I recently read an article by a missionary serving in West Africa with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA), sharing about how missions in Cote d'Ivoire is coming full-circle. The CMA has been in that country, sharing the Good News of Jesus, since 1930. In 2005, seventy-five years later, the first Ivorian Alliance Missionary was sent out. Today, there are 40 Ivorian couples serving as Alliance missionaries in West Africa. As many foreign missionaries have pulled out of Cote d'Ivoire in the last decade, the Ivorians themselves are now stepping into the role of missionary.
Reading this article really excited me. How wonderful it would be to see more and more Ivorian Christians see themselves as missionaries to their neighbors, their nation, and nations around them. Pray that Beng Christians, who are concentrated in a few of the Beng villages, would be called as missionaries to the other fifteen or so Beng villages that do not have a Christian presence. Pray that they would have the faith and courage to step out of their comfort zones to proclaim the Good News of Christ.
