Calvary greetings from this part of the universe. We are in Mbanga Balong, in Cameroon, and in central Africa. We are glad to be alive this day, strong and healthy for some are incapable.
We praise Jehovah God for taking us this far. The end of year is quite near and lots of things are ongoing. We want to beg for your prayers as our students and staff will going for field work and we will be campaigning for the next batch of students as we go as well. We bring our report to you this day. It will be the last for this year as we proceed to 2021 by his grace. All roads are leading to Wotutu for the end of coursework graduation ceremony as we also prepare for our own in Manga next march. But, so far, we are doing fairly well, even thou with some ups and downs.
The students and staff just finished this 7th quarter with no major difficulties. We also took the short course on the book of Hebrews. We ended with a short course taught by Ename Paul, minister with the Bertoua town assembly. It was pleasant to study the book of Hebrews. In his nature, as it is, He took 6 days to exegete the book with a written part on Saturday in the evening. All of the students were able to make it with green (flying) colors.
The students had a course on “African Traditional Religion.” This is a course we brought in as we use this to study some traditions and culture of the people in order for us to know how to penetrate these areas of work. The case study was that of West Africa.
We took some time off to go into the field and visited some of these fons (chiefs) and their royalty in order for them to tell us what their tradition is all about. It was a great trip, as we are planning to move this course from being just an elective course to becoming a part of the curriculum in the nearby future.
To make marks, it was exactly one year ago that we organized the annual conference in Mbanga. We still want to say thank you to all who supported the hosting of the annual last year. We successfully traveled safely to Bangante this year for the annual lectureship with both the students and members of the congregation.
The church in Mbanga and the students also welcomed a new born baby in church. The student from Chad whose name is Josuè presented his newborn baby with his wife Leah. The two of them came but today they are 3. More blessings should accompany this family.
We offer a special end of year greeting from the church in Mbanga to the sister assemblies all over the globe. We love you all. May God bless you this end of 2020.
From your servants in Mbanga,
ITITI BENEDICT AND MARY.
Happy New Year in advance. Thanks