February 17, 2012
By the Alliance Field Director, Mali, West Africa
Alliance missionaries brought the good news to the Dogon, a tribal people in Mali bound by ancestor and spirit worship, in 1931. Thanks to the ongoing, faithful giving of Alliance people to the Great Commission Fund, today, there are an estimated 15,000 Dogon believers.
Many of these believers were present on January 28, 2012, when 5,000 gathered in the village of Sangha (the historic center of the Dogon Alliance Church) to celebrate the culmination of decades of workâthe translation of the Bible into their heart language.