{"id":301,"date":"2010-06-25T08:59:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T12:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/?p=301"},"modified":"2010-06-25T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T12:59:05","slug":"gods-passion-among-the-koniagi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/2010\/06\/25\/gods-passion-among-the-koniagi\/","title":{"rendered":"God’s passion among the Koniagi"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Passionate<\/a>
Passionate Koniagi pastor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Continuing on our spring tour of Senegal…From Oussouye Charles and I took a “sept-place”, a car seating 7 people-a popular mode of public transportation, to a city in the south-east of Senegal.\u00a0 Since the ride was long and hot, we paid for three seats to be more comfortable.\u00a0 No air condition, only the air that felt more like a hair blow dryer from the windows, kept us reasonably comfortable.\u00a0 It was about 120 degrees there!\u00a0 We finally arrived at our campement, a grouping of small round houses as a sort of hotel for visitors.\u00a0 It was quaint and comfortable, like having our own hut.\u00a0 Our traveling team spent time with a single missionary who works there and her Koniagi friends.\u00a0 The Koniagi are an ethnic group of about 11,000 people who live in Guinea and Senegal.\u00a0 NTM is just starting a work among this group but there is only one missionary there presently.\u00a0 However, we were amazed to see that God is passionately seeking to form His church among this group of people<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 We were most impressed with a Koniagi pastor we met.\u00a0 He is the only believer in his village who reads and speaks French well enough to study the Bible.\u00a0 The Koniagi do not have a Bible in their language.\u00a0 So, this pastor takes all he can from God’s truth in French and then, teaches to a small church of about 20 people.\u00a0 We had the opportunity to worship with them one Sunday.\u00a0 They sang many songs in their language and had printed out the words for us to follow.\u00a0 I was amazed at how many letters it took to write a single word!\u00a0 Even though we didn’t understand what was said,\u00a0 we were greatly touched by their worship knowing that we were in awe and service of the one true God.\u00a0 Here is something amazing<\/em><\/strong>…there are a group of 41 people in a nearby village that are asking this pastor to come and teach them God’s word as well.\u00a0 They are so insistent that they have written their names down on a petition and have begun building a meeting place where they hope to be taught.\u00a0 The Koniagi pastor is excited about their desires to learn and so has ridden his bicycle two hours in 120 degree heat to get to them and teach.\u00a0 He rides again, two hours to return to his family and responsibilities in the village.\u00a0 He has launched this challenge, to teach these 41, to the small church there.\u00a0 This is a village where the people are very poor.\u00a0 They have one well, no running water, no outhouses, and no electricity.\u00a0 It was very dry there, too.\u00a0 Most of them live off money they make from farming and were waiting for the rains to come before they could start working. Praise God<\/em> for the passion of this pastor who is currently learning how to develop chronological lessons of the Bible with the single missionary who is there.\u00a0 Pray<\/em> that God will provide a way for them to go and teach these 41 seekers the truth of God’s word.\u00a0 Pray<\/em> for the Bible to be translated into Koniagi.\u00a0 Pray<\/em> for more missionaries to join this single lady.\u00a0 Charles and I were touched and our hearts are heavy for the needs of these people both physically and spiritually.\u00a0 We are inspired by the passion of this pastor and the evidence of God’s work in such a place as this.\u00a0 May God use us to work along side such believers to see His church grow in West Africa!<\/p>\n

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Continuing on our spring tour of Senegal…From Oussouye Charles and I took a “sept-place”, a car seating 7 people-a popular mode of public transportation, to a city in the south-east of Senegal.\u00a0 Since the ride was long and hot, we paid for three seats to be more comfortable.\u00a0 No air condition, only the air that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}