OPERATING REPORT BEAR VALLEY INSTITUTE KARA – TOGO (First quarter 2024)
EXTENDED PROGRAM ; BVBI – KARA – TOGO
April 1st, 2024
INTRODUCTION
Greetings from Kara in northern Togo. As we walk together to accomplish the great Mission, we appreciate your willingness to continue to support this Bible School that helps in the formation of brothers who will be able to play a great role in the plan of salvation that the Great Mission requires.
We pray unceasingly that God will grant us peace, courage and good health, so that together we may continue to strive for the fulfillment of the Great Commission order contained in Mark 16 : 15 – 16. Your love in this work gives us the courage to always strive to enlarge Christ’s Kingdom.
OPERATING REPORT
1- The number of students : 09
2- The courses already taught the first quarter :
a- Isaiah, great prophet by KAGNON Luc
b- The Minor Prophets by TALAKI Nicodeme
c- 1 Corinthians by BEDJELSI Fidele
3- The courses that will be thought during the second quarter 2024 :
a- Job and the Psalms by TALAKI Nicodeme
b- Jeremiah and Lamentations by KPELEVI David
c- 2 Corinthians by BEDJELSI Fidele
4- Instructors’ meeting : Instructors continue to motivate students and deploy the student’s behavior that negatively marked teachers in his absence despite the motivations.The students had to express their wish to learn computer science. This technology also helps the student in this research.
5- Congregational Activities :
a- Worship and edification : The challenges of laying the foundations for the church in northern Togo are enormous. There are : The challenge of unity, the challenge with the plethora of denominations.
In the face of all these challenges, a teaching program is planned for all local churches and an awareness campaign in all northern regions to help evangelists work together to expand the Kingdom of our Lord. Our prayer is that in the future we will be totally united in answering Our Lord’s prayer before going to the cross in John 17 :17.
With the arrival of the new evangelists to help the work in the north , we organize these local existing churches to grow spiritually and digitally. A program has been set to feast to help these churches. Students participate in this program and are sent to these churches for adoration Sundays. And our first goal is that these churches become masts and also to implant other churches. So, we have set up effective leadership to enable each local church to worship without the presence of the evangelist. This will help us plan for future church plantings.
b- Door- to- Door evangelism :
The door to door work during these 3 months led us to convert a total of 8 people, including 4 women in Soumdina- Pida, 2 men in Lama, a woman in Landa and a man in Kara- University. A door-to-door evangelism program is rigorously followed to help each local church grow numerically. For the moment, this comprehensive evangelism work is a success story among the evangelists in Kara. We pray that God will continue to help u_s in this direction.
c- Seminars : We thank God for the life of Karen Ashcraft who organized a two-day conference March 1-2, 2024 for 10 Congregations for women who care for children’s class. Each Congregation sent representatives. Karen wisely imparted her knowledge to these women, who left very happy with the gifts they received during the conference. The conference took place in a room at the Hotel Meka in Kara, where the cool temperatures made the participants very happy, as it was extremely hot in Kara in March.
My family is always blessed by Karen’s arrival in Kara. Before she left, we shared a meal together at the Hotel Meka. During this moment of sharing, she had to give a lot of advice to my daughters who make huge efforts at school and promised to do much more in their studies. It was a moment of great joy when we remembered her last visit to Kara a few years ago. We remain grateful for her love in Christ. Our Mighty God continues to give her long life, strength and many benedictions.
d- Missionary travel : We have with Steven, the very zealion Missionary for the salvation of souls in Africa and especially in West Africa carried out a missionary trip passing by Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, and Guinea. In Ivory Coast, we have traveled to the cities of Bandougou, Bouake, Yamssokro to encourage teams to come and work together, very beneficial to have good results in the conversion of lost souls for Christ. In Liberia was held a conference of Zealous Evangelists from Sierraleon, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana,Togo and Liberia. Efforts have been made to put together ideas to channel and motivate the evangelistic team in each country. It is a very beneficial trip. This trip allowed us to know some countries, meet and know the other evangelists of other countries. This trip is solving some division issues in countries. We pray that these kinds of meetings will continue to take place in the future. It is a good start to maintain the unit in the body of Christ in Africa.We pray a lot for Missionary Steven, who inspires us all. May God give him much wisdom, patience and iron health and a long life for the realization of his vision in Christ. This missionary journey began on January 14, 2024 and we returned on February 4, 2024.
e- Denominational Program : This program had started well from our return of the trip after some hesitation. This program began in 3 localities : Atchangbade with 11people ; Soumdina-Pida with 13people and IBBV kara with 6people.
f- Radio Program : We use this program as a means of evangelization for the surrounding communities. It’s also a way of getting in touch with certain listeners with whom we are in conversion discussions. Other evangelists help to preach the gospel on the radio.
In Christ,
Fidele