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Ninety-nine percent of Dakar’s 4 million people are lost, and God has sent us here to build up the Senegalese church so that we change that reality together! As the Impact Dakar team, we recognize the local church as the vehicle God has ordained for reaching the nations for His glory. Our team is committed, therefore, to serving Senegalese churches and supporting their vision to make disciples and plant churches throughout the city and beyond. We invite you to join us in this exciting ministry!
Developing healthy, reproducing churches requires a steady...
Ninety-nine percent of Dakar’s 4 million people are lost, and God has sent us here to build up the Senegalese church so that we change that reality together! As the Impact Dakar team, we recognize the local church as the vehicle God has ordained for reaching the nations for His glory. Our team is committed, therefore, to serving Senegalese churches and supporting their vision to make disciples and plant churches throughout the city and beyond. We invite you to join us in this exciting ministry!
Developing healthy, reproducing churches requires a steady stream of biblically qualified leaders. We offer the church discipleship and leadership development training in 12 key-growth areas. We also mobilize and equip church members from all walks of life toward a lifestyle of evangelism, thereby empowering them to impact their workplaces, school campuses and communities with the gospel. Partner with us in the mission to strengthen local churches, expand gospel engagement, and transform the city of Dakar for the glory of Jesus Christ!
Gifts toward specific efforts show us what you are excited about. Occasionally,
we may redeploy gifts as we follow God's leading with urgent opportunities or changing international contexts.
Any gifts received beyond the goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
The Baptist Center in Dakar is a ministry hub in one of the poorest and least-reached areas of the city. For decades, Jesus has touched and changed lives through the center’s outreach ministries such as skill classes, ESL, kids’ clubs, and Bible studies. After almost 40 years, the roof is leaking, and ministries are in jeopardy of closing because of it. Your gift will put on a new roof, keeping the love of Christ flowing into lives here.
Through the Impact Dakar Center, we engage the Dakar community with the gospel. Your gift will help us host community development and outreach events among children, youth, and adults at the Impact Dakar Center, spreading the good news that Jesus saves. Additionally, trainings at the center disciple local believers in their personal walk with the Lord, equip them to engage their community, and encourage them to enter into ministry opportunities.
Sharing the gospel clearly, correctly, and fluently as we evangelize, disciple, and teach is our team’s top priority. Learning language and culture takes time, effort, and grace from the Lord. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering provides our basic language training, but your gift will provide our team with more language classes, tutoring, and language-learning materials as we seek to be faithful and grow in gospel fluency.
Join our work through prayer and giving as we teach local believers in the city to make disciples and plant churches among the unreached people groups across Senegal.
A suburb of Dakar continues to grow at an amazing pace. Join us as we launch community outreach leading to church planting in this rapidly growing area. Outreach through English classes and conversation clubs, community development projects like soap making, and community evangelism is being done to see a church planted in this suburb of Dakar.
As we share the gospel, disciple new believers, nurture churches, and develop leaders, we travel a lot. We want to ensure everyone has access to the good news and the training they need to play their part in building God’s kingdom. Your gift helps fund fuel and public transportation costs for our team’s ministry so that as many people as possible can hear the gospel and learn what it means to follow Jesus faithfully.
Janice’s* frustration was mounting. None of her conversations with these Senegalese mothers led to significant relationships or opportunities to teach skills they could use to earn needed income. One day, Janice met Amina* at a local market in a true “Divine appointment.” The daughter of a local iman, Amina was a natural leader who cared about the well-being of women in her area. As she got to know Amina, our...
Janice’s* frustration was mounting. None of her conversations with these Senegalese mothers led to significant relationships or opportunities to teach skills they could use to earn needed income. One day, Janice met Amina* at a local market in a true “Divine appointment.” The daughter of a local iman, Amina was a natural leader who cared about the well-being of women in her area. As she got to know Amina, our teammate Janice found herself surrounded by many suburban women and an unused garage, perfect for classes!
Because of your gifts, Janice transformed Amina’s garage into a training house for Christian women. Our team now offers English classes, using Bible stories to teach of God’s amazing love and plan for their lives. In addition, a national partner uses her skills to coach women in soapmaking so they can provide for their families. Thank you for partnering with us to share Christ and meet physical and spiritual needs in this suburb of Dakar.
As a result of our consistent presence—made possible because of your faithful giving—and the work of the Holy Spirit, we see new doors opening each day. Soon, we will present a gospel film for those following the most common religion in Senegal. In preparation, we shared six evangelistic Bible stories, and one new believer is being discipled.
Recently, Amina came to Janice with an unusual offer. She had inherited about 2.5 acres of land and wondered if Janice and our team could use the land to further help the women with economic development. God was already working, even before our team could see His hand! Your generosity is making it possible to develop this land into a community garden to provide food and teach basic agriculture skills so these ladies can sustain their families.
Please join us in prayer:
Pray the women who come to the training house will open their hearts to salvation.
Ask God to use the community garden to reach new women for Christ.
Pray for Fatima* as she leads the discussion following the gospel film and for those who view it to be receptive to God’s call on their lives to follow Jesus.
Thank you for joining us in addressing the world’s greatest problem: lostness. Your gifts and prayers enable us to share the gospel with the women of suburban Dakar who need the love and hope of Jesus Christ.
God is working! The Phase 2 renovations at the Impact Dakar Center are almost complete, and we are eager to begin Phase 3. This expansion will provide space for training national believers in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting...
God is working! The Phase 2 renovations at the Impact Dakar Center are almost complete, and we are eager to begin Phase 3. This expansion will provide space for training national believers in evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. The additional capacity will also allow us to increase outreach efforts in the community.
Because of your generosity, we have begun new community ministries. English classes are a popular avenue for reaching young adults, and a new eight-week session of English classes has just begun. Our children’s ministry is also restarting, with time to build momentum before summer arrives.
Please join us in prayer:
Pray the Impact Dakar Center staff takes every opportunity to present the gospel clearly so many will see and understand God’s love and plan for their lives.
Ask the Lord to continue drawing students in Dakar to Himself.
Thank you for making it possible for the Impact Dakar Center to shine the Light of Christ into the darkness of Dakar.
Thank you for praying and giving to enable us to reach Senegal for Christ. Through your faithful intercession and generosity, we are serving Senegalese churches and supporting their vision to make disciples and plant churches throughout Dakar and beyond.
Thank you for praying and giving to enable us to reach Senegal for Christ. Through your faithful intercession and generosity, we are serving Senegalese churches and supporting their vision to make disciples and plant churches throughout Dakar and beyond.
Reaching the lost with the gospel. Our team is sharing the gospel in Senegal in several different ways because of your gifts. We have an outreach program that teaches vocational skills and presents the gospel. Equipping Senegalese to work in an ever-changing job market meets significant needs, especially for those moving into the capital from rural villages. We are also reaching out into a poor neighborhood through ESL classes. These classes embed Bible stories and spiritual discussions throughout the curriculum. As students acquire new English skills, they also grow in their knowledge and understanding of the Father and His great love for them. In addition, our team is doing children’s ministry in Dakar. God has blessed us with American and local partners to help us reach into the lives and homes of children in our neighborhoods.
Equipping believers to grow. Sharing Christ is one of our mandates, but building up and training the local church is also essential. Our team recently initiated a church plant in a suburb with no evangelical church. In partnership with local believers and the local Baptist Association, we are nurturing and equipping new and maturing believers to impact Dakar and all of Senegal, even perhaps West Africa, with the message of God’s transforming grace.
Join us in prayer.
Pray for the lost in the greater Dakar metropolitan area. Ask God to move in their hearts and minds so they will respond to the gospel with humble repentance and faith.
Pray for Senegalese believers to grow in maturity and reliance on Christ despite their circumstances. Ask God to challenge them to share the gospel freely and with boldness.
Thank you for partnering with us to reach the nations for Christ. We appreciate your sacrificial giving and prayers as we labor together to solve the world’s greatest problem: lostness.
Thank you so much for your generosity to this ministry and the West Africans God calls us to reach with the gospel. Your prayers and sacrificial giving underwrite production costs, including translation and back-checking of video script and discipleship resources, audio and video recording, and editing and social media initiatives.
Thank you so much for your generosity to this ministry and the West Africans God calls us to reach with the gospel. Your prayers and sacrificial giving underwrite production costs, including translation and back-checking of video script and discipleship resources, audio and video recording, and editing and social media initiatives.
Unique Opportunity to Deliver the Gospel. The Hope Project presents the gospel through a storyteller from each of the 16 targeted people groups in West Africa. The face of their countryman familiarizes the gospel, helping listeners understand that the message belongs in their culture. The project also provides follow-up lessons and resources, equipping believers among the people groups to disciple those who watch The Hope film.
Latest Developments. In 2022, thanks to your partnership, we began The Hope film translation work in two of our sixteen targeted languages. Praise God with us that scripts are now complete in these two local languages, with plans to begin a third language translation soon. Currently, these two scripts are undergoing a final review. Once this is completed, film production can begin.
Please Join Us in Prayer:
Pray for the technological work of The Hope film and its distribution within the local cultures of the people who speak these two languages.
Begin praying now for those who will see The Hope film in these two West African people groups.
Pray for the team as we launch an additional language project for West Africans.
Thank you for your generosity and prayers. Your sacrificial gifts and intercession are truly transforming lives as we partner together to solve the world’s greatest problem, lostness.
The goal represents the cost of our team’s ministry activities for this calendar year. The Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO) fully fund our living expenses. The goal amount resets every January 1st. All gifts completed through this form are directed to our team’s ministry strategy.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made possible through the Cooperative Program.
Team Efforts
Giving to one of our specific team efforts allows us to know what you are excited to see God complete within our ministry. Occasionally, we may need to redeploy gifts within our team strategy as urgent opportunities arise, as we do our best to follow God's leading, or adjust to changing international contexts. Any gifts received beyond the posted goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made possible through the Cooperative Program.
Team Support
Our living expenses are fully provided by generous churches and individuals participating in the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO).
These gifts enable us to remain on mission without interruption.
Your support is a partnership with these churches, providing for us and our colleagues through LMCO.
Our team receives recognition when partners give below to make our presence here possible.
The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® is a registered trademark of WMU.