I want to

ask this morning, why are we here? Why are we here? Why are we, as in Avril and I and Caleb and Anna, why are we here? It took 24 hours of driving the bumpy Malagasy roads to get from Tulear to Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo, and then three planes to arrive here just under three weeks ago.

What would make us do that? What is the goal of our visit with you? Now, simply, it's to help you catch the vision.

And if you've already caught the vision, it's to remind you of it, to refresh you by it, and to excite you in it.

I imagine that you're not surprised to hear that living in Madagascar has been hard for us.

Sometimes it's been really hard.

It's hot and it's dry.

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