OPERATING REPORT BEAR VALLEY INSTITUTE KARA- TOGO (Fourth quarter 2024)
EXTENDED PROGRAM ; BVBI- KARA – TOGO
January 22nd, 2025
INTRODUCTION
Having arrived at the threshold of this new year 2025 in good health, please accept our best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. We pray that God will grant you perfect health, great and much courage to continue fighting to expand God’s kingdom together. We continue to encourage our students to make sure that at the end of their training they can be effective in the fight to win lost souls and enlarge the kingdom of God.
OPERATING REPORT
1- The current number of students : 6
2- The courses already taught the fourth quarter 2024 :
a- Evangelical Ethics : by KAGNON Luc
b- The Comparative Study of Religions : by TALAKI Nicodeme
c- The Major Cult : by BEDJELSI Fidele
3- The courses that will be taught during the first quarter 2025 :
a- Biblical Doctrine : by KAGNON Luc
b- Church Development : by TALAKI Nicodeme
c- 1-2 Timotheus and Titus : by BEDJELSI Fidele
4- Instructors’ meeting :
Teachers noted during their quarterly meeting the absence of three (3) students towards the end of December 2024. The reason for their absence is that the Togolese government organized civil service employment exams and three (3) of their students passed these exams and immediately left for their respective training. The teachers were not happy about this situation, but they made a commitment to continue encouraging and motivating the six (6) students to remain firm until the end of the courses.
The teachers noted with satisfaction the baptism of a denominational Young brother during our practical evangelism to the village of Lama. They also noted the visit of Evangelist Roger from Ivory Coast, who strongly encouraged the students who were very happy.
5- Congregational Activities :
a- Worship and edification :
During this quarter we selected the local churches of Kara University and Soumdina Pida for an edification campaign program. During the execution of these programs, we were able to restore who had abandoned the faith to return to the Catholic Church. They made a firm decision to worship in Christ’s church from now on.
We continue to salute the good collaboration between the Evangelistes. A teaching program is drawn up, and in turn evangelists, with the help of students, build up local churches.
b- Denominational program :
With this program, we were able to plant two (2) churches : one in Lassa Lao and the other in Tchitchao Kigbeleng. In Tchitchao Kigbeleng we have baptized 4 people and one of them decided to study at Bear Valley Bible School.
c- Door-to-door evangelism :
Under the leadership of evangelists, each local church has a program for door-to-door evangelism. Each local church program is supported by all the evangelists, who work together as a team with the other members of each local church. There is a very good influence of this work in each locality. We baptized a total of 5 people this quarter, including 4 in Tchitchao Kigbeleng and 1 in Lama, and restored 1 person at the Kara University local church.
d- Seminar :
In November 2024, we held a seminar for evangelists from the north and some from southern Togo to discuss unity and relational leadership for three days. The number of participants was 30 evangelists. And here we salute the efforts and wisdom of Missionary STEVEN in supporting this seminar.
e- « Read and speak kabiye program » :
This program is designed above all to help the brothers in each local church master the local language to help during worship. They will also help as monitors in each local church. Each member must be able to read and understand God’s word in his or her own language. This will help each member grow spiritually. Each participant in this program is very diligent in mastering the language.
f- Prayers for newborn babies :
God has blessed two families with new babies at Lama and Kara-University. These moments of prayer were moments of joy that saw the participation of members of other churches. These were moments of advice given to these families.
g- End-of-year camp :
This program brings together all the brothers and sisters of each local church for nearly three days around a special theme that the chosen preachers will help the members to fully understand. This program helps the members towards spiritual maturity. This year’s participants numbered around 150. The general topic was : The Church of Christ.
h- Radio Program :
This program continues to help us reach the most remote villages with the gospel. It also helps us to make contact with certain members of the denominations with whom we organize study programs. Some accept and appreciate the teachings, but reject these comprehensive study programs.
i- End-of-year program :
Some churches gathered on the night of December 31st, 2024 in Kara-University local church, singing and thanking the Almighty for his protection and blessings for the year 2024. The new year 2025 was greeted with a cheerful atmosphere, and everyone made a commitment to make a little more effort in their service with the Lord in 2025.
In Christ,
Fidele