A New Approach in Mission Work
Training Men Where They Live
For decades we have sent families into the mission field to reach foreign cultures with the Gospel. These efforts have had mixed results at best. Many works thrive as long as the missionaries stay in the field, but as soon as they return home the work they leave behind crumbles.
As a brotherhood, we have also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring men to the States to be trained expecting them to return to their countries and evangelize. This has also had mixed results as once these men spend two or three years in the United States, they don't want to return to their home countries. If they do return, they often want to live much like they did while they were in the States. Obviously, this poses many problems.
At Bear Valley, We take a different approach to these problems - we train preachers in their native country. Working with congregations throughout the brotherhood, preaching schools have been established in many foreign countries with more on the way. We train men to be preachers and evangelists while they live within their own communities and culture. They become the preachers and missionaries to their own people. No culture shock, no dependence on American missionaries.
School Reports (most recently posted):
- Ghana 310
- Takoradi 96
- Accra 63
- Lesotho 15
- Cameroon 450
- Gweru 58
- Nigeria Extended Programs 167
- Haiti 28
- Cambodia 136
- Nigeria 336
- Togo 125
- Ghana Extended Programs 155
- Lima 22
- Peru 34
- South Sudan 5
- Luanshya 42
- Kenya 89
- Kisumu 22
- India 102
- Tirupati 61
- Ibadan 75
- Arusha 563
- Tanzania 135
- Ekwendeni 36
- Malawi 78
- Brazil 4
- Enugu 7
- Guinea 67
- Tamale 150
- Cebu 7
- Philippines 14
- Dar es Salaam 7
- Liberia 71
- Mbanga 89
- Chad 14
- Sierra Leone 66
- Bikkavolu 3
- Mozambique 1
- Port Harcourt 6
- Mombasa 10
- Myanmar 11
- Harare 11
- South Africa 1
- Fiji 50
- Nsawam 1
- Nepal 82
- New Zealand 25
- Guatemala 44
- Chimala 94
- Paraguay 50
School Reports (alphabetically):
- Accra 63
- Arusha 563
- Bikkavolu 3
- Brazil 4
- Cambodia 136
- Cameroon 450
- Cebu 7
- Chad 14
- Chimala 94
- Dar es Salaam 7
- Ekwendeni 36
- Enugu 7
- Fiji 50
- Ghana 310
- Ghana Extended Programs 155
- Guatemala 44
- Guinea 67
- Gweru 58
- Haiti 28
- Harare 11
- Ibadan 75
- India 102
- Kenya 89
- Kisumu 22
- Lesotho 15
- Liberia 71
- Lima 22
- Luanshya 42
- Malawi 78
- Mbanga 89
- Mombasa 10
- Mozambique 1
- Myanmar 11
- Nepal 82
- New Zealand 25
- Nigeria 336
- Nigeria Extended Programs 167
- Nsawam 1
- Paraguay 50
- Peru 34
- Philippines 14
- Port Harcourt 6
- Sierra Leone 66
- South Africa 1
- South Sudan 5
- Takoradi 96
- Tamale 150
- Tanzania 135
- Tirupati 61
- Togo 125