February 2022 Report
May the peace and grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be granted to you as long as heaven and earth exist. Everything is going well under his divine power, because the students, the teachers as well as the churches are all doing wonderfully. We have succeeded in restoring an assembly in AVEHO-Tougbli, this assembly that was led by evangelist HANYEBOE CLEMENT since 2015. Brother Clement had suffered a lot of eye problems of which he was finally able to have surgery and now he sees well and works properly. Let us pray for the churches planted by the work of the school in Kpalime.
Evangelism:
Thanks to God, the activities of the students helped by the former students continue every Friday. This is what caused the restoration in this month of February of the church in Aveho-Tougbli with 11 members in the locality and a study with religious group in TSABOM and YOH to support this assembly which grows with difficulty in the middle of the Protestant denominations of the locality.
An evangelism program is planned in KPEGLONOU from March 23, 24 and 25, 2022 in order to plant a new church.
Challenges:
1. Plant or Restore one church per month.
2. Every town or village in the region should be evangelized.
3. Each evangelist (37) must preach in a church and no longer be multiple evangelists in one congregation
4. Each student must have a plan to work (location or church available) before in December 2022.
5. To put a system in place that can encourage new church students to be more dynamic in serving the Lord.
6. Multiply the places of the Saturday courses by all in Togo.
7. The evangelism organization team is hard at work to restart the public evangelism campaigns (some barrier restrictions are removed).
Baptisms:
The results at the end of February were encouraging: 9 baptisms as a result of the students' outings for evangelism and church planting. In AVEHO-TOUGBLI we postponed two for an evening because of the distance to travel to do the baptism. They were two women who wanted to receive their baptisms at all costs on the evening of Friday, February 25, and their parents did not want them to be moved far from them. In a short time it will rain and they will receive their baptisms.
Seminar: Efficiency in the workplace
It has been noticed that the former evangelists need to be revitalized and retrained in the service of worship, evangelism, teaching or Bible study for a very good performance wherever they have the opportunity to intervene. It is a challenge that BVBI Togo gives itself as a complementary work because there are other Bible schools in Togo, so we make a difference by our work. This difference must be noticed in all aspects (fields) that the school intervenes. Churches of Christ from all over French-speaking Africa want to send their candidates to Bear Valley Institute Togo for Bible training because of the work that is done by the school.
BVBI: courses of the quarter:
1- History of the Church: Cephas
2- Doctrine of Denominations: Cephas
3- Jeremiah and Lamentations: Rodrigue
4- 1 Samuel to 2 Kings: AKALO Komlan
5- Proverbs to Songs of Songs: AKLI
6- Isaiah: ATTAH
7- Logic: ATTAH
8- Homiletics II. AKOVI Esperance
About the courses :
The students of the Saturday courses in the 4 localities continue as usual. Only some of them like Kpele-Beme the classes are held twice a week (Thursday and Sunday evening). There were some students of the correspondence courses who requested the Saturday school in DANYI located between the mountain ranges. There is a church of Christ in AHLON TINIPE directed by the student KPODO Koffi.
Covid 19:
There is good news about the distancing measures: churches are allowed to meet wearing masks. So this year evangelization campaigns can take place under the permission of the competent authorities.