Bible Institute Sierra Leone
18A Harding Street, Kenema, Eastern Province, Sierra Leone
ACTIVITY OPERATION REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 2025
Full Time and the Extended (2) Programs
INTRODUCTION
We bring you salutation from Kenema, Eastern Sierra Leone. We are thankful to God for keeping all of us alive till now to share with you the report of the work of the ministry here in Sierra Leone, our dear brethren and fellow laborers. As you read from our January report, we have started this year again with great successes. We are even hopeful that as the year unfolds, many good things will happen. In February, the school planted a new congregation, the classes continued uninterrupted, the graduates and the evangelistic teams on the field laboriously pressed on with the ministry of reconciliation. Here is more information on the highlighted activities:
STUDENTS AND ACADEMIC UPDATES
It continues to excite us as our students are doing well academically, evangelistically as well as morally. Our full time and extended programs at the Kenema campus are expected to be completed by the end of January next year, Lord willing. Therefore, we are hoping to fix the graduation for the both sets of students by February or March next year, Lord willing. Our just established Freetown extension center is also thriving well, as we informed you in our last month’s report. The students are excitedly committed to their studies and as well as their congregational duties. We are thankful to God in all; we have nothing to complain about.
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEW CONGREGATION BY THE KENEMA STUDENTS AT BENDUMA
Benduma town is about 50 miles away from Kenema. It is found in Jawei Chiefdom, Kailahun District, in the Eastern Region of Sierra Leone. It is a community dominated by Muslims, Traditionalists and members of a denomination called, “The Church of the Nazarene.” Therefore, the school, as one of her major reasons for existence, engaged in a robust one week evangelism campaign in the Benduma community. The aim of the campaign was to plant a new congregation there.
How Did the School Get to Know about the Benduma Community?
The opportunity came about when during our December break, two of our students, Mohamed Koroma and Isaac Samawova, decided to go on mission work in that community instead of going home for holidays. These commendable efforts by Mohamed and Isaac opened the way for us. During their stay there, they converted two members who were from the Church of the Nazarene group. So seeing how the Lord was working through our brethren, the school launched a massive campaign there.
The Result of the Campaign
From February 10 to 16, a group of 9 students, 5 staff and one member of the Kenema evangelism team stormed the Benduma community with the Good News which was already being preached by Isaac and Mohamed. During this time, tracts distribution, door-knocking and open-air preaching were all activated and at the end, 21 souls were added to the congregation of the Lord’s Church that was already begun by Mohamed and Isaac. Apart from those who were converted, there were many continuing studies that were begun, and hopefully, more conversions would be recorded as the follow-up continues.
While a lot of good things happened during this campaign, one predominant battle we will need to continue to fight at Benduma is to teach brethren to live moral upright lives. The Benduma community could be described as “Corinthiazomai” because of the community’s moral looseness. But we know that this is not only peculiar to Benduma; it is a global problem. Therefore, may we continue to pray for this new congregation to thrive and be heavenly focused!
MORE CONVERSION OF SOULS
Apart from the campaign, as you all know, the school has an evangelistic program where students and staff go out for evangelism every weekend. This outreach is directed to congregations within and outside Kenema. Therefore, as a result of this effort, the Lord added four (4) souls during the month of February 2025. Moreover, some of our graduates are not also relenting. For instance, some of our graduates in Kenema here went and evangelized a community school at Panguma. They distributed tracts to students and teachers alike. On their part, during the February period, five (5) souls were converted. The evangelistic teams on the other hand had fifteen (15) conversions.
CONCLUSION
When the year 2024 was ending and we reflected on what the Lord did for us in the ministry, we were excited and anticipated that 2025 is going to be even more fruitful. And it seems that it is already happening! May the good Lord take pre-eminence in all that we do! Thank you brethren, for your continued prayers and partnership!
Your brother,
Peter Sahr Makundu,
Director,
Sierra Leone Bear Valley Bible Institute