BEAR VALLEY BIBLE INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL, ACCRA EAST
THIRD QUARTER REPORTS- 2023
Course taken
The third quarter started on the Saturday, 1st July 2023 and ends on Friday 30th September, 2023. The following are the courses studied within this quarter:
· The Book of Acts (concluding part)
· The Book of Romans
· The Life of Jesus in the book of John
Report on the students
The attendance was stable in this second quarter and the average attendance was eight (8). One person was admitted as a student to the school within this quarter.
House to House Evangelism
The house to house evangelism took place at Gomoa Asebu and Awutu Breku. As usual the students were sent to Gomoa Asebu on rotational bases to support the church both in their evangelism and worship. In the third quarter the major evangelism work took place at Awutu Breku, in the Central Region of Ghana because it was the community which Accra East chose to plant this year’s church.
The New church planted at Awutu Breku on September 24, 2023 by Accra East
It was such a joyful moment when we met at Awutu Breku the first time to worship as a church which marked the beginning of Awutu Breku Twie-me church of Christ. All those who took part could not control their joy on that day. We sang songs of praises unto our God, we preached we gave and showed love to each other and had a group picture for future records. We thank God for His love and the opportunity given to us to unveil the church of Christ at Awutu Breku Twie-me which He established, a long time ago before the foundation of the world. We also thank him for given this great opportunity for the people of Awutu Breku Twie-me to know and receive Christ. We thank the Co-ordinator, Ghana and his team, that is the Bear Valley Director and Coordinator in Ghana and our International Directors for this wonderful vision. May God bless all of them.
We set up the journey from Accra on Saturday 23rd September early in the morning. By 7.30-8.00 we reached the town. On the Saturday evening, five of the students left Breku to Accra. Three of them were as a result of lack of accommodation, because we all could not sleep at the hall of preacher Amo. (there was no money to go and lodge in a hotel). Two of them returned to Accra to go and respond to their congregation’s appointment. The rest (seven in number) stayed to see the inauguration of the church. I handled the adult Bible class and preacher Isaac Amo did the sermon.
The attendance at the time of announcement was nineteen (19). Three children and sixteen adults. Five visitors came late when we were about to close, two adults and three children. (making the total number of twenty-four) Nine (9) of the worshipers were from Accra (Bear Valley students & Kotobabi church) the rest of the members were from that community. We had two hundred and twelve Ghana cedis (Ghc212.00) as offering.
The following are the things we carried them along to Awutu Breku
1. Lord’s Supper Tray
2. Lord’s Supper Plate
3. Lord’s Supper Bread and Grapes
4. Collections Sacks
5. Hymnbooks
6. Temporary pulpit (but do not use it because of lack space)
7. Lord’s Supper Table
8. Signboards
9. Plastic chairs
The next action
I have planned that in every week two of the students will be sent to Awutu Breku for evangelism and worship to help the stationed preacher till the church is matured.
All the students of Accra East occasionally will also prepare to go there in our numbers to help in evangelism.
I have asked the students to go and ask their various congregations to help Awutu Breku financially to be able to put up the structure on the land.
We have discovered where we fall short and where we did well so we are going to correct that errors and as we will soon plan the next year church planting, that we may not face the same problem as we had this year.