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TIM: Student gains 'open eyes' to social needs
God has used CWM's 2004 Training in Mission programme to make Tahina Ranaivoarisoa more aware of the needs of society outside the church.
During the TIM programme Ranaivoarisoa's eyes were opened to the suffering of people in South Africa with HIV/AIDS. I can't get the image of the man aged 20 who looked 50 out of my mind, he wrote.
was also inspired by the way that orphans were looked after in a children's village in India, and how the village founder, brother James received the vision for his work.
Ranaivoarisoa said that through the TIM programme God has continued work begun several years before TIM – changing him spiritually and asking him to pay more attention to what was going on around him.
"Two or three years before I came on TIM, the Lord started to change my spiritual life, my point of view, my faith and my mind," Ranaivoarisoa said. "He is still moulding me, teaching me now. He brought me to countries I have never seen, to a society in which I don't belong."
Ranaivoarisoa hoped to expand the activities of his youth group when he returned to Madagascar and to organise the group to reach out to the homeless and to street children. He is a member of the CWM-member Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar.
