OPERATING REPORT BEAR VALLEY BIBLE INSTITUTE KARA – TOGO
(THIRD QUARTER 2022)
EXTENTED PROGRAM ; BVBI – KARA – TOGO
INTRODUCTION
Greetings from the Churches of Christ around Kara – Togo and from my family.
We thank God for the work you are doing on his name to enlarge his Kingdom here in the north of Togo. And we continue to align with the declaration of Hebrew 6 : 10 that « For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister ».
OPERATING REPORT
1- Actual number of students : 10
2- The Courses already taught during the second quarter : Geneses – Matthew – John
3- The Courses that will be taught during the third quarter :
a- Exodus – Levitique by KAGNON Luc
b- Church implanting by KPODENOU Rodrigue
c- The Church of the Bible by BEDJELSI Fidele
4- Instructors’ meeting : Instructors meet regularly and continue to think about putting on strategies to be adopted to better work with students to achieve the goals of the Great Commission. Among other strategies : First, it is necessary to help the existing churches through the evangelization campaigns, the Seminars, so that these churches are strongly spiritually and digitally to challenge false existing doctrines in our localities. Secondly consider the progressive implementation of new assemblies in the localities we will have to target . Instructors have renewed their commitment to continue to motivate students.
5- Congregational Activities :
a- Worship and edification
We continue to send students on Churches for biblical studies and worship and this program helps us a lot in the direction of these Churches. This program continue to help us to establish a follow- up program for churches to continue our vision to build strong and mature Congregations in the future and these mature congregations will have the ability to implant other congregations. We continue to organize each Congregation for door to door evangelization in their own locality to help each congregation to grow in number. With this organization , we have 04 women in Lama baptized ; 01 woman in Sanda–te baptized. We actually focus on doctrinal teaching to help Congregations to challenge false doctrines in our areas.
I was very happy to meet recently our Zealous Missionary Steven in Ghana(Tamale) up September 12 to 15,2022 to continue to discuss about the Bible Bear Valley School and the work : how to move the best to the Church in the north. I also assisted with great satisfaction with his teachings during his classes in Tamale.
b- Seminars :
We have organized three(03) seminars : 1 seminar for the Preachers in July 5th to 7, 2022 on the Topic : The Preacher and his work ; 01 for the Church Leaders in August on the Topic : Christian leadership taught by the actual Director of the West African bible school training in Benin , Mr ADJAYI Inoussa and 01 onother seminar concerning Men and Women in September 7th to 9,2022 on the Topic : The Christian home. We invited some specialists who have spoken to us about marital violence and how to be financially self-reliant. Participants left very happy and we hope that in the coming months they are going to put into practice different teachings in the different local churches.
c- Denominational program : We started this program in two(2) places as the experimental phase : one in Kara town with variable assistance(5 – 7) and one in Kouka with also variable assistance(8 – 11)
d- Evangelistic team : We also started this strategy in two(2) localities : one in Kouka(06 preachers) and one also in Kara Town(06 preachers). This strategy will help me to better coordinate the work and will also better be effective in door to door evangelization. With this strategy we have one Congregation established in Lassa village (about 10 miles from Kara Town) with two(2) women baptized.
6- Up coming programs :
We propose to start this denominational program in Landa village with the hope of establishing a new congregation in this locality. This program brings many advantages . It is another good strategy to help the church to grow .
According to our program, we have planned to have a campaign in Dapaong, Korbongou and Kara. Please, bring all this into your prayers.
7- Radio program :
We have started our radio program on the new Kozah Fm public radio since July 2022. Our desire is to have many persons through this Radio to discuss and study bible with them personally because this Radio is going far. Please we need your prayers for this program.
In Christ,
Fidele