 West Africa Missionaries hope that many Tennessee Baptists will consider participating in the Tennessee / West Africa Baptist Partnership. They hope that churches will adopt people groups there and work with them.
West Africa is about the size geographically of the U.S. and has 1,600 people groups with speak 1,100 different languages. A people group can be as small as 10,000 people.
Churches, which will be trained by the IMB and TBC, can serve with missionaries but they also can eventually serve by themselves. Currently, short-term missionaries are having success in witnessing to West Africans by telling basic stories from the Bible, from creation to Christ.
Churches involved, who are identified either as Engaging Churches which work on their own to become the missionaries or Partnering Churches which work side by side with an IMB team, should realize that this effort will involve more than one or several mission trips to West Africa.
The IMB working with the TBC hopes to recruit 130 churches to serve in West Africa as either Engaging Churches or Partnering Churches.
For more information on the Tennessee / West Africa Partnership, contact Kim Margrave at 1.800.558.2090 ext. 2021 or kmargrave@tnbaptist.org.
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