14 baptisms in Kenya

It is our pleasure to share with you brethren what goes on at the Kenya School of Preaching- East Africa. All the Bible students have come back from June holiday and this is now our second week with them in the school. We feel great and excited at the fact that we have come from far with them and  now we are nearing to finish up the two years course. 

While they were away, (June holiday) they helped serve their local  congregations in evangelism and  edification and as a result much good has been done, baptizing 14 into Christ and restoring 21 individuals who had backslid. One of the students conducted a gospel campaign at his  Baringo county and some of his fellow preachers joined him.

Phil Palmer, World Bible School East Africa representative also visited with us and helped evangelize the preaching school area with the students and  the teachers. Eighty (80) and over were registered as WBS students. 

Everything is going on well in our new campus as  we  endeavor to finish this last quarter / semester to graduation. Charles our director is teaching Greek 4 and the book of Jeremiah. David is taking with the students the Preacher and His Work, while Elias takes with them the book of Hebrews.

All eyes are now on August 25th, on which day we will graduate our third intake students since the school began. We invite as many guests as can come. We request that as one comes, he/she bring any good books to help us fill up the empty shelves in our new library. Continue to remember the school in your every day prayers, blessings.

The staff of KSOP

Help needed in Ukraine

Greetings, dear brothers and sisters!

I'd like to share with you the last month news from Bear Valley Bible Institute - Ukraine. The time period was full of events.

In June I made a few trips to some local congregations. I visited Vinogradar district Church of Christ in Kiyv and Ternopil Church of Christ and had some personal visits with preachers from our cities. My main goal was recruiting new students for the next school year and appealing to Ukrainian congregations for sponsorship of our Institute. As you know, Kramatorsk Church of Christ sends money on monthly basis to support our ministry. And now a few churches in Kiyv consider this matter as well. I want it so much for Ukrainian congregations to support Ukrainian Institute.

God blesses us with new recruits. For the next school year we have 5-6 potential students. Four male and two female young adults. Currently we are looking for some financial aid to support these servants of the Lord who desire to devote their lives to spreading the Gospel.

In the meanwhile our second year students continue working at summer Evangelical practice. Our students serve the local congregations in Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Kiyv and Pokrovsk. They teach lessons, visit with the church members who can't attend services due to their physical ailments. They practice street evangelism and give out Christian literature. According to our student Oleg Fofanov's report during last month he brought to church two people whom he had met in the streets.

During summer time we make a budget for the new school year. We are currently facing some difficulties. We need more funds for the first year students and we need to rent a place for the family of our brother Sergey Omelchenko. During the last school year he studied with us in Bila Tserkva while his family lived in Konstantinovka. The time proved it not healthy for the family to be apart for so long, so this year we need to correct the situation.

I ask you to help us. We are able to continue this ministry thanks to generosity of many congregations and individual families. We see some progress in this matter but we need to stay focused because Satan doesn't want the church in Ukraine to continue God's work.

Thank you all for your care and constant prayers. Our students and the local congregations send their greetings.

Your brother and co-worker,

Dennis Sopelnik.

Continued improvement in Tamale

The month of June is over; we continue to praise God for your life, that of the students and that of the School. We blessed Him for your consistent sacrifice and service in projecting the course of Christ in Northern Ghana.

STUDENTS ARE BACK TO SCHOOL. All students are back to school with the exception of two, who are expected to join us hopefully next week. School activities are ongoing effectively. Currently we are teaching Old Testament IV.

EVANGELISM AND VISITATION We have step up our visitation and evangelism activities in the view of making the local church in Kpalsi vibrant and effective. Saturdays are set aside purposely for door to door evangelism within Kpalsi neighborhood and other areas around the school. We are hopeful to make some baptisms so that, worship continues even when students are on holidays.

We have started working on new recruits for next academic year through visitations and anywhere we go. So far, seven people have shown interest in coming for the next school year.  We pray and hope to work hard to increase the number and the quality of students in the coming year. With the help of God and your efforts, we believe we can all work together to train many preachers for the work of Christ in Northern Ghana and the World globally. We are planning and praying of having the school calendar to starts in January so that the school year will end in December in two years.

A major Gospel Campaign is to take place in August in two villages in a week long program.

SCHOOL/CHURCH LANDS It has been a long and frustrating time for us working on getting the school and the church lands registered. Surveyors from the land commission have visited and surveyed both the school and the worship sites twice this month. It is at the final stage now and hopefully we will get the final documentation ‘soon’.

GOAT/SHEEP SUPPORT Brother George Talafor was our next beneficiary of the preachers goat/sheep support this month. Brother George is one of the first batch students, and a preacher of Sibi in the Volta Region. He was grateful and appreciative for the initiative and to the sponsors as well. He received the sum of four hundred Ghana Cedis (Gh¢ 400.00). This is to help support preachers as they labor for the Lord in the villages. Many of our past students are asking for this help and as this is $100 per preacher support, we pray that help will flow to help these village and poor preachers to make a living.

PILLAR/WALL Maintenance of the school buildings and properties are on-going as funds are available. The cracked wall on the staff quarters has been fixed. There are some works to be done on the car and also on the fence wall.

Thanks for your support and may the Good Lord richly bless you.

Albert and James.

Tamale-Ghana

Baptisms in Togo

Dear brethren in Christ,

I give thanks to God for all he does for us. In June was the month in which we prepared students for examinations in the following.

Each teacher did everything to be up to date with his course, exercises, brief memorization tests which could show us the level of each student. Thanks to the efforts of the teachers, the students are ready for exams in July. Second quarter courses come to end in July.

Evangelism: APEWOKE Kokou very dynamic in personal evangelism he led many to the church through baptism. He converted two couples and a girl during the month. He deserves our congratulations. 5 people are baptized. Evangelism is very important and it allows students to be familiar with people.

Needs: The holidays begin early August, so the need for computer training starts with the resumption of next class after the holidays.

May the peace and grace of our Jesus Christ fill all his blessings for the support you bring to the Institute.

Thanks

Your brother

NYEMANTA Essotena

10th Anniversary in India!

Dear Brethren in Christ,

Greetings to you in the precious name of Lord Jesus Christ our savior.  By the grace of God I returned home safely completing my 2 months visit to USA. It was  pleasure visiting you all, must thank you all for your kind invitation and hospitality when I visited your place. I firmly believe that my visit helped to strengthen our relationship, I praise God for blessing me to visit you all.

Faculty meeting:

Right after my return from USA we held a faculty meeting in the second week of June, A meeting we usually hold once in every two months to discuss about how is everything going, where we at and how students are learning etc., normally It takes a combined effort to train up the young evangelists, in this process sharing of ideas and experience has  been always been a very useful thing. All our faculty was present for the meeting, it was more than three hours of discussion and sharing of things and doctrinal issues in the Church in this area. We all have made a firm decision to stick to the N.T truth of preaching Christ and His only Church.

Part of the meeting, I was glad to update them about my visit to Lake Houston & Strickland Church of Christ, meeting with the Elders and also about my reporting to the Church. All the faculty members were very happy with my visit and how you all felt about the school. Of course our faculty is being appreciated very much for their doctrinal stand and their cooperation in training the Men.

Student’s Schedule: 

Preachers Training program is going on well, present students are doing their best in learning and acting according to their learning.  Let me brief you about how our students spend their day. Actually, student’s time table starts at 5:30 in the morning. They began their day with a devotional first, then cleaning their dormitory etc., We are trying our best to instruct these future preachers to discipline their body by following the time table; also instructing them to use their time wisely.

We are very much concerned about our students memorizing the Bible verses, of course we encourage them to study/read the Bible every day; in addition to this they memorize one verse from the Bible every day. One of the faculty is always watch them doing this, after each of the student quote the scripture that is written on the black board they conclude that with a prayer then proceed for lunch.

10th Anniversary:

What a blessing, we rejoice in sharing this exciting news.  it has been 10 years since we started the Preaching school in Visakhapatnam. Of course we have to wait for another year to celebrate our 10th Anniversary association with Bear Valley. However, its time to celebrate. We are going to have a Preachers meeting on the eve of this 10th anniversary. We are inviting all the teachers and faculty members and old students for this special occasion. We praise God for this blessing of running a preaching school for 10 yrs at Visakhapatnam, where ours is the first full time preaching school, it is certainly blessing. It was a great history of 10 years preachers training at Vaisakha; a preaching school that is sending full time ministers to reach the unreached millions.

Evangelical News:

Brethren, We always feel very proud of our graduates who are working for the Church full time, even though their finances are not up to the mark, they have changeless enthusiasm which is giving some wonderful results; we appreciate their efforts so much. They share with us, their evangelical efforts  of preaching,  holding personal Bible studies, door knocking and  also the results which is the addition of souls to the Lord’s Church. Attached are the pictures that you may like to see, we are very happy to share these with you.

“So the church throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria enjoyed peace, being built up; and going on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, it continued to increase. “ Acts 9:31

Voice of Truth International: We are so thankful to the brethren at World Evangelism, especially sister Betty Choate for sending their Magazine regularly. We receive them without any problem, we are distributing them with our students and preachers in this part of Andhra Pradesh. They have been a great literature, helping our students to understand God’s wisdom, also helping them to prepare to teach/reach others. Very helpful gospel tool, thankful to all the brethren who are behind this in several ways.

Thank you so much brethren for your prayers which is a great strength for us to work for the Lord. We do thank the brethren at Strickland for overseeing our work and for also sending brother Jerry Bates to teach & Check on the work.  Especially we thank the brethren at Lake Houston Church of Christ for their trust and confidence in the preaching School. We appreciate their continued support and encouragements. We also thank the brethren at Bear Valley for accepting our school as their extension school. Do thank all the brethren who made this possible. We are mindful of all the brethren, like Denny Petrillo, Bob Turner, Ralph Williams, Steve Wiseman, Garry Fallis, Keith Kasarjian, Mark Reynolds and sever other wonderful Men of God who made this possible. 

With all your prayers we continue to strive for His cause, we love you all so much in the Lord. God bless you all. All our students, faculty and staff members pray for you daily.

In Christian Love

M. Samuel Raju, Director

M. John Dean

For Visakha Valley Bible College

Visakhapatnam, India.

Tragedy in Tanzania

ACSOP Good will trip Jully 2018

“Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him when he saw the city was given over to idols”  (Acts 17:16 NKJV). During this time of the year, We the faculty of Andrew Conally school of preaching gets an opportunity to visit our second year students before they graduate. Our purpose for the visit is to continue to encourage our students and building the relationship between the school and all the congregation that send their students to our school. Also we use this opportunity  to recruit new students. This time again, Michael Losotwa and me will be going to Kenya and get to see six students who lives on different location. Ahimidiwe and Charles will be going to Dar es alam, Dodoma and places within the mainland, where we get many of our students each year.  It will take us several weeks before we come back for the third quarter. This year we are expecting nine students to walk on the red carpet and get ready to go back to their home place and work in their community. 

As we begin our plans, I always recall some Paul missionary journey in the first century. I know and am sure this journey works as an experience for us preacher and Bible students as we visit different cities. It is not strange to meet people and some of the strange beliefs. It will also be an opportunity for us to meet and see our ACSOP graduates. It will be our responsibility to encourage them also for the good work they do in the Kingdom. More of these reports from our graduate students will come when we return.

I am very sorry to inform you that one of our first year student (Godfrey Msuya-43) from Dar es alam passed away last week by being beaten by bad guys as he was coming back home from his daily work. He has left behind a wife and three children. 

Above all things we will never stop to thank you all our sponsors and supporters for continuing love for our school and the Lords work is being done here at Arusha and East Africa beyond. As we always say here Till all have heard! See you next time. 

In Him,

Godfrey Mngoma

Dean of Students, Andrew Connally School of Preaching

A Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver extension school

Arusha, Tanzania

A bright future in Zimbabwe

The month of June has been a memorable one at BVBIZ. This is the month when the school had her first ever graduation ceremony. Besides this graduation, more things have been happening. Below is a report of what transpired in June. This report also contains a profile of each student.

GRADUATION

BVBIZ held her first ever graduation ceremony on the 2nd of June. The program was well attended and went beyond our expectation. Many church leaders and, besides relatives and friends of the graduates, came to witness the ceremony. Members of the church from far and wide were also present. We appreciate God for such sacrifices. The program took place at the Nashville church of Christ grounds. The theme of the day was “Developing new frontiers in the equipping of evangelists for ministry and church development.”

A total of 10 men and 2 women graduated on this day.

BVBIZ was blessed to have 2 guest speakers, that is, Donnie Estep and Dr Daniel Gwini. Dr. C.T Mugweni was also available to lead the ordination process. These succeeded in giving relevant messages to the students, faculty and those in attendance. We appreciate the sacrifice these two made to be with the school during this important day.

Students who do well should be recognized and rewarded for their efforts. There were 11 awards on offer. Almost all awards found sponsorship from individuals who have chosen to be associated with the school. Some of the awards have been named after their sponsors and some of these shall stand as a memorial for long in the school.

The graduation class set a record which is yet to be surpassed by the next classes. This is in terms of their practical which they did throughout the period as students. Among other accomplishments, they preached 359 sermons, taught 299 bible classes, and baptized 251 souls!

BVBIZ was blessed to have Brother John Dube, a representative from Healing Hands International, with us. He trained the new students in drip irrigation technology, crop and poultry production. BVBIZ aims to produce competent graduates who are multi skilled in several areas. It is expected that these students would then use these survival skills as they preach the word.

BVBIZ shall be embarking on poultry production. Our appreciation goes to Healing Hands International for providing $2200 for this project. The money is for the raising of 300 birds and other initial set up costs. The first batch of 150 chicks shall be arriving on the 3rd of July while the next one shall come on the 20th of July. After the training that was done, students shall start taking care of the broilers as part and parcel of their training.

Your brother,

Mathew Muchingam

Director, BVBI-Z

Student campaign to Samoa

SECOND TERM

Things are going well with the Bible Institute at Raiwaqa in Fiji.  This term we have 10 students in the program.  One of our students from the first term has taken a sabbatical to go to Tuvalu on a mission effort to help the church there.  He returns to Fiji on the 28 of this month.  

We are halfway through our second term.  This term has been challenging for our students.  They are in their second class in Greek and I just finished teaching a class on Bible Geography.  I am now teaching Acts of the Apostles for the last half of this term as Jason continues to teach them Greek.  Additionally, Jason is teaching Expository Preaching and the Minor Prophets, and  I am teaching 1 Corinthians.

The students really enjoyed the study on Bible Geography which was the first time any of them had studied this subject.  The students just had their 1st major exam in Jason's Greek class.  The good news is that most them are doing very well with the Greek language.  Interestingly, these two classes are the ones that the students say they have enjoyed the most and gotten the most out of.

GENEROUS DONATION

Terry Pafford, one of our short course teachers, sent each of our students two books: Forgiven, Forgiving, and Free by Dan Winkler, and Paul's Letters to Timothy and Titus: Before I Die, by Wayne Jackson.  One of our goals of the school is to put useful resources in the hands of our students to benefit them in their preaching and teaching.  We are thankful to brother Pafford and the brethren at Midland, Texas for contributing two excellent books to our students' personal libraries to help them in their studies.

SAMOA WORKSHOP

The students have been invited to conduct a workshop in Samoa on the book of Job.  We have ten students signed up to go on this trip.  The students and a few members from the Raiwaqa Church of Christ will be conducting this workshop for the brethren at Aleisa, Samoa.  This is a study that they just completed under Terry Pafford, so they will be able to use some of the things they have learned in school.  Lord willing, we will be flying from Fiji to Samoa on the 3rd of August and returning on the 11th.  There will be a total of 25 classes taught and the majority will be taught by our students.  This will serve as our evangelistic effort for this term. 

There are a total of 18 people traveling to Samoa for the workshop.  Jerry, a member at Raiwaqa, plans to leave on the 8th of July and stay for 3 months working with the Samoan brethren.  He will also help with the workshop.  We have five ladies from Raiwaqa planning to attend the workshop.  They include Debbie and Devan and one of our students, Va.  These five ladies will be conducting the children's and ladies' classes.  Also, two of my grandsons, Austin and Cory, will be attending the workshop.  They will be working with Jerry and helping to teach the youth classes during the workshop.

THANK YOU!

Please continue to keep us in your daily prayers as we strive to serve God in the Pacific Islands! 

We continue to thank God for you and your partnership in this work.  May God credit the fruits of our labors together to your account.

Evangelism in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Calvary greetings to you and family over there. We are thankful to God for our lives here are spared and we have the opportunity to continue to serve Him.

I am sorry for the delay of this report. Two things keep delaying my reports now. They are poor internet service that does not even work again in my home and busy programs. During the month of June, missionaries were here to call upon different ministries in our communities, and at the end I was also in class to learn some more in my continuing education. God is faithful to all we do day and after day. We are also thanking God for all the missionaries that came and did marvelously in their different fields. The team left without any problem and arrived to their homes safe and sound. As I always say, “There is no place like home.”

Students went out for one week of intensive evangelism and they are all back safe and sound to start the third quarter in their second year of study. This means that these students are very close to graduation which is slated for the 11 and 12 of December 2018. Please mark your calendar if you would like to be with us so that we start arranging what you can possibly do during the event.

Brother David Ballard, our coordinator from the Pattonville congregation and his wife Nancy, go to Mission Printing to pick up tracts for the Pattonville congregation to collate and staple them and then take them back to Mission Printing. He was also here to see the tracts going to the final consumer. We were at the bus stop sending some cartons to Northwest region.

Statistics for the campaign: 

 Number of baptism =========================  15 souls 

 Number of Restored   ========================= 9 souls

 Number of congregation established ============== 0

 Number of congregation revived    ================ 1

 Number of tracts distributed          ================= thousands  

     PLANS

Evangelism continues as we plan to go to Nkambe  for mission work.

Thank you very much for your help, God bless you. Your prayers and kind gestures are the wheel that moves the mission on. Your reward will be great when the one that rewards people will come. Do your best to share our reports with others .

 Elangwe and family 

By His grace Director of BVBIC- Wotutu

Good work in Nigeria

Beloved in Christ Jesus.

Greetings from BVBIN and SWSE, Ibadan and fellow WBSFUW in South West States of Nigeria. Below is the summary of our activities for the month of June 2018.

OVERVIEW :All our students were busy serving the Lord and His Church through out the month of June. 

EVANGELISM : On June 6-10, we were busy in the restoration of the Lord 's church in Bachita town, Kwara State and the Lord crowned our efforts with the restoration of the brothers. 

 On June 9,the remaining students in the campus under the leadership of Bro. Kayode Solomon Eniafe and Bro. Abraham Idu Yeje were busy evangelizing Butubutu, Kuede,   and Akinwande villages of Ona Ara L. G and  Asejire town of Osun State. The Lord blessed their efforts with a conversion of a young girl .

On June 14, an internet student of Sister Janet Park named Adebisi Omisakin was baptized at Asejire river near Butubutu village. 

On June 15-17, we trooped out in two vehicles to evangelized Badeku town and edifying the brethren in this young congregation planted by the school on February this year. 

SPECIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT :The school were able to floor the outside part of Bro.Doug Event's Hall and that of the Director & Guest house .

Also, we have succeeded in getting Oyo State Government approval to run the Nursery and primary School for the children of the less privileged people in our community. 

OTHER COMMENTS :Brethren should please help us to send some Gospel literatures such as Good Bible, Commentaries, Bible concordance, etc. through Bro. Steven Ashcraft who is going to be one of our guest speakers during the 15th annual Bible Lectureship and graduation ceremony. 

WORLD BIBLE SCHOOL PROGRAM : With the help of Bro. Joel Coppinger and associates, we were able to print 10,000 WBS introduction lessons for the recruitment of new students for free WBS correspondence courses in Nigeria. Over 100 was returned early this week to the WBS OFFICE in Tulare County, California, USA .

CONCLUSION: We thank you all for your great contribution towards the growth of the Lord's church in Africa and the whole world. May the Lord continue to bless all our joint effort in Christ Jesus name, amen. Remain blessed  .

Your fellow labourer in Christ 's vineyard..... Bro. Makinde Ebenezer Olufemi (Director of Studies and Chairman and fellow WBSFUW) 

Continued success in Guinea

Dear brethren,

Here is the report of activity operations for the month of May 2018.

Classroom: There were 2 of the 19 students who did not fully end up their classes. This was due to illness on the part of one and family problems on the part of the other.

Student Justine, who had the family problem has returned and has taken extra classes to cover up. On the other hand, student Saa Nestor Millimouno is still sick and has not returned.

The rest of the students made additional progress in their class participation and academic performance.

Evangelism: Since this is a regular routine, we and our students are especially every week-end on the field in and around the town. Though there were no direct conversions under this activity (except the follow-up of our campaign week which added 3 more souls to that work), many of the prospects are visiting to participate in Sunday worship. The radio program is making some impact as we receive calls from some of the listeners. Some in 2 villages around Gueckedouare calling on us to visit and talk to them. One man said to Philippe, the host preacher, “it is for you people that I bought a radio”.

Campaigns: The first week in the month of May was our campaign week and it was fairly successful. All, but 2 of the students participated and we divided ourselves in 2 groups, but to evangelize in 3 communities – 2 villages and a quarter in town.

I was a leader in one of the groups along with Antoine and we were sent to revive one village congregation that had almost died. You will see photos of where they assembled as we teach. The restoration was successful and there were 5 additional conversions on the Sunday of May 6, but some of us had returned to town for worship in the new congregation at the school.

The other group, led by Philippe, the host preacher visited and revived the church in a nearby village, Bandalo-camp. Shortly, they returned to evangelize the Solondonin quarter where the host church has her worship hall. Motor bikes were chartered for the campaign and I managed to get a photo of the other team on the 2nd of May.

Finally, student Michel who upon his request was sent to his village at Bandalo-leh to prepare the way for his people to receive the gospel returned to campus on Sunday morning, the 6th of May so that our follow up on the 7th and 27th May resulted in 5 and 3 conversions respectively. Sunday worship in that village started on the 13th and the attendance is now between 16 and 18.

Personal Profile: Emile Millimouno is one of the security men on the school campus. Both Emil and his wife are members of the Lord’s church. He was converted around 1994 during the time when we preached the gospel in his village of Dawa. Though without formal education, E mile is a devoted Christian man who is very regular in worship with his family regardless of the 6 to 7 kilometers distance away from Gueckedou where they now worship. There is a stable congregation (about 20 years old) in his village which is some 32 kilometers away from Gueckedou and he was one of those who helped to strengthened it.

Emile is very humble and willing to serve not only the staff, but also to help the students in almost everything they need of which he is capable to do on campus.

He was the first to begin to discuss biblical truths with his fellow security man about the church before we could preach to him and his wife. Though not yet converted, the man and some of his children are now regular in worship.

Because of his dedication to the faith, Emile does his security works regular and faithful. He is liberal and has little or no concern to limit his services even if his work time is over and that is one of the reasons why his name is popular on campus especially with the cooks.

Thanks

Francis

Excitement in Zambia

The school has entered its sixth weeks since the studies begun and we will be changing the quarter in two weeks’ time. We continue to be very grateful to God for such an opportunity of teaching these men. Zambia is well represented by this intake, having six married and the rest single students.

Our last report we did not mention two more students who have since reported to bring our number to fifteen; Frederick and Simon.  Fredrick Mwansa is a native of Samfya District of the Luapula Province of Zambia. Brother Fredrick is married and has four children. He is one of the leaders at Munuchi church of Christ in Samfya. In spite of him being older than the rest of the students, he has proved to be a force to be reckoned with. He is much focused and understands what he needs to do as a student of the Bible and also as a preacher of the gospel of Christ. We are happy to have Brother Fredrick as part of the student body here at BVBI-Zambia.

Simon comes to us from the city of Kitwe, Copper Belt Province of Zambia. Brother Simon is a member of Wusakile church of Christ in Kitwe. He is single and very eager to learn. He came late because he was preparing to rewrite his GCE (General Certificate of Education). Simon’s interest in advancing his education is commendable and can be used to further the Lords Church. 

Students have easily adapted to all the programs of the school and they seem quite eager to learn. Such eagerness is what we need as a church in Zambia to mitigate for the lack the church has. We have noticed with concern that paucity of trained preachers in our nation. For a long time congregations have been planted and left alone at a time they were still in infancy and in need of guidance and spiritual support from Evangelists. BVBIZ – Zambia is here to take care of such a disparity.

BVBIZ – Zambia, in a bid to offer practical training to students, has embarked on weekly outreach programs. Through these efforts, we have help revive a congregation that was taken by Pentecostalism with a Membership of eighty six (86). This ambitious evangelism program is being spearhead by Brother Cephas Mwamba. All the students are expected to go for evangelism every Friday afternoon in neighbouring townships. Students have been teaching the Bible to people which has resulted into one Baptism at Mikomfwa Church of Christ. While doing evangelism, the students are accompanied by the instructors. In addition to evangelism, on the 22nd June, 2018 (Friday) the students visited Husitine Simuyemba’s family. Husitne is one of our students. Brother Husitine's father suffered a partial stroke. And the students felt duty bound to visit him and offer support as they sung and prayed together.

The first quarter will end in the second week of July.  Brother Kennedy Mukuka will be teaching in the second quarter “Personal Evangelism 1”. This course is indeed very important because it will equip the students with some skills on how to conduct Bible studies (one on one). This course will be given uttermost attention considering that we want to take our students even more in vineyard of our Father. 

Our students have so far taken the following courses:

Scheme of Redemption –Brother Donnie Estep

How we got the Bible – Brother Fred Kanangu

Old Testament 1 - Brother Cephas Mwamba

English 1 and Greek 1 – Brother Cephas Mwamba

Cost of Discipleship – Brother Cephas Mwamba

Christian Evidences – Brother Fred Kanangu

Personal Evangelism 1 – yet to be taken

The following courses will be taken in the second quarter:

-Biblical Interpretation 1 (Introduction to Hermeneutics)-Brother Kanangu

-Life of Christ 1 (Overview of Four-fold gospels) – Brother Cephas Mwamba

-Public speaking 1 (Intro. to sermon preparation and presentation) - Brother Fred Kanangu

-Acts- Brother Cephas Mwamba

Short Courses- the New Testament Church (One True Church) & Personal Evangelism 1 –Brother Kennedy Mukuka

We continue to give thanks to our God for the financial support and all the encouragement in this good work we have continued to receive. We will likewise pray that God will bless the works that you all are involved in as well.

In His Service,

Cephas and Fred

Prayers requested in Cambodia

IBISR REPORT

We are truly grateful to serve the living GOD, and we are also very happy to work with you in the service of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here are some of the activities of the Siem Reap International Bible School and the Church for the month of May 2018.

School

We continue to discuss with our students the subjects (How to be a good student) and (How to preach the gospel) taught by Darat and Piseth.

The students of the IBISR have indeed had a great influence because of their Bible studies. Specifically, some of the students went to a village to share the gospel to the people there.    They have also learned a lot of things from their own experience. This is important in many ways including enriching the roots of young Christians and displaying God’s love to the     Cambodian nation. Between school work, part time jobs and church work - the students help many citizens and sister and brothers in need.

One more thing we always thanks our big brother Wes Autrey and his family. They always encouraged us and helped us to grow in God’s family.

Church

We are so glad that there is another soul included in God’s life-book!  Mical has been studying God’s word, worshipping regularly and made this eternal decision to be a citizen of God’s  kingdom. Mical is from the USA but lives here now.

We are so thankful for the members of the Church and families in Church of Christ in Siem Reap who continue to meet and strengthen one another.  We also also thanks for women’s classes each Sunday afternoon, as they are soul winners and good workers for the Lord.

Pray

Please remember us in your prayers for:

1. Women to be unified. - Unity is what will keep us strong and make us stronger.
2. Construction of the school building. - We are adding a classroom area on top of our current building.
3. The process for the next class. - Graduation is this July and we are currently searching for new students beginning in the fall.
4. The leaders in Siem Reap Church. - We are young in Christ, growing in numbers and strong in faith.

We are thanks you for your prayers and partnership.

LOVE YOU IN JESUS’ NAME.

PISETH

Classes, campaigns, and chickens in Takoradi

Dear Brethren,

We greet you all once again from the WCSOP, Takoradi – Ghana. Once again we are grateful to be reporting to you our activities.

CLASSROOM WORK

Thank God our classroom work for both the regular and part-time students went on successfully. Both teachers and students were on hand and on time which resulted in effective teaching and learning. There was an end of term examination for the regular students which was also taken by all the students.

EVANGELISM/BAPTISMS

Again, both instructors/students’ efforts resulted in the baptism of 10 souls. We ask for your prayers for the new converts to grow in faith and knowledge of God.

HHI SUPPORTED POULTRY PROJECT

The school’s poultry project is also going well. We have completed selling the last batch of birds and have placed another order of 300 birds to be delivered within this month. Out of the 300 birds, 16 died out of it. These usually die when there are lights out and in their struggle to seek for the feed, they trample upon themselves. This lights out has been our greatest challenge. Also during the period, the prices for their feed went up on the market.

We have just return to the classroom after a month break. Classes have started for both regular and the part-time.

GIFT OF FURNITURE

A Christian brother returning from a trip to London brought us eleven tables and chairs to be used in the classroom. The school spent 235 Cedis to transport these from Accra to Takoradi 

GRADUATION DATE

The date for our next graduation has been scheduled for August 25, 2018. Thirteen regular students are graduating after the two years course of study. Since brother Toby would be in Ghana for this year’s Seminar for Preachers and church Leaders around that time with another elder from the Howe church, we would be sending them the program soon for them to know which part they would play on the day.

CAMPAIGN FOR CHRIST

Also, we plan to have a Campaign for Christ before this last batch of regular students leave after Seminar. This is also scheduled for August 27–30, 2018.

God bless you all.

CHARLES

39 students in Arusha

We thank God for our second quarter has ended very well, our students have gone home to meet with their family and spend time with their local congregation. A total number of 39 students both in Swahili and English class have been receiving training so that they can be helpful in their community. These students are expecting to return early in August for their third quarter.

As they spend their holiday break we expect them to preach at the congregation and evangelize the community. Please keep these men on your daily prayer and they continue to grow serving our master in the Kingdom. This year we are expecting nine students from the second year to graduate and go out to fight the devil. Also Pray for them so that when they come back they can finish their remaining hours of class.

Just to let you all know how blessed month of June for the Lords Church at Kisongo. This year more seeds have been planted and our God has put the increase, we had a number of evangelist both local and from USA working with church members in congregation around the area of Arusha. Their effort has resulted into over 67 baptisms. We are glad to see that local preachers are still on the ground knocking doors and continue with the follow-ups, more that 120 bible classes are still waiting to obey anytime. We continue to pray for this wonderful work of the Lord. 

Our God is great and has always been faithful in His promises. Thank you all for your love for the Lord and His church, and especially who continue to support and dedicate your time to see the Kingdom continue to expand in Tanzania and beyond east Africa.

In Christian Love, 

Godfrey Mngoma

Dean of Students, Andrew Connally School of Preaching

A Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver extension school

Arusha, Tanzania

An update from Togo

Dear brothers in Christ

It is a pleasure for me to write to you today to share this grace that the Lord grants us in the work of the Lord at the Bear Valley Bible Institute in Kpalime (Togo).

We have just started the courses for the second term of the sixth class of which the number of students is twenty (20). They follow the courses attentively and minutely as some come from the denominations and want to understand very well the courses

Second quarter courses:

1. The Christian home

2. Christianity without denomination

3. Spiritual maturity

4. A study on sin

5. The cult of the New Testament

6. Christian influence

Classes open each morning from 7:30 am through devotion which each student on the “student program” or “time table” passes on to others to preach and the others follow with attention after a teacher does the remarks on mistakes made, so every student has his turn

Classes: the timetable (10 hours a day except Wednesday 6 hours only during the morning).

Morning: 4 hours of lessons

Classes begin at 8:00 am to 10:00 am and the pose or recreation: 10:00 am to 10:30 am, the second part from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm.

Evening: 2 hours

Classes from 3.00 pm to 4.00 pm and one hour from 4.00 pm to 4.15 pm, the second part from 16.15 pm to 17.15 pm

Evangelism: the teacher’s staff has decided that every Friday students come down to the streets, houses, villages for the distribution of biblical booklets and to do personal studies with people who give them time. They go in groups of five (5) under the supervision of a teacher or an active evangelist. We want that each student can do the work of evangelization like personal work at his place. In May, their fate for evangelism gave one baptized.

Challenges: a new congregation established in the village of AKATA. We sent the students to do the practice in this village. For a whole day they were in the houses accompanied by evangelists two by two for an efficient work. At the end of the evangelization campaign there are 4 baptized people. So after doing the theory and also do the practices.

May the peace and grace of our Jesus Christ fill all his blessings for the support you bring to the Institute.

Thanks

Your brother

NYEMANTA Essotena

Continued progress in Sierra Leone

Hello brethren in the lord.

We thank God for possessing a piece of land for the school in Sierra Leone.

Above is a photo of the land purchased measuring (0.5915) hectare of land, followed by a rented house for the School. We want to appreciate the good work you are doing in support of the gospel in this part of the vineyard.

AGRICULTURE

We have developed a bigger garden for agriculture farming than last year. We have established a farm for the school which contained a mixture of crops predominantly groundnuts

STUDENTS PARTICIPATION 

Short and long courses conducted by our lecturers with Students fully participating in the teaching and preaching process in the classroom

CAMPAIGN FOR CHRIST

After series of visitations and house to house evangelism within the Kenema communities, we are going for an outreach campaign in all the areas we have visited  to spend a week long teachings and preaching program, starting from the 18th to 25th June.2018.  A report will follow later.

We ask for special prayers from all the brethren

Thank you.

In Christ

Bro. Ishmael S. Bangura

Campaign in New Zealand

Greetings! We are all trying to catch our breath. We just completed a North Island-wide campaign and camp/lectureship. Thirty-four Christians from the USA came to New Zealand to work with 11 congregations in New Zealand to contact over 8,000 homes for Christ. All of our Bear Valley students and New Zealand staff were involved in the campaign. 

We also hosted our second annual lectureship, which was grafted into the Porirua church’s annual Queen’s Birthday Weekend Camp. We had a record attendance of 144 people on Sunday morning, with at least twelve congregations represented. All of the lessons were presented by people somehow connected to Bear Valley. You can listen to the lessons presented at the lectureship at this link.

At the end of next month, we should be graduating our first three students. It’s hard to believe we’ve been doing this for two years already!

Thank you for your love and support of this work. Please keep praying for us. God bless you!

 
Lance Mosher, BVBINZ Director

Graduation in Trinidad

Last year the Trinidad School of Preaching (in existence for over 40 years) and Bear Valley joined hands to raise the bar in that good school. The current faculty has now earned the Bear Valley degree. We are grateful for this partnership and look forward to what it will do for the Kingdom. See the report and pictures HERE

Graduation in Zimbabwe

The Bear Valley extension in Gweru, Zimbabwe just celebrated their first ever graduation. I am proud of the students and staff of this fine institution and you will be VERY impressed to read what they have already accomplished. Simply click HERE