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fulbe
fouta people |
Ministering to the
Fulbe Fouta people |
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Every
little tree gives its little bit of shade. |
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Mamadou is an eleven
year old Fulbe boy who lives in a small village in the mountains of
central
Guinea. |
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Learn more about Mamadou. |
Mamadou accepted the value of dreams in his
culture. In many ways they were a stronger voice than the voice of a
real person. This was the voice of the ancestors speaking. They had
fought for Allah, and certainly their will must be respected. Yet it
was clear that the Christians had become like a new family for Souleymane. What would happen if he followed the Jesus way? Would the
Christians become his family too? Would the people from the village
send his mother to him to reason and plead with him as they had done
with Uncle Oumar? Would he be able to stand up to the pressure? What
about the second part of the dream? Jesus and a missionary calling to
Souleymane from Paradise. It was a certainty for Christians to go to
Paradise. A certainty? That was not what he had learned. All his life,
Mamadou had been taught that he had to work to impress this far away
and distant God called Allah, who might or might not look favorably on
him when it came time to decide whether he would enter
Paradise........
Volunteer Opportunities |
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Who
are the Fulbe? |
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Let
Your work appear to Your servants, And Your glory to their
children. And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, And
establish the work of our hands for us; yes, establish the work of
our hands. |