OPERATING REPORT BEAR VALLEY INSTITUTE KARA – April 2023
(FIRST QUARTER 2023)
EXTENDED PROGRAM ; BVBI – KARA – TOGO
INTRODUCTION
Greetings from West Africa (Kara). All the churches around Kara and my family are doing well and send you their greetings. By your support we do effectively this recommendation of Our Lord Jesus- Christ contained in Mark 16 :15-16 and Matthew 28 :19-20. With this support you participate fully in this Great Mission. We are so thankful for your great desire to continue to help us doing this mission here in north of Togo.
OPERATING REPORT
1- Students number : 10
2- The courses already thought during the first quarter 2023 :
a- How we got the Bible by KPADENOU Rodrigue
b- Number and Deuteronom by KAGNON Luc
c- Hebrews by BEDJELSI Fidele
3- The courses that will be taught during the second quarter 2023 :
a- Revelation by Esperance
b- Logique by Luc
c- Hebrews by Fidele
4- Instructors’ meeting :
The desire of the Instructors is to see students to be able to teach the doctrine of Christ like Paul recommended it to Timothy “And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also” (2Timoty 2 : 2). That’s why these instructors always encourage these students to be faithful, regular, and brave to the end. Our instructors decided to give the best of themselves to help these students until the end. So, in the future we are going to have good preachers to help the work in the north.
5 - DESCRIPTION OF CONGREGATIONAL ACTIVITIES WORSHIP AND EDIFICATION
a- Worship and edification :
We are very thankful of the existence of Bear Valley bible school Institute. Students are sent to local congregations for worshiping and edification according to an educational program. The teaching in the local churches is titled : “The way to heaven “. With the help of these Students I developed a program of monitoring local churches to build spiritually strong churches in the future. Sometimes, the preachers of Kpalime came to help for door-to-door evangelism and edification with local churches. Two women were baptized in Lama and two men were also baptized in Kara town.
b- Campaigns :
We have organized one campaign in Landa in January and had 5 persons baptized. This campaign helped us to have a new congregation established there in Landa village.
c- Evangelistic efforts :
We are continually pushing the local congregations to organize themselves to bring the gospel to the city of Kara and their local villages. During the quarter, we have been assembling in small groups and going house to house on a weekly basis. Due to the Muslim and denominational influence and good organizations with projects and the desire of the people to look towards material things, the work is not easy . However, we continue to proclaim the gospel and are experiencing slow growth in the local congregations. With the continual effort in the villages we were able to restore a church of Christ long implanted by some Missionaries in Soumdina Powayi village with 11 persons also baptized. We have also planted a congregation in Soumdina Pida with 2 baptized recently. The denominational doctrines program has helped to obtain this result too. We have a total of 20 persons baptized from January to March 2023.
2- UPCOMING PROGRAM
We have planned a door-to-door evangelization in Sanda-te village to help this local congregation grow numerically.. We are also going to help the local congregation in Lama in May. In addition to all this we plan to have the preachers seminar in June to help every preacher to be strong by serving Christ.
3- RADIO PROGRAM
We continue to teach the truth through Radio Kozah FM to help the population to make a decision for their salvation. Little appreciated the truth taught without making a decision to follow Christ while many engage in criticism. Through this issue we get back in touch with some with whom we discuss the truth. A very good opportunity for the conversion of some people.
4- THE VISIT OF STEVEN IN KARA
We thank God for the visit of our zelous Missionary Steven from March 30 to April 3,2023. During this visit a lot of reflections were made with Tamale Bear Valley Bible School Director, brother James and Kpalime Bear Valley Bible School Director, brother Cephace to help work in the north of Togo particularly and in the whole Togo in general. He wisely solved some problems that try to curb the evolution of work in the north and the whole Togo in general. We welcome the bravery and determination of the Missionary Steven who wants unity among the christians and preachers. His desire is to build a strong church of Christ in Togo. We shared the excellent moments with him in Kara as in Kpalime for the graduation of students. I benefited from his wise tips to build a good leadership. I like working with Steven, a very zeal who struggles a lot for salvation of lost souls in Africa. He inspires me a lot.