Why we were there: #1 to Participate in the Wolof Consultation

The Wolof Consultation was started 15 years ago to bring together and facilitate cooperation between Long-term mission workers and National Believers who have the desire to see the Wolof People come to know and follow Jesus Christ.

We were there to discern the needs of the Wolof Church and Believers in order to effectively give report during our upcoming Wolof Connection (held this month in Seattle). The Wolof Connection was created to be a support and advocate for those who are working directly among the Wolof People; it consists of churches across the U.S. and around the world.



I met Seadu the first day at the conference and immediately connected with him. He was the same age as me, and we both enjoyed shooting hoops during the consultation breaks. He had come to be a disciple of Jesus after a five years of carefully studying the differences between the Koran and the Bible. His father was a teacher of the Koran. In the end what helped him make the decision to follow Christ was the evident difference in the few Christians he knew. He saw in them the "abudant life" that Jesus so often spoke about. After years of struggling through the consequences (persecution from his family and friends) he is now a key young leader among the Wolof Believers.