Jean Kone, Burkina Faso & Mali

Name Pastor Jean Koné Where Burkina Faso & Mali Mission organisation International Needs Type of ministry Evangelism and church-planting, meeting practical needs St Barnabas advocates Hilary Murdoch and Liz Pennington

Jean is a gifted evangelist who has been instrumental in the conversions of thousands of people, many from Muslim backgrounds. As well as giving pastoral leadership in his own church, he travels widely, teaching and training believers and helping to pastor churches he has founded. He also ministers to practical needs, providing food for the hungry when there is famine, for instance. Thanks to Jean’s vision, a secondary school has been built to educate teenagers in his town, Bobo-Dioulasso. It is called Good News College, and is providing hope and a future for young people of many backgrounds. It is possible to support Bukina Faso through International Needs' gift catalogue 'Gifts of Compassion'. For more info go to www.giftsofcompassion.org.uk