Bear Valley Bible Institute Sierra Leone
ACTIVITY OPERATION REPORT FOR JULY 2025
Full Time and the Extended (2) Programs
INTRODUCTION
The academic and evangelistic work of the students and staff of the Bear Valley Bible Institute and the Sierra Leone School of Biblical Studies continue to progress and make significant impact on the churches of Christ and the spiritual landscape of Sierra Leone. In and out of the classroom, we continue to be busier every day. As staff, apart from the school involvement, we continue to be very engaged with local and universal activities of the Churches of Christ in Sierra Leone. Moreover, an effective follow up on our graduates also continues to yield good fruits; they continue to be actively involved in the work for which they were trained. For the first time, many of them all over the country came together in one place for a four-day evangelistic seminar that they organized by themselves at Dia. On the other hand, the evangelistic teams on the field also continue to steadfastly promote God’s evangelistic mission. Here are more details to the highlighted activities:
STUDENTS AND ACADEMIC UPDATES
On July 21, 2025, our final year full time students wrote their final exams for their sixth quarter and went on a two weeks break and were expected to resume classes by August 1, 2025. Meanwhile, our 20 year one students who were added to our community and family in June continued to get themselves familiar with the new learning environment and all its activities. They have started showing good signs of focus and direction. May God be glorified for that! Further, our 10 part time students held on firmly with their academic and evangelistic activities. Nothing happened to any of them and gratefully, they are all intact. They are rounding off their seventh quarter which would end by first August, 2025, Lord willing.
EVANGELISTIC EFFORTS AND CONVERSION OF SOULS
On the field, our school’s regular weekly evangelistic efforts were rewarded with three souls. Apart from the conversions, we continued to strengthen the weak congregations at Panguma, Daru, and Hangha. It is part of our activities (External Mission Work outside Kenema) that every quarter (sometimes two quarters depending on the need and the situation), we select congregations to strengthen. Once selected, staff and students are scheduled to be going to those congregations week in and out. This has helped many congregations to gain their spiritual stability back. It has also been helping our students greatly to gain practical experiences on the field in addition to the experiences they gather during our scheduled evangelistic campaigns. Continually, as noted earlier, our graduates also had seven souls converted and four brethren were restored. The evangelistic teams also converted fourteen souls during the month of July and restored five brethren. So for the month of July…
A. The school had three conversions.
B. The alumni had seven conversions and seven restorations.
C. The evangelistic teams had fourteen conversions and five restorations.
D. The total conversions were twenty-four.
E. The total restorations were nine.
THE ALUMNI BODY CONDUCTED A VERY SUCCESSFUL EVANGELISTIC SEMINAR
As you have always been informed, our graduates have been making a lot of efforts in their localities. In the world of materialism and the love for sin, to find young men (and few old) who are focused on the Lord can be difficult at times. But these men continue to model their lives after their Savior Jesus Christ. It is encouraging and commendable indeed to be associated with such men! The school is not joking about strengthening this relationship. The graduates have been connecting with one another and even have a forum where they hold meetings to discuss their work in their respective localities. Therefore, during one of their meetings, one of their colleagues, Jacob James who is a very useful vessel for the congregation at Dia, Kailahun District of Eastern Sierra Leone requested that they go to his congregation and host their first general gathering of an evangelistic seminar. He presented several important and spiritual reasons why his congregation needed his colleagues to go there for the seminar. Eventually, they went and had a four-day consistent out and indoor program. This program was held on July 10 to 13, 2025. The theme for their gathering was, “How to Make Oneself Available to Promote God’s Evangelistic Mission in a Local and Global Sense.”
The program involved indoor lectureship and door-to-door evangelism. Open air preaching was also well utilized. As a result, seven brethren who had backslided were restored. There was no conversion recorded but the Gospel was preached to many souls. The Dia congregation will do a follow-up thereafter. Moreover, the program helped in bringing the Alumni together in the spirit of love and humbleness and rekindled in them the desire to continue working in the Vineyard of God. They held a meeting and shared their field experiences with one another. They concluded that at least per year, they would be conducting such activities at different locations twice. They have other plans that they are working on and soon they will begin to implement them. We are grateful to God for those field workers. The Alumni members remain committed and zealous in carrying out God’s evangelistic activities. May the Lord bless their efforts continually!
CONCLUSION
We remain grateful to God almighty for His guidance and wisdom in all that we do. He keeps on helping us to do what we are doing; He uses people like you to encourage and share with us your means. Together, we shall continue to progressively nurture men and convert some to Christ. We have planned a very important lectureship for all the preachers and Church leaders in Sierra Leone from August 7-9, 2025. Please keep on praying for us for the realization of the program and for more successes to be recorded in all that we do.
Your brother,
Peter Sahr Makundu,
Director,
Sierra Leone Bear Valley Bible Institute