Senegal
AGS Canada supports the ministries of LISAC Senegal through prayer, care and involvement.
LISAC Senegal’s vision is to mobilize different professionals “to offer bodies as living sacrifice” with 4 ministry directions: Education & Nurturing; Medical & Healthcare, Transforming Communities (Vocational Training, Career Opportunities) and Building Godly Lives to provide holistic care and transform communities.
LISAC Senegal currently focuses on developing an Education & Community Service Center at Keur Balla in Lac Rose, to provide services including a creche, children & youth center, children library and women healthcare center. We are looking forward to its start service date on October 1, 2024.
For more information about LISAC Senegal, please visit the website:
https://sn.lisacinternational.org/
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Senegal Ministries
Overview of Ministries in Senegal
Business Opportunity & Employment
At the beginning of 2021, we launched a business project in the capital to operate a small hotel in the spirit of Christian friendship. At the same time, we established a mission platform to support local Christian organizations, provide opportunities to train leaders, invite some long-term guests to participate in Sunday worships and in sharing their faith.
Vocational training
The first domestic helper training course has been successfully completed in early July 2021. We will continue to teach basic Chinese cooking skills, shepherd students, and prepare them to enter Chinese families with missions to work and witness Christ. We hope that one day they can lead their employers to the Lord, receive grace and be saved. As we are committed to training these core students to become the leaders of the project, we are now establishing a small takeout food business so that they can apply what they have learned. They can continue learning, teach others, and earn a living at the same time. This way, both the Mission Ministry and the workers can be financially self-sufficient.
Education Ministry
Senegal is a country with a young population. 40% of the population are children under the age of 14, and 20% of the population are young people aged 15-24. Even though there are nine years of free education, but only 40% of children aged 5 to 14 go to school, only 50% of the population aged 15 and above can read and write, and 30% of the country’s population are illiterate.
Pre-school education is currently one of the key development projects in Senegal education, however, it is not compulsory, and its implementation result is not satisfactory. At present, the government adopts a loose policy for school-running organizations and welcomes foreign organizations to invest in running schools to make up for existing deficiencies.
We are now planning to open a French-English-Chinese trilingual private Christian kindergarten in October 2022. The school’s philosophy is to provide a high quality education program by combining education and personal development based on Christian core values.
The purpose of all our ministries is to build up followers of Christ to practice the Christian faith and walk in the real world. In the end, it is hoped that more local believers will be able to continue development, fit into the community naturally, take root in serving people, become a preacher with a vocation, and be the light and voice for Jesus. Believers will spread the life-changing gospel of Jesus Christ to the non-believers around them, build a healthy Christian community, and have a greater impact and influence on society.
