Donnie & Kara W.

Donnie and Kara have worked alongside the Presbyterian Church of Senegal (l’Église Presbytérienne du Sénégal or EPS) since 2014. Senegal is a majority (95%) Muslim country in the broader, largely Francophone region of West Africa. It’s overall political stability and religious tolerance allows it to be a strategic place for the church to grow and send missionaries out to surrounding areas.

Their more recent focus has been mentoring two newly ordained pastors and their wives in the planting of a church in a predominantly unreached area. Donnie also serves as the MTW team leader in Senegal and assists with the training and support of rural pastors and leaders. Kara teaches EFL classes both through the local church plant and to professionals at a nearby engineering ministry. Together with their teammates, they host and facilitate church groups and volunteers in support of the local church’s ministry.

Before moving to West Africa, Donnie was an associate pastor at Trinity PCA in Asheville, North Carolina, their home base. Prior to that, they started Reformed University Fellowship at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Donnie and Kara have three young adult children who, with their families, reside in North Carolina.