Dear Supporters,
The great work of training men to preach in the French side of Mbanga Cameroon continues and we give God all the glory for the increase that He has given to the work of our hands.
The BVBIC-Mbanga began in April 2015 and has just finished her 10th year of training men to preach. This means that we have now trained 5 batches of men and have now begun with batch number 6.
In the first 4 batches of the school, French speaking men from Chad came to Mbanga to study. There were also Chadian men being trained in French schools of preaching in Benin, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria.
During the 5th batch, since we were blessed to be able to start a Bear Valley school in Moundou Chad, we brought 2 men from the Democratic Republic of Congo to be trained in Mbanga. These two men just graduated from BVBIC-Mbanga in March and we are working on getting 4 more Congolese men to Mbanga to join batch number 6 in their two years of training. The youngest of the two graduates from Chad was the valedictorian of the batch after having come to school one quarter late and making up the courses he had missed along the way. Please be praying for these Congolese men as we are facing challenges getting them to and from Congo to Cameroon because of a recent escalation in danger in moving around the Congo.
Our staff in the Mbanga school are doing a great job of training men and have been in pretty good health although one of our instructors, Giresse Alain, a graduate of Mbanga himself, got Hepatitis B from a blood transfusion following a motorcycle accident. He is undergoing regular injections and needs to do so for one year. He has completed one month of treatments and also has the next three months paid for. He will need support to be able to pay for the other 8 months of treatment. Any help toward his care would be appreciated.
We have a preacher wife program in Mbanga like the one in Wotutu where we offer the wife of the preacher student 8 one-week courses that will help them to be the best they can be at teaching children, teaching other women, and being evangelistic in their area. Here are the titles of our 8 wife’s courses.
Preacher’s Wife’s Courses for Cameroon
1. General Bible Knowledge – Curriculum by Randy and Robin Martin
2. Teaching Children’s Bible Classes – Curriculum by Robin Martin
3. The Home God’s Way – Curriculum by Randy and Robin Martin
4. The Holy Role of Women – Curriculum by Randy and Robin Martin
5. Evangelistic Women – A Study of Women’s Ministries – by Pamela Stewart – Additional Notes by Robin Martin
6. Preparing for and Hosting a Vacation Bible School – No written curriculum. Organized and taught by Karen Pond who comes to Cameroon and implements the topic for the year. She prepares the lessons and brings hands-on materials as well. She meets with the ladies each day to review the material that will be taught the following day and discuss how to use the handouts and materials as well as talk about any challenges that were faced during that day of teaching and discuss ways to overcome the challenges. The ladies teach alongside experienced teachers from Wotutu and Mbanga. We email the lessons in advance and have copies made for them so that they can study ahead of time.
7. Marriage and Family Life – Curriculum by Bill Stewart – This is a short course for the students and a wife’s class combined. We use the normal short course material and host an “I Choose My Spouse Again Banquet”.
8. Defending the Faith-Essential Doctrines – Curriculum by Randy and Robin Martin
The school does some small agricultural activity for the purpose of learning how to become self-sufficient as well as to produce food for themselves and for widows and orphans around as well.
Here are the statistics for the school since her inception in April 2015. There are many other good things happening as a result of the work of our graduates and evangelism teams that are working to help the church to grow in French Cameroon.
Bear Valley Bible Institute Cameroon - Mbanga
TOTALS AS OF March 2025
Congregations Established – 34
Congregations Restored - 12
Number of Baptisms – 533
Restorations – 94
Graduates – 59
We appreciate your continued prayers as support as we do our best to train men and win souls.
Blessings in Him,
David