Pray For
- the Rev. Maho Olivier and his leadership of churches and church plants
- development of leaders
- the church as it prepares to become a mission district in 2023
PRESENT MINISTRIES
Free Methodist work formally opened in May 2014. Pastor Bertin, the church’s first leader, began working with the FMC while a refugee in Liberia from 2012 to 2013. When Pastor Bertin returned to his homeland in 2013, many Ivorians were still recovering from significant losses suffered during the civil war that erupted in 2010. He worked with 15 pastors serving nine churches and several fellowships. In 2017 Maho Olivier became the national leader.
ORIGINS
Free Methodist work in Ivory Coast was formally opened in May 2014. An Ivorian pastor began working with Free Methodists while he was a refugee in Liberia from 2012 to 2013. Returning to his homeland in 2013, he resumed working with several pastors and fellowships. The work is expanding outward from Guiglo in the northwest.
Country Leader
Maho Olivier
Country Leader, Ivory Coast
Missionaries
Dosseh Takpale
Dosseh Takpale is superintendent of the Togo Provisional Annual Conference and pastor of the FMC in Lomé, Togo. As an international missionary, he also supervises several other countries: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Guinea Bissau, and Burkina Faso. In addition, Dosseh serves...
Prayercast | Ivory Coast
A Vision to Reach New People Groups
The vision is being fulfilled. The Wesley Missionary Institute (WMI) outside Lomé, Togo, was created for the purpose of training Africans to be missionaries among unreached people groups. This vision is being fulfilled as graduates have planted churches in new areas...
COUNTRY STATISTICS
Church-in-Formation
- Population: 26,308,000
- Evangelical Christians: 9.66%
- FM Work Opened: 2014
- FM Churches: 7
- FMC Membership: 577
- Conference Ministerial Candidates: 3
- Country Leader: Maho Olivier
- Ecclesiastical Accountability: FMWM through Africa Area Director Mike Reynen
Photo Credit: TUBS, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Join the ministry in Ivory Coast
Pray
Go
Give
Commit
Church Planting & Development
Funding Ivory Coast Church Planting and Development (CPD) will help resource the following people and strategic initiatives:
- Partial support for church planter training.
- Rental for a central office.
- Partial support for national leader’s travel.