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Name: |
Wilondja and Shirley Masongezi
8914 Tolhurst
Montreal, CANADA
H2N 1 W 8 CANADA
E-Mail: contact the church office |
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Agency: |
Baptist General
Conference
www.bgcworld.org |
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Country:
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Quebec,
Canada
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Birthdays: |
Wilondja
(April 15), Shirley (June 7)
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Anniversary: |
September 26
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Family: |
Grace, Linda, Lillian, and Dany.
All grown and living apart.
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Relationship to SVBC: |
Shirley has been supported
since her appointment to BGC as a
missionary in 1992. In 1998
Shirley married Wilondja Masongezi and SVBC began
supporting them as a couple.
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Primary Ministry Focus: |
Church planting and
Evangelism. |
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The
People: |
Their target group is
primarily the French speaking immigrants from Africa and
the
Caribbean. They are essentially an
“unreached people” within
Quebec.
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Ministry Experience: |
Wilondja was born in
Congo
(formerly
Zaire
). His father was a pastor.
He graduated from the
Conservative Baptist Seminary in
Congo
and then served as an associate pastor and later a staff
member of Campus Crusade for Christ in
Congo
. Shirley began her ministry in 1983
to the Muslim culture. She spent 5
years in
Nigeria
teaching children and learning the Hausa language.
She then returned to the
USA
and worked with Campus Crusade for Christ.
In 1992 Shirley began her ministry with BGC.
After a
period of French language study, she went to
Cameroon
to begin a ministry to the Hausa people. She
returned to the
USA
in 1998 when Shirley and Wilondja were married.
They returned to Africa in 2001 to
Abidjan
,
Ivory Coast
. Wilondja ministered as a chaplain
in a Christian Clinic and assisted in planting a church.
Shirley ministered in evangelism.
Because of political unrest they left
Africa
in 2005. They have been appointed to
Quebec
to minister to the French speaking immigrants.
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General
Prayer Requests: |
- Continue praying for our
connections with the above churches and journey
mercies.
- Pray that we will continue
working at having a strong marriage through more
biblical principles we hope to gain at the
conference in October.
- Pray again for the Small Group
in Montreal: Matthew, Rose, Jennifer, Javeline,
Yolanda and Hugette. Pray that they will start
their own Small Group next year.
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