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| LMS | the London Missionary Society; predecessor body to the Council on World Mission, which sent the first Protestant missionaries to the island in 1820 and founded the church that became the FJKM. |
| LWF | the Lutheran World Federation; the global Lutheran fellowship active in many areas of ministry, which sends significant funding to the FLM. |
| MELCAM | the Missionaries of the ELCA in Madagascar. |
| MT | Norsk Missionstidende, the NMS Mission magazine. |
| NMS | the Norwegian Mission Society; headquartered in Stavanger, Norway. It sent the first Lutheran missionaries to the island in 1866. |
| NRSV | the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible; the standard text used in academic and scholarly English-language Biblical study. |
| NIV | the New International Version of the Bible; preferred by many evangelical readers and authors. |
| SAF-FJKM | Sampan-Asa Fampandrasoana; the Development Department of the FJKM, which oversees health and environment projects. |
| SALFA | Sampan-Asa Loterana momban’ny Fahasalama, or the Health Department of the FLM. |
| SRD | spirit-related disorders; a new form of mental illness recognized in 1994 by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV), the standard reference text for psychiatric health care professionals. |
| TPFLM | Trano Printy Fiangonana Loterana Malagasy, or the Printing House of the Malagasy Lutheran Church, which publishes many religious and theological works for a variety of denominations. |
| WHO | World Health Organization. |