{"id":13628,"date":"2025-02-19T13:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13628"},"modified":"2025-02-19T13:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:27:24","slug":"senegal-circle-of-light-the-adama-diouf-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13628","title":{"rendered":"Senegal: Circle of Light, the Adama Diouf Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: World Venture, February 7, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Adama Diouf] was born into a Muslim family among the Serer tribe. And one time when he was a young man, like 13 or 14 years old, he got to see a Christian film in a town near his village.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He thought Jesus was amazing, and he couldn\u2019t understand why Jesus would die on a cross. If he truly was the Son of God, why would he die? And why would God allow that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, one night, he and his friends in the village were having a dance party. All of a sudden, he saw a vision on the wall of Jesus on the cross. And Jesus looked at him and said, \u201cI did this for you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was stunned, and they said, \u201cWhy aren\u2019t you dancing, Adama? Why, what happened to you?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And he said, \u201cI just saw Jesus on the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldventure.com\/circle-of-light-the-story-of-adama-diouf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story<\/a> or watch a related video, below. What would your life be like if following Jesus meant being shunned by your family?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Circle of Light: The Adama Diouf Story\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A9BcPPcpY3M?start=7&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: World Venture, February 7, 2025 [Adama Diouf] was born into a Muslim family among the Serer tribe. And one time when he was a young man, like 13 or 14 years old, he got to see a Christian film in a town near his village. He thought Jesus was amazing, and he couldn\u2019t understand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senegal: Circle of Light, the Adama Diouf Story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13629,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13628\/revisions\/13629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}