Come to My Village

Are you up for a one-week mission trip? What about a lifetime overseas? Or something in between perhaps -- two or three years of walking the crowded city streets in West Africa or living in a Malian village? Invest a week, a few years, or your life in the Bambara people. You can find current requests for short, medium and long-term missionaries at www.gowestafrica.org.

What will you find when you arrive? There will be a team to welcome you, fellow missionaries who will walk along side you and mentor you. There will be millions of Bambara men and women, some of whom will invite you to take a seat in their courtyards. They'll offer you tea and a meal -- millet and sauce -- and you'll eat it with your hand. You'll see lostness, poverty and loyalty in Mali. You'll see the extraordinary bond among extended families, and you'll find the friendship of some of the kindest people on earth.