GUECKEDOU BEAR VALLEY BIBLE INSTITUTE OPERATIONS REPORT FOR AUGUST 2025
The Gueckedou, Guinea Bear Valley Bible institute family brings you greetings in the precious Name of Christ, our Lord. We are grateful to Almighty God and we appreciate you all for your partnership in our work of preacher training and evangelism. With that, we have the obligation to give you an activity report again for the past month, August 2025. There were not many activities also because we were on break for about 2 weeks and are just resuming classes this September. Notwithstanding, there were the usual indoor and outdoor activities of lectures, personal evangelism, follow up works and some evangelistic teams campaign exercises all of which resulted successfully. Here are the details below.
Classroom:
Before rounding up for a 2 weeks break, brother François Tengiano was with the students giving lectures and practical exercises on Evangelism Il. All 13 students kept on the race and the lectures were successful. Thereafter, the students were released not only for the rains, but also to enable them during their resting period to engage in some of their own family affairs.
Personal evangelism and follow up works:
As usual, evangelism is a regular routine exercise and many preachers are thereby engaged in it while others especially the Bear Valley staff and students include that with the follow up work to new churches and those of our students. Two of four evangelists who converted 7 souls during the month of August were Bear Valley staff who baptized 3. The third and fourth were the team leader of Ouende Kenema and brother George of Lola. They also baptized 4 at 2 different times.
Evangelistic teams:
There were in all 5 new churches planted in the Nongoa and Koundou Lengobengou sous-prefectures.
These are the churches planted:
1. Felo of Koundou Lengobengou sous-préfecture, 6 baptized on Aug 2, 2025
2. Dangdou of Nongoa sous-prefecture, 15 baptized on Aug. 6, 2025.
3. Tongolo of Koundou Lengobengou sous-préfecture, 10 baptized on Aug. 11, 2025.
4. Diyan of Koundou Lengobengou, 6 baptized on Aug. 17, 2025.
5. When the 5th campaign was interrupted by the rains and prospects reached a discussion for the team to return the following weekend, one family considered that a week later would be too far and therefore called a day later and requested to be baptized. So the brethren returned on early Sunday morning and baptized 6 persons, most of which were members of the same family in the village of Lelah which is also in the sous-prefecture of Koundou Lengobengou. We are making plans not only for a return to the village of Lelah, but to make a general follow up during the months of September and October of all newly planted churches.
We truly appreciate all your prayers and support as we do our part in expanding the Lord's kingdom in this part of the vineyard.
Conclusion:
Gueckedou Bear Valley Bible lnstitute has ended one year which is half way of the 48 course study with the 4th batch of 13 students. We continue with follow up work to edify existing congregations and planting new ones. The work is being enlarged as new churches continue to be planted. During the month of August, follow up and personal evangelism efforts baptized 7 souls. The evangelistic teams planted 5 congregations when 43 souls obeyed Christ. The total conversions of all our combined efforts for August summed up to 50 souls.
Once again, we truly appreciate all your prayers and support in this great work of preacher training and evangelism.
Until the end of September when you will hear from us again we pray that each of us will continue to benefit from the grace of God.
Francis, Director