The staff and the students bring greetings from Mmbanga Balong Cameroon. The church of Christ that worships in this town brings their salutations in Jesus’ mighty name.
The fourth batch of our students are already working in their second year. What a great moment to say that this month marked the 7th year of the creation of our Bear Valley Bible Institute in Mbanga Balong Cameroon. All along, we've gone through a lot, but God has always been on our side.
To conclude our year one activities, our students traveled to 14 different assemblies in French speaking regions of Cameroon. Our internship for the month of March was really great. God took us out safely and brought us home safely.
It was good to have a student from Wotutu in the same preaching field as another student from Mbanga. Some of our areas are really bilingual and we don't have bilingual students this time around, so we made a combination with students from the two schools. Nevertheless, it was really successful as we did this in two mission grounds. It yielded some fruit both in Kotto Mission and in Sangmalema.
A number of souls were added during this mission work. In fact, 14 souls were added into the kingdom of God and 6 were restored. Some areas of work are really too difficult, as our Francophone brothers are more into Catholicism and Pentecostalism. Most of them don't know about the church and some students were even chased out of some neighborhoods. This is not strange to us though as it has happened to me also several times in our French speaking regions. We need a lot of prayers for the churches in these regions.
Bibles were also given to new converts as in the case of a sister who was sitting with her baby. Let's pray for these new converts as they enter into the work of the Lord.
We took our short courses after our fieldwork this time around. This was due to some missionary activities that took us a lot of time as we were going out for evangelism as well all at the same time. Our mission is evangelism and evangelism is our mission.
As the men took the class on Leadership, and the sisters also took part. The “Leadership” course was taught by minister Ewang Divine, a graduate of the Wotutu school. It all was successful. This took us to the beginning of a new quarter which we started immediately after the short course.The students are now talking about graduation so spending one more year in school will not be that easy.
Brother Giress had on his usual smile when he was teaching the students in class this Thursday. The darkest moment in the night is when the day is almost dawn. This is the moment where our students will face a lot of temptation, for the devil will not want to see them all graduating. It's a very difficult moment, as we have always seen with the other batches in the past. It is also a moment where God will want to expose all those who are still hiding their bad character and attitude. But prayers conquer all. We still follow up with our activities both in the congregation and in school.
The congregation in Mbanga was proud of hosting the Francophone Zonal Women’ Seminar. Congregations from the 8 regions of the French speaking part of our country were hosted by the women of the Mbanga assembly. About 16 assemblies were represented. It was a wonderful week with us in Mbanga.
We continue with our mission to other localities for implantation and revival. The church in French Cameroon is still in renaissance. Lots of work is still to be carried out. The school in Mbanga and the churches in French Cameroon, are calling on all of us to put our efforts together on this theme, " Let Us Evangelize the French World.” Tracks are now available, as we plan to storm the next community with the gospel of peace everywhere that the man of peace is found.
Our next mission will be in Chad as we plan to begin our journey Friday with my wife Mary and Elangwe and his wife Magdalene where we will be prepared to teach both the women and children as a part of our mission. We shall be working with the preachers on the preacher forum as well.
We shall also meet our graduates and other preachers in Chad. While we think about souls, their physical worries are also our concern. May God lead us safely to our destination and fulfill our mission for Him in this country. Please put us in your prayers. Chad here we come.
The people of Cameroon have acknowledged the work of the Bear Valley Bible Institutes in this country and we are proud of belonging to this Bear Valley family. More grace and more prayers. The devil is being put to shame.