Joyful, Easter Day Return to Côte d’Ivoire Planned

The following report is based on updates from Alliance international staff—Randy and Deanna Harrison and Laura and Jeter Livingston—serving West Africa Alliance Theological Seminary (FATEAC) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Due to violent fallout from the country’s political unrest since last year, the FATEAC team has been living in Dakar, Senegal.

“Since Côte d’Ivoire’s former president has been arrested, people are slowly, cautiously venturing out of their homes. . . . Violence seems to be gradually abating, and order is slowly being restored,” wrote Laura Livingston on Monday, April 18. The Livingstons are the FATEAC international leadership couple.

In light of this encouraging news, the Livingstons plan to return to Abidjan on Easter Sunday; the Harrisons will return a week later. FATEAC classes are scheduled to resume on May 2.

Hungry Children Fed  

In a recent update, the Harrisons shared additional encouraging news: “We learned that [FATEAC] students living on campus were finally able to get to our house on Monday (April 11) to obtain the food that we had stocked up because of the unstable political situation.

“We’re thankful the students were able to feed their families; they had been unable to buy food for more than a week, and the children were crying because of their hunger.”

“Food is beginning to appear in Abidjan’s stores and markets this week,” a thankful Livingston later observed. “It will be a very long road to stability, but first steps are being taken.”

What You Can Do

Praise God for the gradual restoration of order that is taking place in this war-torn, West African nation; that FATEAC classes are scheduled to soon resume; and that international FATEAC team members are able to plan their return to Abidjan!

The team also requests prayer for:

  • A complete restoration of law and order, especially in Abidjan
  • Warring factions to lay down their arms and flee
  • Peace and reconciliation to begin between rival ethnic groups
  • Banks to reopen and roads secured so that food and other supplies can get to markets and stores
  • The continued protection of seminary students, faculty, and staff
  • Relief from aid agencies to reach displaced, injured, and hungry people in Abidjan, and throughout Côte d’Ivoire

One More Thing You Can Do

Donate to Alliance Great Commission Ministries. In doing so, you partner with Alliance workers, like the international FATEAC team, to ensure that the liberating, healing news of God’s grace and provision is powerfully exhibited among people blinded to His truth.

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