Continued growth in Cambodia

International Bible Institute of Siem Reap

Greetings from Siem Reap.  We continue to study topics that help us in converting other Cambodians to become Christians and gain salvation.  The school will have a short break for Pchum Ben holiday for a week.  Most of the students will go to their homes during this time.

Serving Our Family & Gaining New Opportunities

Our students have helped one of our couples to move to their new house in Battambang, about 3 hours southwest of Siem Reap. Phearum, Phally and their new baby will be working with Phanat Ouch and his family to strengthen and build the new church there.  The student body not only moved them but also helped them actually build their new home! In addition to that, the Siem Reap church of Christ helped them by giving $160 to purchase things that they needed.  Phearum is a current student and Phally is a graduate.  Phanat and his wife Aya will have faithful Christians to work with when he and his family move there next year.  This will be a great team for the Lord in that area!

Bible Training & Refrigeration Training

Students join together in Darat’s class on “How to answer Bible questions when someone asks you”.  This was a two week course that equipped them with the confidence and knowledge in studying with their native Cambodians.

Phanat has completed his training on refrigeration repair in the U.S. and received his certificate.  He has returned to Cambodia to train the students, staff and some of the older orphans at Hannah’s Hope in these HVAC skills.  Our goal of self-support is an important goal to us.  Phanat does an awesome job of thinking of others at his expense. The students and staff are to be praised for their willingness to learn to support themselves as opposed to just asking for outside support.  This was a week long course that is a part of the curriculum. It gives us a good work ethic and new skills that we would not ordinarily have. 

“We want everyone to know how much we appreciate your prayers and support as we continue to try and build a Bible school that converts souls and trains faithful preachers.”

God Bless You, 

Darat and Piseth

Grand Opening in Mbanga!

Dear Brethren,

It is so sweet to work in the vineyard of the Lord. Greetings to all our family members out there. We are doing great in Cameroon and all is well with the Church and the school of preaching.

Beloved brethren, the first picture is with brother Benjamin who is a graduate from our school. He was in the first batch of students and this was his last service with our congregation. Benjamin is making his way back to Tchad with his family. He is married and the father of a son and a daughter. He is planning to settle back in the capital city of Njamena to begin evangelizing some localities in and around the city. Beloved, it was long ago when they left their country of Tchad to settle in to Cameroon as refuges.  Now they are going back to begin a new life of preaching the gospel. I believe that our prayers will be very urgent and very helpful in this new beginning for them.

Picture 2 is with some instructors and their wives who attended the inauguration ceremony in Mbanga for our new campus which was funded by the Frisco Church of Christ with the collaboration of our Coordinator David Ballard and the Pattonville Church of Christ where he preaches. The ceremony was marvelous!  As you can see, there is a lot of mud in the hall as there was a lot of rain and a lot of people present on that Sunday morning. 

Picture 3 gives us the smile of the preacher, myself, Ititi Benedict after the whole event is over. The hall is ready to be washed to come back at it initial stage beauty. The fellowship and opening ceremony was a huge success. We had two of our quarter-heads present as well as two of the block-heads present. A representative of the chief of the village was also there. God has blessed us to be neighbors as we are next door to the personal residence of the chief. A lot of other people in the town were present and even though there were heavy rains that morning, many other members of the church from other congregations were present including our sister school in Wotutu.

The school of preaching in Mbanga has gone through with its final exams for the quarter. We are taking our last short course which is “The New Testament Church.” This began today as well as the first preacher wives class. These will be going on at the same time. The one is in the church premises with the students. Ename is the lecturer. 

The women are in the school campus with Brother Norbert teaching and Brother Giress as the interpreter because we have some wives who speak only English, some wives who speak only French, and some wives speak both. The wife of Evaristus from Bafoussam is here. The wife of Rromario from WEH in Bamenda is here. The wife of Victor and the wife of Raul who came all the away from Garoua are right here. My wife Mary, the wife of Yakoba, and the wife of Philip are here. Due to the rains this early morning, the wife of Abraham and the wife of Bea are not here yet. Maybe by tomorrow they all will come.

The students are greatly improving in their health situation, even though Azor went to Douala last week to get an x-ray his foot. Today we are waiting to see if the doctor will be proposing surgery for him or if he will just prescribe him some drugs to take. 

   By His grace, we shall be going out for field work this weekend to 10 villages in French speaking areas. 

                        Thanks for your concern and keep on praying for them.

                                                     Ititi Benedict

A lot happening in Wotutu

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from your brothers and sisters here in Cameroon. We are doing okay except for our student John Abeya who is sick. He is having some difficulties in urinating. Please keep him in your prayers.

Last week in BVBIC-Wotutu went on well and it was busy as student’s wives came to Wotutu to attend their ladies class. This time around the topic was “BASIC BIBLE KNOWLEDGE.” Thanks to sister Robin for building up the study materials for our sisters here. It is helping them know how to function along-side their husbands in congregations after graduation. 

Our students ended the quarter with two short courses. They studied “Galatians and “Christian Evidences.” It was great. Brother Itali and I taught the courses. Our students are now on their way to their evangelism sites and many have already gotten to their destinations. Keep them in your prayers.

Our students are out of Wotutu for their third mission assignment as they endthe third quarter of their training in BVBIC-Wotutu. They are going to 19 different communities. They will be there for two weeks preaching and teaching. Some of them will be touching two villages within this period before they return to school.

Our van took some students, while my small car took other students, a long distance and dispatched them to start moving towards their different locations. The reason for this was for our students to get to their location on time. These days, because of the current political situation in Cameroon, cars will not be in circulation Mondays through Wednesdays. Therefore, if they don’t get to their destination today while taxis are running then it will delay their mission efforts in several locations.

Plans 

More mission invitations are coming our way for next month. Also, the annual Bible lectureship will be coming up from the 23rd to the 26th of November 2017 in Nso Khakilaki village. We are invited to be part of it and to help with house to house evangelism.

Appreciation

Thanks for your prayers and support. You have supplied many items that help to make this work move along. God bless you for all you do. Please share our report with others.

Elangwe and family,

By His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

EVANGELISM IS OUR MISSION AND OUR MISSION IS EVANGELISM.2TIM2:2 2TIM4:2

Plans and progress in Sierra Leone

Hello brethren.

We are very grateful to all of you, who in diverse ways support the mission of the work here in Sierra Leone. May God richly bless you for your relentless efforts towards the school.  May our Lord continue to keep you from danger and tribulation wherever you are as the days are evil.

Number of students

Presently, we have 17 students in school one has been hospitalized undergoing medical treatment.

Campaign for Christ: Campaign for this quarter is cancelled due to heavy rain fall in our areas of activities. We have rescheduled the campaign after the end of the rains in October. School will be closing down for the third quarter on the 17th September, and reopens on the 9th October, for the fourth quarter of school.

Achievements: We have made some strides in soul winning campaign and restorations as follows:

In Kailahun at the Levuma church of Christ we won 21 souls for Christ.

In Kenema churches of Christ we are strengthening their membership with new converts

In our campus ministry in Kenema, we have added four souls through baptism.

Students were restoring church members during holidays in various localities in their villages.

They were baptizing members and adding them to churches of Christ in their villages.

We have introduced computer studies in our curriculum with the help of cash donation from our sponsors. We intend to offer an additional class for members in the churches of Christ comes next year.

Thank you,

ISHMAEL

Tamale returns to class

BEAR VALLEY ISTITUTE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES, TAMALE, GHANA.

AUGUST 2017 REPORT

School on Break:

By His grace we have come to the end of the first term course successfully and the students are gone on break to see their families and farms for five weeks. We are wishing them happy home visit and hard work for the Lord’s Churches.

They will be coming back to school on the 11th of September 2017 to continue with their studies.

Administrative Work:

The administrative work of the school is ongoing as usual while the school still on break. We are still on campaign trip for more students to increase the number already in school. The campaign trip will ever continue till the end of 2017 for our set goal to be realized. The three management members will in the school to set things in other before the students get back to school. Francis will be teaching and the other two, Kojo and Alex will be working on getting the paper work on the school property done.

School Farm:

As part of our plan to develop Bear Valley Institute of Biblical Studies, Tamale, Ghana,  we made the school farm to off load some burden from the school as far as the financial expenses of the school is concerned. The farm so far is growing well, except that the Army worms that are now destroying the farm crops in the country is disturbing the farm. However, we are also taking every step to control them.

Please keep on praying for the work here for God’s plan is working.

Thank you,

Alex Jabado

More progress from Zimbabwe

INTRODUCTION

Our students spent the month of August in the field doing their practical. We thank God for guiding them through this period. This practical was the major activity of the school in the month of August. This report, therefore, is mainly on the activities from the field.

1.0   APPLICATIONS FOR NEXT INTAKE

BVBIZ is welcoming applications for the 2018 May intake (second intake). Those wishing to study part-time are encouraged to apply. Classes for part time students are scheduled to start in January 2018.

2.0   FIELD PROGRAM CONTINUES

The field program started on the 15th of July and shall come to an end on the 10th of September 2017. Teachers followed up on the students to assess their progress and carry out their evaluations. The word continues to be spread. Those who had left the church have been brought back. Counselling sessions were held. Some of the lost have been brought to Christ. Many hours have been put into this effort.

3.0   EVALUATION BY PREACHERS

Students have been in contact with preachers in the field during their practical. They stood to benefit from their experience. The following are comments made by 2 preachers who came into contact with our students;

When I paid a visit to BVBIZ students currently stationed at Gokwe Center and Gokwe Nembudziya, I was impressed with their level of competency in execution of their ministerial duties. Thank you BVBIZ staff for preparing men and women  for their ministry (by George Muhura, the preacher at Kadoma church of Christ and BVBIZ ambassador for Mash West). 

Students showed abilities in planning their work and were conducted themselves with their communities. They were working well with resident ministers with all humility. They had zeal to teach and preach and had sound content to deliver (By Auswich Mashaba of the Gospel Chariot after having worked with students at Chikuku and Gokwe).

4.0 STUDENT REPORTS

At BVBIZ students are taught report writing skills and are mandated to report their work every month. This month we one of the reports from students who are in the field. Please see the attached report.

CONCLUSION

We thank God for the development we keep witnessing in our students. We appreciate the sacrifices congregations have been making for the upkeep of our students. To you all for you spiritual, moral, material and financial support we remain grateful. To God be the glory!

In Him,

Mathew Muchingam

Director, BVBI-Z

A new enrollment in India

Dear brethren in Christ,

Greetings to you in the precious name of Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.  We are doing good, and the Lord’s work is going on great.

Faculty meeting:

The new batch of students have started taking classes from the first week of July, that is on the 3rd.  We have 14 students enrolled for this batch so far. On the 19th of June we held faculty meeting to discuss about our new academic year and corresponding place. We also discussed about who teaches what subjects. We spent whole discussing these things in two sessions, we are thankful the God is giving us knowledge to enhance our capability in training the next generation evangelists.

Gospel Campaign Week:

Last week our students spent a week long time in the villages near Pydikonda. Gospel campaign week, its a program to hold personal Bible Studies, gospel meetings and Bible classes.  They have travelled from Visakhaptanm to Pydikonda on train from there they travelled on Auto to reach the destination.

It was a team work for those days by the faculty and the students. Daily schedule begins with a Prayer and devotional. They start the program with a prayer, divide into groups and walk in the streets of the villages.

Some of the near by preachers have also joined with us. Our students have visited 1600 homes and distributed gospel tracts. Our students and faculty have divided up into groups and held 54 personal bible studies during this campaign. This campaign also given opportunity to visit hundreds of family who are not Christian but have asked to pray for them.

This given opportunity to our students to  learn and understand the need of evangelism also comforting. We truly believe that so many people are in need of comfort, because our modern India’s economical benefits are not reaching several millions of people especially those who are farmers and lives on small businesses and daily labour are facing it more. So the prayer of comfort and strengthen the soul was done during our campaign. Our students have learned to encourage those who are without hope and faith.

In addition to personal bible studies, gospel tract distribution and offering prayers, during this campaign we held three gospel meetings in the night, one final meeting at the end of the campaign. As a result 3 souls have been added to the Church, we have given bibles as a token of welcoming them in to our Church family. Attached are the pictures showing the activity of the gospel campaign held last week.

Truly our students are blessed to learn to about the one on one study and also public evangelism. Our task of training the next generation evangelists has begun for this year with this new batch of students. We are hoping that they will gradually learn the word of God in the class room and evangelism work through the out reach programs. Hoping to see them completing their two year program. Kindly continue your prayers.

Gratitude:

We are thankful to the brethren at Strickland for their continued support, we do thank the Elders for overseeing this work also for sending Bro. Jerry Bates to check on the work in real time. We highly appreciate the Elders and members of the Church at Lake Houston Church of Christ for their continued trust and confidence.

We have been hearing in the news about the flooding caused due to hurricane Harvey, we are mindful of those victims, may God comfort them and provide them. I have been in touch with brother James Brown, one of the Elders at Lake Houston to find out the welfare about the brethren living in the Houston city, especially in Humble area.

Things are keeping us so busy, they are just indescribable, your continued prayers would be highly appreciated.

Thanking you all so much, in Christ and His service,

M. Samuel Raju,  Director

John Dean M, Dean

Visakha Valley Bible College

20 students in Ukraine!

As it nears its 20th anniversary, the Bear Valley extension in Ukraine has never been healthier! It is hard to believe that not long ago, the school in Ukraine had only 3 students and its future was uncertain. God has blessed BVBIU and the latest update can be seen HERE. 

Good news in New Zealand

This month, we welcome Nathan Franson from California, USA, as BVBINZ’s newest instructor. He is teaching the students Biblical Interpretation 2 through Skype. The feedback from the students has been great so far. We are thankful for technology and those who helped finance our tech.

We are also happy to welcome Robert Fiddes as the newest full-time student.

As I type this, Mark and Mindy Reynolds are in Auckland, New Zealand, awaiting their flight to Wellington, where I will pick them up. Mark is the regional director of extension studies of Bear Valley that includes New Zealand. It will be his first time visiting the school here, and we look forward to his work for the next week.

If the Lord wills, the Porirua church will have a new meeting place starting in mid-September. For the past six years, the church has been renting a school hall for two hours a week. If this works out, we will have access to a building 24/7. In addition to all of the evangelistic and edification opportunities this building will open up for the Porirua church, we will also plan to use the building as a new BVBINZ hub, rather than having it in Wellington CBD. It will be a much closer commute to 90% of the students and 100% of the New Zealand instructors. 

We are thankful to the Lord for you and your love for training men and women of God.

Keep serving Him,
Lance Mosher, BVBINZ Director

Upcoming plans in Nepal

Greetings to everyone in the hope of our calling:

Friday of next week we are having graduation for our present students.  They began in November 2015.  The graduation is also highlighted by a lectureship from Monday through Thursday.  Jerry Bates will be teaching those classes.  His wife Paula will be assisted by Sunita in teaching classes for the ladies on Monday and Wednesday.  We expect about 100 guests from many parts of Nepal.  

Each year Nepal has a huge Hindu festival time spread over five weeks during late September to October.  Many things [maybe most things] either come to a complete stop or are greatly slowed down at this time.  It is centered on family and many people travel to their ancestral villages.  Nothing gets done.  Today it is about 20% religious and 80% cultural, maybe like Christmas is in the USA.

However, we try to make good use of this time.  We will have a five day Youth Camp that is very popular and will attract teens and early 20's from all over Nepal.  After that we will have campaign visits to many villages.  Our goals are to [a] teach, [b] evaluate needs [earthquake and recent floods], and [c] to encourage unity and fellowship within the brotherhood.  It is unwise to distribute any relief money until after this holiday festival.  Budgeting and wise use of money isnot a strong Nepali culture trait.  What we learn will help us to use the funds available in a more wise manner.  Our personal encouragement and discussions with church leaders will helpthem use the funds in a more appropriate way.  

September and October will be planning, setting priority goals, and discussing how to accomplish those goals with local leaders.  We anticipate distributing the majority of funds available in November and December.  They will be much more focused and serious about these matters after the holiday season.  

Tomorrow we will have a fellowship, classes, and lunch in my apartment.  The theme is centered on .....
Because Jesus Died For Me  ... I want to and need to respond in these ways. or how we should live each day.
Because Jesus Lives ...  with the message being the promise and hope we have for eternity.

Being in our new building is a tremendous blessing.  We are 100% moved in and functioning while still doing some of the finishing touches. 

Thank you for your love as expressed in your actions.  Thank you for the funds, for your prayers, as well as for the example of Christian commitment and compassion.

In service to God and to others, 

Jerry Golphenee

A new year in Haiti

A New Year at IST:  Year four has started at the International School of Theology - Haiti.  This year we have expanded our facilities to accommodate our new students. While we have almost finished the new facilities, there is still much to be done.  There are twenty-five students in the first-year class and fourteen of the sixteen second year students have returned.  We are now moving into the growing phase for IST.  We have a first year and a second-year class and in 2018, we plan to add a third class.  We will have our next graduation in May of 2019 and from that point forward, we will have a graduation each year.  

Meet our Haitian Faculty:  We now have one full-time teacher who will also serve as the administrator for IST and we have four part-time teachers.  

Jean Claude Lemours has a degree in education from the University of Haiti.  Brother Lemours is a 2016 graduate of IST and was our valedictorian.  He has served as the minister for the Butte Boye church of Christ in Haiti for almost twenty years.  He plans to continue his education toward a master’s degree in Bible.

Jean Yves Desmosthene has several years’ experience of preaching and teaching and holds a degree in administration.  

Derrises Alin is a graduate from the school of preaching in Cap-Haitian and he attended one year at IST.  He has served as an evangelist for many years.  

Saint Hubert Felix has been a gospel preacher for thirty-eight years and he is the director of our elementary school and serves as one of our directors at IST.   

Martial Viciere is a graduate from IST and serves as the director of the Sunlight Children’s Home.  He oversees an education program that includes about 125 young people from kindergarten through collage age.  He also is the director of the nutrition center where two hot meals are served five days a week to more than 100 children.  

Church Plant:  Beaubrun Origene, one of the directors at IST, and Martial Viciere have agreed to serve as the evangelists at the La Tremblay church of Christ on the campus of IST.  Plans are being made to start a congregation at the school in January of 2018.  The students and faculty have already started contacting people in the community and one person has been baptized into the body of Christ.  Please pray for this new work.  I will keep you updated at the work progresses.

 As the school grows, so do the needs.  We need both one-time and monthly support.  If you would like to know how you can help, please contact me directly at lwaymire@gmail.com or 731-798-0136.  You are also welcome to contact Bear Valley Bible Institute.  May God continue to use each of us as we continue to serve Him.  

We are thankful for the help of Bear Valley Bible Institute and so many individuals and congregations who have made this possible.  The glory belongs to God for all that has been done.

In Him,

Larry Waymire 

Graduation upcoming in Zambia

Greetings!

We bring Christian greetings from Bear Valley Bible Institute- Zambia. We are always happy to share with you concerning the work here in Zambia, and Luanshya in particular. The work of the Lord continues to grow from one degree of glory to the next. And we grateful to God for the opportunity we have in this noble task.

The six out of the ten students have finished their two years of study with Bear Valley –Zambia. For the past two years, we have seen these men on every curve of their spiritual growth. We can say with all our hearts that these men have turned to be very able preachers. And it is undoubtedly they will indeed make a meaningful contribution to the profile of the Kingdom of God. This has only been possible because of the existence of BVBI- Zambia. We have set 13th October 2017 as a graduation day for these men. Preparations are underway for the success of this day. 

Recruitments of new students have intensified. With two refuges from Angola wanting to be trained, We have so far interviewed fifteen prospects students. All things being equal, we would love that all these come and be part of the student body here at BVBI-Zambia.

Some of these of grandaunts are traveling with the rest of other men in Zambia to Kalomo, Southern Province of Zambia for Men’s conference. This meeting starts on 31st August 2017 and ends on 3rd September 2017.

We are eternally grateful to Woodland Oaks Church of Christ for the financial support that comes to us each month. May God continue blessing you in all your endeavors!

Thank you once again.

In His service,

Cephas and Fred

Graduation and lectureship in Nigeria

Beloved in Christ Jesus, 

Greetings from BVBIN and SWSE, Butubutu, Ibadan and fellow ministers of God in Nigeria. 
In one month the students teaching has resulted into the conversion of forty souls and restoration of over forty erring brothers and sisters and the planting of four congregations. 
This year annual lectureship and graduation was attended by over two hundred people from Oyo, Ogun, Osun, Ekiti, Kogi, Edo, Delta, Akwa -Ibom, Cross River, Abujaand USA. 

4,000 VOTI and 2,000 WBS introduction lessons were distributed to 150 congregations that graced the occasion. A carton of books from Mission Printing, Thompson Reference chain Bible, Bible Dictionary from Bro. Steven Ashcraft, Books from Bro. Doug Wheeler, and books from Bro. Jerry Bates were distributed to the 27 graduates .

Four of this year graduates(Bro. Obey Rimamsikwe, Bro. John Serimam, Samuel Peter and Bro. Ukori Godwin, pic attached) will now be ministering in four of the congregations the Lord planted by the school efforts in Taraba and Ondo States of Nigeria. 

In conclusion, we deeply appreciates the support from Bro. Doug Wheeler and associates and the support from Bro. Steven Ashcraft and associates and your great partnership and love towards the growth of the Lord 's Church in Africa most especially in Nigeria. May the Lord of blessings continue to bless all our joint efforts in Christ Jesus, amen. 

I remain your fellow soldier of Christ..... Makinde Ebenezer Olufemi

(Director of Studies & Chairman of Administrative Council, BVBIN & SWSE, Butubutu, Ibadan and WBSFUW)

Wotutu Director travels to Nigeria

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from your brothers and sisters here in Cameroon, Wotutu. We are doing great and we return all the glory to God. I am sorry to send my last week’s report late. I was out of Cameroon to Nigeria. I was invited by a local congregation to officiate in a funeral program of late sister Alice Idemokon. She was so nice to me when I was in the Bible college in Nigeria. She took me like my mother away from my mother, so when she gloriously passed on, her children and the congregation of Church of Christ Ikot Idem Udo decided to invite me to join with other ministers there for the funeral program. I took my wife along and it was great to travel with her again. The program in that village went on well and we also went to Uyo town to be part of the Akpa Ube congregation.

I hope this report meets you in good health and sound faith as usual .

As students were going to different locations for weekend evangelism my wife and I were also on the road to Nigeria. We drove to the border in Ekok, packed there and went across the border to Akwa Ibom state as our invitation stipulated. Some students went to the newly established congregations and return with great news, like in Owe congregation 3 souls were added, a man, his wife and their son all obeyed the gospel without hesitation. We are planning for a mass evangelism in Owe village.  There is also great improvement in Nfaitock, Bakebe ,Ashum and Eyang as the Christians there are praying and appreciating God for the truth that they are enjoying now. Please, we need some urgent help to get benches and sign boards to these congregations. They are very promising. Brother Derrick was also added to Wotutu the congregation. The fruits of the VBS and the “Friends and Family Day” have started coming us.

PLANS

We are planning a mass evangelism campaign in Owe village before our general campaign. There are many demands for us to send our students to many places.

We are also invited by our sister school in Mbanga to join with them to evangelize a community in the French area.  A lot of English people live there as well. We shall finalize that soon.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you very much for your prayers, your concern over souls here, and your support for us to go out and reach out to souls. God bless you and keep you strong, for there are more days to serve Him. Do your best to share our reports with others.

 Thanks very much for standing with us.

 Elangwe and family

 By His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

EVANGELISM IS OUR MISSION AND OUR MISSION IS EVANGELISM.2TIM2:2 2TIM4:2

Campaign results in Malawi

The table below is a summary of the evangelism work done since we started the BV programme.  You will notice that there are three remaining campaigns before the students graduate.  Here at Mzuzu Bible College, all of us are strongly committed to the BV focus that 'we train preachers'.

It should be noted that the number reflected here are the work of both departments here at Mzuzu Bible College: BV and MSOP

2016 campaigns

1.      Katili – Karonga

This is a place where one of the former student of the Mzuzu Bible College was coming from, seeing the few Christians, he asked the College to come for a campaign and the results were as follows:

a.     9 souls were added to Christ.

b.     2 souls were restored.

2.      Lupaso – Mzuzu

This was a new congregation we established

a.     5 souls were added to Christ.

b.     6 souls were restored.

3.      Chisangano – about 35km from the college (Mbano’s home village)

This was a new congregation established

a.     24 souls were added to Christ.

b.     5 souls were restored.

4.     Chankhombo – Mzuzu

This was a new congregation established

a.     5 souls were added to Christ.

b.     3 souls were restored.

5.      Kalimira – Kasungu

This was a new congregation established

a.     35 souls were added to Christ.

b.     5 souls were restored.

2017 campaigns

1.      Zarewa – Blantyre

This is a new congregation established in May this year

a.     9 souls were added to Christ.

b.     10 souls were restored.

2.      Kamphenda – Rumphi

This is a new congregation established in last month of July

a.     12 souls were added to Christ.

b.     10 souls were restored.

3.      Chiseng’ezi – Mzimba

This is a new congregation established last month as well of July

a.     21 souls were added to Christ.

b.     5 souls were restored.

4.      Chinombo – Ekwendeni (September – 2017) not yet

5.      Kasungu – Central Region (August – 2017) not yet

6.      Lilongwe – Capital city of Malawi (August – 2017) not yet

Looking forward, we will have a new intake of students in February 2018.  Already we have over 120 student applications for 2018/19 (for BV we have about 35 applications).

Marc Veary

Much progress in Togo

TOGO, GHANA AND BENIN WOMEN TAKE TO THE STREET.

One of the highlights of activities in Togo in July was a big conference organized by ladies from Togo, Ghana and Benin. The conference took place at the Nukafu Church of Christ in Lome under the theme “The influence of women in the church and in the World” the gathering brought together over 400 ladies. 

The conference started with presentations on the theme on the first day from several speakers. 

On Saturday July 21, they walked through the principal streets of Lome to present the Church of Christ to the public. They made several stops to distribute tracts while the preachers delivered the gospel message over the PA system.

This event is going to be replicated in some of the major cities in Togo. It was a successful program by all standards.

ACTIVITIES OF THE GOSPEL CHARIOT

It is almost impossible to organize campaigns due to the rains. We are therefore using the season to visit churches we have already planted. However, the early morning devotion in nearby villages is on-going. The team arrives there as early as 5:am. 

Bro. Aluka a retired principal of one of the High Schools in Kpalime volunteered to join the dawn preaching team.

We met a lady who is a founder of a denominational church in this village. She heard a strange message and decided to come and find out who was preaching about the church of the bible. Apparently she did not know of the Bible Church. She came to confront but after all her questions were responded to using scriptures, she fell in love with Christ and His church. She is ready to invite the church of Christ to speak to her congregation.

Young people are becoming more interested in our tracts. We are the only church bold enough to distribute our literature in kpalime and the surrounding towns and villages.  The message is spreading like bush fire. It is interesting how the devil is using insufficient funding as our only handicap. We can plant several churches but how do we take care of them?

FIVE SOULS ADDED TO THE CHURCH 

During the month under consideration, God blessed our efforts by adding five souls to the Church through baptism. 

MOTOR BIKES FACILITATE MOVEMENTS OF STUDENTS AND PREACHERS

In Togo, motor bikes are the regular means of transport. In recent years, we have had individuals provided funds to purchase these bikes. The bikes are used mainly by students for personal work, Sunday visits to village churches and during campaigns. We currently have a fleet of five motor bikes. I would like to use this medium to appeal to individuals and congregations to help purchase more bikes for the school.

COMMUNICATING THE WORD

The word is often communicated using different methods in our effort to reach masses with the saving message of Christ. We use one on one bible study, group study, dawn preaching with megaphone in communities, radio broadcast and tract distribution.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CLASS

With barely Three months for this class to graduate, the students are expressing so much appreciation for the knowledge they have acquired in computer science. We thank all who have made this possible. Our special thanks go to Gabriel Oaks Church of Christ for its support.

LIVESTOCK PROJECT TAKES OFF

We recently commenced the livestock project for the BVBI. The objective of this project is first, to include animal and crop science in the curriculum of the school. The structure you see is a piggery under construction. Since we have limited funds, the plan is to construct one at a time. As soon as we raise enough funds, we shall start with the poultry too. This complex shall consist of grass cutter, rabbit, snail goat, sheep and a bee hive. The second objective of the livestock project is to generate funds internally to sustain our mission efforts.

Report by: H. WILLIE GLEY

P.O. Box AN 19611

ACCRA, GHANA

wgleycbs@gmail.com

011 233 244 509169

011 233 208137017

Graduates doing great things!

The Lord at work! It is amazing to be hearing good reports from our graduate students from various preachers all over east Africa that. The Lord is adding many souls to his church every day. Just for this past week , the reports show 25 souls have obeyed the gospel in Arusha.

It brings much joy to see five of these numbers coming from the Arusha church of Christ where I serve as a local preacher. Most of these converted souls are children of faithful members who have grown up in the word of God and have reached a point to confess and put on Christ through Baptism. These young boys and girls are now serving the Lord in many areas as they see fit according to the scriptures. Last month, Michael and I had the opportunity to visit 17 secondary schools in the Manyara region, and some in Arusha, and distribute Bible tracts.

The school here serves as a distribution centre for world for today material that is shipped from Texas (USA). It happened during our visit with the students and we carried about 60 boxes containing 500 tracts each. Simple statistics shows that these schools had a total of 7000 students and staff in total.

The materials will be able to reach even the parents and relatives of these students and staff. Two days I go I started receiving calls from several teachers and staff members, asking more questions concerning salvation and various topics in the materials. Please keep this work in your prayers for all the seeds that have been planted.

I managed to visit 15 people who are our radio listeners living in Arusha. I was able to share with them the truth. We spent much time looking at the importance of much water baptisms, because they believed only prayers of repentance saved them. Please don’t forget to say a prayer for these people because they are now visiting our local congregation for more Bible classes.

In Christian love, Godrey Mngoma

Dean of Students- ACSOP

Fiji now has 2 terms in the books

I couldn't be happier with the progress of the school in Fiji. With two full terms now in the books, I think you will enjoy the latest report from Jason Pierce. Click HERE to see it.

Mbanga students are doing well

Greetings from Cameroon. We hope all is well with you. As we are writing this report, we are proud to inform you that our school in is doing great and the boys are growing. We can see this growth as we observe them preaching in church during worship. Keep on praying for all of them.

Jesus went to the cross because of all of us. While we were still sinners Christ died and so today we are glad to preach the word in season and out of season. It is rainy season now in Cameroon and a very difficult time to travel from one place to the other, especially with the earth road to carry out evangelism. We travel very muddy roads on bikes to get to our various points for weekend evangelism. This makes the job more tedious, but still lovely and encouraging, as the brothers must still go from one place to the other preaching and nurturing assemblies. We always do our best to respond to the Macedonian call wherever we are needed. With our school van or with the public transport whenever the van not go through the terrain.

The students are seriously preparing for their second quarter exams, followed by their short courses which start on September 4th, then on their week of campaign, and finally a week for their quarterly break. I appreciate the greatness of God this day for the soundness of the scripture in our students as they go out for week end evangelism and around the streets of Mbanga to other villages.

We attended the annual youth retreat that took place last week in BMC College in Buea. We went along with a few youth student preachers in Mbanga and everything went well.

Things are going on well in our new campus and we are implanting our new facility in a gradual process. The fans are all working and by the end of this week the office, the library, and the visitors room will be equipped.

We are also preparing to inaugurate our new facility that is the building come Sunday 27th of August combined with our fellowship meal. Thanks for committing us in your prayers.

Remain blessed my beloved. 

Your beloved ITITI Benedict 

15 baptisms in Ghana

Dear Brethren,

We are happy to report to you, once again, our report for the month of July, 2017.

CLASSROOM WORK

Our classroom work for both the regular and part time went on successfully. Went on successfully. All instructors and 26 students were present and on time which contributed to a successful teaching and learning.  

PERSONAL EVANGELISM

Both instructors and students continued efforts in evangelism, visiting from house to house teaching them the gospel of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. These efforts again contributed in the baptism of 15 souls during the month of July, 2017

May the good Lord richly bless you all.

CHARLES