Unity and Joy

French West Africa Celebrate 35 years of Mission

The Abidjan Church of Christ will celebrate their 35th anniversary by hosting a French West-African regional conference and a special worship service from July 29 to August 3, 2025.

Members from across the region and beyond will gather in Abidjan for a week of fellowship, leadership training, teaching, and celebration.

In October 1989, a missionary team from the United States and Europe arrived in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, to plant a new mission of the International Churches of Christ. Now, 35 years later, that work has grown into a flourishing network of churches spread across French-speaking West and Central Africa. These include vibrant church families in Cameroon, Congo Kinshasa, Congo Brazzaville, Chad, Gabon, Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Niger, and Liberia.

The upcoming conference is being organized by the West French Africa family of churches, and it also serves as a belated celebration of Abidjan’s 35th year—officially reached in 2024, but postponed to 2025 to allow for broader participation and better planning.

Delegates from the United States, France, Nigeria, South Africa, Madagascar, Congo, and other nations are expected to attend.

Event highlights:

• July 29–31: Church Leaders’ Conference
• August 1: Opening ceremony for all disciples
• August 2: Ministry class tracks for singles, marrieds, youth & family, and teens
• August 3: 35th anniversary celebration worship service
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To mark this special milestone, two custom-designed anniversary pagne cloth (featuring the event logo) will be available for purchase – one at $10 and a premium version at $18. Other commemorative items will also be on sale during the event.



This conference will be a time of gratitude, vision, and shared faith, celebrating what God has done over the past three-and-a-half decades in West Africa and looking ahead to what’s next.

For more information and updates, visit eccotedivoire.org.