BEAR VALLEY, CAPE COAST
REPORT FOR FOURTH QUARTER OF THE YEAR
DECEMBER 2022
PREAMBLE
Halleluyah, halleluya, halleluyah!!! By the grace of the almighty God, the Bear Valley Bible Institute center in Cape Coast has successfully completed one calendar year. We are so thankful to the Lord almighty for guiding us to achieve such a feat.
OVERVIEW
The Cape Coast Study Center has been doing very well as it keeps attracting interest and attention of the people of the central region. Brethren from all around the region keep calling to make inquiries about our programs and activities.
This is largely due to the high level of scholarly work of the lecturers and the testimony of transformation seen in our students. The school is fast gaining popularity with very sound Christian doctrine at the heart of everything we do here.
The school is now blessed with a student population of 27, with Bro VICTOR EKOW WILLIAMS joining us as a transfer student from the Kasoa study center at the beginning of November.
The school went on recess after the third weekend in December. Since the school went on recess five prospected candidates have contacted the school to being lessons with us when the school reopens in January. If all of them make it to school, it will bring our numbers to a total of 32 students by January next year.
During the year, we were privileged to have been visited by the ever involving Bro Steven Ashcraft, Bro Kojo Acquah (the Ghana Coordinator) and also Bro Keith Kasarjian, who is the International Coordinator of the Bear Valley Schools. The school has been doing very well with constant support from our sponsors who have shown more than just a desire for students and lecturers alike to get the very best of biblical knowledge to go out there and make fishers of men.
SUPPLY OF RESOURCES
The school received some materials from our Coordinator, Bro Kojo. They were very helpful as we found it easier in preparing to embark on a house to house evangelism. We would be much grateful to more supplies of the Preacher’s Box in the future. The new students who keep on joining the school find the school very attractive as they are fascinated with the quality of teaching materials and classroom supplies available. Bear Valley Cape Coast is surely the place to be when it comes to acquisition of Bible Knowledge.
COURSES
At the end of the December, the fourth quarter of the year, we have successfully completed eleven courses. These are: HOW WE GOT THE BIBLE, THE BOOK OF ACTS, RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & WRITING, HERMENEUTICS, COST OF DISCIPLESHIP AND THE BOOK OF GALATIANS. THE OTHERS ARE 1 &2 CORINTHIANS, OLD TESTAMENT (GEN - DEUT), PERSONAL EVANGELISM, AND SCHEME OF REDEMPTION.
We have been able to get this far because of our unique strategy of meeting even when it is a holiday and not necessarily a school day. Students are currently at home reading on the book of Romans as we hope to commence the next school session with it.
PROJECTIONS FOR NEXT YEAR
As a school we have strategized and agreed on some evangelistic missions next year. We want to start off in March where we hope to collaborate with our host church to organize a one week community broadcast in the catchment areas of the school. This area comprises about five adjourning communities and suburbs.
The next plan will be to go into a rural community where there is no church established there to campaign and evangelize such a community. We have tasked ourselves to take care of such a church when it is established so that we can nurture its growth into a matured community of believers.
It is our hope that our benefactors will make available both financial and material resources for such exercises when the time comes, because these exercises has to be sustained until a total growth is realized. Already the school/class has elected two people from amongst them to be in charge of the new church that will be established and it gladdens my heart the seriousness these students put into it.