Ulrike grew up in an Adventist home in Southern Germany. After spending a year as a Student Missionary in Rwanda, she felt the desire to be a missionary to Africa steadily growing in her heart. A few years later, God called her to the Otammari Project in Northern Benin, where she has served in various roles since January 1999.
Toussaint grew up in an evangelical family with an animist background. He befriended the AFM team in 1999 and was baptized in 2000. In 2007, Ulrike and Toussaint married. They are now working together to serve the Otammari people.
Ulrike is working closely with several local evangelists. Together they develop materials and strategies to evangelize this animistic people group. While the local evangelists reach out to Otammari villages and plant churches, Ulrike leads the weekly training session where the team meets to study the Bible, discuss different topics and challenges in the villages and develop more Bible studies. Ulrike is also active in the Natitingou church, serving as the treasurer and director of children’s ministries.
Toussaint ministers to the people in their neighborhood, mentoring several boys and young men as well as counseling their parents in various situations.
In the future, the team plans to extend their outreach to other similar people groups with no Adventist presence in the same area.
We praise Him for being such a great God, and we thank you for being such wonderful supporters!
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Ulrike Baur-Kouato
May 01 2016, 10:12 am | Comments 0
May God help our brothers and sisters in Europe to seize the opportunity to become cross-cultural missionaries in their own neighborhoods.
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Ulrike Baur-Kouato
April 01 2016, 4:43 am | Comments 0
We praise God for the beauty of nature we are able to experience during these days, and we thank Him for the chance to get some rest.
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Ulrike Baur-Kouato
March 01 2016, 11:47 am | Comments 0
Will you please pray that we will find a way to touch Grandpa’s and Grandma’s hearts?
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Ulrike Baur-Kouato
January 01 2016, 11:01 am | Comments 0
Pray for this new group in Nigeria, that the church will find someone else to translate so that they can continue to learn about Christ.
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Ulrike Baur-Kouato
November 01 2015, 5:25 am | Comments 0