A Year Blessed By The Lord's Hand...

The new year is in full swing. Looking at the reported achievements for 2013 keep us all excited about the way’s God is blessing the efforts of the staff located in 17 extension schools. The following year-end report was accumulated and submitted by Keith Kasarjian about the overall program. The news is exciting, and based on the reports this week, 2014 is starting with a fervor that will surpass the work of 2013. Let us pray God will continue to bless these efforts.

It is hard to believe, but the end of 2013 has come. At Bear Valley, we have had an outstanding year and are even more excited about the prospects for next year and the future to come. This year has truly been wonderful in the history of the Bear Valley Extension Program and we want to share some of the excitement with you - our friends, partners, and supporters.

There are now 17 extensions, in 13 different countries around the world, with 254 full-time, preacher training students! This year has also witnessed 122 men graduate with their degree or certificate from Bear Valley. Just think of all the potential in those men and their families in the years to come, as the vast majority of them are serving in fertile parts of the world. This is truly exciting!

But at Bear Valley, we know that we aren’t doing this alone. We depend on partners and supporters to help us train preachers around the world. In addition to our all-important supporters, 78 different local teachers taught in Bear Valley extensions this year. In addition to those local men, another 57 men have made the journey to an extension to teach a “short course” to our students. This truly is a team effort at every level.

In addition to teaching these men how to preach and live, we want to instill in them a passion for soul-winning. This is borne out in the many studies, campaigns, and gospel meetings that they are involved in throughout the year. As a result of these efforts, we know of at least 990 baptisms, 60 new congregations, 5 congregations restored, 292 campaigns and gospel meetings, 4 lectureships, 4 youth conferences and camps, 1068 bible studies, and the conversion of at least 8 denominational preachers. To God be the glory!

This has truly been a remarkable year, but we are not resting on our laurels as we look to an exciting future. There are already many new students set to enter the program next year and a new extension in a country where it is needed is a very real possibility. 2014 promises to be the most exciting year yet.

At Bear Valley, we thank all those who support us and partner with us to carry out the mandate of 2 Timothy 2:2. What you are doing is making a difference and we literally could not do it without you. Thank you for the confidence you have placed in us and we look forward to continuing to serve together as long as the Lord allows.

Now on to the other reports...

Coordinator Updates
Reports from the coordinators are now located on the website, under Staff Reports. The address is http://www.wetrainpreachers.com/extension-schools/

To read the latest report from Howell Ferguson about the work in Ukraine, please click here.

The read the latest report from Steven Ashcraft about the work in West Africa, please click here.

Extension Reports 

A Year End Review Worth Reviewing: The totals from the work of students in Cameroon is a wonderful blessing. Read all about their work here.

A Historic Ending To The Year In Chimala: Masters, Bachelors, and Certificate classes graduate at the Chimala Bible Institute with more on the way.

What Is God Doing With Our Preachers: The answer to this question shows the results of the work being done in Togo.

Efforts To Expand Outreach In Northern India: As opportunities with technology increase, the desire of NIBC is to give exposure to the college and church in North India.

15 Conversions, 25 Restorations In Two Weeks: As the year came to a close and the new year began, God was giving the increase in Nigeria.

Igor Obeys The Gospel: A husband and father to members of the church in Gorlovka, Ukraine obeys the gospel. The news is exciting and the school is looking to grow.

And Then Came The Increase: One of the most exciting ways to begin the first report of the new year is to see how God is blessing the work in Tanzania.

Come One, Come All: An unusual and unexpected landing of a jet in Arusha draws the attention of many locals in Tanzania. 

Final Thoughts
Beginning a new year affords us the opportunity to express our gratitude to God for the ways He continues to bless this work. We also have opportunity to thank you for all you do to help this work exist. Considering the information throughout the report this week indicates why we are blessed to be involved in the greatest work with the greatest people on earth. Thank you!

God bless
Bob

A Year End Review Worth Reviewing...

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings to you all in Jesus’ name. We wish you all a fruitful year 2014 to you, your family and the entire congregation in Jesus’ name. We do hope you entered into 2014 with sound mind and sound faith towards the work entrusted in your hands for the Lord.

We are doing fine in health and we praise God for making it possible with all the difficulties to enter into 2014 without many problems in health and others.

We are happy to share this report with you which is the first of the year 2014, but carries information of the past year 2013.

We have a paper stacked on our worship hall that is the theme we shall use throughout the year 2014. We aimed at helping our Christians to love and also to make them show love to one another.

We had a good worship service this morning. During the announcements, we had visitors stand to greet and to give their address. We had 5 visitors who came to worship with us and two have booked for studies. Keep them in your prayers.

Our students in CBIW went out for their last campaign, marking the first year of their intensive studies. They have made their way back to the campus with pleasant results. God blessed them in many ways.

Brother Julius Wamo preached house to house in our newly established congregation in Down Beach, Limbe. He met people in amusement areas who came to enjoy leisure, but they met the gospel of Jesus.

Brother Ekele Thierry baptized his father into Christ; what a joy to his father who was a knight in the Roman Catholic church. The head of the family was baptized. Please keep him in your prayers that all in this family will obey the truth in due season.

Brother Agbor James baptized sister Seraphine in Mile One Kumba. Keep her in your prayers to grow to maturity.

Brother Julius Wamo baptized brother John in the Down Beach congregation in Limbe. God is blessing this newly established congregation.

Brother Dikana baptized sister Kathy in Munyenge village. Keep her in your prayers. A total of 61 baptisms were recorded during this last campaign, a total of 66 restorations, and a new congregation in Dikome was established. This congregation recorded 5 souls, and is the first congregation in this very vest community. We need to be sending our students there on a weekly basis, but we may not be able to meet up financially, as the transport to transport a student from Wotutu to that village will cost us about $40 weekly. Please keep this work in your prayers as the people there are very receptive and we cannot allow those souls to perish. We must rob from the strong man’s house as we think souls and put our love into action.

Brother Thierry, sister Sylvia and I prepared handouts for the students as we start the last year of studies tomorrow. Our graduation will be December 17, 2014 and that same day we shall have the third batch matriculation for the GAMMA batch students. We are already receiving application forms from prospective students. Keep this work in your prayers.

Please let me give you our annual report for the year 2013.

Total number of students ending the year: 27

Total number of campaigns: 16 including monthly Bible lectureships, end of quarter campaigns, and special invitations to some communities.

Total number of weekend evangelism: weekly for the whole year.

Total number of baptism: 273 souls

Total number of Restorations: 192 restored

Total number of Congregations revived: above 8

Total number of congregations established: 4 as follows:  COC Mile 4 - February 2013, COC Batoke - August 2013, COC Down Beach Limbe - November 2013, COC Dikome - December 2013.

Our students and staff were also involved in other beautiful works that are growing that all cannot be part of this report. God bless you as you keep these in your prayers.

Plans
1) We shall continue with studies, intensively and evangelistically. Please keep this work in your prayers.

2) We have invitations with others preachers to come and help in evangelism. Keep it in your prayers.

Appreciations
We lack words to describe your contributions towards this success. We say thank you and may God continue to bless you and your family for being pillars to the work here in Cameroon. Share our reports with others to help pray or be part of this work in any way.

My family is appreciative to you for all that you have been doing for us. You stood by us the entire time. We thank you and we pray that you continue to stand by us, so that the Lord will use us to accomplish His purpose here in Cameroon as the church continues to grow. God bless you.

Elangwe and family

By His grace, director CBIW

A Historic Ending To The Year In Chimala...

The historic school year ended with the numbers 13, 2, and 5 as graduation was held on the last week of October and a special ceremony was held on the 8th of November. We had our first Master of Biblical Studies graduating class with 13 graduates. Their teachers, both Denton Landon and myself, were there to give the 13 students their long coveted Masters degree. Over three years ago, the Director and Coordinator decided that all our CBI teachers should work on their Masters degrees. With Denton Landon and Jerry Bates traveling to Tanzania to teach these students, along with myself, in a three-year period we studied with and worked with these dedicated men to equip them for this milestone. Not only were the CBI faculty involved in this work, but also we now have 4 faculty members of the Mizuzu School of Preaching in Malawi as well as other Tanzanian and Malawian teachers and preachers trained.

The two graduates in our bachelors program who graduated are also historic in their education. These two men finished the Swahili two-year program and decided to continue for another two years to receive the bachelor’s degree. They both have decided to enroll in the new Masters class that starts this coming March. 

Five graduated from the Swahili program. All five have returned to their villages to preach Christ as they were trained to do. 

Next years numbers include 11 Swahili students enrolled as well as seven English students. A new intake of Masters students will begin in March with already 8 to 10 showing a strong interest in coming to school at CBI.

As far as evangelism is concerned, the weekend preaching and teaching trips, along with the summer campaigns and the evangelistic work done at the primary and secondary school, because of the work of our students, we have over 188 baptisms this year. 

Garry L. Hill
Coordinator/Instructor 
Director: Chimala Bible Institute

What Is God Doing With Our Preachers?

God is using our new preachers in wonderful ways in the kingdom. Since September, three new congregations have been planted and our recent graduates are preaching there.

Congregations up for adoption

1. Agou church of Christ – 4 baptized members and the preacher is Agnala Essodinam. (Outcome of September campaign)

2. Agoe Vakpossito Church of Christ - 6 baptized members and preacher is Sodohume

3. Klime Church of Christ - 18 baptized members and preacher is Atikama

4. Zomayi church of Christ - 9 baptized members and the preacher is Yovo Yao Mensavi.

The Zomayi Church of Christ started as a breakaway group from the Life Celebration Church, the denomination where Yovo used to be a member.

He tried to share his new found faith with the church, but met a strong resistance. However, those who gladly received the word were baptized. They have since left and are now worshiping in Zomayi. Since Yovo is a new convert and a student, he is being guided by Cephas, the principal of CBS, and assisted by one recent graduate.

Urgent Need: We need $500.00 each to build a structure for each of the new congregations.

CBS is closed for the holidays beginning on the 20th of December, and will re-open on the 6th of January, 2014

Two more students baptized: Joseph Asiki from the New Apostolic Church and Mathias Komou from the Deeper Life Ministry.

Year in Review

1. Total Graduates in 2013: (15)

2. Present Students: (20) 

3. Total Present Teachers: (7) 

4. Visiting instructors: (1) Barry Baggot 

5. Total lectureships in 2013: (3) 

6. Total campaigns in 2013: (2) 

7. Total churches planted in 2013: (5) 

8. Total baptisms in 2013: (73) 

Nyiveme Church of Christ
The wife of preacher Atta returns. Pelagie, the wife of Atta, a recent graduate, left her marital home and threatened to divorce the husband if he did not return to the Catholic Church. We all prayed for her hoping that she would one day understand why her husband took that decision to renounce Catholicism and accept New Testament Christianity. All attempts to get her back yielded no positive results. However, we never relented in our prayers. On my recent trip to Kpalime, I was shown a picture of Pelagie in the watery grave of baptism, also renouncing Catholicism. Our God is a prayer answering God. Pelagie has since reunited with her husband. When asked why she made the decision, she responded, “I now understand what my husband did.”

Report by Willie Gley

Efforts To Expand Outreach In Northern India...

New Year Greetings
We wish you a very happy a prosperous year ahead. The past year brought many blessings and challenges as well. 

Charles Scott and Bobby Peyton 
First of all, we remember brother Charles Scott and brother Bobby Peyton. We missed brother Bobby in the last NIPL due to personal reasons, but from this time we will not see him till we go there. He was having a great love for the North Indian Belt, like brother Paul Tustin and brother Jim have, who once worked there. 

Brother Charles has a great role in my life and many in India. I had never met him until I graduated from the NBC Chennai, but I am 100% the product of his love and dedication for the cause of Christ. Today there may be many who oppose some of his style of working, but I believe that his kind of selfless work is the need of the hour to work in the Northern part of India. His booklets, “Things Eternally Important” and “10 Simple Rules to Understand the Bible,” I have printed it several times in Hindi and my mother tongue Punjabi. Brother Scott sowed the seed and now the tree has started giving fruit. 

Family issue
Benu was diagnosed with breast cancer, but to God be the glory that we have not been a single day without His providential care. The threat was big, but God gave us such caring and wonderful sisters and brothers that all our burden was lightened. Half of the treatment has almost been complete and so far there has not been any further complications. 

Field work
Though we were somewhat concerned, yet at the same time we have in mind the talent that the Lord has given us. Encouraging reports are received from most of our graduates throughout India. We had been hearing of people obeying the truth. We rejoice about the people coming to the knowledge of truth from various parts of the country i.e., Punjab, Orissa, MP, U.P., Chandigarh, Chhattisgarh etc.  There were several baptisms at various places, but I really do not remember how many in total. 

Our efforts here continue as always, though my going out affected a lot. But again I am making myself to go this year out for evangelism. Our students were always sent for the evangelism. 

In addition to speaking in the monthly gospel meetings in Chandigarh, I had also the opportunity to go where the brothers are working in Punjab area. I wish I could go to more places, but because of the time and financial restrictions, I was not able to visit where brothers were requesting me to come. Pray that this year I may work on that. Locally, we have been requesting many people to give us time for the home Bible study where I will go house to house.  

Brother Salatial Masih, who works in Ferozepur District of Punjab, has purchased a small house for worship. He sold his piece of land to get this for Rs. 300,000 ($5,000). It has 2 small rooms. He told me yesterday that there are about 50 baptized people who worship in this place. I asked him to remove the middle wall and make it one room. I have offered him, from our side, a small amount and will request more from brother Russell when he comes here.      

Ex Students’ Help
We have decided to help our outgoing students with a small amount of money from the offering we get here. It has been a real challenge for us to encourage the young people. I think this will be a boost for them. 

Literature Service
We printed and distributed VOTI- Vol. 3, 4 (Hindi), Truth for Today (Hindi and Punjabi) all over India. Truth for Today has started printing Commentaries in all the Languages, and I am privileged to work for the Hindi and Punjabi languages.  

222 Hindi Bibles were distributed. Song books were also given free of charge to brethren in various parts of the country. 

Daily Bible verse through SMS
We have more than 1,600 cell numbers of people throughout India who were getting daily Bible Verse on their phones. Unfortunately, I had to stop that, and one reason was definitely the financial. Now again I am getting requests to send daily Bible messages. I pray we can start this. 

Bible correspondence course
There may be several courses available online and in other languages, but in Hindi there were not many. As per my knowledge only, the brothers in Delhi were doing that. It has 27 chapters, and the Chapter (27th) is of 40 pages. I do not know if the finances will be available for that, but I think that lesson on the restoration is important. Now that we have started, there are presently 85 students who have been enrolled. Several of them have completed the 4th chapter and we have printed up to chapter 5 only. The next 5 chapters are in line. 

Bible Ki Baat (Let the Bible Say in Hindi)
A 4 page leaflet was liked by the people. My aim was to reach every denominational family in the country. It was just a simple inland letter earlier and was developed to 4 pages. After getting a copy of House to House Heart to Heart, I saw the possibility of improvement and used most of the material in House to House …

Website 
We have been thinking about starting a website for the college. Pray that soon it may be a reality and we will put our latest activities on it. Any suggestion in that regard would be welcome. The idea behind this is to publicize the NIBC so that people may know about us in this Internet age.  

Earnest Gill

15 Conversions, 25 Restorations In Two Weeks...

Dearest in Christ Jesus,

Compliments of the season to you all from the staff & students of the Southwest School of Evangelism (SWSE), Ibadan and Lagos campus.

The SWSE Ibadan main campus resumed today and classes commenced Lord's willing on Monday (January 6, 2014).

Both our instructors and students in the two campuses and co-WBSFUW in Oyo, Ogun, Lagos and Osun States actively participated in the end of the year program of December 20, 2013 to January 2, 2014 at our respective congregations which resulted in 15 conversions, 25 restorations and planting of a congregation at Ajetunmobi area of Ijegun in Lagos State.

Brethren, we deeply appreciate the gift of $600 from brother Doug Wheeler and associates that enable us to put our van and jeep in better shape for the end of the year program.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR LOVE AND PARTNERSHIP ALL YEAR LONG!

Sincerely His & yours,

Makinde E. Olufemi (Director of studies)

Southwest School of Evangelism (SWSE), Ibadan & Lagos campus, Nigeria

Igor Obeys The Gospel...

Dear brothers, families and churches.

We greet you with winter holidays and wish you God’s blessings, patience and persistence in your work for the Lord.

We have some very good news. In the Central Church of Christ in Gorlovka, on December 21, there was a baptism of Igor, the husband of Lyudmila Davydova and the father of Anya. Anya and her mother Lyudmila were baptized three years ago. As you remember, Anya was diagnosed with cancer last summer. We had been visiting with this family quite a lot. Churches in Ukraine and American brethren helped financially to pay for two surgeries and still help with her medical treatment. After one-on-one Bible studies and seeing our attitude towards Anya, Igor decided to leave Adventists and be baptized according to the Bible. We hope that he will faithfully serve the Lord and their family will attend the church together. 

In December, we had a meeting of church of Christ preachers in Kramatorsk, and we discussed the topic of “The Role of a Preacher in the Church.” Preachers from six congregations (Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, Krasniy Liman, Donetsk, Konstantinovka and Gorlovka) participated in it; everyone shared their experience, and then we had some good fellowship. We try to get together and support one another at least once in four months. Every one of us needs encouragement and prayers. 

Last month BVBIU students had such courses: 1st year students studied Exodus-Deuteronomy (Victor Semikoz) and Matthew-Mark (Albert Bagdasaryan), 2nd year students studied Denominational Teachings (Andrew Zhuravlyov) and 1, 2 Corinthians (Dennis Sopelnik). In general all of the students are willing and have a good potential to preach sound doctrine. Please keep praying for our work and training of qualified ministers for God’s church. Also I want to share with you some news about our graduate (year 2011) Stas Kuropyantikov. For the past 3 years, he’s been an assistant preacher in Slavyansk and proved himself to be a responsible and teachable minister, who loves God and His gospel. Now he is getting ready to move to a big city on the shore of the Black Sea, Odessa, and become a minister in the small church of Christ there. It’s a port city, and there is a huge potential for the future church growth there.

We are actively looking for the prospective students for the next school year. We correspond constantly with many churches in Russia and Ukraine via emails. Starting with January, I will resume visiting congregations I know a little about; sometimes this method brings some good results. At the moment there are a few people who are interested in enrollment into our institute. 

Next year I have a desire to plant a new church in a new town with the help of the BVBIU students. We want to include in this project everyone who is willing to participate in it. For the past five years, I remember only very few churches which were planted in new places. In the 90s, dozens of new churches were started annually, and many of them are still spreading the gospel. If you have any ideas, please send your suggestions to me via email. 

My wife and I continue visiting the orphanage. Last Saturday, we organized a puppet theater in the church and invited kids from our part of town. There were many kids with their parents, and we invited them to our Bible school for kids, “The Gifted Child.”  

Thank you for your financial support of the Bible institute, students and teachers.  

Your brother and co-worker,

Dennis Sopelnik

To see Dennis' report with pictures, please click here.

And Then Came The Increase...

Greetings and a very Happy New Year,

We are blessed to see the light of yet another year. If the Lord wills, we pray He will help us all to see another year of service to His glory and to the saving of many more souls.

The year has started the way we always hope, David Bayi writes; “We had a blessed day and one has been added to he Lord. Her name is Hosanna. I preached a lesson from Philippians 2:5-8, “the mind of Christ” and “Sacrifice”. He humbled Himself, even unto death, how much more should we?”

Amos Kinasa writes; “This year (2013) we have conducted four Gospel meetings, eighteen souls being added to the Church of our Lord, seven souls have been restored to the Lord’s Family and we have been able to plant one new congregation. Four souls have been saved from Christian families and we now have over fifty active members.”

Clement Murungu writes: “We the church of Christ at Karatu really give thanks to you our brethren in the Lord. May God bless you all spiritually and with good health. We thank God for the five souls added to the church this year (2013). We continue to house to house Bible studies. I am now teaching Bible Knowledge at our local Secondary School. I have also got an opportunity to teach Bible at Karatu College. We have big plans in 2014, with your prayers, help, and the Lord’s blessings we know more souls will be saved.”

We have received many well wishes for the New Year and even more thanksgivings for all the help our many evangelist receive. We know of over a dozen new church plants in 2013; yes, “what God controls truly does grow”. 

Stephanie, Granny and myself will be coming to America for the months of March and April. We would love to see everyone, this is simply not possible in the allotted time. So, “first come, first served”. If you will let us know, we will do our best to book an appointment to come and see you; one-on-one or see the congregation, giving an updated report on all the Lord is doing in Tanzania and throughout East Africa. 

We truly wish each of you the best year ever. As we strive to be all God would have us to be, let each of us give all we have, are or hope to be, to God’s glory and to the saving of mankind. Till all have heard.....

In Him,
Cy, Stephanie & Granny

Come One, Come All...

Dear Family, Friends and Supporters,

It's a lovely day in Kisongo, Tanzania (East Africa). Found in our front yard, the little chameleon colored herself to match the dirt she was using to cover her eggs. Soon the warm sunshine will hatch them.

"The Unity of the Scriptures" was the topic of the Bible study that Abigail held last week. After Christmas break, another study will be scheduled.

The Annual Employee Appreciation Dinner was held at the ACSOP on Friday. Jimmy spoke on 1 Corinthians 12, using the example of the importance of each physical body part with the importance of all employees to an organization.

On Saturday, the Kisongo church had their normal youth meeting. Godlisten taught the lesson (and also translated for himself due to no other translator being there) on "Watch Your Language." 

"Come one, come all..." to see the jet that had to make an emergency landing at the Arusha Airport (runway designed for only small planes). As far as we know, no one was injured. Within minutes people everywhere were pulling over their cars, and anyone on foot was running to see it. For three days until it was moved, thousands of people came walking in large groups, on motorcycle taxis, in the back of trucks, on bicycles, etc to stand and stare at this large plane. To pass through, one had to drive very slow for about 1/4 mile because people didn't pull all the way off the road and people were everywhere.  Joking, but somewhat serious, I commented that someone could make some money if they were to start selling hotdogs, cokes and popcorn to the crowd. The next day as we passed by, we saw a young entrepreneur selling bottles of cold water. Flabbergasted, we asked a TZ friend why the downed plane drew such a multitude (had it been on fire or had crashed we could better understand the curiosity). He said most people in Arusha had NEVER seen a large plane before. (Of course, Tanzanians think foreigners are very strange to take pictures of women carrying large loads on their heads, etc). Now, if we could just park one of these jets outside the church building on Sunday...

As 2013 comes to a close, we thank you for your loyal support and dedication to us and to the TZ 2000 Mission Work. Many have heard and obeyed the Gospel through the many avenues you have provided by your support. We pray for you often and wish you every good thing in this life.  But mostly, we hope you are preparing for life eternal with God and Jesus Christ, our only hope. May 2014 be a year that you grow closer to the Lord. Sorry, this report is being sent a week late.

With Love from Africa,

Jimmy, Trina, Lindsey, Abigail, Heather, Candace, Stuart, David, Naomi, Elijah and Matthew  Gee

To see the Gee report with pictures, please click here.

2013 Year End Review

It is hard to believe, but the end of 2013 has come. At Bear Valley, we have had an outstanding year and are even more excited about the prospects for next year and the future to come. This year has truly been wonderful in the history of the Bear Valley Extension Program and we want to share some of the excitement with you - our friends, partners, and supporters.

            There are now 17 extensions, in 13 different countries around the world, with 254 full-time, preacher training students! This year has also witnessed 122 men graduate with their degree or certificate from Bear Valley. Just think of all the potential in those men and their families in the years to come, as the vast majority of them are serving in fertile parts of the world. This is truly exciting!

            But at Bear Valley, we know that we aren’t doing this alone. We depend on partners and supporters to help us train preachers around the world. In addition to our all-important supporters, 78 different local teachers taught in Bear Valley extensions this year. In addition to those local men, another 57 men have made the journey to an extension to teach a “short course” to our students. This truly is a team effort at every level.

            In addition to teaching these men how to preach and live, we want to instill in them a passion for soul-winning. This is borne out in the many studies, campaigns, and gospel meetings that they are involved in throughout the year. As a result of these efforts, we know of at least 990 baptisms, 60 new congregations, 5 congregations restored, 292 campaigns and gospel meetings, 4 lectureships, 4 youth conferences and camps, 1068 bible studies, and the conversion of at least 8 denominational preachers. To God be the glory!

            This has truly been a remarkable year, but we are not resting on our laurels as we look to an exciting future. There are already many new students set to enter the program next year and a new extension in a country where it is needed is a very real possibility. 2014 promises to be the most exciting year yet.

            At Bear Valley, we thank all those who support us and partner with us to carry out the mandate of 2 Timothy 2:2. What you are doing is making a difference and we literally could not do it without you. Thank you for the confidence you have placed in us and we look forward to continuing to serve together as long as the Lord allows.

Growing The Kingdom One At A Time...

The week ahead ushers in a new year for our world. The end of one year and the beginning of another brings anticipation of what God will do to grow His kingdom here on earth. We are thankful for the opportunity to participate in what God is doing in each location where we partner with the greatest men and women on earth to provide training for those who are faithful, so that they may teach others also (2 Tim. 2:2).

Reflecting on the past year indicates the wonderful ways God has been involved in supplying the growth, as the seed was planted and watered (1 Co. 3:6). The year end report for each school, and the entire program, will be ready to share with everyone next week; what a great way to begin the new year. A few of those reports are featured this week, but the big picture is forthcoming.

We ask for your continued prayers as we enter a new year of Extension Training. A few great things are planned for the program in 2014 and we hope you will continue to share in the work our God is doing in each location and the locations where schools will be starting.

New students arrive this week in Denver to begin the first part of their journey through the Bible Institute. Classes officially begin on January 6. They would appreciate your prayers also. 

Now on to the other reports...

Coordinator Updates
Reports from the coordinators are now located on the website, under Staff Reports. The address is http://www.wetrainpreachers.com/extension-schools/

Extension Reports 

Expansion Construction In Cameroon: The development of the program in Cameroon continues, as an expansion of the building moves forward.

Three Rules For Missionaries: As the work grows in Cambodia, the initial plans are being fulfilled in the development of the church and staff of IBISR.

2013 Ends And A New Era Begins: The Visakha Valley Bible College shares news from the past year with anticipation of the year ahead.

A Legacy That Outlives Us All: The report from Arusha concerning the work of the students and graduates of the program is a great legacy.

Final Thoughts
As we enter the new year together, the staff of the Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver wants you to know how much we appreciate the encouragement, prayers and support provided to make this work possible. We are fully aware of the contribution each part plays in the development of an extension school. This is a team effort and we are thankful to be fellow-workers in the kingdom. Our God has blessed us richly in the past and we trust He will continue to do so in the future. Our prayer is that God will receive all glory and honor. We simply desire to be His servants.

God bless
Bob

A Legacy That Outlives Us All...

Greetings Fellow Servants, 

We are humbled by God’s mercy and generosity. We know without Him nothing “good” is possible. We are humbled by your love, prayers and support of this mission effort in Tanzania. We are humbled to be a part of such an amazing team of co-workers who give sacrificially for the glory of God and to the salvation of many souls. The Tanzania 2000 Mission Team is building a legacy, a legacy of church planting and growth that will out live us all. 

Recently we gathered some information that we believe highlights the good being done and the potential for even greater efforts. We hope that in seeing His mighty hand at work, through your prayers and support, many souls are being saved for eternity. 

•Number of Andrew Connally School of Preaching graduates: 134 (undergraduates), another 20 from the Masters program. 

•We hope to have an intake in Feb. 2014 of 30 new students.

The following are results for the year 2013 from 14 of our graduates
The following combined numbers are from 14 of our graduates (representing about 10% of graduates), representing a small part of the greater good being done. 

•Campaigns - 57

•Baptisms - 278

•New congregations established - 47

•Active Christians - 881

•New born Christians from Christian families - 28

Additional 2013 Highlights from the ACSOP & Tanzania 2000 Mission Team
•Three Safari for Souls campaigns resulting in 84 new converts.

•The annual Tanzania Leadership Conference hosted around 140 participants from over 56 different congregations, and from 7 different nations.

•At this year’s Tanzania Christian Camp we had between 80-90 young boys and girls from many different congregations, with17 souls obeying the Gospel.

•At our annual Future Preacher’s Training Camp this week, we had 15 young men, one obeying the Gospel.

We welcomed our new missionaries: Nathan & Jessica McVeigh and Daniel & Tiffany Gaines (along with their three children) to the TZ200/ACSOP team.

Another great year to be sure, but we firmly believe 2014 has even better things in store for God’s Kingdom’s work here in East Africa. We plead for your continued prayers, support and participation as we work together to “Seek and Save” the lost of this world. 

A very blessed New Year to you all! We love and admire each of you for your work’s sake and for your sacrifice, making the work of God possible.

In Him,
Cy, Stephanie & Granny

2013 Ends And A New Era Begins...

Dear Brethren Christ,

Greetings to you in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ our Savior. By the grace and mercy of God, and your kind love, we are blessed to do the marvelous work of the Lord. We thank you brethren for your kind prayers and esteemed encouragements through which we successfully completed the year 2013 and we are ready to enter into the year 2014. We appreciate the brethren at Lake Houston for their support, also the brethren at Strickland Church of Christ for overseeing the work, and especially our special thanks to the elders of Bear Valley who blessed us with the school program.

Greatest Need:
During his visit in the month of October, brother Denton Landon asked what is the greatest need. We said, “Bibles.” Brother Denton, with the extra money he had, bought 40 Bibles at $3.00 each. We are thankful to him for helping us with the Bibles. These Bibles have been distributed among our students and preachers. We have a mission to bless all the new converts with a new Bible, also these are great tools of evangelism. In a religious country like India, there are several who revere the Bible as a Holy Book. They want to have a copy of it and, certainly, when we approach such families it opens the door for a preacher to bring them to the Lord.

Brother Srinu who was a graduate of first batch lives in Vaddadhi, Visakhapatnam District. He received some of the Bibles and distributed them to the new converts in their congregation.

New Students – New Era:
Jesus Christ in His final commission commanded us to go preach to all the nations. Our school objective is to train young faithful men who shall be able to teach others. Thankfully enough, the mission of our school is to reach out. The addition of 5 students from the tribal area in the border line of the state of Andhra Pradesh and state of Orissa has opened up of a new window for us to extend our mission efforts in that area. How blessed we are to reach that area with their men, truly our mission is being full filled by this. These students are diligent in learning the Word and very enthusiastic to establish congregations in their communities. Imagine them going back to their home villages and working as a team to preach Christ to the natives who are in the remote world (mountains). We pray that their desire would come true and many souls will be saved, may they bring glory and honor to our Lord.

Local congregation helping the school:
We are delighted to share with you all the very exciting news, which is a local congregation providing a little something for the students each week. We have some students who spend their Sundays with the local congregation. Now the local congregation at Samatha Nagar regularly has a little over 30 members. They began to help buying some fruit and snacks to the students from their weekly contribution.

We are very happy to share with you the recent mission work that these small groups of Christians do in the area where our preacher training school is, that is every Friday the women are doing door knocking, in last couple of weeks they were successful in getting 6 contacts. Hopefully, they will start coming to the Church services. Ladies also have a regular class every Friday evening. We are delighted to see the congregation growing. 

Annual Report (2013):
Here is the result of our students’ (current & previous) efforts in the mission field in the Visakhapatnam area in the year 2013.

Number of people baptized: 96

Number of Bible studies conducted: 1068

New congregations established: 8

Christians restored: 32

Gospel meetings conducted: 176

Denominational preachers converted: 8

How many Gospel campaigns conducted: 6

Preachers’ fellowship meetings conducted: 8

Number of undergraduates finished their courses: 13

Number of graduates in the Master’s class finished their course: 9

Number of current undergraduate Students: 15

Number of current Master’s class Students: 9

So far through our Bible College we have sent 39 students, presented 9 Master Class students, 15 regular students. As a whole, 63 preachers are in the mission field laboring in the Lord’s vineyard.

If it is the Lord’s will, we shall start a parallel class from April with another 10-15 students. Kindly pray that our school work would be a great blessing to the people of India. Right now we are coming across several people who are interested to join in the school. We hope this new parallel batch would help us to produce 15 preachers every year. 

Thank you all brethren, especially brother Bob Turner who is doing a great job in directing the BVBID Extension Schools. We do thank the faculty, brother Garry Fallis and Denton Landon. Our special thanks to brother Jerry Bates and his wife Paul for being representatives of our school. We must not forget our gratitude to brother Steve Wiseman who is instrumental in keeping up the very good relationship with the brethren  at Lake Houston. May God continue to bless you and your families as you are striving to work for His cause.

Our new batch of students received Telugu literature about the Parables in the Bible, written by brother Louis Rushmore.

Our graduate, Srinu, distributed Bibles to the new converts.

One of our students was recently baptized before they were enrolled in the school. We are so thankful all the students of the present batch of students are members of the Church.

The Master’s class of students received WVBS DVDs.

John Dean was able to preach at a gospel meeting held by brother Vamsee Bhushanam, who lives in a place called Chirala. He is doing a great job in teaching in the school at Visakhapatnam as well as at his local congregation. He has a great zeal for the Lord. He travels a good bit to get to school and we commend his interest to teach in the school; certainly he is playing a vital role in producing the preachers from our schools. May our efforts equip the young evangelists to expand the Kingdom of God.

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.

In Christ

Samuel Raju & John Dean Muppidi

Visakha Valley Bible College

Three Rules For Missionaries...

Dear loved ones,

First and foremost, I want to wish you all a happy and safe holiday season! I pray that you continue to live a successful Christian life honoring our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! For the month of November and December I am honored to express my thoughts concerning the work of Christ here in Cambodia. A few months back, I wrote a short note on Facebook entitled "3 Rules for Missionaries in a Third World Country to Live By..."

Rule #1
Missionaries must not drive a Lexus, Mercedes, Range Rover or any other luxurious vehicles of the sort. You've given up those things when you left America.

Rule #2
Missionaries must not own any land or buildings. Of all people, you know that we don’t have ownership of anything in this world, why tempt yourself and risk putting His work in jeopardy?

Rule #3
After 5 years of your ministry, missionaries must not be in full control of everything. You must learn to trust your work and see the growth of your fruit!

I want to focus on Rule #3 because this is my 6th year as a missionary in the land of Cambodia.  Most of you probably know that I've spent the past month or so away from Cambodia competing in the SEA games in Myanmar in the sport of Basketball (which I love very much). It was an honor to represent Cambodia and I thank God for blessing me with this once in a lifetime opportunity! I had a wonderful experience. Not only did I have a chance to compete in the sport that I love on a high level, but more importantly, I was able to see the growth of my fruit! 

When I was away, Darat, Piseth, Chann, my wife Chakriya, Hout, Ravy, Saran, and the rest of the local leaders stepped up and took care of everything. It was as if I hadn’t left! I realize that all my hard work in building trustworthy people to lead and not be dependent upon the missionary was a success! The school ran normally and the children's home went smoothly as well. I am wondering if God is telling me that my work here is nearly complete? 

I love the work that I am doing here and believe that we still have a long ways to go before we have elders and be self supportive, but at the same time, I see that we are definitely taking steps in the right direction! This is an exciting time and what a way to end the year! I look forward to the 2014 year and see how much more we grow as a church and as a people of God individually! Please keep us in your prayers and keep supporting this wonderful work.

Phanat

To see Phanat’s report with a picture of the Cambodian National Basketball team, go here.

Expansion Construction In Cameroon...

Dearest in Christ,

It is my pleasure to wish you all over there compliments of the season. It is good this way and we continue to see the graciousness of God daily over the work we do.

Thank you all for your prayers rendered for me while I made the trip to Nigeria.

I am back safe and sound. I brought 33 cartons of books and hymns, along with 2 cartons of tracts. The tracts will not last long because we are already distributing it now.

Construction on the extension of the Wotutu hall and the CBIW dorms continues to move forward. We will start decking soon before we continue raising the blocks. It is moving slowly but surely and I am happy that we are accomplishing things bit by bit.

God bless you

Elangwe and family

Fifteen More Power Reasons...

Greetings Fellow Servants;

It is with mixed emotions we write to you this week. We rejoice with the Angels in Heaven for the new soul added to the Kingdom this week during the Future Preacher’s Training Camp. We rejoice in the knowledge we are on a journey to our Heavenly home. We rejoice in knowing we partner with faithful brothers and sisters in Christ in the greatest vocation known to mankind. On the other hand, we are saddened by the fact that tens of thousands of souls die every day without the salvation of Jesus. 

This is a time of the year when many pause to reflect on the past and resolve to improve in the year to come. This is a time of the year many remember Christ and what He means in their lives and to the world. Yet, many continue to live IN the world, just as the world lives, without a second thought. As we reflect on the amazing grace given to us by God through His Son, let each of us resolve to do better in the year to come, if the Lord blesses us with another year. 

Next week's Short Report will highlight what the Lord has done through His Tanzania 2000 mission effort here in East Africa this year. One such “highlight” was this past weeks 8th annual “Future Preacher’s Training Camp.” The “highlight” of the camp was most definitely when Jackson, a son of Naomi Hango (Moshi Christian lady), was baptized. He along with most of the 15 FPTC participants, also attended the Tanzania Christian Camp the week before where 17 souls were added to the Church of our Lord. John Rice and his family also held a camp in Dar last week, 15 souls obeyed God’s Word.

Christopher Mwakabanje has been directing this FPTC camp, with the help of several other Tanzanian Evangelist like, Desdery Massawe, David Bayi, Gasper Julius, Michael Losotwa, and others. It is such a blessing to see the local evangelists “take over” the leadership roles in the various aspects of this mission effort. A very special “Thank You” to Roger Shepherd for bringing this camp to TZ eight years ago.

With humble hearts of gratitude we say, “Thank you all for a job well done”. Thank you to all our friends and supporters. Without you the thousands of saved souls here in East Africa may very well still be wandering in darkness, lost and without hope. The good being done in the Church is due to the Power of God, His Word and the Great Team of Supporters and Workers. 

We wish you all a very Happy Holiday Season. Our hope and our prayer is that the Lord blesses you with good health, a great time with family and friends and if He wills, a better New Year in His service. 

We truly do love and admire each of you for your prayers and support. 

In Him,
Cy, Stephanie & Granny 

Nearing The End Of 2013...

The week ahead hosts one of the biggest holidays of the year, perhaps because it is more international in nature than others. The holiday is one where the focus is family oriented. For many, the time is centered around the birth of Jesus. For others, it is a time when gifts are exchanged, a meal is shared, and the fellowship of being together enjoyed. Regardless of how we  approach this time of year, it does afford us an opportunity to slow down for a few moments and reflect on the blessings provided by God.

This time also brings us nearer to the end of 2013. The speed at which time is flying by, it will not be surprising to blink and see us staring at the same situation a year from now. Looking at 2013 in the rearview mirror brings joy by considering the ways God has blessed the preaching of the gospel throughout the various locations where we are privileged to share in the work of extension training.

We are looking forward to sharing information about 2013 with all of you. A few of the totals are still coming in, but the preliminary results are exciting. The number of students who continue to be trained, the impact of graduates and the outreach of current students is growing the kingdom of our Lord in powerful ways.

Before heading into the reports for the week, we want to express our appreciation to each of you for all you do for the work of training preachers. From all the staff of the Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver and the Extension Training program, we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Now on to the other reports...

Coordinator Updates
Reports from the coordinators are now located on the website, under Staff Reports. The address is http://www.wetrainpreachers.com/extension-schools/

Extension Reports 

You Shall Know The Truth: A recent open-air Bible Lectureship in Nigeria focused on the theme “You Shall Know The Truth.” 

Fifteen More Powerful Reasons: The news continues to demonstrate the power of God's word at work in the lives of the Tanzanian people.

Tanzania Christian Camp News: The last two reports from the Gee family shares updates from a recent event that had a wonderful impact on the work in Tanzania.

Final Thoughts
Once again, we thank you for your involvement in Extension Training. Without you, this work would not exist. Thank you. We pray God will continue to bless you in even greater ways as we move into the year ahead. We will continue to keep you informed as the program grows and develops in 2014.

God bless
Bob

Tanzania Christian Camp News...

December 16 report

APOLOGY AND EXCUSE: Please accept our apologies for not sending a report last week. An acquaintance came by after lunch last Sunday and stayed ...for FOUR hours. 

THE FIRST ONE IS A DOOSIE: We are very thankful that Ben Thompson and the Rice Family (John, Denise and John-Tyler) came to conduct Tanzania Christian Camp. Not only was this trip to Tanzania the first one for Denise and John-Tyler, but it was Denise's first time to fly. They were re-routed due to a problem with the first plane (upon take-off, a problem was realized and they quickly landed). Barely squeezed onto the next flight and getting on at the last minute, they were forced to hold their carry-on luggage in their laps for the eight hour flight (no space was available in the over-head compartments). They literally "hit the ground running" in order to catch a couple of connecting flights. One of their layovers was spent in a cold basement of the airport in Dar Es Salaam with metal benches to sit/lay on without any food or water...for 7 hours. Then, they arrived without a single piece of their luggage (it arrived four days later). Can you imagine all of this happening on someone's first flight? Although Denise hasn't complained, we imagine her kissing the ground when she lands safely in the United States! Tanzania Christian Camp ended on Friday. However, the Rice Family will leave at 5 am tomorrow to travel ten hours on a bus to conduct another camp in Dar Es Salaam. Pray for their safe travel and measure of comfort. :)   

TANZANIA CHRISTIAN CAMP (TCC): Eighty-four campers, plus the Tanzanian and American staff of directors, counselors and cooks enjoyed a great week of Bible study, singing, entertainment, crafts and soccer games.  The best news is that 16 young people decided to put on Christ in baptism!  A man and his mother (who own a local restaurant) attended services at TCC one evening at Jimmy's invitation. 

"A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE" For the past 2 years, our master closet has been leaking after a rain. Each time we notified him, our nice landlord (who lives away) would send someone to repair the roof. Problem was that the repairman never once (to our knowledge) repaired it correctly. Still a puddle of water was on the floor after each rain. Finally, when we thought the ceiling would fall in, we asked him to send a different repairman. A couple of men came out and, after working  two days (a half day each), we had a new ceiling, a repaired roof and could put everything back into the closet.

THERE IS A SEASON FOR EVERYTHING.  We often think of this verse in Africa, especially when it comes to insects. Previously, crickets were everywhere in the house (in shoes, behind the couch, in the hamper etc). Now, Nairobi flies (the pupae) are everywhere mainly due to the heavy rains that fall in December. These tiny orange/red and black striped critters can really "pack a punch,” if they spray you. Our reading on the internet says they neither sting nor bite...but they can release a potent toxin that is highly irritating to the skin (more potent than cobra venom). The mark left by them resembles a burn (can be little or big). Probably no one here has escaped their fury. Recently Lindsey was "burned' in 3 different places on her lower legs (the Nairobi flies were probably in her boots).

GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT...AND WAIT.... We rejoice with the Gaines family who spent the first night in their house last night and are driving their own car (arrived Thursday night). Now, the final "big" thing to wait on is their container with furniture and belongings. If living overseas doesn't teach you patience, then nothing ever will!

THE GOOD AND THE BAD: For the past several months, the mosquito net factory has been buying up the land around the ACSOP. The Kisongo church building is situated at the back of the property. This isn't an ideal place for it, but is serving as a temporary solution until the court case is resolved concerning the original land purchased. (Long story short, the person who sold the original property did not actually own the property...another family member did. The first guy "took the money and ran." Last word was that it didn't appear that the court case would be resolved in the churches' favor). Back to the subject, the mosquito net factory has put up fences and barriers making it impossible to get to the church building from the paved road. It's not such a problem, unless it rains (like every day this past week) because we can drive "over the hills and through the woods" on the small piece of land next to the school. When it rains, two very low spots fill up with water on this lot just daring anyone to drive through and get struck. So, we parked at the school building and walked through the swamp to church. While there are times like these when we long for the paved parking lots of America, there are still many things we like about Africa. There are also many nice places (restaurants and hotels) here due to Arusha being the hub of tourism in East Africa. 

Today, Jimmy taught the Bible class at Kisongo, John Rice preached and we all ate a spaghetti lunch at our house. Thank you for your concern, interest and prayers. Seventeen souls made their lives right with God this week. Without people like you, it would not have happened.

With Love from Africa,

The Jimmy Gee family

December 23 report

Greetings from Kisongo, Tanzania (East Africa)! One of the young men is Lazaro who was involved in teaching a friend at Tanzania Christian Camp last week. Selected as Mr. TCC, he was often seen studying.  

In addition, two others (not associated with the camp) were baptized during that week. The Rice Family is scheduled to leave at midnight tomorrow after completing a camp at Dar Es Salaam where another 15 were baptized (must be the magic number this year). The Future Preacher's Camp has also come to a close with one person putting on Christ in baptism!

Jimmy taught the Bible class and preached this morning. Happiness Elibariki invited Salome and Rahabu, students from nearby St. Joseph University, to worship with us this morning. After services, they agreed to study the Bible with Abigail tomorrow.

We hope you have enjoyed the pictures and that you know a little more about Tanzania Christian Camp. Our thanks to John Rice and Ben Thompson for bringing "camp" to Tanzania several years ago.

Happy Birthday to our wonderful daughter-in-law, Lauren, who turned 22 on the 13th. Also, Jimmy's father, J.W., turned another year older on the 20th. We love and appreciate them!

We regret that one of our largest contributors ($333/month) found it necessary to end their support this year. We appreciate their faithfulness and all the good they have helped to accomplish through the TZ 2000 Mission Work. If anyone can help to make up that monthly difference we would be grateful.

May the Lord bless you richly as you serve Him where you are. We wish you the happiest of holidays, spent with your family and friends! Thank you for ALL you have done for us...all the prayers, cards, financial support and every kindness since we have been serving overseas. Our heart-felt gratitude is also extended towards you for your genuine love and concern for the souls in Tanzania. Because of you, it was a great year for the Lord's church in Tanzania! 

From Our Home to Yours,

The Jimmy Gee family 

If you would like to see the Gee report with pictures, please click here.

You Shall Know The Truth...

Beloved in Christ Jesus,

Greetings from staff and students of the Southwest School of Evangelism (SWSE), Ibadan and my fellow WBSFUW in the Western part of  Nigeria.

We evangelized Kute town as scheduled with brother Sunday Samuel Adegoke and the Kute brethren on December 13 and 14, 2013. On December 14, the exercise, door-to-door evangelism commenced by 9:00 am through 3:00 pm while the public open-air Bible lectureship was between 4:30 to 7:30 pm. Brother Sunday Samuel Adegoke, the host minister and one of year 2004 graduates of SWSE-Ibadan spoke first on “Sin and Its Effects,” while I spoke on “Identificational Marks of the Lord's church.” The theme for the open-air Bible Lectureship was "You Shall Know the Truth".

On Sunday at the Onikokoro / Gbongudu congregation, Ibadan, I taught on "The Highway To Heaven,” Isaiah 35:8, while brother Destiny Elijah, one of the year one students of SWSE-Ibadan admonished the church from Ezekiel 14:6. 

At the campus church, Butubutu village, brother Abraham Idu Yeje, the campus minister and one of the year 2 students of the school taught on “The N.T. Church” while brother Oladipupo Ishmael Alabi admonished the church on “The City of Refuge.”

On December 20 & 21 we (myself and a fellow WBSFUW) will evangelized Felele area of Ibadan with brother Dele Shotola and I will speak on “Escape For Your Life” during the evening open-air Bible Lectureship at Felele junction-Ibadan on December 2. On December 28, we shall participate actively at a day Bible Lectureship organized by brother Akinyoola Femi and the church at Obalende-Ibadan where I was assigned to speak on “Where Are You.”

Brethren, the SWSE-Ibadan and Lagos satellite campus recorded over 150 conversions and over 200 restorations this year (2013), plus 5 congregations planted in Oyo, Osun, Lagos and Ogun States. TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

On behalf of myself and my family and the SWSE-Ibadan & Lagos satellite campus, we want to thank all our supporters for their wonderful contribution and partnership over the years. Sincerely speaking, without you, we could not have done all these!

You all live such a wonderful, generous and sacrificial life and you show great concern and love toward the saving of souls from eternal condemnation, not only in the USA but throughout the world.

It is not because you possess all the material things of this world, but because you care and you are dedicated for the cause of Master, Jesus, and you know you are working with a living God (1 Corinthians 3:9; 15:58). And in this year (2013), you have all extended your usual and fantastic kindness to me and fellow WBSFUW and the SWSE-Ibadan & Lagos campus through brother Joel Coppinger of WBSTC, brother Doug Wheeler, brother Steven Ashcraft and brother Bob Turner of Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver, CO, USA.

Brethren, I'm short of words, but I'm very very grateful for your brotherly kindness! May the Lord of blessing reward you all for your partnership and contribution toward this good work in Africa, Nigeria in particular.

We are truly grateful for what God has done through you for us in Nigeria! HAVE A BLESSED SEASON AND WONDERFUL NEW YEAR!

The SWSE-Ibadan main campus closed this afternoon to enable our staff and students to  participate actively in the end of the year program at their respective congregations.

We (WBSFUW in Oyo State) will be working this evening through tomorrow evening with brother Dele Shotola and the church at Felele-Ibadan in a two day open-air Bible Lectureship and door-to-door evangelism on Saturday morning (December 21).

Brother Kayode Solomon Eniafe will be working this weekend with some evangelists to evangelize Osogbo town in Osun State while brother Ezekiel Okoh and the SWSE-students at the Lagos campus and some WBSFUW will be working this weekend and the next at the computer village in Ikeja-Lagos State.

Brother Paul Akinwale will return home from Ilaje River side preaching trip on December 24, 2013, Lord's willing.

Brethren,we deeply appreciate your partnership and brotherly love! May the Lord of blessing continue to bless all our joint efforts in Christ name, Amen.

Your fellow laborer in Christ Jesus,

Makinde Ebenezer Olufemi ( Director of Studies)
Southwest School of Evangelism (SWSE), Ibadan & Lagos campus, Nigeria

The Greatest Force On Earth Is Changing Eternity...

The power of gospel is the greatest force on earth: the power to turn darkness into light, the power to bring salvation to the lost. The force of the gospel is what makes the task of training preachers even more exciting. The beauty of witnessing the growth of men who are involved in taking the power of the gospel to their own people is astonishing and exciting.

The second quarter of the school year in Denver ends this week. Students will have a short break before continuing in their studies in January. The first of the year will also bring another class of students who will begin their journey in preparing to preach the gospel. We ask each of you to be praying for these new students, as well as, the two students who complete their studies and will begin a new work in the kingdom.

The reports this week are also filled with students in several of the extension schools who are completing another quarter of their studies. The first of the year will bring new classes and new opportunities to reach others with the gospel. The power of God’s word at work in the lives of so many around the world continues to demonstrate why the future of extension training looks so good. We are thankful for the opportunity to participate as fellow-workers in the kingdom.

Your prayers are needed and appreciated. Please read through the reports and consider how humbling it is to see men serving in adverse circumstances to share the power of the gospel with others, and read the results.

Now on to the other reports...

Coordinator Updates
Reports from the coordinators are now located on the website, under Staff Reports. The address is http://www.wetrainpreachers.com/extension-schools/

Extension Reports 

What Is God Doing In Togo? Just Read This: There are 28 souls who are now part of the Lord’s kingdom as a result of the work these preachers are doing in Togo.

An Alumni Update From Uganda: Graduates from the Uganda School of Evangelism provide reports about their work near Busia.

Three Day Preaching Trip In Nigeria: Challenges with transportation resulted in a more localized three day preaching trip in Nigeria.

17 New Souls In Tanzania: The result of the camp in Tanzania this past week resulted in seventeen souls being added to the kingdom. 

The Tanzania Chronicle: The Hochdorf Report: The news from Sean is exciting as the work in Arusha involves the Tanzania Christian Camp.

Final Thoughts
We want to close with a note of appreciation. With all that you could be doing, all of you have chosen to be involved in this work. Thank you! We are thankful for your love for the Lord, for the lost, for the church, and for the work of training preachers. We love you and pray for you each day.

God bless
Bob