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 265
- Ghana Extended Programs 123
- Uganda 24
- Nigeria Extended Programs 111
- Gweru 45
- Luanshya 29
- Cambodia 132
- Brazil 1
- Lesotho 13
- Togo 116
- Ibadan 66
- Nigeria 312
- Ukraine 157
- Haiti 26
- Malawi 68
- Sierra Leone 60
- Chad 9
- Kenya 75
- Mombasa 8
- India 80
- Tirupati 49
- Accra 46
- Liberia 65
- Cameroon 444
- Tamale 146
- Guinea 57
- Ekwendeni 28
- Kisumu 13
- Takoradi 85
- Peru 28
- Arusha 557
- Tanzania 127
- Bikkavolu 2
- Philippines 10
- Dar es Salaam 5
- Nsawam 1
- Cebu 4
- Harare 10
- Enugu 4
- Fiji 49
- Lima 18
- Mbanga 88
- Trinidad 9
- Nepal 82
- Port Harcourt 4
- Myanmar 10
- New Zealand 25
- Guatemala 44
- Chimala 94
- Paraguay 50
School Reports (alphabetically):
- Accra 46
- Arusha 557
- Bikkavolu 2
- Brazil 1
- Cambodia 132
- Cameroon 444
- Cebu 4
- Chad 9
- Chimala 94
- Dar es Salaam 5
- Ekwendeni 28
- Enugu 4
- Fiji 49
- Ghana 265
- Ghana Extended Programs 123
- Guatemala 44
- Guinea 57
- Gweru 45
- Haiti 26
- Harare 10
- Ibadan 66
- India 80
- Kenya 75
- Kisumu 13
- Lesotho 13
- Liberia 65
- Lima 18
- Luanshya 29
- Malawi 68
- Mbanga 88
- Mombasa 8
- Myanmar 10
- Nepal 82
- New Zealand 25
- Nigeria 312
- Nigeria Extended Programs 111
- Nsawam 1
- Paraguay 50
- Peru 28
- Philippines 10
- Port Harcourt 4
- Sierra Leone 60
- Takoradi 85
- Tamale 146
- Tanzania 127
- Tirupati 49
- Togo 116
- Trinidad 9
- Uganda 24
- Ukraine 157