Cote d’Ivoire
The church in Cote d’Ivoire was growing very strong and fast in the 1990s. All this was feared lost when multiple coups took place starting in 1999 and then the country fell into civil war. The situation remained quite unstable until 2007. When the coups started all missionaries were evacuated and as of yet none have returned to take up a permanent position. Some have made visits.
Rev. Tadé Désiré had some training in France with Rev. Dr. Wilbert Kreiss (former president of the Lutheran Church of France and Belgium). Rev. Tadé Désiré is also a former professor at the seminary in Togo. His love for the church and his country led him to return to his home country in 2007. He has repeatedly asked for pastors trained in the confessions to come and bring catechisms and train their leaders.
They currently have five students at the seminary in Togo;
ATTITSO Kokou
MANI TEBEDE Basile
SOHO GBOTE Hubert
GALO O. Roland
DESSAHON Paulin
Name: Cote d’Ivoire (formerly Ivory Coast)
President: Laurent GBAGBO
Population: 20,617,068
Independence: 1960
National Language: French
Other languages:
60 native dialects with Dioula the most widely spoken
Literacy rate: 48.7%
60.8% males, 38.6% females
School Life Expectancy:
male:
female:
Religions: Muslim 38.6%, Christian 32.8%, indigenous 11.9%, none 16.7%
Life Expectancy: 55.45 years
male: 54.64 years
female: 56.28 years
Avg. Daily Salary: $4.66
My photo albums
January 2010
2009-2010
2009-2010
Diaspora Can’t Stop the Church
Rev. Tadé Désiré, Kokou Attitso, Rev. James May, Hubert, Soho Gbote, Roland Galo, and Marc Guehi Guehi (President of the Lutheran Church in Cote d’Ivoire