West Africa Region of Sub-Saharan Africa

As African churches send missionaries to the ends of the earth, we partner with them by providing training in cross-cultural ministry. Missionaries sent out by West African Baptist churches and mission entities receive training in church planting, especially within heavily Muslim contexts. Your gift will underwrite training expenses, making this training affordable and accessible to African missionaries.

Attacks are regularly carried out against churches and Christians in various parts of West Africa. Your gift will provide aid to persecuted Christians by providing trauma healing care and helping them rebuild burned-down homes and purchase basic food supplies.

While we are thankful for the IMB missionary teams serving in many countries across West Africa, seven countries do not have any IMB personnel. Yet we have great opportunities to partner with Baptist churches in these locations! Your gift will train, empower, and send African missionaries to engage lostness and plant churches in these countries where we have no IMB teams.

Once a year, IMB leadership in the West Africa region comes together for strategy development and planning, encouragement, and refocusing. This leadership meeting sets the pace for IMB work across West Africa to engage lostness. Your gift will provide travel, lodging, and meals for this critical annual meeting.

IMB leadership in West Africa has the privilege of joining the Baptist entities of our West African brothers and sisters as they gather at convention meetings, trainings, and celebrations. Your gift will help us participate in these gatherings and provide small financial assistance as our Baptist co-laborers plan these events. These gatherings are critical for us to plan how we can together address lostness across West Africa.

Across West Africa, the IMB has team leaders who develop local mission strategy, supervise IMB personnel on their teams, engage non-believers with the gospel, and tackle administrative tasks. These team leaders need ongoing training to develop these leadership skills. Your gift will cover the costs of an annual leadership workshop for all team leaders.

A training center is needed to equip more people to reach the people groups of West Africa. Your gift will develop the center's infrastructure and offer courses that teach believers how to plant new churches in unreached areas. The center will specifically mobilize West African believers and non-Americans who come here as missionaries. Your support will catalyze the spread of the gospel to places where it has never been heard!