Librarian guides underground worship movement in Africa
WEST AFRICA (BP)--It’s the stuff superheroes are made of.
Collegiate groups evangelize the Konyagui of West Africa
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| Ouachita Baptist University student Tyler Butler helps a Konyagui man build his mud-brick home in southern Senegal, West Africa. Arkansas Baptist Collegiate Ministries is sending teams of college students to serve among the Konyagui people for the next three years. Each trip is designed to build on the last to eventually evangelize, disciple and form a church among the Konyagui without the help of a full-time missionary on the field. |
They searched Scriptures by flashlight to disciple the man with the sprouting gray hairs and infectious smile. He had been hungry for more teaching since the last students from Arkansas came through his village three months earlier. The previous team named him Nick -- short for Nicodemus -- because of his questions about being born again.
“This guy, Nick, came up and had been studying his Bible like crazy,” Wadlow said. “He had all kinds of questions about God. It was awesome because he didn’t see the rain or the dark as a reason to wait for later.”
Volunteers use wells to carve Gospel path into Guinea
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| Local elders help Delaware Baptist Bill O'Dell (right) locate the Guinea villages with the greatest need for water sources. During the dry season, many villagers must drink muddy water from trickling streams or shallow wells. |
8-year-old’s passion emerges
on the African mission field
SENEGAL, West Africa (BP)--Meredith Queen’s favorite dress is splattered with red and pink splotches, but she doesn’t mind.
That doesn’t keep the lively 8-year-old from wearing the dress again as she and her parents visit a village to share Jesus with Sereer-Palor people.
Sitting on a mat in the shade of a tree, Meredith bites her tongue and crinkles her nose in great concentration. She pumps the brush into the polish bottle and dabs a bit of color onto the toenails of a young girl with dark, dusty feet.
“We girls just like to be pretty,” Meredith said, explaining her toenail-painting ministry in her thick Carolina accent. “The village girls never had anything like that done to them before. God made them, and they need to feel loved and needed.”
