



Dearest in Christ,
Greetings from this part of the globe. It is Cameroon and to be precise, we are in Wotutu in the Southwest Region of Cameroon where we are serving God in His church. The month of April was filled with evangelistic trips to many areas as “We Think Souls.” I was invited to speak, by my former director, during the send-forth and thanksgiving ceremony of the Nigerian Christian Institute school of preaching where I was trained. It was an opportunity for me to meet former classmates and instructors, and to share a summary of the work we have been doing in Cameroon since our graduation in 2005.
We do hope this report will meet you, your entire family, and the church family, in good health and sound in the faith. God is still sitting on the throne and His work in Cameroon is making some significant progress. All glory goes back to His name.
Our students enjoyed some good food that was brought to them by some families in the Wotutu congregation. It was their own little way to motivate, support, and encourage the students toward their preaching vocation. They savored the Cameroonian delicacies in the STC dining hall. God will surely bless them for such good gestures.
We are still very much involved in our hinterland missions. Because the gospel is for all, we are taking the gospel to the hinterlands. It is not easy to penetrate those hinterlands with the absence of all wheel car vehicles. But that should not be an impediment for the advancement of the gospel. The New Testament church is absent in some villages, and we have the great commission that demands that we break any odds necessary to make sure that the gospel reaches there.
My wife, Elangwe Magdaline, was part of the mission to the Mbu Bakundu area. There is no motor pathway there. Even motorbikes cannot reach the village. As we trekked through the rainforest, we saw a lot of rain there, but because of the trekking, we were still sweating even with the cooling rain, because the terrain was not easy. But the song we sing motivates us as we believe that, “Anywhere with Jesus We Can Safely Go.” Trekking to get to the next village took us 4 hours inside the forest.
Brother Amos is a Christian in the Ikiliwindi congregation. The walls in the worship building are riddled with bullet holes because it is located along the road, where during the crisis, a lot of gunshots were fired for reasons we are not fully aware of. We shall be going there next month for mass evangelism to revive the congregation as the preacher escaped for the safety of his life during the crisis and has not returned even until now. The congregation has not opened her doors for the past eight years, because there is no one there to preach for them. The field is getting riper by the day but the laborers are really few.
We resorted to transporting the Mission Printing Bible tracts into the hinterland villages on our heads from the point that motorcycle transport had to stop after they took over from the point that the school van had to stop. Because of the rain, we used plastic wrap to waterproof and secure our tracts boxes.
There is no better reward, after struggling in the forest to make it to the village where you are designated to go share the gospel and have finally arrived, than to meet prospects and have the opportunity to introduce the message of the New Testament Church and you find them paying keen attention they listen attentively to the gospel message. It pushes away all your stress and suffering.
There was keen attention paid and kind receptivity of the people in these communities as they will take their time to coin questions and pay deep attention in listening to the speaker so as to gather the truth they are searching so earnestly for. I see them as being like Thessalonica because of their noble mindedness.
This young lady alongside twelve others obeyed the gospel in Difenda Balue village and so a congregation of the New Testament Church is fully established there. It is quite far from Wotutu. Just for a student to reach there, will cost us 40.000 frs or about $75. It is a reasonable charge for such a distance but a challenging one for us nonetheless. But, no amount of money can buy a soul out of hell or from the snare of the evil one. That is why we invest in preaching the gospel, as the gospel is God’s power to save.
A young lady also obeyed the gospel in Bosaka, low land village. Jesus brings spiritual salvation to the people, but as people obey the gospel, you will be able to see physical changes in them immediately as well. We think souls and we keep robbing from the strong man’s house. Our students are excited to spread the gospel message and we are happy to send them, because, “This is the Time to Go.” The field is ripe and the laborers are few. We are taking advantage of all available opportunities to hawk to these villages the free bread of life.
There are many ways to make the gospel of Christ known to people. In Wotutu, we are using the development of Christian education to preach the gospel in a wider spectrum. Our daily devotional and chapel services bring many young minds closer to the truth. This is one reason the Wotutu congregation is increasing as it is. We are using the gospel in a way to pass it through the children into their parents. It is working! In Wotutu, we also use the taking care of orphans to preach the gospel to many visitors who come to visit the Brightland Christian Orphanage are always touched by the gospel through songs or the reciting of memory verses by the children in the orphanage. Many thanks to those who believe in these ministries. I pray for others to see the need.
In the entire month of April, twenty souls were added into the Lord’s body. A new congregation was established and the Bosaka congregation revived with 27 souls now worshipping.
Plans
In this month of May, we are planning two mass evangelism campaigns into different places while we continue in the nurturing of those congregations established and revived on a weekly basis. Preachers are scarce, so we dispatched students every Friday to go do house to house evangelism and nurture those young congregations. They then return to school on Sunday night. Please we plead for your prayers for us and for the work that has been entrusted in our hands.
Ekok is a virgin land. No congregation of the Lord’s church is there, so we will be there in the weeks ahead to evangelize the area. Ekok is a border town with Nigeria. We will also go to Mudeka for mass evangelism, and for nurturing.
Appreciations
Thank you! Thank you very much for all your prayers and support. They are the good wheels that make this work function. God is watching and will surely bless you and your family for your tireless efforts towards the work in Cameroon. If it pleases you, please share this report of the work with others.
Make a great day
Elangwe and family
By His grace director of the BVBIC-Wotutu