Suzy & Fidel Baldwin-Noutehou

A career missionary since 1999, Suzy first served the Otammari people of Benin. Now, she and her husband, Fidel, are serving the people groups of the Pendjari region of Benin.

Suzy Baldwin-Noutehou started working with the Otammari people in Benin, West Africa, in 1999. She learned their culture, then how to present the gospel in the context of their and other area cultures. She used friendship evangelism, medical care and health education. She also worked for many years with Ulrike Baur, another AFM missionary.

During that time, Fidel Noutehou was also learning and doing evangelism in another denomination under the mentorship of his uncle. In 2007, God brought Fidel to Natitingou and into contact with Suzy and other SDA members. Fidel would come and borrow books from Suzy, and that was their only contact for seven years.

In late 2013, God convicted Fidel of the Sabbath truth, and he joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Over the next seven months, God impressed Fidel and then Suzy that they were to be married and become partners in the work. In 2014, Fidel and Suzy wed and moved to the Pendjari region of Benin to start a new AFM project. They live in a small village outside of Tanguieta, on a farm where they have an agriculture ministry. Their work includes planting churches and mentoring local leaders from the various village church groups.

Now, several church groups have been planted in two of the larger people groups and one church group in the main town near Tanguieta.

Frontier Stories

Orphans

It was 1:30 A.M. when the bell rang at our house. We heard Jean and Phoebe talking outside our gate. Knowing they wouldn’t call at this hour unless it was something urgent, I stumbled to the door, opened it, and invited them in. They were very glad to see me and proceeded to explain their situation.

By: Suzy & Fidel Baldwin-Noutehou
August 01 2004, 3:10 pm | Comments 0

Health Presentations

It is the dry season. The harvest is finished for the year, and the villagers have not started back to the fields yet for the new year. It is the time for outreach.

By: Suzy & Fidel Baldwin-Noutehou
June 01 2004, 3:11 pm | Comments 0

Robbers

Then I heard the noise that had woken me up—someone was trying to jerk open the metal front door. Then the form came back to the window. It was a face.

By: Suzy & Fidel Baldwin-Noutehou
May 01 2004, 3:14 pm | Comments 0

The Orphanage

Jean and Phoebe run an orphanage on a hill near our house.

By: Suzy & Fidel Baldwin-Noutehou
April 01 2004, 3:17 pm | Comments 0

Teaching Health

As usual, I began my health program by introducing the creation story and moving into the month-by-month development of the fetus. My life-sized cutouts of each development stage help break the ice.

By: Suzy & Fidel Baldwin-Noutehou
April 01 2004, 3:15 pm | Comments 0

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