Empowering West African Baptists

An IMB missionary lectures at a seminaryBaptist work in West Africa has been going on for more than 150 years, and well-established Baptist conventions exist in several countries. Many West African churches and pastors are faithfully striving to reach West Africa with the Gospel of Christ but they face formidable challenges.

  • Churches minister in the midst of lost millions who still worship ancestral spirits, sacrifice to idols, seek power through voodoo and witchcraft, or follow Islam.
  • Cultural barriers often hinder the spread of the Gospel from one people group to another.
  • With the region's mix of urban centers and rural areas, West African pastors face church planting situations that present a variety of unique challenges.

The Convention Team

A group of missionaries called the Convention Team works alongside Baptist conventions and unions in six West African countries: Nigeria, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Togo and Benin.

These missionaries train West African Baptists in the use of effective church planting strategies and challenge them to reach all of their unreached peoples for Christ.

What you can do...

Pray

Spend time in prayer for African Baptists and their Baptist Conventions.

Read Prayer Requests

Volunteer

Take short-term mission trips to assist with outreach ministries or help train Christian leaders.

List Trips

Teach

Become a professor at a West African Baptist seminary and help train pastors to use church planting methods that are missiologically sound and culturally relevant.

see OpEnings

Co-labor

Work alongside a West African church or convention to engage a people group that currently has no access to the Gospel. E-mail conventionteam@gowestafrica.org to explore collaboration opportunities.