Marriage Of Two Kinds In Cameroon...

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from your brothers and sisters here. I do hope this mail finds you doing well in all that you do for the glory of God.

In the Wotutu congregation, sister Beatrice traveled from the tea camp plantation to come and worship with us. Many continue to follow our radio program. Some denominational leaders are not comfortable with the truth that is being proclaimed through our speakers with any AM or FM media. We are creating lots of impact in our communities; there will be a time for a mass harvest. Sister Beatrice was baptized within the week. She is the first to become a Christian in their family. Keep her in your prayers.

Our last week at CBIW was busy as usual with our students keeping on target to keep growing as they prepare themselves for mission. Many are still sick here, surely because of the changes of weather conditions.

God continues to bless the work as we continue to reach out to the community through our radio program and follow up.

This week ended with a program for the annual national preachers forum. I was one of the speakers to talk on alcoholic consumption among Christians and preachers. It was a wonderful time to make many know their stand on the subject matter. I stood and exposed what the Bible says and nothing but the word of God. The Lord added a soul into the church in Buea during the forum.

We were able to take a family picture with some preachers after the forum. As we return to continue the work of building and empowering our members to maturity. Keep the work in Cameroon in your prayers.

In the cross section of our worship today, we had 7 first time visitors. Some of them being those who came to witness the traditional marriage of our brother and minister to the Brightland Christian academy.

Minister Nsong Edie Nelson stood this morning in front of the Wotutu congregation with his wife, sister Bernadette. The church was represented heavily yesterday night for the traditional marriage which was successful. Keep them in your prayers as they start their journey of love.

We used the word of God (Prov 19:14) to exhort them to build their home on the foundation of God’s word. I continue to praise God as many lives are being touched because of our work. The sister is the first Christian in their family; many who came from far and near admired what the church of Christ can do in our worship and our love for the gospel. We shall do follow up for those who are around and we have already made connections with congregations where some of them came from so that those ministers there will study with them. God is worthy to be praised. Join us praise Him for His great power.

Plans
We are praying and making plans for a great work on the West Coast of Cameroon.

We are making plans for the Lebialem mission. It is also a barren land in Cameroon. One of our alpha batch graduates is going there now as I write this report for a revival and evangelistic work before the June campaign.

Appreciation
God is good. We thank Him for standing by us and by using you to accomplish His work here in Cameroon. Continue to lean on Him, He is dependable and reliable. God bless you as you share our report with others.  

God bless you

Elangwe and family
By His grace director CBIW

The Power Of The Gospel Changes The Most Unlikely...

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from your brothers and sisters here in Wotutu. We hope this reports finds you well and sound in all that you do. We are doing better mostly to those brethren who were sick last week. We appreciate your prayers. They are getting better. Continue to pray for them.

Our radio program, commonly called “Back to the Bible,” fetched a brother who just came to a nearby village to Wotutu and heard us in the morning and realized that we are members of the church of Christ. He came and worshipped with us and said he had fallen away from the grace of God for the past 20 years. He was restored today as I and minister Nsong exhorted him to remain steadfast in the Lord. He promised never to go backward any longer. Keep him in your prayers.

Things went on well in CBIW as the students continued to put in more hours to meet up with their studies as you will see them struggling with our limited books in our small library to do their assignments.

Keep praying for some of our students who went out for weekend evangelism far away from Wotutu, who are still on their way to come back to school from 3 different locations.

Some of the students and I went to Batoke village. We praise God that finally we made it there and the ground is fertile as we continue to study it. Batoke mission will be rolling soon.

In Batoke we moved house to house preaching and teaching the word, and many appreciated the word and need some more studies.

We tried to meet with the authorities of the village. The chief was not around, but some of the king makers gave us audience and said we shall be welcome to the community with the truth, because they cross check from the list that the government of Cameroon has published concerning illegal churches (denominations). The Church of Christ is legal and we have authority from our government to preach the saving message in all communities in Cameroon.

I am teaching Bible class this morning on the topic “Abiding in Christ.” This was aimed at helping our brothers and sisters to solely depend on Christ and obey all of His precepts. It was wonderful.

Brother Amode Samuel listens to our program every morning and became a lawyer against those who will get up in the morning and continue arguing among themselves about the message. Finally he called and asked questions and we met him and studied with him. He obeyed the gospel as brother Mbappe, one of our students, baptized him into Christ.

I was there to encourage him the more about his life changing decision to follow Jesus. I love reading and we gave him a copy of the Bible that he reads and calls daily for clear understanding. Keep him in your prayers.

God is blessing our work. Many in the community continue to see the need to be saved and that the Body of Christ is the church of Christ and there is only one body.

Plans
1) We shall go back again to Batoke village for the follow up in the establishment of the church in that community. This will be the first congregation in the whole west coast of Cameroon.

2) We shall attend the annual preachers seminar in Buea not too far from Wotutu, our students will benefit from this two day seminar.

3) The second edition of the annual preacher’s wive’s seminar will be hosted here in Wotutu on the 24th to the 26th of May 2013. We shall appreciate your prayers and concern.

4) Our young graduate, minister Nsong Nelson, will be doing his traditional marriage this weekend 11th of May 2013 to sister Njang Bernadette. Please, they both need your prayers and love.

Appreciations
God bless you for your prayers, concern and deep love shown towards the work here in Cameroon. You are powerful instruments that God is using to do greater things in the life of many here, as we continue to reach-out with the word and souls are being rescued from darkness. Do your best to share this report with others.

God bless you and watch over you in this new week. We love you.

Elangwe and family
By His grace Director CBIW

Souls Added In Cameroon...

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from Wotutu and the entire brothers and sisters in Cameroon. I do hope this report will meet you in good health and a sound faith.

The Lord added 3 souls in the cause of our efforts in Dibanda village, even at night. Souls were added like sister Cynthia. After her baptism she worshiped today and was really pleased with the New Testament worship. Keep them in your prayers that the congregation in Dibanda will help nurture them to maturity.

Life is going on well, but with lots of challenges. Keep us in your prayers. We just made our way back to Wotutu after four days of evangelism in Dibanada village where one of our graduates is serving. The work went on well.

Last week in CBIW and the Wotutu congregation everything went on well. The students are doing well in their studies, but not having the best of health. This morning after worship in Dibanda village I was called by my wife that my daughter, Cheercy, collapsed during worship alongside brother Godwin Nwachukwu as they had severe chest pain. They were both rushed to the hospital in my absence for emergency medical attention. Brother Godwin was under oxygen for a while until he was revived. They are both getting better. Keep them in your prayers.

CBIW students stood beside a hired van as they prepared to depart to Dibanda for mission. We are spending too much on hired van. Keep it in your prayers for the Lord to provide to us.

God granted us a safe trip to the village of Dibanda. Our students struggled to raise the canopy for shade, as we are in the rainy season.

The students and staff of CBIW embarked on house to house evangelism, reaching out to the community. Evangelism is our mission and we make sure we meet up with that daily through our radio program at 5 AM daily and also follow up.

I was able to teach to the crowd during our indoor class on the topic that Christians are supposed to be aware of the schemes of the devil.

The Lord added sister Helen as brother Edwin welcomed her after her baptism.

Plans
We shall target Batoke now to establish a new congregation by next month. Help us pray. We have been planning to go and we have other commitments that will take us to another area. The whole of the west coast in Cameroon does not have the church of Christ, so if this is successful it will be the very first one and it will spread to other parts of that community.

Appreciations
Many thanks to God for using you to be part of the work here. May God continue to bless you and watch over you to not relent your efforts of saving souls and training men to preach the gospel message.

I pray you share this report with others. God bless you.

Elangwe and family
By his grace Director CBIW

A Great Week In Cameroon...

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings and love from this end, from your brothers and sisters in Christ here in Wotutu. We hope this report finds you and the entire family of God’s people there in good health. We are doing okay here, just for the fact that many people are sick now as we move towards the rainy season here in Cameroon. Some students were really sick and our medicine box at the school could not help them. We sent them to the hospital to see the doctor. Among them is brother Namana Martin, who was vomiting blood. We thought it was tuberculosis, but the doctor, after examination and clinical findings, told us it was not TB. I decided to send him home for herbal treatment, as he told me that may help him. Keep him in your prayers to recover speedily and return to school.

Our students trekked down to the young congregation in Mile 4 which is about 1.5 mile away from Wotutu to help scatter the seed of the gospel.

Still on the road very close to Mile 4, as we think souls. We don’t sit, we move towards souls, so that by His grace many that listen and obey the truth, we shall rob from the strong man’s house. Keep this work in prayers.

A girl from the Mile 4 congregation and her children benefitted for the first time to hear the doctrine of Jesus undiluted. She opened her house and her heart to study some more. Keep her in your prayers as she believes that baptism is not immediate. We shall continue in the follow up.

Brother Assah Peter is doing the same house to house evangelism that is our motto and we do our best to work in accordance with the motto. Many souls are perishing and time is running out. We must do this work now that it is still day. Many love the work we are doing as we preach in the entire community of Wotutu every morning. Some will talk against the doctrine of Christ that we preach, while others love it. For two days we were off the air as our PA system was bad. Many called to asked why. That was the time I truly knew that a great number of people follow the preaching daily.

The entire student body went with the evangelist to the Mile 4 congregation for a family picture. The Mile 4 congregation is less than 3 months of age. Please keep the work there in prayer as our students go there every week to help with the work.

Training is of great importance as our students pay attention to the training they are undergoing with the zeal we instill in them to pay attention to souls. It is our great expectation that as they leave CBIW that burning spirit will continue to push them ahead and never look behind. The Alpha graduates keep impressing me daily from their calls and appeals for Bibles for young converts in their areas of ministry. I visited some in the cause of the week as I passed by their communities. I saw in them that spirit, oh the spirit of CBIW, the spirit of reaching out no matter what. Socially they have no message to take home concerning their zeal and devotions, but they keep moving even as things are really hard on their way. My son, Ray Jr., carried the flag of Cameroon. You could see in his face how serious he was in holding the flag. Whenever I am with him, as we move around from one village or town, whenever he sees the flag of Cameroon he will show me “eh daddy, that is the Cameroon flag.” Oh, I pray that he will grow up to point many to the Bible where you can read about God and can gain salvation free through JESUS. Let us join to train people who will love to point people to Jesus. As we love our country and we teach our children in their tender age to know lots about our country, let us teach them more about Jesus and His church. I love Ray, I love Ray was a song one of our short course lecturers composed for him during his 2nd birthday. Keep Ray in your prayers. He is a promising young man. God bless you all and your loving kids

Plans
We shall go to Dibanda congregation this weekend for a four days evangelism , please keep the work in your prayers.

Appreciations
We thank God for you as you invest your time in prayers and support of the work that is going on here. God bless you and keep you. Share this report with others who may love to be part of this soul saving ministry.

We will appreciate your comments and advice.

Elangwe and family
By His grace director CBIW

Two Deaths: One Spiritual And One Physical...

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings to you all in Jesus’ name. We do hope this mail will meet you all in good health and a sound faith. We are doing okay here, just for some who continue to have some health difficulties now. We are down on our knees praying to the greatest Doctor to help the situation.

The waves of our early morning program keep cutting across communities with the adding of another horn speaker. Some villagers, far from Wotutu, called to participate by asking a question and that we should also include their chief’s name when we are greeting and praying for those in authority. Sister Emerencial, in Wotutu, obeyed the gospel last Monday after her family kept listening to the program “Back to the Bible.” Sister Emerencial smiled after being raised to live in newness of life. She told the church that the husband encouraged her go to the church of Christ, after they followed our program. He said he will come later. We are doing a follow up now with the husband. Keep them in your prayers.

Last week was well with the students of CBIW as they continue without any interruption from their studies. They continue to adapt and see the amount of work load that they must accomplish in school of validate their courses, so that students are determined and they are doing all in their reach to meet up.

We “think souls” and by so doing we make moves to rob from the strong man’s house where souls are perishing in their sins. We were smiling as we trekked to Tole for a funeral of a brother and we also used the opportunity to reach out to the entire community before the time of the funeral.

In Tole we were involved in house to house evangelism where we reached out to many in their homes. Some were doing their domestic activity, but will halt and listen to the truth from the Bible. One of our graduates, Awatt Manfree, is in this community and he is doing a great work.

The casket contained the remains of our brother, Ndive Nathaniel. I am preached to the living who listen keenly on the topic “Where Do You Put Your Hope?” It was really a moment to reflect to many who think accumulating wealth and other things is the best a man can do. The brother died at the age of 81 after suffering from stroke. He was blind man and a widower. The students of CBIW created an impact in the community and the people look at the church of Christ differently, as we never asked the mourners during the funeral service to come and give offering. They asked many questions after that and the Lord added brother Nelson to the church in Tole. Keep the brother in your prayers to grow to maturity.

Plans
1) We are still on mapping out the work in Batoke. The needs are enormous, that is why we need preparation before we move.

2) More demands to come and help with the work are still coming to my office. We shall start sending our students far into the forest in Akwaya areas, which is very close to the Nigerian border in the Northwest of Cameroon. Keep us in your prayers as we “think souls,” so that we shall carry the free bread of life and and share it in different communities free of charge and save many from bondage.

Appreciations
We praise God daily for you, for all that you are doing to make things happen here in Cameroon. God bless you and help you continue in this soul saving ministry. Your reward will come from the Lord alone, because we cannot reward you enough for all that you are doing, but we shall thank you for standing by us. Do your best to share this report with others around you.

Elangwe and family
By His grace director of CBIW