Toussian Churches

"Mission churches" have recently sprung up from the main Protestant church in Toussiana! The first church is in Sanglayon, where through prayer, a woman was spared from the effects of a snake bite and about 30 people became Christians.

These new believers met for quite a while before a pastor was sent. Sanglayon is about 10 miles northeast of Toussiana.

After several years of waiting, a pastor responded and came to the village and not long after, a building was started.

		Today, there are about seventy-five people who attend services.

Tapogo is about 10 miles northwest of Toussiana. Several pastors have tried to evangelize the area for the last 10 years with little success. In the last couple of years, a group of believers has begun to meet there.

As you can see, the group is still very small and they do not have their permanent building. They hope to start making the bricks to start building this dry season (Feb.-May).

Just to the east of Toussiana is a large cliff.

At the bottom of the cliff is a village called “bottom of the cliff”.

These people have climbed this cliff to go to church in Toussiana since the church there was started 17 years ago. One of our translators, Joseph, comes from this village.

In the last year, a church building was started. Funding came in for the roof, so that was done first.

Now the walls are finished. We recently visited there where we heard a sermon preached in Toussian.

So often we hear messages preached in the local trade language of Jula rather than Toussian.

Every year there is a women’s day at the church. Each of us missionary ladies has had our turn at preaching, as have many of the Toussian ladies. This last September, Margaret had her turn.

The church has several choirs and groups. These girls sing a special song almost every Sunday.

Pray with us that these churches would grow in numbers as well as in spiritual maturity.

• August 2005, Christian Jr. Hi in Toussiana
• July 2005, Pastor Pierre Wedding
• June 2005, Locust Plague
• April 2005, Branch Conference
• February 2005, Literacy Classes
• September 2004, Market Pictures
• August 2004, Return to Toussiana
• May 2004, In Memory of Wilhelm
• July 2003, Wilhelm’s Parents 50th Wedding Anniversary
• Feb. 2003, New Office Building
• Nov 2002, Reading Contest
• July 2002, Toussian Translators
• March 2002 Literacy classes
• Jan 2002 Bissa New Testament dedication
• January 15, 2002
• Nov 2002  Language learning, Translation, Revision, Ladies day at church
• Oct 2001  Sunday school outing, Fonio harvest
• Aug 2001  Cobly Reunion
• May 31, 2001  Return to Burkina Faso
• May 5, 2001  Germany, Az, Oregon office work
• Jan 2001  Our time in Germany

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