1ST QUARTER, 2024 REPORT FROM BEAR VALLEY BIBLE INSTITUTE PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA
Bear Valley Bible Institute in Rivers State Nigeria started very well in the year 2024. In the month of January, 2024 we sent out our students to various congregations in Rivers State and beyond for practical field work which is known in our transcript as “campaign”. When we sent out information about the field work to the congregations in our area, very many congregations in Port Harcourt City and various communities in Rivers State requested that we should send students to them. The high demands for our students were very encouraging and that made us to know that Bear Valley Institute is highly accepted in our area.
The reports we got from the field work is amazing. We gathered that our students baptized 29 persons, restored 11 backsliders, and taught Bible classes to men, women, youths and children. They preached sermons that edified many brethren. Indeed, the students’ campaign in the month of January, 2024 contributed much to the growth of the church in our area. We are happy that the money American brethren are sending quarterly to the school is bringing positive results.
LECTURES ARE ONGOING IN OUR TWO CENTERS
At the end of field work, we resumed lectures in our two centers and God willing, lectures will continue till the end of December 2024.
ANOTHER SET OF 19 STUDENTS WILL BE DUE FOR GRADUATION AT THE END OF SECOND QUARTER OF 2024
From our record, another set of 19 students will complete the 48 courses and will be due for graduation at the end of 2nd quarter, 2024. As soon as the transcripts are ready, we shall send them to Chad Wagner for verification and approval. If approved, it will be our second time to graduate students from our two centers which started in 2019.
GRADUATES OF BEAR VALLEY BIBLE INSTITUTES RIVERS STATE NIGERIA ARE DOING GREAT WORKS IN THE GOSPEL FIELDS AS GOSPEL PREACHERS
We are glad to report that the efforts and money spent in the training of our past students are not in vain. Many of our graduates have been given appointments to work as preachers in many congregations in Port Harcourt and other communities in Rivers State, Nigeria. We are very happy because they are doing well in the congregations where they are working. It is worthy of note that 16 out of the 34 graduates of our school are already gospel preachers in various congregations while they were our students. After the graduation on July, 29th 2023, 10 among them have been given appointments as gospel preachers in various congregations in our area and beyond.
BEAR VALLEY BIBLE INSTITUTE RIVERS STATE NIGERIA WILL HOST ONE DAY INTENSIVE LECTURESHIP IN OMOKU RIVERS STATE NIGERIA ON MARCH 30TH 2024
With the aim to create more awareness about our school and to get more students to enroll in Omoku Center, we have invited many congregations in the area for a day intensive lectureship on 30th March, 2024. The theme of the proposed lectureship is: “Churches of Christ in the 21st century: Challenges and prospects” .We will give a detail report of the proposed lectureship in our next quarterly report.
CONCLUSION
We are grateful to God who has given us the strength to work for him and we are also grateful to our sponsors in the United States of America for their financial and moral supports. All the efforts are getting great results.
Reports from:
Anthony Ejike Oluria,
(Director BVBI Rivers State Nigeria, West Africa)