DONE Inc. News & Events

After successfully completing three years at the Senegal Theological Bible College and Seminary, and trained in church planting, Abdell Aziz Hussin Ndalu goes to Ziguinchor in search of a man of peace. Ziguinchor (map) is a highly Muslim dominated region within Senegal and a strong hold of Islam. Aziz, a former Muslim and Marabou is one of the oldest and ministry sponsored students of the Senegal Theological Bible College and Seminary. He was converted in 2000. He is faithful and committed to evangelizing fellow Muslim. He is expected to depart at the end of September.

Also in other church planting developments Pastor Antoine Diop, a third year, ministry sponsored student of the Senegal Theological College and Seminary and trained in the church planting goes to Thiaroye (map) to work with Pastor Fernando and the church leaders. During his stay he will introduce church planting training for pastors and church workers.

While Arsene Obou, a ministry sponsored student, a graduate of the Senegal Theological College and Seminary and trained church planting goes to Sinthiou M’Badane or Mbad to work with Pastor Ajake and the church. He is expected to introduce church planting, train church workers and find a man of peace.

The church is embracing the rains, despite its heavy down pour. Tanoe reported that since he moved to the village about five months ago things are beginning to happen. He has found three men of peace and the people themselves have constructed a temporary place of worship on their own as seen from this photo. For the first time, he reports that the place of worship is embracing the heavy down pour of rain without making an SOS call to Dakar. He said the members saw the need and prior to the raining season. Therefore they got together and contributed their labor, material, and funds and renovated the church. He said that he is amazed with the cooperation and support that he is getting from the congregation. His prayer now is to raised up a leader through the CPM pyramid so that he will move on. He is currently living with one of his man of peace in the village. He has found three man of peace. The amazing thing according to him, is that three man of peace was found in the same week.

In other developments some members of the church ( men, women, boys, girls, The just married and even young babies) are affected with a skin disease as a result of toxic waste that was dump along the coast of that country (read news story here).

Pray for church members and nationals of the Ivory Coast who are affected with a skin disease as a result of toxic waste that was dump along the coast of that country.

Please Pray for the wife of Pastor Tanoe of the Ivory Coast. She has been hospitalized. She is suffering from cancer in the breast. This was brought to our attention two years ago. The situation is very serious. Pastor Tanoe has now left the village and returned to the capital to attend after his sick wife

MBAH: In December of 2006, we reported that Pastor Adjake of Mbah left his wife in charge of the church, which mostly comprises of teenagers and moved out to another village in search of a man of peace.

Pastor Ajake says everything has worked well except finding a man of peace and starting a church. According to him, he is loved and known as one of the many small businessmen who provide basic commodities for the villages. His new career puts him in position to meet and discuss with a variety of people on what they would need to buy on market day. It is a day set by the villagers, when the entire village will meet to buy or sell whatever commodity or produce they might have. (Market day is once a week.) There are no stores or shops where items can easily be purchased. Commodities are brought in from the city or far away towns. Everyone in the village meet on this day to buy or sell. If you did not purchase a basic item during this time you will have to wait the following week market day to do so. Therefore everyone made sure that their basic needs were available during “market day”. Therefore they would inform traders like Ajake in advance what they need the coming Market Day. So Adjake had the opportunity of meeting a lot of people.

It has been a little over seven months since he left his family and started his new career in search of his man of peace. He says the business aspect and the relationship building is paying off and very effective, but he has not been successful in finding a man of peace. He is expected to return to Mbad by the end of this month to pray and consider another village and strategy.

After several exchange of emails and telephone conversation between Dakar and the church leadership in Conakry giving reasons why Pastor Mara had to disguise himself as a bus conductor, tension in the village and the church has calmed down. They were made to further under that Pastor Mara action was more of a strategy than him trying to look for a job and not only was Dakar aware, but Dakar had approve the strategy as the new method for planting or starting a new church. It was also agreed that the leadership will visit Conakry soon to explain the process and to apologize to the congregation for what ever manner they might have been offended by the action of Pastor Mara in implementing the CPM.

Pastor Mara has returned to his village and is now reunited with his family. He was escorted by his Muslim man of peace who hired him as the bus conductor. The lady who recognized Pastor Mara and started all this trouble has apologized to him and the church for all the problems and embarrassment she caused the church, especially Pastor Mara, whom she call of sorts of names. She prayed that Pastor Mara and his family will find it in their hearts to forgive her.

This past Sunday Bishop Abdoulaye and Doris Ba joined us. Bishop Abdoulaye serves as General Overseer for DONE Ministries in Senegal. After recounting how he became a follower of Jesus Christ after his conversion from Islam Abdoulaye talked about Mission and his understanding of mission.

Abdoulaye defined mission as sharing the name of Jesus Christ with those who do not know the love of God. What struck me most about Abdoulaye’s message was his singular focus on the “power of God” at work in the world and the idea that the news of Jesus Christ is fundamentally good news.

Abdoulaye also emphasized that the call to be a missionary has little to do with geography. As best I can remember he said, “If you have the money to come to Africa and be a missionary great, but if you don’t you can be a missionary right where you are”. This reminded me of a quote from Dr. Alister Begg, “There is no better place to serve God that right where he put you”. I personally think the challenge is to find ways to share the good news of Jesus Christ in the United States in an area where faith is becoming increasingly public yet increasingly private all at the same time. Read more here…