The gospel shows its power in Kenema, Sierra Leone
Bear Valley Bible Institute Sierra Leone
ACTIVITY OPERATION REPORT FOR MARCH 2026
Full Time and the Extended Programs
INTRODUCTION
As we marched through the end of March 2026, we wanted to begin this report by honoring God for His providential care. As a family, we keep on recognizing you, our dear brethren, supporters, partners and readers for your continual demonstration of the love that you have for God thus seeking to save the lost through training; and this training centers on saving souls. There is nothing in this world that is worth celebrating like when the Gospel is being preached and people respond to it by embracing Christ. That is why we are not ashamed to share the Gospel because it is the power of God to salvation. Many good things happened during the month of March, 2026. For instance, souls were converted and congregations were established, the academic activities continued favorably, our search for new students continued, and the preparations for our upcoming lectureship and convocation continued uninterrupted. For the details of the above activities, you are being encouraged to keep on reading as we do this under the following subheadings:
CONTINUATION OF CLASSES
You were informed in our February 2026 report that we have two sets of full time and part time students at our Kenema main campus: those that completed their program and are set to graduate on April 18, 2026 and those that were newly admitted. Therefore, in March 2026, the continuing students held on to their classes and were profoundly committed to their on-field activities as well. We continue to covet your prayers for our brothers and sisters who have decided to undergo the training for more exploit for the Lord.
RECRUITMENT
As one class is scheduled to pass out on April 18, Lord willing, our search for new students intensified. In March, we made some headway in this regard. We distributed 25 admission forms and 15 have been filled and turned in. Apart from those turned in, 3 international students from Liberia filled theirs and are yet to turn them in (though they send snap shots of their filled forms). We have scheduled their early entrance exams for April 13, and before that day, we are hoping that we will have more students. Also, after their early entrance exams, we plan to start classes in May, and hopefully before that we will have more students admitted. We want our readers to understand that it is not always easy to get students enrolled in a Bible school here. Several factors are responsible for that. For instance, the population of the whole country is barely 8 million people and Islam occupies 77% of the total population. The remaining one is denominationalism, other religions and a little fraction of true Christianity (Church of Christ) that we are trying to push. Sometimes to find dedicated brethren in a few congregations becomes difficult. Sometimes also, because of Satan’s influence, some brethren in congregations contend that our school is just offering a DIPLOMA and that is not enough for the type of biblical knowledge they seek to have. Some of them prefer to go to some denominational theological seminaries that offer higher programs. So anytime you see us get students among brethren in the congregations here, there must have been God’s favor, blessing and help involved, a good relationship with the local congregations within and outside Sierra Leone, and a consistent and concerted effort being put in.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE UPCOMING GRADUATION
From the beginning of this year, we have been consistently informing you, our dear brethren, that we are scheduled to have our 4th graduation exercise from April 16-18, 2026. And indeed, preparations for the anticipated program took a positive root in March. To this effect, we had several things in place. For instance, we had a screening for all the students that would be graduating to make sure that they all met our school’s requirements, apart from their academic work. By the grace of God, we hope to have a successful program as we do our best to put everything in place.
SUMMARY OF CONVERSIONS FOR MARCH 2026
A. The school had one conversion
B. The graduates had six conversions
C. The evangelistic teams had twenty-one conversions
TOTAL CONVERSIONS WERE 28
STUDENT’S PROFILE: Titus Nyokor
Titus Nyokor, 23, is a vibrant and committed student of ours who was born in 2003, to Mustapha Francis Nyokor and Esther Nyokor in the Kissi territory of Buedu, Eastern Sierra Leone. He has two siblings- Esther and Mohamed. He is the second child of his parents. Titus comes from a poor but hard working family. His parents are peasant farmers. Through their farming, they train their children.
Titus’ Conversion
Religiously, Titus met his parents being devoted and committed Pentecostal members. In fact, his father till date is a “pastor” in the Pentecostal fellowship. With this background, he grew up in a Pentecostal Church being very committed to the religion of his parents. As a young boy, he was very active in the youth ministry in his denomination. He even began preaching to the entire assembly. Because of his relevance, he was so cherished and respected by his denomination as a youth. Providentially, in 2023 at his home town in Buedu, our preacher and one of our graduates Patrick Ngegba who is leading the Lord’s church in Buedu, went out for evangelism and met Titus. When Patrick was going, he took along one of his members, Isaiah. The pair engaged Titus in a serious biblical discussion. On that day, they could not convince him, therefore, they extended an invitation to him to worship with them during one of their worship services. On one beautiful Sunday, Titus visited the church of Christ and after service, Patrick and Isaiah engaged him again. Listen to what Titus said about their interaction:
During our first encounter when they went out for evangelism, though they did not convince me that day, yet I admired the brothers’ scriptural wisdom. I was fascinated by their depth of the scripture. Everything they told me was supported by scripture. I was very impressed. Then when I finally visited their church, I became convinced by the truth of God’s word that the road to biblical salvation is simple: follow Jesus and His teachings and you shall escape religious deception.
Finally, Titus was baptized and started a very serious Bible study with Patrick and Isaiah. He grew speedily and became useful for the Buedu congregation.
Opposition
When Titus stopped attending the Pentecostal denomination, at first nobody bothered him. But when his father saw that a gap had been created since nobody really was there to replace Titus in his role at the youth ministry, he launched an attack on his son to return to the Pentecostal fellowship. This created a serious unrest for Titus, because he had just discovered the truth that could save his soul and yet here is his father that gave birth to him, pressurizing him to go back to practice error. He was torn into two halves: discard his father’s desire and face his wrath or stand with Christ and His teaching and save his soul, though may suffer temporarily. Patrick and Isaiah at some point had to go and engage the father. He listened to them but was still not ready to let his son out of his denomination. Meanwhile, during this period, Titus was consistently attending services at the church of Christ in Buedu. Then eventually, he (Titus) left the Buedu town and relocated to Kenema to stay with his aunt. At this period, he had a great freedom to practice the sound doctrine. At Kenema, he developed an interest to enroll at the Bear Valley Bible College. He was given the scholarship, and today, he is impacting our academic and spiritual community.
It should be understood that before being admitted at our institution, Titus had acquired a National Diploma in Computer Science and Procurement from the Eastern Technical University, and today, he is being so helpful to our administration. Titus is so zealous and evangelistic. We are grateful to God for a brother like him. We have a lot of confidence in him that he would be a great vessel for the church in Sierra Leone. Please keep him in your regular prayers.
CONCLUSION
Thank you for reading this report to this point. May the Lord provide more opportunities to continue to be useful in His service! Till we come your way again in April 2026, Lord willing, stay blessed and loved by God.
Your brother,
Peter Sahr Makundu,
Director,
Sierra Leone Bear Valley Bible Institute