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Home Kairos July 2010 Reaching the Fulanis

Reaching the Fulanis

July 2010

Reaching the Fulanis

Wilfried gardening with Fulanis Wilfried gardening with Fulanis

 

In February 2009, Wilfried Dengler, a National Ministry Partner from Germany, began a three-year term in the Central African Republic working with the Fulanis.  “I am a gardener and work the soil alongside the Fulanis, not only planting seeds for their livelihood, but also planting seeds of faith,” says Wilfried. The Fulanis were always nomadic or semi-nomadic cattle herders. They were wealthy because most of the Central Africans, the Bantu, do not raise cattle and always relied on the Fulanis to provide them. But the 2002-2003 civil war changed all that when many Fulanis lost their cattle and way of living.



“The three colleagues I work with in ministry are Bantus and former Mus-lims. They are pastors and graduates of Bata Bible Schools. All three of them have a heart for the unreached.  Traditionally the Bantus have a strong prejudice against the Fulanis, but these men live with their families in Fulani settlements and use this new way of life—gardening—as a means of reaching them.” Pray for Wilfried, his colleagues, and this unique outreach to the Fulanis.