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Senegal's church plants seeds for the future

Senegal-Senegal is recognized as one of the more stable countries in Africa, a model democracy.In spite of this,poverty iswidespread and unemployment high-two key factors that plague neighboring countries, often ending in instability.FARMS International's Nathan McLaughlin describes how they're addressing the issue. "The Senegal FARMS program is a program we started about three years ago, and we are working with a number of churches in Dakar--the capital city, and the second city is Rufisque."They provide micro-enterprise loans to needy families. Once a businessman gets a loan, he can get started on his own business. The stipulation is that he also tithes to his local church to support the pastor, hence freeing him up to do more outreach.The key, says McLaughlin, is the connection with the local church. "What we want is a healthy family that is able to take care of itself, but also a family that is tithing to their church. We believe that the best evangelism can take place when a church is healthy and able to take care of itself."They're excited because the churches are making good inroads and witnessing to a large Sunni Muslim population there-even some outreach to the tribal areas of Senegal.McLaughlin says with their help, believers are emboldened."The Christians there face some tremendous challenges, but they are really rising to the occasion and are really quite fearless in their spreading of the Gospel."
Source:MNN
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