All articles in category Guinea
By Billie Blessing
October 2009
Guinea
Missionary Spotlight – Snakes (and ants) alive!
Snakes (and ants) alive! Let me tell you a couple of things from Guinea to remind you to pray for the safety of missionaries. In the cool of a January morning our missionary colleague went outside to turn on their generator. When he opened the door to the generator house, he was greeted by a three foot long, spitting cobra, already poised in the hooded position. He quickly backed out of the shed and closed the door, knowing that if the snake spat into his eyes he could be blinded, and if it struck him the venom would be deadly. Thankfully,...
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By Kirk Rogers
October 2009
Guinea
Missionary Spotlight – New Tribes Mission in Guinea, West Africa
New Tribes Mission in Guinea, West Africa The country of Guinea is home to about 40 people groups, most of which are classed as least-reached or unreached with the gospel. It is just the sort of place one would expect to find a mission like New Tribes Mission (NTM), since our mandate is to assist the church in reaching people groups who have no effective gospel witness. For many years the Guinean government would not allow missionaries to work in Guinea. That changed in the mid 1980s, and by the end of the decade a few NTM missionaries had arrived to begin preparing...
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By David and Billie Blessing
October 2009
Guinea
Missionary Spotlight – Guinea turned 50
Guinea turned 50 The year 2008 marked the 50th anniversary of Guinea’s independence from France. In honour of the occasion, a colleague wrote the following words: ‘We prefer liberty in poverty to slavery in riches’. For this ideal the Republic of Guinea fought and gained independence from French colonial rule. But during the next five decades, true liberty has proved elusive, as political, socioeconomic and spiritual poverty has gnawed at the fabric of individual and national life. Impoverished From independence in 1958, Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea, unleashed a murderous communist dictatorship that lasted for 26 years and left the...
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October 2009
Guinea
Missionary Spotlight – Republic of Guinea Fact File
Republic of Guinea fact file The population is just over 10 million. The highest point in the country is Mont Nimba (5,748 feet). Guinea is ranked 13th from the bottom among the poorest countries in the world. Guinea possesses over 25 billion metric tons of bauxite (nearly half the world’s reserves), over 4 billion tons of high-grade iron ore, significant diamond and gold deposits, and large quantities of uranium. There are 41 tribal groups. The official language is French. Other languages include Pular, Maninka, Susu, Insula, Kissi, Kpelle and Loma. The Malinke and Puehl in the north comprise 70...
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