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N’Dorola, Burkina Faso
Congolese joins mission team in Burkina Faso


Sublime Mabiala is a young missionary from Democratic Republic of Congo who will soon join MBMS International missionaries in Burkina Faso, West Africa.

For the past 17 years, mission work among the Nanerige people of Burkina Faso has been done through Africa Inter-Mennonite Mission (AIMM).

Sublime Mabiala

MBMS International, the overseas mission agency of MB churches in Canada and the US, has been part of that effort.

MBMSI missionaries Phil and Carol Bergen have served in Burkina Faso for 11 years. Last year, the Bergens realized that an African might learn the complex Nanerige language more quickly than a North American, and adapt more quickly to Nanerige culture.

The Bergens received word that a young Congolese evangelist was interested in serving on the Burkina Faso team. Until now, the Bergens and Maliki Ouattara, a Nanerige believer, focused most of their efforts on translating Scripture into Nanerige for oral presentation. While the gospel has already been shared with the elders of one small Nanerige village, and accepted, a church has not yet been planted. Mabiala will expand the missionary team, bringing gifts in evangelism and church planting.

Since 1994, Mabiala has worked in various cross-cultural settings in the Congo. From 1997 to 1999, he co-led an Arabic-speaking church that ministered among Sudanese refugees and other Arabic-speaking people. For the past two years he supervised a daily Christian radio program.

“Burkina Faso is a strategic country because it is home to various people groups of its six neighbouring countries,” says Mabiala. “If these people come to follow Jesus and are then trained in mission, they can share the good news with their own people across the border.”

 – Jeanine Yoder, a joint release by MBMS International and AIMM

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