-making churches in the unreached villages of the Madagascar rainforest. Dinah started Islands Mission with the vision of reaching the Indian Ocean islands (www.islands-mission.org.

In August of 2010, 45 leaders were equipped in a simple, obedience-based Discovery Bible Study (DBS) strategy. Through ongoing training/coaching, over eight generations of 500 leaders have reproduced nearly 10,000 DBS’s. Most of these DBS’s have multiplied and grown into larger gatherings of new believers.

We are praising the Lord that over 100,000 people have decided to follow Jesus and 20,000 have been baptized as a witness of their new life in Christ. God is so good! Please pray that more leaders would be mobilized to start 1,000 new DBS’s this year in unreached villages in the rainforest of Madagascar.

The COVID-19 pandemic and repeated cyclones have had a devasting impact on the people of the rainforest. Many have died, and others have suffered both physically and economically. Travel has been greatly restricted, which has slowed the church planting efforts.

To assist in the crisis, Dinah’s leaders are providing entrepreneurial business training to create more sustainable income initiatives. Through farming and livestock projects, they will provide assistance to the church planter’s families and bless their villages. Please pray that 85 business trainers will be equipped this year to train/mentor 200 new business entrepreneurs.

Dinah and his team are also building relationships with Malagasy-speaking Comorians who are living in Madagascar. They have started a chicken restaurant and meat shop to create opportunities to start DBS’s. The strategy is that new believers will be trained to launch Disciple Making Movements (DMM’s) back home in the Comoros islands. Please pray for open hearts to the gospel and multiplication of DBS’s.

It has truly been an honor for Karl to coach/mentor Dinah and his leaders in this growing gospel movement in Madagascar these past 11 years. Thank you for your faithful prayers and support as we trust God to finish the amazing work he has started in the Indian Ocean islands!

For God's glory,

Karl and Jenny

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