Evangelism campaigns in Wotutu, Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings to all of you who read our reports. We are grateful for you, and we pray that this report finds you in good health and sound in faith regarding the things of Christ. Last week went well along with all that is entrusted in our hands here as we labor daily for the cause of Christ.

Tomorrow, the 20th of May, is our national day here in Cameroon. Please take a bit of your time to pray for the country Cameroon that God should help us in the senseless crisis that we have been inside for the past 8 years.

We were out of Wotutu for mass evangelism in Mudeka for the weekend. We went there to help evangelize the community and also to bid farewell to a faithful sister in Christ there. It was Helen Peter who passed away. Please keep her children in your prayers. After a busy day of house-to-house evangelism, we sat down somewhere to eat and regain energy for more work.

House to House evangelism gives us great opportunities to share the gospel to many willing hearts. They are free to ask questions about what they have heard from us, as they compare it with what they have been hearing and practicing in their denominations.

By 8 O’clock in the evening, we converged in a village square to preach in the open air to the public. I preached on the topic, “The Reality of the Judgement Day.” It was sounding frightening to many onlookers. That is why the evening was characterized with many questions and answers. Many were eager to know, if truly there will be a day, when all activities on earth will stop, and God will judge all mankind.

During the day, we were busy with house-to-house offering the bread of life free of charge. While many denominational groups sell their messages with promises of miracles, we are offering the undiluted word, absolutely free of charge. Please keep our efforts in your prayers.

The community was very receptive to us as they opened the doors of their houses to welcome us. They were also encouraged to open up their hearts and the pages of their Bibles to sort out the truth. Many questions were asked to help clear doubts and we used the scriptures only, to clear their doubts.

God is too good as we are daily seeing the increase He is giving through our other ministries here like the Brightland Christian Orphanage. This week we baptized Egu Philemon, a young man that is living in and being cared for in Brightland Christian Orphanage Wotutu. This is a great ministry that is reaching out to true orphans to “nurture them for eternity.”

Ursla Bapoh also obeyed the gospel on Sunday 18 May 2025. When we started dreaming about starting the orphanage, we decided that our motto would be “NURTURING FOR ETERNITY.” We can see our dream coming true. Anyone knowing the condition of these children before their coming to the orphanage would have wondered about the future of these children and who would take care of them after their parents passed away. They can now see the love of God through His children that are either overseeing, donating to, or taking care of these children through Brightland Christian Orphanage (BCO). These are children who can’t really explain to anyone why they were the one to end up as orphans. Please, in your private time, remember these children in your prayers.

Marieclaire Anna is a student in the Brightland Christian schools here in Wotutu. We do our best to use Christian education to preach the gospel while these children are in our confined space, we reach out to them with the truth. This is possible through the Brightland Christian schools.

Sakwe Liwini, also a student from Brightland, obeyed the gospel. Christian education cannot be overlooked. These young minds can easily be transformed in school into becoming something better than if they were only left to the influencers in the society. A total of 7 precious souls were added into the body of Christ during the weekend.

 PLANS

Individual weekend evangelism will continue this weekend to nurture and evangelize different communities.

 Appreciations

Thank you! Thank you very much for all the things you do for the advancement of the kingdom of God. God is watching and will definitely reward everyone in due season. Please kindly share our reports with others around you.

Make a great day!

Elangwe and family

 Director BVBIC-Wotutu

Mission Printing helps in Cameroon

Dearest in the Lord,

Greetings from this part of the globe. We do hope you are doing well in all that you do for the Lord and His church. God has always remained faithful to us even in the midst of difficulties and stumbling blocks that have been put in our way. We are thankful to God for you, as you continue to make your calling and election sure.

The new students, that is the Theta batch, are doing their best to cope with the new lifestyle in the dormitory and on the campus away from their homes. It is the most challenging for the married students to adjust.

Mission Printing another ocean container of tracts and other useful books for preachers in Cameroon. It was highly welcomed with great joy as many came out to help. The truck got to our campus where we could easily offload the truck. Our roads to the campus are not very good but we managed to get the truck pretty close to our campus for offloading to avoid too much stress from "head carrying" the boxes to the tract storage room. This particular container will serve the English part of Cameroon, the French speaking parts of Cameroon and Chad, and it contains some Arabic tracts for Chad as there are many Arabic speakers in Chad that we are zealous to share the gospel with.

After their short courses in March, the Bear Valley Bible students in Wotutu hit the road to 18 different locations with the assignment to preach, to teach, and to nurture congregations. We made a new T-shirt for this batch with an inscription, “THETIANS FOR A MISSION.” We realized that many congregations in the hinterland were either dead or they were dying due to the crisis that has been hitting Cameroon for the past 8 years and counting. As the crisis begins to subside in some areas, we take the gospel there because the gospel is for all.

Brother Gabriel traveled to the hill country of Lokando 2 and discovered that the congregation had closed the door for the past 5 years because there was no one to preach, as almost everybody escaped the village because they were afraid of bullets. He had never been there before, so he embarked on house-to-house evangelism to fish out some of the lost souls who were ready to return to the Lord.

These are the ones who were willing to come back, but the news has gone to the different hiding spots of those in the forest so now they know that there is someone who can conduct worship. In the future, as we will embark now on weekend evangelism there, the church will get back on track. Please, your prayers are needed.

 The staff of the Bible institute were also in different mission fields. I also traveled to other places and was able to make it to the Alumni evangelism organized by one of our graduates in Loum. Cyprine is a great worker for the Lord. Loum is a very stony area as you can see behind the blue and yellow painted building where the church in Loum meets. Evangelism is our mission and our mission is evangelism was echoed again, and it brought a reawakening to the spirit of sharing the gospel free of charge to the world.

After visiting Loum, I moved to Bamenda with tracts for evangelism and Bibles for the new converts there. This material will help to empower the church in the Sisia quarter.

Sharing the word of God is amazing. Handing over a copy of the word of God to a brother or sister, usually provokes smiles and happiness. I like giving out Bibles to people that truly need one. It gives me great joy to know that they will now have the written word of God to read, anytime they choose.

Our Bible students are all back on campus with one new student who missed the entire first quarter because of family issues. He is on campus and will be taking the first quarter courses little by little before the two years elapse. The student body now moves to 19 soldiers who are ready to carry the gospel to the many ends of our great country.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you very much for all you do. You are just the square peg, of just the right shape and size, to keep doing the good work. God is watching and is giving increase to the work of your hands

Plans

Evangelism is the top item on our agenda. We have some virgin missions planned within this month so that we can take the gospel there. It is for this reason that we have been called out. Mark 1:38

Make a great day

Elangwe and family

By His grace Director BVBIC-Wotutu

A new intake of students in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Happy new year, 2025, to you and your entire family. We praise God, from whom all blessings flow, for His great mercy to all us all as He has allowed us to be part of the year 2025 and to continue His work here in this part of the globe.

We do hope you are doing well and the blessings of the new year are very much around you and those within your influence. God is too faithful to fail! We pray and hope for an even  better year than 2024 in all aspects of life and ministry.

God has blessed the Bear Valley Bible Institute here in Cameroon to commence with the 8th (Theta) batch of students. They came to Wotutu on the 4th of January 2025 to start their two-year training in Biblical studies. As of now we are moving on with 18 students rather than our normal 20 as some, who after passing the entrance exams and coming to Wotutu to start, were not willing to stay after the first week as they felt different in the program than what they had prepared themselves for mentally. Keep these 18 in your daily prayers as they invest the rest of their lives in the service of God and His church, as preachers of the gospel.

Evangelism is our mission and that is top on our agenda. We engage in hinterland missions to nurture and encourage Christians who have felt as though they have been abandoned. Most congregations in the hinterland are suffering from serious spiritual kwashiorkor (malnutrition) because of the absence of trained preachers there. It is clear that the gospel is needed in villages, as well as in town and cities. It is also clear that there is a dire need to penetrate the hinterland which is very difficult because of bad roads or no roads at all. We must trek many miles inside the virgin forest to meet Christians there.

Our students in the theta batch have started house to house evangelism in the Wotutu community, as they share the gospel in follow up to our early morning radio program, “Back to the Bible.” This early morning program started since June of 2011 and has been going continually until today. Our PA and speaker system as well as our backup generator are not very good at all anymore. Even the chief of the village has asked if we can update them. We are praying for a replacement because the radio program eases the evangelistic efforts of the school and the congregation here in Wotutu as we reach out to over 20,000 people daily from 5 AM to 6 AM, a time when their hearts are still empty of life’s bustles. Because we trust that the hearts of many are empty at that time, we take that advantage to put the words of God there, which will make a difference to those lives. The testimonies are enormous! Please, if you can help us or can tell someone that can help us replace our machines it will be a milestone for us here. You can contact our school coordinator, David Ballard if you are interested in helping in this way.

Comfort Mande and Katie Esowe obeyed the gospel. Our student preachers admonished them beside the river before their baptism. I was there as well observing these new students to see if they needed any instruction or correction in their administration of the event.

Plans

The top item on our agenda is always evangelism as we have given this batch the name of “Revival” as we will be sending them to help bring revival the congregations in the hinterland.

Appreciations

We thank you for your love for the gospel and for all you are doing to make the gospel move. Thanks for your prayers and support. God is watching! Please share this report with others.

Elangwe and family

By His grace Director of BVBIC-Wotutu

Successful evangelism in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from your brethren here in Cameroon. We do hope you are doing well. We always keep you in our prayers and we trust that the work of God is continuing in your area as well. We continue to apologize for the poor network situation in my area which does not permit me to send my report weekly as I used to do. But, all the same, as long as I have the opportunity, I will make sure my report reaches you.

The past period in Wotutu was great as we were involved in most of our normal routines and a few others that popped up. God is still at work in His ministry and we give all the glory back to Him as He deserves all.

During the last quarter, the course “Marriage and Family” came up. It is always a course that comes along with a lot of opening up of and strengthening to marriages. I taught the course alongside my wife. The course involved lessons that ranged from the origin and God’s expectations in marriage to communication, as well as many other very important topics concerning marriage.

During the course of teaching the class, we at times divided the class into two groups. The wives would stay in the classroom with my wife, while the men would stay with me under the tree. In this way, each person could speak freely with an open heart about the deep things in their marriages, some of which would need some special care and special prayers. We tried to do our humble best in teaching this class because we know it is very true that when families are strong and fully connected to each other in love, then the congregations will be stronger as well.

An extra blessing that comes whenever this class comes up, is that those who are married traditionally, will have the opportunity to legalize their marriage before the government of Cameroon which is backed with a marriage license. To help you understand marriages in Cameroon, they come in phases of INTRODUCTION, TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE, COURT OR WEDDING, AND CHURCH MARRIAGE.

Evangelism is our mission and our mission is evangelism. This slogan or motto is a part of the Bear valley Bible institute here in Cameroon. We do our best to keep evangelism at the top of our agenda. Immediately after the wedding ceremony in our congregation, our students and staff hit the road to different mission fields that are far away from Wotutu as we continue hawking the bread of life free of charge .

Mission work takes us to many locations even when heavy rains make bad roads and with the high cost of transportation to get to our different mission fields. But, because we think souls, we have no other option than to go, so that we can save some souls. Mission printing tracts were given to many prospects and God blessed the evangelistic efforts by adding 25 baptisms, 6 restored Christians, and two newly established congregations. There are the Big Butu church of Christ and the Mbonge road congregation.

Praise God from whom all blessings flow. We have resumed classes again in the Bible college and this is the last quarter of the 2 years program as prescribed by the Bear Valley elders. I am teaching this quarter on Congregational Development. I will also include, as part of the course, belief therapy and counseling lessons. This quarter will end before December 11, which will be our valedictory night. The 12th of December will be our graduation ceremony. We have our theme for this graduation which is, “IT’S TIME TO GO Isaiah 6:8.” Please, you can make plans to be our guest during this ceremony.

We say thank you Lord, for the God will serve is a God of providence. Our chapel hall is almost completed. You can see hundreds of students in Brightland Christian Comprehensive College going to the hall for chapel. The message of Christ goes deeper when students are not distracted by various natural occurrences. We used to do it in the open air, but rains would come at times and disturb the smooth running of our chapel and at other times students were baking in the sun.

God takes all the glory. Even though it is not fully completed, hundreds of students are shaded in this building and the serenity is great. More attention is given to the speaker at chapel time now even though we don’t have seats. It is still much better than standing under the sun or rain.

The Bear valley Bible Institute in Wotutu by December, will have been established for 14 years. This means that we have successfully trained 7 batches of students. The new batch of 20 students came in the month of May to take the entrance exams and after many background checks on those who performed well, the result of 20 successful candidates has been proclaimed. They are getting ready to start their new journey in the Lord by the 12th of December where they will be matriculated into the Bear Valley Bible Institute Cameroon – Wotutu. They will be the THETA or 8th batch. Please keep them in your prayers as they make plans to come. It is evident that the FIELD IS TRULY RIPE AND READY, BUT THE WORKERS ARE NOT ALWAYS THERE TO GO GET THE HARVEST. We are doing our best to train men, alongside their families, to preach the saving message.

 Plans

We are still focusing on evangelism. That is our business and the business shall continue.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you very much for all your prayers and for your sincere hearts towards this work. We are convinced that God is watching and will repay each of us in due season. Do make a great day.

   Elangwe and family

    By His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

More conversions in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from this part of the world. We are happy that through media technology, we can share news about our work with you who are far away from our own home. We do hope this piece of information meets you in good health and sound in faith. God keeps watching us and seeing all that we are doing for humanity and for the work that He has entrusted in our hands. We are in the rainy season now and the rains can truly try to interrupt many of our mission works. But, because we are encouraged from Paul’s inspired letter to Timothy to preach in season and out of season, we have no reason to complain or to cease to labor. We must continue to spread the good news of Jesus Christ!

Last week in Wotutu was amazing! The work here is in progress, as the Bear Valley Bible Institute Cameroon – Wotutu students are doing their best in their studies in the word. And, they are always ready to answer the Macedonian call, anywhere in our country.

After studying the Bible, our students are also benefiting from our vocational training instructor, brother Kunda Julius. He is presently teaching our students on how to do plantain and banana multiplication. Plantains and bananas are very fast, food crop growing businesses. Therefore, in our preacher training, we are seeing that our students are gaining this knowledge. It will go a long way in helping them in the field, to either do multiplication to plant in their farms, or to sell to others who need it for their farm. We are fighting food shortage as well, so this will help them to have some income, some food of their own, and to help with the food needs of others in the country.

Weekend evangelism took us to 5 different locations. Among the locations we were embarking to, was a community which contains both French and English speakers. So, students from our sister school in Mbanga, a French speaking Bear Valley Bible Institute, were a part of this exercise. As our school van took some students to other locations, my small mission work car was also there to take some students to another location.

God took us safely to Nkende. This location was very new to us. I even had to ask for directions from people along the road to finally get to the location. A sister in Christ, who just built a new house in that location, was the one that gave us the Macedonian call, asking us for help to establish a new congregation in that area. Her husband and 2 children will be staying there permanently, while she visits them during some weekends. She is serving far away from that place as a nurse. Please put her continued zeal, and our continued work in progress there, in your prayers.

In Nkende, we arrived and started with house-to-house evangelism immediately. We were telling the people that we have come with bread, that is spiritual bread, and we are hawking it free of charge. Many of them were amazed and were very receptive to the new message, although some would not give us the time to share the gospel message with them. But, many did have open hearts.

Mr. John accepted the gospel, alongside 5 others in different families. This was a clear indication that the people are receptive, and are ready to learn some new things. The community is characterized by those who follow Roman Catholic doctrine.

Some young people accepted us to their home. Their parents were there, and we were able to share the gospel message with the entire family. The parents are not fully educated, so they allow their children to interact with us. They asked us a series of questions which we answered with scripture. At the end, the young people decided to obey the gospel but their parents refused. They said that they will not be baptized, but their children should go ahead and be baptized because they were the ones interacting with us, and they have seen that they must have understood us more than themselves. They said that while the children are with the church of Christ, they will one day teach them the truth where they can understand it as well. It was amazing for me to hear this from the parents because most of the time, the parents will blatantly refuse for their children to be baptized without them being part of the group.

The sisters of the Wotutu congregation fully reinstate the LACE chapter in Wotutu, since it was closed down because of the political crisis in Cameroon that displaced many, who fled to other locations. The aim of LACE, which is LADIES ASSOCIATION FOR CHRISTIAN EDUCATION, is to help women and girls in our congregation in the areas of farming, schooling, and more as they disclose and empower them with the means available to bring more stability into their lives, marriages, and homes. Please keep this baby group in your prayers, as it will be a source of empowerment for many to the glory of God.

Brethren, please keep me in your prayers, as my birthday comes up this week on the 31st of July. God is kind to me, and I return all glory and honor to Him.

Plans

We are still focused on our daily program, which is training men to preach so that they can preach the word and evangelize their own surroundings.

Appreciations

Thank you so very much for the work you are accomplishing daily. We give all glory to God, who is the general overseer on this work.

May God bless you and keep you as you make a great day.

Elangwe and Family

By His grace, director of BVBIC-Wotutu

Alumni campaign in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from Cameroon. We hope this report finds you in good health. Our God is good! He is good all the time! The students from the Bear Valley Bible Institute are out on mission work this weekend. The staff and graduates of the Bear Valley schools in Cameroon, through the alumni association, were to converge in a young congregation in the city of Douala called Ngodi Bakoko. This is where one of our graduates, Njume Kelvin, is serving as the preacher. He is also a teacher in some of the circular schools there. As I now write this report, we have all returned home to our different locations safe and sound.

The mission started in Wotutu as some of our graduates were around to collect Mission Printing Bible tracts. 25 specific boxes of tracts were selected, before we all headed off to Ngodi Bakoko Douala for their quarterly alumni evangelistic meeting. Our alumni are still very connected to the work of the school as some have visited and encouraged the current students during chapel. Several of our graduates are also around during missionary visits as they come around to be of help in the work.

The Bear Valley school started in Wotutu under the name of Cameroon Bible Institute. The name was later changed to Bear Valley Bible Institute Cameroon – Wotutu. The school started in 2011 and we graduated our first batch in 2012. As of now, we have graduated 142. During the evangelistic meeting that just ended, of which I was a part, there were 65 out of the 142 graduates present. We have lost some of them naturally by death, some were busy with other commitments, and some could not make it because in these hard times, some cannot afford transportation to the location. Please keep our graduates in your prayers as they go through many challenges to keep up in their ministries.

Plans

We have agreed for the first ever convention, for all of our graduates, to meet in Wotutu for a two-day lectureship in the month of November.

There will be another alumni evangelistic meeting in Tombel in October. Meetings like this are very good, as they give us ample opportunity to evaluate, encourage and motivate our graduates, as they remain steadfast in the ministry of Christ.

 Appreciations

Thank you very much for your love for the work here. Your prayers and your support are greatly appreciated. God is watching, and will reward in due season. Please do your best to share this report with others.

Make a great day.

Elangwe and family

By His grace, director BVBIC-Wotutu

Special guests in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from Cameroon,

  I have gone some time now without sending my reports across the ocean due to many issues concerning internet receptivity in my area. We give thanks to God that we can have this opportunity to say hello, and to make known to you, what is happening in the vineyard here in Wotutu, under our care. We pray this report meets you in good health and in resounding faith as you do God’s business in your own area.

  God has been active with us here. Since December, as the students of the Bear valley Bible institute travelled to 20 different locations for mission work, and God gave the grace and the increase, even in some places amidst the crisis. We always sing, “Anywhere with Jesus I Can Safely Go.” All of them were able to return back to campus safe and sound with good news about souls being saved, but bad news about the ongoing crisis in our beloved country.

  The work here continues to be in progress daily and we give all the glory back to God. It can only be God! The year 2024 started well for us, even though many students returned back to campus sick. All is under control medically at this time though. Thanks for your daily prayers over the work here.

  The year 2024 started well, and have already received a special blessing by us having special guests, minister Denny Petrillo and minister David Wayne Jones from the main campus of Bear valley Bible Institute International in Denver, come to Wotutu to teach, observe, and visit. Our students formed a line to give them a red-carpet reception on our campus in Wotutu. It was a privileged to have such humble servants of the cross, here in Cameroon.

  These servants of God were in Cameroon for God’s business of training faithful men to be fully prepared to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of this country Cameroon. They had an agenda, to teach the book of II Corinthians. It was great for our students to have the opportunity to tap from these two vessels, who are full of the knowledge of God’s word. We continue to thank God for their coming, and for the way they helped our students to learn.

  These two great men co-taught the book of II Corinthians, chapter after chapter, from the introduction all the way to the end of the final chapter. We were really blessed by their presence, even though brother Wayne was sick for a couple of days. He bounced back though and was able to finish his assignment. This assignment took him across the ocean to Africa, for his very first time.

  We had a family picture with them in from of the Bible building to immortalized their memories with us.

We also had a joint meeting with the instructors from both the Bear valley Bible institute Cameroon -Mbanga, which is French, and those from the BVBIC-Wotutu which is English. The meeting was very good, as it was characterized with much appreciation, as well as appeals to upgrade the Bear Valley school in Cameroon to the level that it can issue out a BA in Bible. We keep praying to God to be with the authorities that be as they ponder and plan. We pray that if God will, it can come to pass during our time here.

During the last quarter’s mission work in December by our students, the Lord added 33 souls into His church, 12 Christians were restored to the faith, 1 new congregation established, and 2 congregations were restored.

PLANS

Evangelism is our mission and our mission is evangelism. Evangelism is always in our plans and is always top on our agenda.

APPRECIATIONS

 Thank you for your prayers, for your concern, and your support towards the Lord’s work here. They are contributing a lot, towards keeping the work in the space it is now. Please share our reports with others. May God bless you. Make a great week.

Elangwe and family

By His grace, director BVBIC-Wotutu

"A school without borders"

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from the beautiful country of Cameroon, the land of our birth. God is good, and has allowed us another opportunity to share more good news about the work here in Cameroon that has been entrusted in our hands. We do hope you and your family are doing great and that God is at work in whatever you are doing in your corner, the space God has provided for you.

Our students are back on campus after spending time in 20 locations preaching, teaching, and nurturing congregations of the Lord’s church. They were involved in house to house. The house to house was more effective in some new areas as we were looking forward to establishing a new congregation in Mbanga mile 40 which is along the Kumba-Buea road. God blessed that work with 6 souls. There is now a new congregation there.

Another congregation was down to less than 5 members because of the crisis here in the English region. We went to that community and revived the congregation by preaching peace and being neutral during the struggle. We told those we met who carry guns that we are soldiers of Christ and God has sent us to preach the gospel free of charge to all who are willing to hear. Most of the time, security officers will ask us for authorization from the government. We just explain God’s government and commission from his word from Mattthew 28:18-20.

The Bear Valley Bible Institute in Wotutu has been looked upon by many and nicknamed “A BIBLE SCHOOL WITHOUT BORDERS.” The appellation is coming from “DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS,” who gets into the interior to save lives. Our students too are moving to save lives from eternal condemnation. The gospel is for all. It is for the old, the young, and anyone in between. These young girls happily listened to the gospel from our students and made a lifetime decision to follow Jesus. Keep them in your prayers.

The annual Bible lectureship of the churches of Christ in Cameroon, comes up from the 28th of November until the 3rd of December this year. I am one of the speakers there, and I will be teaching on “Future Leadership of the Church in Cameroon.” Please keep me in your prayers as I go there to do His work.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you very much for all you do for the work that is going on here. Your prayers and support are the wheels that keep this work moving. God sees and He will reward. Do your best to share our report with others.

Make a great day in His presence.

Elangwe and family, by His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

Reaching Souls in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from this far end. We do hope you are doing great. God is blessing us, and we and our families are all going well. It is now summer holidays in Cameroon and many local families have temporarily increased in size because children of brethren come our way to spend the summer holiday.

The past weeks, of the work, have gone well as we were involved in many activities. The Lord has provided the means. We do hope this report meets you in good health and sound in faith.

Our students keep growing in many courses, Biblical and non-Biblical. An example of a non-Biblical course is a class for church music. Minister Tah Lucas does a great job of preparing our preaching students to also be prepared to be good song leaders in their different congregations when they enter their individual works after graduation from school.

The new van has gone a long way to ease our evangelism efforts. We can now move all 20 students to a location for weekend evangelism without any problem. When I drive the van myself, then 21 of us will be able to invade a village. We will be like ants, as we share the gospel to as many as possible before we return sometimes even the same day. It is a great blessing, and we are lovingly, thanking God and the STC family, for such a timely gesture toward us and the work we are doing in the name of the Lord here.

Immediately when we arrive in various locations, we embark on house-to-house evangelism. This method is still very much alive and strong here, as it gives opportunities for the prospects to freely ask questions of personal or general interest concerning their faith. This opens the door for them to become Christians. Some communities are so muddy now that we are in the rainy season now in Cameroon. We are forced at times like this to put on rain boots, so as to make your movement, mess and stress free.

It is always refreshing to go out to other locations for evangelism, lectureships, or workshops. We always meet our graduates there, who are still very active in their respective congregations. Meeting with them, and visiting with them, gives us a picture of the work in the area where they are serving. It is always a time for us to pray with them, and to encourage them to remain steadfast as we know that the field of work and just life in general here is always difficult.

It is a blessing and encouragement to any preacher, when the Lord adds souls to the church as he preaches the gospel and evangelizes communities. It is also encouraging to any preacher, to see young men and women develop, and grow, and start thinking of getting married to build their own families. By doing so, the congregation has a better future. Please keep our brother and friend Jarvis and his girlfriend Georgian in your prayers,  as they walk in love,  potentially resulting in the raising of good Christian children.

APPRECIATIONS

May God bless you for all that you are doing to keep this work functioning. We are very grateful! Thank you so very much for your love for God, His church, His children, and most especially for us here in Cameroon. Please do your best to help us, by sharing our reports with others, who may in turn share them with others in due season.

Thank you very much! Make a great day.

Elangwe and family

By His grace, director of BVBIC-Wotutu

Special guests in Wotutu

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from the great country of Cameroon. We do hope this report meets you doing well and of a sound mind. God is good and He is faithful towards us and the work entrusted in our hands. We do hope you are doing good in all that you do.

The last week here was a busy for us as we were engaged in so many good works for God’s glory. A total of 9 missionaries came from different places in the United States of America to work for the Lord in different capacities.

One taught in the Bear Valley Bible Institute here in Wotutu, others did one on one evangelism, some were involved in medical consultations, dispersing of medications to those sick, and the sending of some severe cases to a hospital for further treatments. There were also visits to the Brightland Christian Orphanage, and a Vacation Bible School. God stood with all of these programs and they went on without any problems. To Him be the glory and honor.

On June 2nd, I was at the airport waiting for Gods servants as they flew in to Cameroon to serve God. 9 of them arrived safe and sound and were received by the brethren in the Wotutu congregation with open arms.

Minister Michael Crowder, and his wife Ethel, came from the Northside Church of Christ in Nashville. He came to teach a short course to our students on “THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH,” while his wife, sister Ethel Crowder was involved in teaching the women during women’s class and was also actively teaching children during the VBS. Brother Michael is a great teacher of the word. Please keep this great couple in your prayers.

PLANS

From the 30th of June we have a mass evangelism in Mudeka village. Thanks be to God; we have a new evangelistic van that can carry 19 passengers. We shall storm the community with the gospel which is far more powerful than bombs. Keep this program in your prayers as God leads us to that community.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you very much for your time and patient with us during the time of our delay. We thank you very much for your prayers and support which is the wheel that keeps this work going. God is seeing and will reward you in due season. Please share our reports with others who may share it even further.

            God bless you all.

            Elangwe and family

         By His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

New students in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Calvary greetings from Cameroon and precisely from Wotutu. We are doing better, and we give thanks to God. The church is healthy, and all of the ministries going on here are rolling on well. God is still leading the way.

Last week in Bear Valley Bible Institute was good as our students were busy writing their first exams in Bible College. All went well. We give glory to God for making it possible for them to have a taste of what it means to be trained to become a servant of God in the 21st century. Keep our daily efforts in your prayers.

After final exams, it was time to travel to different locations for mission work. Some students are going far with tracts, a life straw water bottle with aqua tabs, and mosquito nets. Our students went to different regions in Cameroon for the sake of the gospel. Some will be passing through dangerous communities because of the crisis in Cameroon.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you very much for all your prayers and for your time and timely support towards all the work that is going on here. God is watching and will definitely reward you in due season. Please share our reports with others.

Thank you very much.

We wish you a great day and a great time.

Elangwe and family

Wotutu, Cameroon attends leadership seminar

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from Cameroon and from the brethren here. We do hope this report meets you in good health. We are doing good and God continues to lead the way. The new year is in progress and so are our different ministries which are making some significant progress.

Last week in Bear Valley Bible Institute Cameroon -Wotutu went on well as we were observant to see how our new students are growing. We are here to encourage them to be focused because we are aware that the field is ripe but the laborers are very few. We pray that God will continue to help us, as we add workers to the field every two years through the training of preachers in Bear Valley Bible Institute Cameroon - Wotutu.

The freshmen are getting used to the climate in Wotutu as well as the new lifestyle and new eating habits. These changes have caused some of them to get sick, but we are handling it by His grace.

Last week, because the students have stayed together since January 2, 2023, we deemed it time to form the student government for the present. The students elected a group from among their peers to be running their affairs. This is also a way to help them learn how to practice leadership among themselves. Please pray for them as they learn to lead others. We have a slogan in Bear Valley Bible Institute Cameroon - Wotutu that says, “LEADERS DON’T POINT THE WAY, THEY SHOW THE WAY!”

When you see students dressed in Black and standing under the roof of our Bible track building, then you know that they are gathering tracts and discussing how they can reach out to souls. We think souls, and it is awesome that our students love evangelism. It is a great opportunity for them to share the love of God with some lost souls. Please pray for our daily efforts.

Last week I had a great opportunity to be invited, by those in charge of secondary schools in Cameroon, to speak at a seminar on leadership as recorded in Luke’s gospel. It was a great opportunity for me to speak the truth about leadership, as much leadership in the world is in a mess. It was also another opportunity for me to expose the church of Christ to many who are in various denominations. My God help our efforts.

The seminar lasted 8 total hours. We had several working sessions which were personal discussions and question/answer sessions. It allowed us the opportunity to discuss many Bible subjects and not just stay on the subject of leadership. It was a great opportunity for me, and I pray that the seeds of the gospel that I was able to sow in some of the people, will bear fruits one day for the glory of God.

In academia, there is always a time for testing. It is a time for testing as well as a time for them to check themselves to know how much they have been able to comprehend during classwork and preparation. Please keep our students in your prayers. We can see their zeal to grow spiritually and academically so as to be able to help the church of Christ to grow here in Cameroon.

We are still in the business of handing durable Bibles to our new converts. Brother Martin received a giant print Bible that he will be able to read, even without glasses. “THEY NEED BIBLES,” is a common call and concern. I keep receiving calls from many parts of the country with requests for Bibles.

Last week, Brother Mathew, who is one of our new students, baptized Stella into Christ. Please keep her in your prayers as she walks with Jesus. God is too good to fail!

PLANS

From the 20th to the 24th of February, we will be attending the “Jim Corner Seminar,” on leadership, at the church in Douala. This will give our students the opportunity to meet other preachers. They will also be able to learn some new things there. This trip to Douala will only be possible if we have means of transportation. Our Van can no longer plough our roads because of its age and its mechanical issues. We are presently searching for a good replacement. Please pray for us as it is not easy for us with the current price of things. We will need to rent a van to transport our students to that seminar.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you very much for keeping this work in your prayers and thank you for all the support you are rendering to keep it going. Your prayers and support are the wheels that move this work forward. Please do your best to share our report with others.

May God bless you, as you make a great day in His service.

Elangwe and family

By His grace, director BVBIC-Wotutu

A new class of students in Wotutu

Dearest in Christ,

We send a special new year greeting to you all over there in your various families. We do hope you have entered the year 2023 with joy from above and in good health. We are joyous and healthy here.  God is faithful to us all as we made it into the year 2023 without much problem.

2023 is here and 2022 is gone into the annals of history. For all that was done there in 2022, we give thanks and glory. We also give God in all that was not done when we were not able to meet up. We are alive and we have hope! We will do our best to continue from where we stopped off in 2022.

December 8, 2022 was another time for graduation. It was the 6th or the Zeta batch graduation. Eighteen students happily put on their academic robes after two years of studies and development, to graduate to join many others in the wilderness to preach the saving message. This is a picture of the graduates with their wives, as well as 5 missionaries from America and Cambodia, who witnessed the graduation alongside 1040 others who were in attendance. It was colorful, and it was also time to celebrate hard work. Keep them in your prayers as they are in 18 different locations preaching and teaching in congregations of the Lord’s church.

On the 1st of January 2023, the new students were already in Wotutu to start their classes on the 2nd of January. It is always a pleasure for us to welcome them in our home and to enjoy a first fellowship meal with them. They are in Wotutu, and the road is ahead of them to undergo their training. The road is a good one! Their choices to become preachers are good ones! God has given them to us so that we can encourage them and motivate them to stay focused toward their calling.

On the 2nd of January 2023, we started classes, and 22 of these freshmen started their journey with me teaching, “HOW WE GOT THE BIBLE.” Some of them have been preaching before this time, and it is our goal that they pay attention to the classes so as to learn more to add to what they already have known before this time. We have a very rich agenda for them for the first quarter. The courses are “HOW WE GOT THE BIBLE”, “OLD TESTAMENT 1”, “LIFE OF CHRIST”, “PERSONAL EVANGELISM”, “GREEK LANGUAGE”, AND OTHERS.

PLANS

We are starting our weekend evangelism by taking the students to different locations for them to know the terrain here, as some of them come from far away from the south west region.

 APPRECIATIONS

Thank you for trusting in us, and for the many ways you partner with us to keep this work moving. You have done well, and we pray for your continuation so that we can do more as we start up with the ETA batch. The 7th batch is rolling! Only God knows what the future holds for us and the work, as the global economic crisis deepens to affect basic commodities and services. We pray for God to help us here in Cameroon.

God bless you as you make a great day.

Elangwe and family

By His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

Wotutu staff and students restore a congregation

Dearest in Christ,

I am sure everyone is doing great as we mark the last days of the year 2022. The year has been a fruitful one for family and for the work that has been entrusted in our hands. We continue to thank Him for His grace that we see upon us and on the work as we have witnessed much expansion of the kingdom of God here in our lovely country of Cameroon.

Welisane John is one of our students who has returned from his last mission work. It was successful! This brother had a great two-years stay here in Wotutu. He will be working in the congregation of Mbonge after his graduation. The Mbonge congregation is one of the oldest in Cameroon. The preacher there died many years ago, and there has been no one to help the congregation since. During weekend evangelism, and the end of quarter mission week, Welisane was sent there. They have now deemed it good for him to work with them full time. Please pray for him and that great spiritual things will continue to take place there.

 Our students are “fully baked,” and are ready to take the gospel to the ends of our country. They are ready to “rob from the strong man’s house,” they continue to “think souls.” Please keep them in your prayers. Be praying for them to have the zeal and courage, to do great things for the Lord everywhere they find themselves.

The last class for this batch was “Marriage and Family.” In this class, we allowed people in the community, and in the Wotutu congregation, to come and be in the class to learn. This always goes a long way in the building up of their families, which also helps to make our community a happier, safer, and healthier one.

At the end of the class, arrangements were made with the local government authorities to draw up marriage papers for each couple. They were very happy for us to pay some amount of money so that the students could have a legalized marriage certificate from the government.

We always round up the class with the famous, “CHOOSE YOUR MATE AGAIN BANQUET.” All of the couples were back in the Wotutu congregation for the joyous banquet which involved their families and many people from their communities. Many of our students considered the event to be their original wedding ceremony.

Part of the ceremony was the cutting of the, “CHOOSING YOUR MATE AGAIN CAKE.” The beautiful wedding cake depicted the beauty of the occasion well. This class, and the banquet that follows it, is always a turning point in the lives of many families.

Be praying for the Malende congregation in the Muyuka subdivision. The preacher that had been preaching in that congregation for over 40 years, died in his home country of Nigeria. I was part of the Cameroonian delegation that travelled to Nigeria for the funeral. Sadly, since then, the congregation has begun to collapse, as the sheep were all scattered because there was no one to preach for them. Our students have actively evangelized the village and some Christians were encouraged to stay faithful and others were restored. The congregation is presently alive and healthy again. Please, we need your prayers as we engage in these types of works.

Graduation bells are ringing! This year, graduation celebrations will be December 7th and 8th of 2022. Everything is almost set for the day. Some Christians are already moving towards Wotutu. For some, coming to Wotutu may feel similar to how the children of Israel may have felt as they journeyed to Jerusalem. The journey can be long, but the remembrance, renewal, and fellowship are much anticipated. Please keep our graduation events in your prayers, that all goes well, as we entrust it into God’s hands.

The smiles on the faces of the students, tell you how ready these students are to go out into the world to preach the gospel. Please keep them in your prayers, that God will continue the work He has started in their lives, as they see his grace and mercy working in their personal life, in their families, in their congregations, and in their villages.

APPRECIATIONS

God is good all the time, and all the time God is good. We are very thankful to God for all His priceless support in our lives as we commit to doing all that is entrusted in our hands to do. Thank you very much for your fervent prayers and deep support that helps to keep this work going. God sees, and will reward in due season. Please do your best to share this report with others. We shall soon compile the end of year report, which will carry the summary of all what took place in BVBIC-Wotutu and the congregation here in 2022.

God bless you! Make a great day!

By His grace Director BVBIC-Wotutu

Wotutu, Cameroon school director mourns the loss of his father

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from Cameroon. We do hope this report finds you well. God is good! We are good and facing the bitter reality of life as we have lost a loved one in the family and in the congregation.

The students are still busy in the mission field covering different areas with preaching and teaching the gospel of Christ free of charge to many on their way.

Last week here was characterized with ups and downs as I was shuffling between my office in the Bible college, some classrooms in Brightland Christian Comprehensive College, and the hospital where my father was battling with a stroke and a serious blood infection. Thanks for all the prayers you rendered to God on behalf of my father. God has finally made the decision to call my father to stay with Him.

Last week, on Sunday, I had the opportunity to preach a sermon entitled, “LAUGHTER IMPROVES OUR HEALTH” from Proverbs 17:22. We decided on our sermon series on health, as many in our congregation are going through some difficult health challenges. The Bible is helping us greatly.

Please keep the Esowe family in your prayers in this time of mourning. God has called my father to glory. He has gone back to his Master. Many thanks to God for using me to lead my father to Christ after I graduated from the Bible College in Nigeria. I am happy that my father died as a serious Christian. He died at the age of 80 years, leaving behind my mother, 7 biological children, 18 grandchildren, and 1 great grandchild, along with a host of many in the Wotutu community and elsewhere to mourn him.

Tchemi Giresse is one of the nurses who was helping my father. Because of my father’s sickness, I could not go for mission work with my students but we have souls everywhere. The gospel is always very sweet to share with people who have an open heart. Brother Tchemi Giresse has a servant heart. He obeyed the gospel and I was the one who was able to baptize him. When we left the water he said, “I AM HAPPY TO KNOW THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, I WAS TOTALLY LOST BEFORE THIS TIME.” Please keep him in your prayers as he will be a great worker in the church here.

PLANS

My father's funeral will take place on the 8th of October here in Wotutu. Please continue to pray for us.

Our thoughts and plans are beginning to lean towards the graduation ceremony that will mark the end of the Zeta batch and admit the new batch which will commence in January of 2023.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you! Thank you very much for all of your prayers and support that have been rendered toward this work. God is watching! Please faint not, because in due season your reward will come. Please share our reports with others.

God bless you as you make a great day.

Elangwe and family.

By His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

Technology training in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from this part of the globe. We do hope this report meets you in good health. We are doing our best here in health and with the work entrusted in our hands. God is still on the throne! Even though we are being faced with many challenges, we have come to understand that life is not free from challenges. We know that Christians need to use the challenges in their path to be stepping stones, not stumbling blocks.

Last weeks in the Bear Valley Bible Institute here in Wotutu, and in other parts of the work here, things are progressing well. August is always a busy month in Cameroon, because it is the last month for children who have been on vacation to start making preparations to get back to school. It is also time for the youth in the churches of Christ to attend a retreat which is very spiritual. It is to help them empower them before they go back to their different classrooms.

Before exams for this quarter, the Bible students had a special day to learn how to use a computer and how they can do research online. They also learned how to prepare a PowerPoint. We are training 21st century preachers so we are trying our best to prepare them to fit into the society in which they find themselves.

We are left with 4 months until the graduation ceremony of the Zeta batch. Some have really grown to a good stage while others are still climbing to get to a higher level. It is normal! As we say here in Africa, “ALL FINGERS ARE NOT THE SAME,” but it is clear that all fingers have some sort of function in the body. Keep praying for the preaching students as many congregations are longing to see them graduate and start full time work in the vineyard of God in different locations.

We continue to send gospel tracts to different parts of Cameroon. Preachers who cannot afford to come to Wotutu, to come and select mission printing tracts that can aid their evangelistic work in their areas, can simply call me and I will ship them to their village using those big buses you see behind me. We are always happy to be able to serve others.

Weekend evangelism is a great tool in the work here because through weekend evangelism, which is expensive now, souls are being won. Any soul won into the kingdom is greater in comparison than any amount of money spent to bring that precious soul into Christ! Our weekend evangelism is doing a lot of nurturing, revival, and focusing as many congregations are receiving fresh exhortation from these young, but vibrant preachers in the Bear Valley Bible Institute. Most of our graduates are extremely willing and very happy to welcome our students to help in the work. Students went to assist in the village of Bolo Moboka, where our graduate minister Waka is serving the Lord.

This year’s Summer Youth Retreat was historic. As the crisis has calmed down just a little in the two English speaking regions in Cameroon, more parents are willing to allow their children to travel across the country to attend various programs. This year’s edition of the retreat had close to 400 youth in attendance. I was there, and spoke on the topic, “VIGILANCE.” This topic will go a long way to help our youth learn to take their time and concentrate in any endeavor in life.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you! Thank you very much for all the blessings of God’s grace that you are helping to make us be able to enjoy. Your prayers and your support are really helping this work. Please keep it up! God is watching and will reward you in due season.

God bless you as you make a great day!

Elangwe and family

By His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

Reaching out in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from this part of the world. We are doing good with all that is entrusted in our hands and we are appreciating God for His help. Things are going good even though we are all faced with the global crisis that is doing all things possible to dismantle our programs. It is more difficult now to meet up with many expenses as the prices of many of our things in the market have risen to very high levels. We are left with no choice but to continue the best we can. We are bound to manage what we have, as there is just no way for us to jump out of the ever-changing world.

We are thanking God for whom we put our trust. We are looking up to Him, the maker of the heavens and the earth. God is watching, and we know He will always make a way when there seems to be no way.

PLANS

Our out-reach efforts to souls in different communities is at the top of our daily and weekly agenda. Our young congregations and newly revived congregations need our weekly presence to keep the young Christians learning and growing. Please help us to keep this out-reach going.

 APPRECIATIONS

 God bless you, as we sincerely thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the gestures you are making to keep this work going ahead. God alone will repay each one. Please share our news with others.

God bless you as you make a great day.

Elangwe and family

By His grace, director BVBIC -Wotutu

Gain and loss in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from Cameroon and in Wotutu to be precise. I hope things are good with you as we pray daily. We are doing good, and we thank God for the grace and energy given to us to do what is entrusted in our hands.

Last week in Bear Valley was hectic as we were taking a short course in the Gospel of John while my wife was busy with the student preacher’s wives, teaching them during this end of quarter study period for the women’s program.

 As I type this report, all of our students are in the mission field in different locations far and near through muddy roads and fear of the unknown. The gospel calls, and our students and staff are answering it. I was teaching the gospel of John. It is a very interesting book to study as a short course. It was great, as we all continue to learn from the book.

 On the other hand, inside our worship hall, my wife was busy teaching the students’ wives on, “LESSON PREPARATIONS AND DELIVERY,” AND ALSO “THE ROLE OF A PREACHER’S WIFE IN A LOCAL CONGREGATION.” It was very rich, for the future of the church.

We lost a minister of the gospel that graduated from Bear Valley Bible Institute Wotutu. Minister Nguty Victor graduated in the class of 2016 and was doing very well in his home congregation of Nguty Town. The church in Nguty has lost a great man who was described as a bulldozer in the church around his area. That vacuum is there, and we pray that God will help us to fill the gap.

 The entire Bear Valley family in Cameroon came out in their numbers to bid him farewell. A very large number of our graduates and others, assembled to celebrate the life of minister Nguty Victor. Please pray for the widow and her children. I was given the opportunity during the funeral program to speak on testimonies, I cried out about how much minister Nguty loved the church.

APPRECIATIONS

Thanks very much for all you are doing for the work here. Please pray for the work we did in Tchad as the news that is getting to us shows that more beautiful things are still happening there. Make a great day.

Elangwe and family

By the grace of God, director BVBIC-Wotutu

Wotutu school heavily involved in evangelism outreach

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings to you in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We do hope this report meets you well. God is still on the throne and He has given us life. We are doing our best to serve Him in our own corner.

The training of preachers in Wotutu is on and very effective as we make sure that those entrusted in our care become servants of God who are fully prepared and ready for every good work. Students continue to dig deep into the Bible as they study diligently. In 6 months, the Zeta batch will be going to the wilderness as the 8th of December 2022 is the day that is slated for their graduation. Please, if you are interested in being our guest, we will be grateful to welcome you here.

Last week in Bear Valley Bible Institute - Wotutu and other ministries here moved forward with normal challenges. However, in all of our challenges we trust God to see us through.

The motto of the school stands tall, which is “EVANGELISM IS OUR MISSION AND OUR MISSION IS EVANGELISM.” After a busy day in class, students jumped into the school van, made available for us to move for weekend evangelism. We think souls and we do all that is in our power to make sure souls are reached with the undiluted word of God.

Now that the rainy season is approaching, we use different vehicles for different locations of work. It is true the work is growing daily and the demand to reach out to souls is ever increasing.

In the mission fields our traditions are, “OPEN THE WORD TO ANYONE WHO IS A CONTACT, BECAUSE IT IS ONLY THROUGH OPENING OF THE BIBLE, THAT THE CONTACT WILL BECOME A PROSPECT, AND BY HIS GRACE BECOME A CONVERT.” Our students love to open the scriptures, and we are happy to share pictures of those who will allow them to take pictures.

There is always power in the gospel. You can’t imagine that someone busy with online stuff can suspend his online affairs just to listen to our students as they open up pages of the Bible to show hope in Christ for those who live in this hopeless world. God is so good! Keep these students in your prayers .

Our chapel times are special moments in Brightland Christian schools. There are days though, that the sun is too intense because we don’t have a hall or a shade. Students will hide themselves beside the walls while the student preacher of that day stays under the sun to speak out the word. The students receive great lessons as they also benefit from seeing the speaker’s zeal. Intense sun is a big challenge and at times rainfall is also a big challenge to us. We are trying all we can to promote Christian education here but it is not easy with us.

The promotion of Christian education in the Wotutu community exposes the truth to many young minds. These young people you see in the picture are all from Brightland schools. They are doing serious follow-up about the truth. The 30-minute chapel time many times is not enough for them as immediately after chapel is lunch break, so they decided to come for worship with the Wotutu congregation so that they could see how the New Testament church worships. This also gives them time to dig deep into the word with questions and answers, along with the reading of more Bible passages and to have their questions that have arisen from reading Mission printing tracts answered.

This lady in the attached photo is a good prospect. She is an internally displaced person, IDP, because of the crisis in Cameroon. She was pregnant and we donated baby clothes to her for the baby. We bring the gospel of hope to hopeless and dying situations. Our heart falls out for many, but our hands are always too short to reach out to many we meet on our path. Please pray for us.

God blessed sister Irine with a baby in the Wotutu congregation. Keep the newborn in your prayers as the father, mother, and child are all doing great. God added sister Litricia into His church in the Wotutu congregation. Keep her in your prayers. We have studied with her for the past 2 years and today was a day of joy in their home when she accepted to put Christ on in baptism. Her husband has been our brother for many years.

We had another baptism during this weekend’s evangelism. God is good and will always bless our efforts with many opportunities to share the bread of life to many who are hungry. It is just as I told my students in class, “A PREACHER IS A BEGGAR OF BREAD, SHOWING OTHER BEGGARS WHERE THEY CAN FIND BREAD.”

PLANS

We are on with our agenda for the week. We reach out and nurture. That is top on our agenda.

APPRECIATION

God bless you daily for all you do for His work. We want to thank you for availing yourself to God as he is using you to accomplish many works on earth. Please, as we cry for more help and openings to doors, do your best to share our reports with others who may want to help.

Elangwe and family

By His grace, director BVBIC-Wotutu.

Weekend Evangelism in Wotutu Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from this part of the world. We are doing good, and we do hope that you are doing great in all that you do. God is still on the throne leading our ministry from one level to another.

Last week in Bear Valley, and other ministries here, went on well. We were busy with weekend evangelism, funerals, and marriages. God is at work in what we are doing.

Students left Wotutu in pairs to different locations for weekend evangelism. Because of the high prices of things, weekend evangelism and end of quarter mission work is getting too expensive for us. Some went to our usual young congregations for teaching and nurturing while others accompanied me to a funeral as we suffered the loss of one of our sisters in the Wotutu congregation. Her children are now typical orphans as they lost their father some years back. Mission printing tracts are penetrating many hearts as our students make sure to drop a tract for possible future follow up after teaching.

I was preaching during open air on the subject, “HOW WE CAN HAVE FAITH IN GOD.” A big crowd in Yato village came out to listen to the word. One precious soul obeyed the gospel and tracts were shared to many during the day. She asked questions and they were clarified to her with the bible. That opened the way for her to say I am ready to follow Jesus Christ.

In Yato village, the congregation is presently small but we are seeing great potential to grow this congregation. We assembled the men, and we spent quality time discussing strategies we can use to enhance growth in our various congregations. Please pray for the Yato congregation and many of the work here.

The newly established congregation of Ndobo in Douala is witnessing great changes as the weekly evangelism and the sharing of tracts keeps making waves there. Even while back at school, our students keep receiving calls from prospects who will continue to read tracts and to ask questions if they don’t understand some certain things. This week a sister also obeyed the gospel. Keep her in your prayers because her obedience to the gospel will open a door to her family.

The current students of the Bear Valley Bible Institute Cameroon Wotutu are learning a new career of teaching and nurturing children as they are the ones conducting devotionals in the Brightland Christian Orphanage. It is a good thing for them to learn how to work with children as no one knows what plans God has for His church through these students. Please, we solicit your prayers on their behalf.

Join us to praise God as He added two precious souls during the course of this week into His church. Please pray for the souls, and keep this work in your prayers .

At the top on our agenda is weekend evangelism, because EVANGELISM IS OUR MISSION , AND OUR MISSION IS EVANGELISM.

Thank you very much for all that you do for the work here. God is watching and will reward you in due season. Please do your best to share this with others.

 God bless you as you make a great day.

 Elangwe and family