WEST AFRICA MINISTRIES

West Africa, a diverse region of 18 nations and around 350 million people, stretches from the arid Sahel in the north to the forests and coastlands in the south to the Lake Chad basin in the east. Historically, West Africa has been a point of cultural convergence: sub-Saharan African people groups, a thousand years of interactions with Muslim Arab merchants from the north, and hundreds of years of trade and imperial expansion by Portuguese, Dutch, English, French, and Americans. All told, West Africa today presents a complex mosaic of remarkable ethnic, cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity.

MTW has teams serving in Senegal and Burkina Faso. And through our partnership with West African Reformed Mission, we are working closely with national leaders in four additional countries. We are reaching unreached tribal groups, training and equipping local believers, planting sustainable churches, and advancing mercy ministries with children, the vulnerable, and the poor. In a region long dominated by Islam and animism, MTW is committed to pursuing gospel-centered ministry and kingdom transformation.

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K, Keith & Debbie

Keith & Debbie serve in church planting in West Africa to impact the Muslim world with the gospel.

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McBride, Dan & Janet

Dan & Janet serve with West Africa Reformed Mission (WARM) to plant reformed African churches in the region.

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Williams, Donnie & Kara

Donnie and Kara serve in pastoral ministry in West Africa.

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W., Jim & Karen

Jim and Karen live and work in Dakar, Senegal to identify and train pastors for church planting through the Timothy House program.

Jim and Karen live and work in Dakar, Senegal to identify and train pastors for church planting through the Timothy...

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A new church is planted among the unreached Wolof people as the gospel addresses deeply ingrained cultural fears.

MTW Senegal: Planting Churches and Growing Leaders (VIDEO)

From church planting and pastoral training, to campus ministry, business development, and more, MTW Senegal is making an impact for Christ.

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"I think the challenge for anybody who's approaching retirement is to recognize that God has not put a time limit on our spiritual gifts."

Work+Place Ministries: Fostering the Ministry of Work in Senegal (VIDEO)

Professionals from the U.S. and Africa are helping Senegalese believers build businesses to support their families and ministry efforts.

Fostering the Ministry of Work in Senegal

MTW Workplace Ministries trips are helping Senegalese build businesses that serve communities and advance the gospel.

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As we talked and prayed, we came to realize that our retirement was a unique opportunity to do something new for the kingdom.

Missionaries in West Africa Use Sustainable Farming Techniques to Love Their Neighbors and Further the Gospel

An agriculture development program is helping African Christians become food self-sufficient and have extra resources for kingdom work.

6 Ways God Used the Pandemic to Open Doors for Gospel Ministry in Senegal

Jim was concerned about what would happen to the community of believers when the lockdowns hit. But God had bigger plans.

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As quarantines continue, people are beginning to starve. MTW missionaries, acting as the hands and feet of Christ, are responding.

Reaching Muslims With the Gospel (VIDEO)

We’re coming alongside believers in the Muslim world to plant churches where there are none and strengthen existing ones. Will you join us?

West Africa Is at Risk: A Video

West Africa is at risk. Extreme poverty is rampant and the class divide is vast. But there's much to be celebrated. The gospel is at work.

One Day on an MTW Medical Trip: A Video

Dr. Barrett Jones recently led MTW medical trip to West Africa where they hosted clinics for with those limited access to medical care.

The Question

From a children’s home in West Africa came the earnest question: “May we be baptized please?”

Do You See It? Learning to See Across Cultures

It is one thing to look at a situation, but it is quite another to see with understanding. This is the missionary’s dilemma.

Addressing the Problem of Dependency

Local believers said they hadn’t felt listened to, they'd just been told what to do. When we saw them in a new light, everything changed.

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If you want your church to grow in passion for unreached people groups, immerse them in the Bible, and show them God’s grand story.

"Can We Say that Jesus Is God?"

As a young Muslim man studies the Bible for himself, he encounters the unmistakable divinity of Christ.

Meeting a Muslim Family

To our 2-year-old daughter, they were just another family in the park.

Ebola and Unexpected Blessings

Muslims welcome prayers in Jesus' name.

Restoring Health, Giving Hope

A West African church reaches out to the community through medical clinics.

Pray for the Wolof people in Senegal, identified as an unreached people group, as the gospel spreads through a new church plant.

Pray for the girls home in Dakar, Senegal, where girls at risk of trafficking are given a home and an education, and most importantly, the hope of the gospel.

Pray for the newly formed RUF-G campus ministry in Senegal, for the university students, and the campus pastor in training.

Pray for God to draw students to Himself through the newly formed RUF-Global campus ministry in Dakar, Senegal.

Pray for the "Timothys" in Muslim-majority West Africa who are growing in their Christian faith and teaching others.

Pray for the missionary families who are getting kicked out of sensitive countries because of their Christian faith.

Pray for West Africa where extreme poverty is rampant and the class divide is vast. But where the gospel is also at work.

Pray for the girls living at the Presbyterian girls home in West Africa. Many of them are coming to faith and asking to be baptized!

Pray for missionaries and national believers to overcome the problem of dependency. Pray that God would raise up local believers to lead the church.

Pray for churches to grow in passion for unreached people groups and to mobilze members to give and serve.

Pray for Muslims who are investigating the truths of Christ in the Bible to come to the conclusion that He is God.

Pray for Muslims to see the reality of Jesus and to surrender their lives to Him regardless of the cost.

Pray for Muslims in West Africa who have been impacted by the Ebola virus to find hope in Jesus Christ.

Teranga Village

Your gifts will support the construction and expansion of the Teranga Village, a girls' home in Senegal.

RUF Senegal - WARM

The RUF Senegal Project supports the establishment of the RUF university ministry at the University of Dakar,

International Discipleship Coalition—Africa

Support a ministry seeking to collaborate with and connect Africa-based organizations and missionaries to broaden the biblical and Reformed influence throughout the region.

Sierra Leone Theological Training

Support the theological education efforts in a West African country.

Agricultural Development & Training - Africa

Our West Africa team is developing an agricultural development program where pairs of local and international trainers will be deployed across the region, teaching more profitable farming methods.

The Journey Biblical Training

"The Journey" is a chronological film-based tool to equip local believers across sub-Saharan Africa.

Theological Education for a West African Country

Equipping pastors to deeply apply the gospel as they lead the Church.