Hello! We are Seth and Paige Cuthbertson, missionaries to Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. We began working with Baptist World Mission in April 2016, were married in June 2016, and began part time deputation in September 2016 while finishing up our college education at Ambassador Baptist College. Paige got her undergraduate degree in Missions and I got mine in Pastoral studies. Because of the nature of our vision, I also pursued a Masters degree and completed this degree in Biblical studies in 2018. After finishing up college, we began full-time deputation in May of 2018. We finished deputation and flew to the field on New Years day of 2020.
We have three kids. Eden, Zion, and Sebastian. We’ve been serving God here in Sassandra since the beginning of 2020 and came back to the states for our first furlough at the end of June 2022. We head back after a 4 month furlough in November. Our past term was full of blessings! We got to start a children’s ministry in Niezeko which is a village near our house, I got to preach on the radio once a week, we got to build our house and get to know the people of Sassandra, we filled in for my dad who is also a missionary in Côte d’Ivoire but in a different city, and we got to start a church.
Our goal when we get back is to help this church plant become indigenous, start more church plants, begin the prison ministry that was delayed due to Covid with the men that have now been saved and trained, and help Paige become fluent in French.
Hello! We are Seth and Paige Cuthbertson, missionaries to Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa. We began working with Baptist World Mission in April 2016, were married in June 2016, and began part time deputation in September 2016 while finishing up our college education at Ambassador Baptist College. Paige got her undergraduate degree in Missions and I got mine in Pastoral studies. Because of the nature of our vision, I also pursued a Masters degree and completed this degree in Biblical studies in 2018. After finishing up college, we began full-time deputation in May of 2018. We finished deputation and flew to the field on New Years day of 2020.
We have three kids. Eden, Zion, and Sebastian. We’ve been serving God here in Sassandra since the beginning of 2020 and came back to the states for our first furlough at the end of June 2022. We head back after a 4 month furlough in November. Our past term was full of blessings! We got to start a children’s ministry in Niezeko which is a village near our house, I got to preach on the radio once a week, we got to build our house and get to know the people of Sassandra, we filled in for my dad who is also a missionary in Côte d’Ivoire but in a different city, and we got to start a church.
Our goal when we get back is to help this church plant become indigenous, start more church plants, begin the prison ministry that was delayed due to Covid with the men that have now been saved and trained, and help Paige become fluent in French.
Vision
The vision Paige and I share in going to Cote d’Ivoire is to plant Independent Baptist churches that preach the Gospel and have as their goal the salvation of souls and the Glory of God. It has been exciting seeing the passion for the great commission already becoming real in their lives! We know that multiplication works much better than addition, so the goal is to make disciples that can go and do likewise. No man has a monopoly on service to God! We are working to help them see that they too have the responsibly and the Holy Spirit necessary to faithfully serve God!. In conjunction with planting local New Testament churches, we plan to accelerate the process by ministering in villages, and also by working with prisoners and their families. Sassandra’s prison is one of the worst ones in the country with about 600 inmates creating a very open opportunity to show the love of God and the light of the Gospel. We also know the value of children ministries without many of the damaging pasts that come through living in this dark world.
Goal
The route we plan on taking in order to achieve this vision is this. We plan to plant local churches in Sassandra near the prison and in the neighboring villages. There, we will work with the church and in the prison and with the families of the prisoners who come to help their men. Our goal is to have Bible studies in the prison, getting the prisoners saved and growing. We also plan on hold children’s classes in the villages surrounding Sassandra; in the long run, possibly even opening an orphanage or children’s home. Out of the prison and children’s ministries and local churches, we pray that God will save and raise up men and women who can carry on and take over these ministries and also spread the gospel back to their villages and towns. Some of those in the prison are even from other countries. We will very likely also work on learning a local tribal language while in Sassandra. This will enable us to minister at a deeper level than speaking only French. The mother tongue is a powerful tool to reach the hearts of people. In Côte d’Ivoire there are somewhere around 78 different languages.