Benin

Allada, Benin

La Casa Grande, a Christian home and school for vulnerable children, has a Spanish name, but when Barb and Maria Thuma arrived at the campus in Allada, Benin two months ago as Mennonite Mission Network international volunteers, they ...

Benin overview

Mennonite mission workers first visited Benin in 1969.

During the next 20 years, mission workers made periodic teaching visits. In 1987 a group of African-Initiated Churches invited Mennonite Board of Missions to lay the groundwork for ministries in Bible training and health care.

This early work, beginning in 1989, has developed into a three-year systematic Bible training program, an interdenominational health center, and community health and development projects.

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