EXTENDED PROGRAM ; BVBI – KARA – TOGO
December 29, 2023
INTRODUCTION
All churches of Christ of Kara (north of Togo) join me and my family to send you all the congratulations, encouragements and greetings for your great desire and love to keep helping us through this Bible School to strengthen the spiritual capacity of the brothers to better help these local churches to achieve the goals of the Great Commission. We continue to pray for you so that we all have the courage to continue working together to reduce the kingdom of satan by the conversion of the souls. In this overall vision to reduce the kingdom of satan, our Lord will always be with us for good results in the future.
So, we take advantage of this opportunity to send you our best wishes and happy new year 2024. Much courage, wisdom and knowledge and good health for the new year 2024.
OPERATING REPORT
1- The current number of students : 09 (8 for regular time and 1 outside time)
2- The courses already taught the third quarter
a- General episties by TALAKI Nicodeme
b- Galatians to 2Thessalonicians by KPELEVI David
c- The worship of the New Testament by Fidele
3- The courses that will be taught during the first quarter 2024 :
a- Isaiah, great prophet by KAGNON Luc
b- Major Cult by TALAKI Nicodeme
c- 1 Corinthians by Fidele
4- Instructors’ meeting : Teachers discussed how to use students to effectively help local churches to grow spiritually and digitally. The different programs involved these students to help them have some experience to better lead local churches.They also discussed the methods to use to help students in research to better preach and teach. They have also made a decision to continue to encourage these students individually to the end. They finally recognized that this Biblical School is a force for the achievement of the Great Mission objectives.
5- Congregational Activities :
a- Worship and edification :
We really started with the other evangelists to lay the foundations of the church. We have set up a work plan on all local churches. At first a specific teaching on the disciple life in his community has been taught according to a program defined on all local churches. Given the unity that is reacted among the evangelists, there is a glow of hope that binds to the face of the faithful. Some faithful encouraged us to continue in this unit and this will have a positive impact in the lives of the faithful and a good way to restore some faithful who were disappointed by the division among the evangelists in the past by one of the evangelists who has returned yet back to Lome.
We noted for now that these new local evangelists have a real desire to work for Christ as servants engaged for saved souls for Christ.With this organization of overall work on local churches, we have been able to baptized a total of 17 people from October to December 2023 ( 3 baptized in Lama ; 01 in Soumdina Powayi ; 02 in Kara University : 10 young people in Sandate and 1 person in Lassa Lao).
With this new momentum in the work for the conversion of souls, there is hope to grow digitally and spiritually these already implanted churches and those that will be implanted in the future. We find that this evolution is slow but with insurance despite the pletorrous number of the denominations that are well organized and that we are challenging.
b- Door to door evangelism : The program is developed with other evangelists to help local churches in their digital growth and also establish other new congregations. This work helped us to have Lassa Lao new congregation. By this work we have been able to baptize 17 souls. We will intensify this door to door work in the coming days.
c- Seminars : We had organized the Leaders of the churches leading them to be dynamic and very vigilant to fight the false doctrine. We also could show the need that every local church can implant a new church.
d- Practical work with students : To help our students do this more evangelization work, we worked in Kara University locality. In the end we had to baptize two (2) women. Thus we are realizing the importance of a Biblical Training Institute. If we continue to multiply together our efforts to amplify our strengths and extend even the actions of this school, the converts will still be many in the future. The existence of a Biblical Training Institute helps much in the conversion of souls.
e- Denominational program : We were able to put a small group of biblical studies at the moment with a few Leaders of denominations. They are 4 Leaders. They come from different localities. We thank God who helped us to baptize two (2) of them who already propose to be on the list of future students of Bear Valley Bible Institute. We continue to do our best to find many denominational Leaders to enlarge the group.
We also started studying with a denominational church we want to convert for Christ. We want you to pray for this denominational church who does not want to discipline itself for this program.
f- Annual camp : This camp brings all the members of all local churches in one locality for spiritual teaching to help each member to grow spiritually. It is also the opportunity to organize spiritual concerts where all local churches will sing one another and this helps us to choose the best singers. It is also the opportunity to organize biblical games with price at the end. This annual camp was a total success and each returned home in the joy of being spiritually blessed. The general topic was : « Does the Church of Christ be a sect ? ». We have done this Camp in Soumdina Powayi up December 24 to 26, 2023.
This year we had the opportunity to celebrate the wedding of the new local Preacher Kpelevi. We had to share pleasant moments. Participants during this camp are nearly 114 people.
6- Radio Program : It is a very effective way to preach the gospel to other surrounding communities. With the arrival of these other evangelists we are more effective for this radio program. We continue to meet some who agree with the appointments. We preach every Friday from 15 O’clock pm to 16 O’clock pm on Radio « Kozah Fm ».
7- Upcoming Program : We will have a busy program
a- January 2024 :
- Campaign in Tchitchao Kigbeleng
- Campaign Dapaong area
- Campaign in Soumdina Powayi
- Training « Reading and Speaking kabiye » program
b- February 2024 :
- Campaign in Samala
- Campaign in Sandate
- Campaign in Soumdina Haut
- Training « Reading and Speaking kabiye » program
c- March 2024 :
- Campaign in Tchoou
- Campaign in Tatale area
- Campaign in Lassa Lao
- Campaign in Soumdina Pida
- Training « Reading and Speaking kabiye » program
We need your prayers for all those programs.
In Christ,
Fidele