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Ministry
Mennonite ministry in Burkina Faso is characterized by church planting,
evangelism through media, pastoral training, peace ministry, women’s
projects, linguistics and Bible translation, as well as providing translation
consultancy services for the Burkina Bible Society and HIV/AIDS awareness.
Since a small group of Christians met in 1978, numerous Burkinabe have
made commitments to faith and congregations have emerged. Gradually Christian
groups are forming in several tribal groups, and churches are being planted
in major cities, including Ouagadougou, the capital, and Bobo Dioulasso,
a regional centre. Mission workers and Burkinabe partners are also working
on language analysis and Bible translation in five languages.
Celebrations
- The rapidly expanding Siamou language literacy program is being
taught and administered by Burkinabe leaders.
- Progress is being made
on various linguistic projects, with local teachers being trained to
teach.
- New translation work is to begin among the North Toussian people.
- Increasingly bigger portions of Scripture in Samogho are being shared
via audio cassettes in the village of Saraba where there is also a
church building.
- Praise God for newly developing communities of believers
in the village of Sunturu among the Sicite people and in the cities
of Bobo and Ouagadougou.
- People are coming to faith through the work
done at the Foyer Evangélique Mennonite congregation in Ouagadougou.
- Several young men are in pastoral training.
- Learning a Language of Love!
Challenges
- Help the Foyer build!
- Training local church leaders.
- Integrating the ministry needs, goals,
and methods of translation work and emerging congregations into the
overall life of the Evangelical Mennonite church of Burkina Faso.
- The
development of a discipling and ministry training centre in Orodara.
- Understanding and recording the complex tones and words of the languages.
- Finding linguists and church planters to continue current ministries
or to start with new tribal groups.
- Training Burkinabe to run the equipment
in the recording studio and learning to work together so the work can
be effective and efficient in reaching as many people as possible.
- Understanding how Mennonites in Burkina can be witness to the many
ethnic groups.
Partners
- Evangelical Mennonite Church of Burkina Faso (EEMBF)
- Mennonite Mission
Network (MMN)
- Evangelical Mennonite Conference (EMC)
- African Inter-Mennonite
Mission (AIMM)
- Comité de Mission Mennonite Français
- National
Association for Bible Translation and Literacy
- Summer Institute of
Linguistics – Wycliffe Burkina Faso
- Alliance Biblique de Burkina
Faso (Burkina Bible Society)
Workers
Celebration Stories
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