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July 14, 2008
by Dena McMaster
Missionaries Kirk and Yolanda Rogers travel to various villages in Guinea to help their fellow missionaries in the task of tribal church planting.
Recently Kirk and Yolanda visited the missionaries working among the Konyagui people. The trip was a grueling nine hours over rock, gravel and dirt roads, but the three-day-visit gave the Rogers an excellent view of the need for planting a tribal church.
The Konyaguis live in small villages surrounded by rich farmland. There are approximately 12,000 Konyagui people in Guinea. They still practice ancestor worship and they place great faith in the power of ancestor spirits to heal their illnesses and aid them in daily life. There are no known Konyagui believers in Guinea.
Chantal Pilon, a single missionary woman, is assigned to minister among the Konyaguis while Benjamin and Jody Baum are temporarily assigned to help Chantal prepare for culture and language study. In October, Brian and Sheri Hofer plan to arrive and begin serving in the Konyagui ministry.
"The Konyagui work is not the only place here where missionaries are needed," wrote Kirk. "In most of our church planting efforts among the unreached people groups here there are currently only two missionaries (one family or two singles) serving. … Our support team, too, is in dire need of help. They serve the church planting efforts by faithfully carrying out their ministries. But they are swamped with too much to do and not enough help to do it."
Pray that God will challenge people to become involved in the ministry in Guinea. Pray that the Konyagui people will soon hear the Gospel and many will trust Christ.
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