The New Year begins with a meal of fou fou in the Kara student center.
Children's leaders learning how to use Jayne's curriculum at a seminar in Guerin-Kouka.
Planning and administration are foreign concepts in African village culture. Pastor Nagbandjoa is teaching the other pastors what he learned from the master's degree level program he is taking with Inter-Varsity in Ivory Coast.
An Easter weekend baptism in the river by the Lome Church. Hundreds of city churches line up on Easter weekend to do their baptisms at this spot.
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One way that fathers show love to their sons is to buy matching New Years outfits. Essodezam is our unofficially adopted son.
Preston Junkin teaching a seminar for our pastors. Augustin is his interpreter. Augustin is now in a very intensive master's degree program in Burkina Faso. Augustin's goal is to be a university professor. What a way to influence society.
A group photo our our seminar for pastors in February.
Jayne speaks at the International Women's Day program at the American Corner on the University of Kara campus.
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After 45 years of working with teens, Gregg is still climbing mountains with the Junior High youth group. Japhey and Moise are becoming excellent teen ministry leaders.
Pastor Jeremie B and his wife, Tani, both came up through our student program. They are now planting a church in the city of Atakpame, the center of the last region of Togo to have a Ministère International de Jésus church:
Paying the dowry for one's bride is an important part of African culture. Our pastors use their knowledge of traditional culture to help our youth avoid the greedy demands that have come with modern materialism.
A representative of Jeremie Y's family presents the required gets to Imaculee's family.
We went 6 years before we had our first wedding in Kara, and then had 3 in one week. All three couples will be key leaders in their churches. Jeremie Y and Imaculee are training with Youth With A Mission to be pioneer church planters. Jeremie is our first university graduate to heed the call to go back and work in the villages.
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