8 May/June 2022 Barnabas Aid
Lives Transformed by
the Word of God
Dieynaba with her husband and child.
Barnabas-Funded Literacy Classes Enable Impoverished Senegalese Christians to Read the Bible
“L
ike the blind man in the Bible, ‘I was blind but now I see!’” These are the words of Dieynaba, a young Christian mother in Senegal, as she described how literacy classes funded by Barnabas have transformed her life by enabling her to read the Bible.
“Now I understand everything Jesus has done for me and what He expects of me,” she said. “Before, I refused to give tithes and offerings because I believed the pastor wanted to take money from us when we are poor. Now I know that it is God Himself who asks us to do this and He blesses those who give faithfully.”
Senegal is dominated by Islam with the population at least 95% Muslim. The small but growing Christian community accounts for about 4%. Dieynaba is one of 267 Christians from an impoverished – and strongly Islamic – rural area of central Senegal who completed the 14-month program of adult literacy and numeracy classes.
