Mission
Madagascar – Ted and Rachel Watts
PARTNERING WITH US:
Ted & Rachael Watts
Medical Mission at The Good News Hospital,
Mandritsara, Madagascar
PRAYING:
We would be so thrilled if you feel able to commit to pray regularly for us in the coming months and years.
To receive our prayer letters, please email us or sign up via the SIM website at: www.sim.co.uk/pray
FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
If you might be interested in supporting us financially, either through a one-off gift or regular instalments, you can find more information at: wattsinmadagascar.wordpress.com/partner-with-us
Alternatively, you can find information on how to give to our support fund directly through SIM on their website at: www.sim.co.uk/give
Latest update July 2026
Alongside welcoming these teams and overseeing the various projects, work in the hospital continues. Please pray for our patients – for healing and for the good news of the gospel to take root in their hearts.
We finished homeschool for the summer holidays. We’re thankful that this school year has generally been positive. Please keep praying for wisdom as we consider how best to educate our boys.
Summer is often a time for goodbyes. We were sad to see our friends and neighbours, junior doctors Raph and Abby Gould, leave Mandritsara after their 6 months here. Please pray that God would guide them for the future.
It is also often a time for visitors – it is lovely to have Lesley Notghi, previous long term missionary doctor, back in Mandritsara. Today we welcomed Pete Alexander – a surgeon who normally works in a very similar-sized hospital to here but on Shetland, a much smaller and colder island. He is here for a couple of weeks to help on the surgical side. And we are really looking forward to welcoming our friends Rob and Ruth Radcliffe, a urologist and paediatrician, and their family when they join us for a couple of weeks next month.
Please keep praying for us to depend on God. There is a lot going on at the moment and sometimes the work can feel overwhelming. Please pray God would protect and sustain us.
STAYING IN TOUCH
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us, in person or by email.
Email address: wattsinmadagascar@gmail.com
Instagram: @wattsinmadagascar
Project website: www.mandritsara.org.uk
Moldova – Graeme and Bequi Innes
Moldova is one of Europe’s poorest countries. Less well known, though, is Moldova’s spiritual impoverishment. Most of the 4 million people who live there would regard themselves as Orthodox Christian but Wonderfully, there has been significant gospel growth since Moldova’s independence in 1991. This has been hampered by many Christians emigrating – 25% of all Moldovans work abroad!
Graeme and Bequi Innes have been serving as missionaries there for the last 7 years.
You can read their latest newsletter here.
A few prayer points:
Every Wednesday – Bequi co-leads a Bible study for teenage girls (almost all of whom are from non-Christian backgrounds)
Every Thursday – Graeme leads the church youth group, which like the girls’ group is most made up of teenagers from unbelieving families
Every Friday – Graeme delivers an evangelistic message at a centre for children from vulnerable backgrounds
“Whilst our children are really looking forward to seeing their wider family and friends, going on holiday and to camp during our home leave, some of them are feeling a bit overwhelmed about leaving the security of their home in Moldova for 3 months, to go to what is a “foreign, strange land” (albeit their passport country). Please pray for their sensitive hearts and for them to know God is with them, wherever they are in the world!”
Graeme and Bequi are convinced of the need for committed partners to support and pray regularly for their ministry. Would you consider joining them in praying for the work they will undertake and/or supporting them financially for an initial period of three years?
Keep updated with prayer requests by joining their facebook page “Pray for the Innes family in Moldova”.