Dearest in the Lord,
Greetings from this part of the globe. We do hope you are doing well in all that you do for the Lord and His church. God has always remained faithful to us even in the midst of difficulties and stumbling blocks that have been put in our way. We are thankful to God for you, as you continue to make your calling and election sure.
The new students, that is the Theta batch, are doing their best to cope with the new lifestyle in the dormitory and on the campus away from their homes. It is the most challenging for the married students to adjust.
Mission Printing another ocean container of tracts and other useful books for preachers in Cameroon. It was highly welcomed with great joy as many came out to help. The truck got to our campus where we could easily offload the truck. Our roads to the campus are not very good but we managed to get the truck pretty close to our campus for offloading to avoid too much stress from "head carrying" the boxes to the tract storage room. This particular container will serve the English part of Cameroon, the French speaking parts of Cameroon and Chad, and it contains some Arabic tracts for Chad as there are many Arabic speakers in Chad that we are zealous to share the gospel with.
After their short courses in March, the Bear Valley Bible students in Wotutu hit the road to 18 different locations with the assignment to preach, to teach, and to nurture congregations. We made a new T-shirt for this batch with an inscription, “THETIANS FOR A MISSION.” We realized that many congregations in the hinterland were either dead or they were dying due to the crisis that has been hitting Cameroon for the past 8 years and counting. As the crisis begins to subside in some areas, we take the gospel there because the gospel is for all.
Brother Gabriel traveled to the hill country of Lokando 2 and discovered that the congregation had closed the door for the past 5 years because there was no one to preach, as almost everybody escaped the village because they were afraid of bullets. He had never been there before, so he embarked on house-to-house evangelism to fish out some of the lost souls who were ready to return to the Lord.
These are the ones who were willing to come back, but the news has gone to the different hiding spots of those in the forest so now they know that there is someone who can conduct worship. In the future, as we will embark now on weekend evangelism there, the church will get back on track. Please, your prayers are needed.
The staff of the Bible institute were also in different mission fields. I also traveled to other places and was able to make it to the Alumni evangelism organized by one of our graduates in Loum. Cyprine is a great worker for the Lord. Loum is a very stony area as you can see behind the blue and yellow painted building where the church in Loum meets. Evangelism is our mission and our mission is evangelism was echoed again, and it brought a reawakening to the spirit of sharing the gospel free of charge to the world.
After visiting Loum, I moved to Bamenda with tracts for evangelism and Bibles for the new converts there. This material will help to empower the church in the Sisia quarter.
Sharing the word of God is amazing. Handing over a copy of the word of God to a brother or sister, usually provokes smiles and happiness. I like giving out Bibles to people that truly need one. It gives me great joy to know that they will now have the written word of God to read, anytime they choose.
Our Bible students are all back on campus with one new student who missed the entire first quarter because of family issues. He is on campus and will be taking the first quarter courses little by little before the two years elapse. The student body now moves to 19 soldiers who are ready to carry the gospel to the many ends of our great country.
APPRECIATIONS
Thank you very much for all you do. You are just the square peg, of just the right shape and size, to keep doing the good work. God is watching and is giving increase to the work of your hands
Plans
Evangelism is the top item on our agenda. We have some virgin missions planned within this month so that we can take the gospel there. It is for this reason that we have been called out. Mark 1:38
Make a great day
Elangwe and family
By His grace Director BVBIC-Wotutu