FIRST QUARTER 2025 REPORT FROM BEAR VALLEY BIBLE INSTITUTE PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA
First quarter 2025 was full of great events in BVBI Port Harcourt study centers. Interesting activities such as campaign/practical field work, matriculation and 2nd graduation ceremony happened.
CAMPAIGN/ PRACTICAL FIELD WORK IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2025
At the close of 2024 activities, we resolved that January 2025 will be used for campaign/practical field work. From the first to the third week of January 2025, we sent out our students to various congregations in Rivers State and neighboring States while the teachers supervised them. Our students taught Bibles classes and preached sermons in various congregations, they also engaged in House to House and open air evangelism for three weeks. At the end of the campaign, they had 12 baptisms, 9 restorations and revived weak congregations.
We resumed our Friday and Saturday lectures after the weeks of the campaign in early January, 2025. And the teachers had also resumed ONLINE classes for B. A. Degree with WNCC.
MATRICULATION AND 2ND GRADUATION CEREMONY ON 8TH FEBRUARY, 2025
We are glad to report that we had a matriculation and 2nd graduation ceremony on February 8th 2025. The event was very colorful with Chad Wagner in attendance. 17 students graduated and 31 students took the matriculation oat. Brother Obinna Joe, who is the Provost of the Nigerian Christian Bible College Ukpom Abak Akwa Ibom Ibom State Nigeria, was the guest speaker, his topic was “curbing the menace of denominational influence in the church: The need for sound Biblical literacy.” Other Notable brethren that attended are: Solomon Usim, the Director of BVBI Aba, Abia State Nigeria, Dr. Chinwendu Onyema a lecturer at the same center and a representative of Sunday Uyai from NCBC Ukopm, Akwa Ibom state.
About 40 congregations in Rivers State and Other neighboring States in Nigeria attended. And over 300 persons including the representatives of the Nigerian News papers attended the ceremony. Because the ceremony ended very well, prospective students are calling indicating their interest to register as students.
The teachers and students of BVBI Port Harcourt centers are grateful to our sponsors in United States of America for their financial and moral supports. We want them to know that their efforts and the supports are getting great results and success in our schools in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Report from:
Anthony Ejike Oluria (Director BVBI Rivers State Nigeria, West Africa)