Great improvement in Sierra Leone

ACTIVITY OPERATION REPORT FOR AUGUST, 2021

To God be the glory that our infinite and merciful God has granted us another opportunity to meet again in proxy. Though we stay far away from one another, yet we are closer in the Spirit. This is another opportunity for us to share with you the report of the Bear Valley Bible Institute Sierra Leone for the past month of August, 2021. The month of August was a fruitful one for us. The school’s academic activities continued without any hindrance; some souls were being converted to the Lord’s church; Agriculture was as well embarked upon, and other exciting activities occurred as well. May you read with us through as we share the report based on the following subheadings:  

WEEKEND EVANGELISM AND CONVERSIONS

We have always informed you that we usually go out for evangelism (both staff and students) during weekends. And for the month of August, the Lord opened the hearts of six people and were baptized for the remission of their sins. Please may we pray for their spiritual growth.

AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES

KBVBI has created the Agricultural program in order to help her students learn some good farming skills so that even after their graduation, they would be able to put the skills into practice and produce certain foods for their consumption. Moreover, those who can produce a large quantity can sell and use it as a means of livelihood. Thus, in the month of August, we began to clear our farm land (basically on our school land) to be able to plant cassava. Some staff and the students were actively involved in the work.

STUDENT’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Steven Sahr Ansumana

Steven is one of our newly admitted students who was born in Kono, Kono District in 2000. He was baptized into the Lord’s body in 2016. Brother Steve is a committed student who is so much desirous to preach the Gospel. Before coming to Bear Valley, he had been leading songs and sometimes teaching teenagers in his congregation in Kono.

CONCLUSION

On the whole, we continue to be grateful to God, our sponsors and all of you who are praying for us. Please continue to remember the work of God in Sierra Leone in your prayers. We look forward to sharing with you again our anticipated September report. 

Salvation for many in Guinea

Gueckedou BVBI Activity Operations Report for August 2021

Precious greetings to you all, our supporters and those of you who always wish us well at the Guinea Bear Valley Bible Institute in Gueckedou. As part of our responsibility, we have come again to report the events and or activities that transpired during the last month, August 2021 which were comparatively few, but especially successful in terms of soul winning.

Classroom: In addition to the permanent staff courses such as Hermeneutics II by Antione Fassa Tolno, short course instructors, Mr. Nestor Tonguino and Emmanuel Kamano also completed their lessons on “Marriage and Family Life and the Major Prophets of Isiah and Jeremiah respectively. These courses were started in the previous month, but assignments and other requirements could not be completed until August.  The final results of all these were good as all 14 students came up successfully.

Evangelism: Except that hearts are hardened by the enemy who most often than not “taketh away the word …lest they should believe and be saved”, evangelism – gospel proclamation is our business. In many of the areas where our students are stationed for weekend gospel work, preaching by different methods is being done and with some fruitful results. The month of August registered a total of 8 baptisms 3 of which were in the village of Fassaba.

Repair of Old Vehicle: While it is true that the first mission vehicle was worn off and that we had ask for a replacement and the request honored by a few benevolent hands as detailed in our previous report, we had not still completely given up with the old vehicle. It was at “such a time as this” when some ‘’special needs” were granted so that the request to at least once more repair the old vehicle was honored. Through our Coordinator, Mr. Ashcraft the minimum needed funds to upgrade it were provided and the repairs effected so that it is now available to satisfy certain rough road missions and transport of fire wood for the Institute’s kitchen.

Conclusion: We are truly thankful to God and grateful to you all for the tireless spiritual and material support which has kept the Gueckedou Bear Valley Bible Institute going. God is to be glorified for the men being trained and for the regular conversions here at Gueckedou and around.

Thanks

More souls saved in Cameroon

The joy of the Lord is upon His own. We bring greetings from Mbanga Balong. It's another back to school season and all the kids are busy going to school. Among those who took part in the public examinations this past year from the local assembly in Mbanga, all had a successful result. We want to really thank God on their behalf as they have done well. We took a moment to give thanks in the assembly.

Our work in the BVBIC-Mbanga and in the church is going on well. We want to use this media to appreciate all those who are in the support team for their marvelous contribution both spiritual and physical.

Time is flying and our students are growing. After a first class in homiletics, the presentations of students changed immediately. We could experience a new way and a more mature presentation from a good number of our students who are serious in their studies.

Growth is our goal. We have to attend maturity. We believe before the end of this batch, we are going to be proud of these men who will be ablet to preach the gospel. We expect to have men who are going to be serious in evangelism and men that God is going to use to add more souls into his kingdom. We give all glories back to God.

Weekend evangelism is in going very well and for the past 3 weeks we have been doing evangelism in another dimension. We now get into strategic places with the aid of a mobile speaker. One of our graduates brought his own while we were preparing for mission work to establish a new assembly in the locality of Bafia. 

Evangelism is our mission and our mission is evangelism. It was a good strategy that was implemented in Mbanga by brother Nanfack Pierre as he was here to teach the sisters and also to accompany our team to Bafia for a new mission ground. With this method, we could speak from our end and many people could listen from their very position and choose to come nearer if they really interested. It was a kind of public preaching without having organized a lectureship. We are bend on evangelizing the town of Mbanga. God, please help us. It's high time we invent modern ways of preaching. If Mbanga Balong could have a community radio program, it could be a great use in filling a need, by using all dimensions of preaching available in this modern world to reach lost souls. 

Our short courses went great with minister Simon Parfait from the Ngousso assembly in Yaounde taking the preaching students and minister Nanfack Pierre, one of our graduates from last batch, taking the women’s class.

It was really great to have these great men of God in our midst. A week of studies was excellent, and it was a blessing for them to be a part of our team in the BVBIC-Mbanga.  After this short course, it was time for mission work. Our students travel into 11 different areas.

They were ready to go and preach the gospel to other areas of duty where we have heard the Macedonian call. They went with beautiful smile on their faces as “we think souls” and accept the commission to " go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." We are still waiting for the s which will come in the next two or three weeks. God is showing the way.

Our graduates are also doing great work in the field but most of them are still having difficulty with a place of worship and also other difficulties in being able to maximize the work. The new assembly for example, that started some months ago in Koumra in Chad, is having difficulty to have a place for worship so far and thus are worshipping only where they can.

Even to get a place for baptism is really difficult and it is expensive to get there even with a bike as only bikes can easily go there. Also, the work is richly growing both in Chad and in French Cameroon. A new assembly at Balgong is also in need of a place of worship, in the hinterland, in Yaounde, and also in Banjock. We have been helping them to pay rent but most of the time we have been disturb by some landlords and neighbors. 

Upcoming events:

The congregation in Mbanga will be hosting the Francophone Zonal Sister’s Seminar, that will take place in the month of October. This seminar will help the wives of the student preachers that are in the school presently.

The annual seminar for the churches of Christ in Cameroon will take place in the month of November in Limbe South West Region of Cameroon.

Our evangelism campaign in the Moungo Zone also is at hand as well as the Western Region Lectureship this October. The students are requested to be a part of these activities.

Remain bless as we pray for the work in French Cameroon and French Africa in general. 

Yours faithful: the servant Ititi Benedict

More conversions in Lesotho

JUNE-AUGUST REPORT (Maseru, Lesotho)

Greetings brothers and sisters in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. We would like to thank God for His love and mercies He continuously showers upon us. We are jubilant to report the following:

The School is still in the right direction of training competent and doctrinally sound preachers. We currently have 14 students who are dedicated to learn and spread the gospel. Despite the economic challenges the country is experiencing, these men and women commit themselves to study His Word and spreading the gospel. Out of their initiatives, the students are evangelising in Maputsoe about 100 km from Maseru and HaMmamathe approximately 55km from Maseru.

Maputsoe is the second largest town after Maseru, which used to have a congregation in the early 80s. BVBIL students are doing their best to evangelise the area with the hope of restoring the church in that town. Evangelism in HaMmamathe was fruitful, 4 people were baptised and as a result, a congregation was established. Some brothers are helping this new congregation with ministering every Sunday. The school long term plan is to establish a congregation in every town of Lesotho. Out of ten towns in this kingdom, only three towns have a single congregation each. Of all the eleven congregations in the entire kingdom, seven of them are in Maseru. Therefore, the school’s mission of training preachers is to equip them with Bible knowledge so that they can be labourers in the vineyard.

In June the students were equipped with Bible knowledge from First Corinthians which was taught by Tawanda. In July and August, Tawanda taught Life of Christ and First and Second Peter respectively. As of now, the students have covered more than half of their syllabus. Keep praying for the school, economic and political stability of Lesotho as polls will be cast next year. 

The school would like to thank you for the monthly financial support we get. This money helps to cater for administrative and evangelism purposes.

In His arms,

Tawanda

A new school in Nigeria

BVBI, NIGERIA-WARRI

MAIDEN REPORT, APRIL TO AUGUST, 2021

*OPENING*

All glory be given to our father the Almighty for His overwhelming grace and mercy. We also express our profound gratitude to Bear Valley Bible Institute International for the opportunity granted us to have a center in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria.

*COMMENCEMENT*

Our center commenced academic work in April 2021 with thirty (30) students. The venue for our lectures is the meeting place of the church at DSC Express Road, while the work is locally overseen by the Eldership of the Church at 6 Okoh Street, Iyara, Warri, Delta State, Nigeria.

*ABOUT OUR STUDENTS*

Our students are mostly preachers of local congregations who prior to this time, had no formal bible school training. It is therefore a thing of great joy and indeed a great privilege to them that they are taught the way of the Lord more accurately.

*ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES*

The following courses have been taken within the period of this report:

April, 2021 - Bible Origin

May, 2021 - Writing, Language and Research

June, 2021 - Old Testament Survey 1

July, 2021 - Christian Evidences

August, 2021 - Public Speaking

September, 2021 - Biblical Interpretation

*MATRICULATION CEREMONY*

A very colourful matriculation ceremony was organized and held on Saturday, 22nd May, 2021. Our workaholic and very amiable director of International Studies, Keith Kasarjian honoured us with his presence at the ceremony for which we are very grateful.

*THE NEED FOR A SECOND CENTER*

Whereas we started with thirty (30) students, we currently have thirty two (32) students. It therefore becomes imperative to have a second center for effective learning. We are currently working on the modalities for the second center.

*CLOSING*

At this juncture, we say a superlative "thank you" to all the sponsors of the Bear Valley project, without you, there would have been no us. God bless you all.

Osita Daniel Onuora, LLM, ACArb

Director, BVBIN-Warri

New students in Ukraine

Good day, dear brothers, sisters, congregations and families, 

It is a great blessing to be a part of the God's plan. Only in the beginning of summer we were unsure of the future because there were no potential students for our Bible Institute program. The ones who had been promising and even applied backed off. We were considering taking some time off and looking into other ways of our Ministry. But the Lord had a different plan and in the end of August we had 4 students for the first year program. Yes, it's very difficult to search for the new recruits in Ukraine.

I wrote some time ago that the European values have a tremendous impact on our traditional culture. People are looking for more comfortable lifestyle and more material gain. And a lot of times we can't meet their expectations. However, there are still people willing to sacrifice a lot to become leaders of the God's people in Ukraine.  

So, I'd like to introduce our new students.  

Matvei (Matthew) Bogomolov is from Kramatorsk. He is 19 and he is single. He was raised in a Christian family. The men's meeting of their local congregation gave him good references. He would like to serve as a youth minister.  

Alexander Radkevich is from the city of Kyiv, 19, single. He is a very active Christian, regularly involved in different activities for the young people. He competes in speed cubing. He takes distant learning courses from the Institute of the Informational Technologies.  

Anton Sanzhura is from Kramatorsk, raised by a Christian family. He is 18. He graduated from a school specializing in cyber security. He wants to improve his knowledge of the Word and use it in the youth ministry.  

Dennis Sirotenko is from Kharkiv. He has already taken some courses with us. He has a desire to serve people with addictions. He is a veteran, served in the Ukrainian army in 2015 during Russian-Ukranian military conflict. He had been a self-taught student of the Word long before he found the Church of Christ. Currently he serves people with social problems.  

Also in the end of August we established youth group meetings on Thursdays. It's an interesting and important project of our congregation.  As of right now we have our students and the children of our Christians attending but we want to invite young people from the streets. I hope it will work and will involve our students better. 

Now we have first year students' classes in session. They have started with Homiletics I by Stanislav Kuropyatnikov. And we are looking forward to the arrival of Terry Harmon and Jim Sherman. Please pray for their safe travels.  

In the end of September, we plan on hosting a grand event for our graduates, instructors and preachers. We want to host a seminar on Growth and Foundations of the Church. About 30 graduates of different years along with their families have registered already. People were missing the fellowship and personal interactions during the long months of quarantine and we'd like to help everyone get together while we can since there are no strict restrictions at the moment.  

We deeply appreciate your prayers and your support. Some people are impressed by the level of trust in us and your generosity to us.  

May God keep you safe! 

Your brother,  Dennis Sopelnik 

Doing good in Cameroon

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from this part of the globe. We are up and we are grateful for another new month. We all glory to God. We trust that you are good and things are well with you. Keep praying for us, as we pray for you also, concerning the issue of COVID which is ravaging people and making the world unstable.

Last week in Wotutu was good, as we were preparing students in BVBIC-Wotutu to go for their third mission work for the year while families were preparing their children to go back to school. Back to school, school fee time is always a big challenge for many families here because of the low income. Also, many are working on their farms and back to school time is always the time for planting (expense time) not harvesting (income time) where parents might have extra funds to be able to send their children to school. Keep the academic year 2021-2022 in your prayers that things will run smoothly until the end.

Our students were blessed to learn from one of our graduates, Minister Njume Marcelus, who was invited to come back to Wotutu to teach a short course. He taught I and II Peter and Jude to the students. It was wonderful! It was another good moment for me, as I sat in the class and watched him teach and to prepare men and their families for ministry. We are training faithful men who are also training faithful men as well. II Timothy 2:2

A week in Wotutu was refreshing to him again, as the weather in Wotutu is good as compared to the harsh (very hot) weather conditions in Kumba. It was great to have him with us and also to take a family picture with him with the sign, “WE ARE NOT ALONE AND WE SHALL NEVER BE ALONE.”

The sisters were on the other side, in the congregation’s worship building, learning from the book, “THE FAMILY GOD’S WAY.” It was also good to have them, along with one extra sister who joined the group because one of our students, Lyambe Francis, got married during the last period of field work and vacation in his hometown.

This year’s friends and family day in Wotutu was a great success. We had more than 70 friends, family members, and visitors who were a part of our worship. Soft juices and finger foods were served. Keep our dreams in your prayers and come and join us!

PLANS

Students are off from Wotutu to different locations for evangelism and nurturing. Keep them in your prayers as our roads are not the best right now.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you very much for all you do. Thanks for all your prayers and support for this work. Because of you, we are making the progress we are making. God is watching and will bless and reward those in due season who remain faithful. Please share our report with others. Maybe someone, somewhere, will be used by God to get our dream to the light.

God bless you!

Elangwe and family,

By His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

The Lord is not locked down in Uganda

Brethren,

Grace to you and peace from our father and lord Jesus Christ be with you. I thank God always and making mention of you in prayers because of the love you have for the work and the commitment that is beyond imagination, travelling this world for the noble cause of winning souls. And I pray that your fellowship of your faith with us and those who are to be added to the Lord's church become more and more effective through the knowledge of every good thing which is in you for Christ's sake. Amen.

The lockdown has affected Uganda and the entire household of the lord. But to mention, the first lockdown at the congregation where I worship, we were able to record 30 baptisms. During this lockdown we have recorded 19 souls.

On the side of students to those who are able to share with me their work . They have reported 22 baptisms, making it clear that the Lord's work is not locked. Continue praying for the work here and the students wherever they are , pray for Uganda and our leaders.

From rumors', it has been said that schools will open soon, we are also prepared to begin. All students are set for this. We are told that there will be mass vaccination for all students and teachers before schools begin. The anticipation was mid this month but we are still waiting to hear the call for that.

We continue pray that may the world be healed and that peace may prevail.

Be blessed in the lord

Until all have heard

Raymond

Practical experience in Accra

BVBI, ACCRA

End of August Report

Prologue

May the name of our Lord be glorified and adored. We appreciate the many things He has accomplished in our lives.

Class Activities

The ending of this month, August in this third (3rd) quarter marks the ending of all most regular courses, writing of exams and beginning of new short courses. Kojo taught Preacher and His Work. Brother Amoo-Gyimah began his short course on the Epistles to the Galatians. Brother E. O. Larbi will begin his course next month on Counselling.

Practical Activities

As we usually do in our practical works on visiting churches, all the students are effective in this field. All the visiting churches have expressed their appreciation for the benefits of our students for the work of God.

Visit to the Bunsu Plant Research Centre

This department is into researching plants and nurseries. We visited this place to see the kinds of plants this department has been producing and purchase some plants for our school land and Tamale school. We always enjoy visiting this place because there we see and learn new plants name and their purpose to our consumption and the environmental health benefits. Kojo and I (Sammy) together with the students made this visit.

Drilling of the Borehole

We will always appreciate the good work done by our brethren who is helping massively for the wellbeing of the students and the community.

Successfully, the borehole has been drilled. Also, as I reported in my previous report on the benefit to all the communities around, it will also relieve us from difficulties in getting water. We are most grateful for this giving.

Student’s Personal Evangelism

As part of our daily activities on the part of our students, personal evangelism has been what they do at their congregation and when there is no class. On our records this month, we had some baptisms by our student, brother Bua at Sege congregation where four (4) men and a lady gave themselves to baptism. Let’s all remember them in our prayer for their faith in the Lord.

Student’s Profile

On our list, is Paa George Buah, an old energetic man of 68 years, who comes far from the school to study the word of God. We can all testify some challenges in studying when you become old. Brother Buah has married a beautiful woman by the name of Victoria Buah and is being blessed with six (6) children. Buah is an evangelistic brother. He loves to evangelize all the time. We are grateful for having such a brother and student in the ministry.

He has been with us in most of our evangelistic activities. He is doing well in all class activities. Our brother is an evangelist at Sege with faithful members of fifteen (15). Buah appreciates the school’s Christ-centered doctrine and the needed support our brethren everywhere, is providing for the progress of the school.

It is his prayer that the school will exist and train more men for the ministry. Peace is unto us all.

Conclusion

This is how far the Lord has brought us, throughout various activities until now. We thank God for His care and control of all things in harmony. We appreciate all the services provided on behalf of the school and praying that all live well in the Lord’s vineyard.

Pray with us.

The sheep and the goats in Zimbabwe

AUGUST 2021 NARRATIVE REPORT

INTRODUCTION

Our students spent the month of August in the field doing their practical. This report shall centre on their activities in the field. Whilst they were away from campus, other activities we also happening on ground. These and more are contained hereunder.  

1.0 FIELD PROGRAM

BVBIZ students were  out for their 40 days field program. Covid19 has caused a reduction of the time frame. Lost days will be compensated next during next year’s practicum. This year’s program was one with a difference as students creativity was of outmost importance amidst the Covid scourge. The Word of God still had to be given in season and out of season. Rural settings were preferred that urban areas. Among the results, there were 28 baptisms.

2.0 STRATEGIC PLAN (2021-2025)

The school board and management have come up with a new strategic plan which shall act as a blueprint from the school from now till 2025. This is based on inputs that came from various stakeholders. Great appreciation also goes to SPED (Pvt) (Ltd) for volunteering their services in the production of this plan. The last strategic plan expired in December 2020. BVBIZ management shall judiciously follow the plan whilst the board maintains oversight thereof.

3.0 GRADUATION

3.1 Date and Activities

The graduation of the 2018-2020 class shall take place on the 16th of October. This is in the hope that the Covid situation in Zimbabwe would have changed for the better.  On the same day, there shall be an Annual General Meeting and official opening of the site.

4.0 PROJECTS

There is good news in terms of school projects. Besides the success that the school registered with its small broiler project, this month we can report on the goat and maize project.

4.1 GOAT PROJECT

One of the projects that has been on the BVBIZ radar for some time was goat production. The vision saw the light of day when Bear Valley Bible Institute International donated $400 for the purchase of 10 goats. With the money we succeeded to buy 10 goats from one person at $330. The school is currently running around hunting for a male goat so that the project can begin at a better footing. Great appreciation to BVBII for this gesture.

4.2 MAIZE PROJECT

During the last planting season, BVBIZ planted maize and from the shelling that was done, BVBIZ reaped almost 3 tonnes. Though this is lower than what the school initially targeted, the maize is enough to feed students till the end of the next season in May 2022.  About 15 bags will reserved as feed for the broiler project. The school is already working on the possibility of planting another maize crop this coming season. The target is 3 hectares of maize, one hectare of beans and an acre of sunflower.

5.0 WEBSITE

BVBIZ now has a functional website www.bvbiz.co.zw . Both existing and potential stakeholders are encouraged to visit and use the website.

6.0 COMPUTERS

One of the school’s strategic objectives is “To have an effective and efficient ICT processes compatible with current technological changes so as to ensure the achievement of the school’s objectives.” To achieve this, computers are a prerequisite. We want to thank Bear Valley Bible Institute International again for chipping in to buy a few computers which will be used by students. We successfully bought 4 laptops, 3 desktops and repaired 2 more. It is the school’s target that every student at BVBIZ should graduate being computer literate.

CONCLUSION

We thank God for the development we keep witnessing in our students. We also appreciate the sacrifices congregations have been making for the upkeep of our students as they do their practicum.. To you all for you spiritual, moral, material and financial support we remain grateful. To God be the glory!

19 souls saved in Malawi!

Bear Valley Bible Institute

Ekwendeni – Malawi

August, 2021 Report

Introduction

When we study in the Epistles of Paul to Timothy, we learn about the charges that Timothy received from Paul. These charges are of great importance to every evangelist today! We, the Bear Valley Bible Institute in Malawi are committed to teaching men to be faithful preachers of the “Health Doctrine” – Sound teaching. Therefore, it is our work too to follow the same pattern of Paul’s charges to Timothy – 2 Timothy 2:2; 2 Timothy 4:2. We are always ready when people are ready to hear even when they are not ready to hear, but the gospel shall always be preached. We have recently come from a preaching campaign to the area called “Thandeka”. Interestingly Thandeka is a name of a person and this same person was ordained as a senior chief and called the area by his name Thandeka (Thandeka area). He has about 11 chiefs who report to him. This man and his wife (now the deceased) have been members of the Church of Christ since the 1970s. They have been walking at a distance of about 7km to worship. Now when the wife of Brother Thandeka died, Christians went in large numbers to bury our faithful sister in Christ.

Now when the eleven junior chiefs saw the love the Christians showed to Brother Thandeka, they asked if they could organize the preaching campaign to plant a congregation in the area. So, they wrote us (BV) a letter asking us to help them organize it and allow our school to go with the students. God is able and has shown kindness to this area. As we speak, after the campaign for four days, 19 souls have been saved and a new baby is born – Church established!

Teaching and Preaching!

Teaching is the work we are doing, since this semester started in August after a break, 3 courses have been done. Now the students are having a long course in Major Prophets. As indicated in the introduction, 19 souls were baptized in the last week of August, but also we had 2 more souls restored. This means the new congregation has started with 21 people. Praise God! We still got lots of promises from many people who are willing to be added to the Lord’s church, but they want to see the progress of the church since it's new, they said. But if the Lord may come today they don’t have an excuse we told them.

Construction

We are very excited that the construction work has started well, the foundation has been put down. This is phase one. Phase 2 is the super structure which will begin soon the Lord willing.

Water Brings Joy!

There is great joy at the school construction site as the villagers express their joy after seeing water being drilled by the Healing Hands International! A lady in her late 70s said she came to the area in 1983, since then the water she knew was for drinking and domestic purposes was from the river and wells where even animals drank from. She said the waterborne diseases will be history because they suffered a lot with lots of sickness after using the dirty water. She sang a song praising God for the water in the area. At school, the gardening work which will produce food for the students in the near future is simplified. And also the work of construction will be faster than how we thought it would be because they were drawing water from quite a distance.

We are thankful to Bear Valley Bible Institute International and all who help in supporting this great work with a great reward hereafter! God bless your families as we still need your help and involvement. Many souls are still not saved! Eternity Is Forever, Think Souls!

Yours fellow soldiers for Christ,

Ephron and Clergynton

A big loss in India

Reporting letter for the month of August-2021

Respected  beloved brother Mr. Keith Kasarjian the director of international studies , brother Mr. Reynolds - the coordinator and all the prayers partners of BVBI-Tirupati-India , greetings to you in the most holy and precious name of our lord and savior Jesus Christ. We pray that this reporting letter finds you good health. We thank you so much for your prayers and encouragement for the smooth function of BVBI-extensions . We would like to share with you a brief report for the month of August-2021.

First Semester :-   We follow the Calendar which we have submitted to BVBI, we have began the first semester in the month of July. We conducted classes for two months (July and August) . The month of September is break as per the BVBI-calendar .  We have sent the students for the field work .  Our students were instructed to work with allotted towns and villages at their near by local preachers  . They prepare  to submit their  field report on daily basis when they return to the college in the month of October 1 st  ,2021.

Baptism:- In the month of August we have baptized 11 souls, please pray for their spiritual growth so that they may grow in the image of His son Jesus Christ.

Agriculture Vegetable Gardens:-  Couple of months back we have planted  Three Agricultural Vegetable gardens  , this is right season in India for the new plantation. We did hard work in removing old plants and planted new seedlings. These are the locations of A.G. Gardens.  The first one is located at BVBI-Tirupati, The  second one is at KGBV-Girls school and  the third one is located at Poolathota-Village.  We have newly started one more work shop in the D.V.Sathram-Mandal , Nellore-Dt. A.P state. We are thankful to Mr.Carl Burkybile who is the agricultural director of Healing Hands International. We sincerely thankful to him for his guidance and encouragement to establish these AG gardens with innovative methods . The raised bedding  and dip irrigation systems are much helpful to earn fresh and healthy vegetables  . We are grateful to HHI for their valuable funding for the establishment of these AG-Gardens in India.

Talking Bibles for the Visually challenged people:-  There are several visually challenged people living our city, they are interested to hear the word of God. In the month of July we have distributed 20 talking bibles and in the month of August we have distributed 13 audio bibles to the visually challenged people. We are thankful to Mr.Glynn Longston,  “ Insight International Braille  Out reach worldwide” who supplies these talking bibles .

Covid-19 Threat:-  It is so sad to mention that one of  our teaching faculty member Mr. K. Kalvarinath was affected by corona virus and died on August 28th Saturday evening. He was dedicated and highly educated person and humble servant of God.  He is a full time Bible instructor and also he helped several months  to preach at our local churches ( Tirupati and Vidyanagar). He was able to attend for the personal interview when  our Mr. Keith Kasarjian -director of international studies has conducted for the recruitment of teaching faculty for the BVBI-extension centre –Tirupati-India.  Our  teaching staff, non teaching staff and all the students felt so sad and missed him lot . Please pray for his family members. We hope that we will meet him on the day of Jesus Christ. We thank God for his living hope that was  promised by Jesus Christ(John 14:1-3, 1 Thess  4:13-18).

Prayer Request:- Lord willing we plan to organize two days Christian Growth Bible Seminar for the Women in the month of October  15th and 16 (Friday and Saturday). We expect 150 sisters for the seminar, the theme for the seminar would be “Fruit of the spirit’ (Gal 5:22). We are thankful to Brother Damon Vincent for the website that he developed  (https://christian-growth.com/literature/christian-growth-seminars/fruit-of-the-spirit-maturing-in-christ/ ) to receive wonderful study material on this  subject. We humbly request your prayers for the success of the meeting.

We are thankful to our international director and our coordinator for all their efforts for the establishment of extension of BVBI in our city which we treat as a good platform for training young people for the dyeing souls in our nation. We request  your prayers for the first batch students who are already in the field . We are need of your prayers for this second batch of dedicated students.

Thanking you.

Yours brother and sister in Christ.

Vijay&Swarupa, from Church of Christ and BVBI-India

Continued progress in Guinea

Gueckedou Bear Valley Bible Institute Activity Operations Report for July 2021

The month of July has since ended and we have not only the obligation, but the privilege to report and share with you those major events that transpired during that period at the Gueckedou Bear Valley Bible Institute. As usual, the events in question include our regular classroom and evangelistic activities, but especially the success of replacing the mission vehicle which had worn off during the 14 years of gospel service in Guinea and the countries neighboring. We are delighted to give an account of these and other happenings in the subheadings below:

Classroom: Courses covered during the month include Marriage and Family Life and part of Old Testament Part 4 – Isaiah and Jeremiah. There were 14 of the 16 students who participated and performed well. The other 2 students, those involved in disciplinary acts as mentioned in our last report for which reason they were sanctioned did not return from their second quarter breaks. Apparently unwilling to repent, these young men preferred to not show up rather than expel publicly. Until they return, we are left with 14 students.

Evangelism: Our usual evangelistic efforts did not yield as much fruit this month as in the previous. Procrastination and unwillingness to repent from polygamy – a practice which is common in this Islamic dominated nation on the part of our prospects were the result of unfruitful labor. We did go out to preach in and around existing congregations, but could convert only 1 soul because many of our prospects were Muslims with multiple wives. On the other hand, there were delays by the other group of prospects, but we hope and expect a positive answer by the end of August to the question of “why tarriest thou”.

Vehicle for Mission Work: We must confess that perhaps our ambitions were higher and even ignored the present virus crises affecting the economy also in the brotherhood when we requested for a Toyota Land Cruiser. Contributions did come from 2 sources, but the funds were inadequate for the request. Then in response to an appeal to complete cost for a Toyota pick-up, a dear brother in the US proposed an option to partially offer a 4WD Honda – 8 passenger seat vehicle as his godly contribution to my ministry work. Hence, the 2 contributions from the Bear Valley and the Niceville brethren facilitated the customs and other Government vehicle documentation. The vehicle has since been ready and is now in service with us at Gueckedou.

We are so grateful to bro. Ishmael Kendor for the offer and to brothers Steven Ashcraft and Ken Stanley through whose hands the contributions from benevolent hands reached us. May God reward you all. Pray with us that the tool will continue to be used to the service and glory of God!

Special Needs Assistance: Another blessing received during the month was a financial response for some special needs at the Gueckedou Bear Valley Bible Institute. Again, through the hand of our Coordinator, Mr Ashcraft some well-wisher provided us with funds to purchase a freezer for our kitchen which is 1 of 3 requests submitted.  An attempt to repair the old vehicle and a special evangelistic campaign are the other 2 requested items answered on the list of our special request. These last 2 will be implemented in the months to come.

Our special thanks to you, our supporters and to those of you who have made special contributions to this work. It is our prayer that God will reward you abundantly and bless all of our combine efforts as we all aim toward enlarging the Lord’s kingdom through preacher training for the harvest!

Francis Musa

Graduation and lectureship in Nigeria

Dear fellow servants of God.

Grace, peace and mercy of the Lord be multiplied unto you all from God, the Father and from Christ Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Below are the report of some of our activities for the month of August 2021

OVERVIEW

1- 2021/22 Academic year begin

2- One month TP (Teaching Practice) report

3- 19th Annual Bible Lectureship and Graduation ceremony

4- VOTI volume 110 distributed

2021/22 ACADEMIC YEAR BEGINS:

First Semester Classes for 2021/22 academic session begins on August 16 with 17 Students for Diploma program and 12 Students for Advanced Diploma program. The first semester classes will come to an end Lord's willing on October 15 follow by a month vocational training for the willing Students.

ONE MONTH TEACHING PRACTICE:

The one month Students teaching practice of July 24 through August 22 resulted into the conversion of 42 souls and restoration of 17 erring brethren.

19TH ANNUAL BIBLE LECTURESHIP & GRADUATION

Brethren started arriving from different part of the country for our 19th Annual Bible Lectureship and Graduation ceremony on Tuesday afternoon due to the football competition and Acapella songs that was attached to the program.

The 19th annual Bible Lectureship and Graduation of 30 Successful Students (18 Diploma & 12 Advanced Diploma)was held as usual in Doug Wheeler Events Center, Butubutu village , Ibadan from August 25-27,2021. This year program was witnessed by over 400 brethren and friends of the Lord's church from 14 States of Nigeria.

The graduation exercise came up in the noon of August 27(Friday) for 30 Successful soldiers of Christ. Bro. Moses Oluwalogbon, one of the board members of WNCC & SBS, Abeokuta ,Ogun State served as our guest speaker.

Bibles and several materials, such as Bible Dictionaries, Thompson Chain Reference Bible, Atlas, Sermons Outlines and cartons of books from Mission Printing International were part of working tools distributed to the graduates while all the participants went home with packages of VOTI materials (Volumes 105-110) BVBIN & SWSE 2022 almanac, 5000 WBS correspondence Courses, gospel tracts and gospel literatures locally printed.

VOICE OF TRUTH INTERNATIONAL VOLUME 110 :

Five thousand nine hundred and fifty (5,950)copies of VOTI 110 was shared/posted between August 20 and 27 to VOTI recipients across the country Nigeria. We deeply appreciate Bro. Jerry Bates and associate for this wonderful gospel material designed for the salvation of mankind and edification of the Lord's church.

BVBIN-INSTRUCTORS MEETING:

The meeting was chaired by Bro.Isaac Olaniyan(BVBIN-Ibadan) and Bro. Emmanuel Godwin(BVBIN-Ondo State) served as the secretary while Bro. Makinde Ebens (BVBIN, Asst. Director) served as the time keeper.

Several things were discussed as pertaining to the growth of the Lord's church in our country through the BVBIN Schools.

ABOUT A STUDENT:

Bro. Iyesele Ifeanyi Divine was born in 1985 at Obiaruku town in Delta State. He became a member of the Lord's church in 2013. In year 2019 he joined the SWSE IBADAN and graduated with Diploma in Theology in August 2021 as one of the best Students. He is now one of our year-2 Students. His mission after his training is to be one of the evangelists in the middle belt of Nigeria.

CONCLUSION:

We thank you all for your kind-gesture which you have demonstrated by supporting the training of faithful men as soldiers of Christ in this part of the world.

May the Lord continue to bless all you do for His name is our fervent prayers.

I remain yours in His Grace as a servant,

Makinde Ebenezer Olufemi (The Chief Servant of BVBIN & SWSE IBADAN and WBSFUW)

Big improvements in Sierra Leone

ACTIVITY OPERATION REPORT FOR JULY, 2021

We send Calvary greetings to you in the precious and ever-assuring name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, hoping that this finds you flourishing in the grace of God. We are glad again to share with you our operation report for the month of July. The month of July was truly a successful month for us and we remain grateful to God, our supporters and all who are praying for the success of the Bear Valley Bible Institute Sierra Leone. As it is our format, the school activities for the past July shall be summarily discussed under the below headings:

NEW ACADEMIC SESSION

As stated in our June report, the previous academic session (2019-2021) came to a close at the end of June, 2021. The school went on break for three weeks and resumed the new session academic (2021-2023) activities on the 27th July, 2021. The school resumed with 20 students all in act and are doing fine as we write.

EVANGELISM ORIENTATION FOR THE NEWLY ADMITTED STUDENTS

On Friday, July 30, 2021, an evangelism orientation was held at the school campus. This was done in an effort to lay the foundation and to spell out categorically what is expected of the students. The theme for the orientation was, “Laying the Foundation”, and topics such as Bear Valley Students and their Evangelistic Approaches, the Students and the Use of Language during Evangelism, the Students and Security Challenges, were all covered under the theme in question. Six staff were present for the orientation. We give God the glory for everything.

GENERAL STAFF MEETING

In an effort to promote the smooth running of the Bear Valley program in Sierra Leone, a general staff meeting was held at the School’s Guesthouse on the 15th July, 2021. Ten (10) staff were in attendance and many things that will aid the growth of the school were discussed.

STAFF UPDATE

In our previous reports, we have always informed you that the Kenema Bear Valley Bible Institute has been operating with two permanent  teaching staff/instructors (Peter Sahr Makundu-Director and Peter Barnett-Students’ Dean), and four non-teaching staff (Two cooks and two securities), together with other teaching staff who come to take their courses upon invitation.

However, the Dean of Students, Peter Barnett who is almost 60 years old resigned. To the glory of God, we are been blessed with two additional young and committed (both are less than 29 years) teaching staff who are permanent: Michael Sahr Triyoh, who just graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Ministerial Studies from one of the prestigious Churches of Christ Bible schools, the School of Biblical Studies: An Affiliate of the University of Jos, Nigeria, who now serves as the Dean of Academic Affairs and Joseph Missailie Jr., one of the best students from the first set of students that the Kenema Bear Valley Bible Institute produced.

UPDATE ON THE ONE CONGREGATION ESTABLISHED AND THE OTHER ONE BEING RESTORED

You would recall that in our March report, we informed you about the local congregation that was established at Gondama as the result of our campaign. Gondama is around 50-62 miles away from Kenema where the school is located. Our students have been going there every Saturday to do some evangelistic works and to worship and teach the brethren on Sundays before returning to Kenema. The congregation is doing well, though there are challenges. The place of worship has been one of those challenges. Moreover, at the beginning of July, we lost one of our committed members. We plead that you help us to commit the brethren in God’s hands to grow in the grace of our Savior Jesus Christ.

Furthermore, our campus Church which had died down but was restored upon the return of the Director, is also growing every day. Our attendance is increasing week after week and we give God the glory for that.

RELOCATION OF THE SCHOOL

We want to get you informed that we have relocated the school from Dama Road to 18A Harding Street of Kenema, Sierra Sierra Leone. This relocation was needful because we wanted a place that could accommodate all our 20 students and to have staff offices. The new place is actually convenient for the learning process and we are grateful to God.

APPRECIATION

We want to firstly appreciate God who has always been the provider and the sustainer of His children. We want to secondly, specially, appreciate the brethren who financially helped us with our special needs: additional computers, renting of the new school building, additional chairs, beds, tables for students, etc. We remain indebted to you and we pray that the Lord God, who rewards all according to His wisdom blesses you and favors you in all you do in Christ’s name.

GRADUATION INVITATION

We are gratefully inviting you to our 2nd graduation ceremony and our 1st Bible Lectureship that will take place on 29th-30th October, 2021 Lord willing. We would really be grateful if you grace that occasion. May God bless you as you honor our invitation!

STAFF’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Michael Sahr Triyoh

Michael is one of our newly added permanent staff who was born in Fasedu Village, Kailahun District in 1993. He was baptized into the Lord’s body in 2012. Michael is the only Christian in his family, though has been making a conscious effort to bring some of the members to Christ. Prior to his going to Nigeria to seek for the right knowledge to preach the Word of God, he had been actively involved in the church activities. He is a very diligent brother who is not ashamed of the Gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ. Michael is the Dean of Academic Affairs of the Kenema Bear Valley Bible Institute.

CONCLUSION

On the whole, we continue to be grateful to God, our sponsors and all of you who are praying for us. Please continue to remember the work of God in Sierra Leone in your prayers. We look forward to sharing with you again our anticipated August report.

Overcoming challenges in Cambodia

Greetings From the International Bible Institute of Siem Reap - Cambodia

We continue to glorify God for all of the opportunities He has given us to serve Him.

It is a difficult situation around the world and we are also struggling with COVID-19 more than ever. The government has asked us to not gather in large groups and to wear masks. We are receiving the vaccination and most of of the staff and students have taken their second dosage, so we should all be fairly well protected at this point. We will continue to adhere to the governments rules and pray for protection against this deadly disease.

We go to the villages to help our brother and sisters who are also struggling with this disease and those others who need our help. It is another opportunity to serve others as Christ’s example was for us. This allows our students to have an opportunity to evangelize and show their nation what Christianity should look like. In the last two months, we have been able to reach out and help others - bringing light and encouragement to them.

Our brother and coordinator Wes Autrey and his wife Teri have been teaching us on zoom every week on a variety of topics. Wes teaches the men while the women break out into another zoom room and Teri teaches them. Participating in this is also the Battambang Bible School, which has about 15 more attending these Bible studies. These joint Chapel/Bible Classes have been very beneficial to us, especially since we cannot travel because of COVID. We are getting to know our brothers and sisters in Christ better because of this.

Recent full time courses completed include: Christian Morality; The Book of Daniel; and the Song of Solomon.

Less than one month ago two of our students received their Certificates of Completion. We are so proud of both sister Sarai So and sister Lekh Sarouen for not giving up and studying all the way through our 3 year program. Both ladies overcame many obstacles to finish. They are an inspiration to everyone that is continuing school and their families. At graduation we had all of the families present and staff, but had to limit the usual size to about 50 people. Many joined in on zoom for the graduation from brother Wes’ house including the President of the Bear Valley Bible Institute Denny Petrillo and his wife Kathy; the Vice President Michael Hite and his wife Lynn; One of the professors of BVBI John Moore and his wife Carla, Wayne Burger professor at BVBI and his wife Weezie. Tyler King the Director of Development at BVBI joined in on another zoom window from Oklahoma while his wife Natalie was at brother Autrey’s house. Many others joined from other zoom windows and it made for a good graduation under the circumstances.

* Coordinators Note (Wes Autrey) The last portion of the graduation ceremony was especially moving for me. Each lady was given an opportunity to speak and did they ever! Both with courage and conviction stood tall with tears in their eyes and addressed their families both Christian and non Christian glorifying God with the unity of God’s family taking precedence over their own worldly families. I was so impressed but not shocked. These two ladies have matured and grown in Christ exponentially and their courage is to be commended. The Lord certainly did not give these humble ladies a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline!

Recently our government has widened the road in front of our school and in doing so, they took out our school wall. We are in the process of building another one and are faithful that our God will provide.

At this point may we ask for your prayers in the COVID-19 situation as it is getting worse, especially in Siem Reap where our school is located. This makes it difficult to recruit new students to bring to our school.

Please pray for the leaders in the service of God, such as teachers, students, church leaders, our orphans - so that we may be strong during these times. Also pray for our new Christians who are just learning what it means to be “like Christ” as we help them through this journey.

To our brother Wes Autrey: This is for Brother Wes, we really thank you for the training, encouragement, dedication, both physical and mental, and for personal sacrifice and giving.

May the living God bless you all from the same servant on the other side of the sea.

Piseth Rin

Servant of the Lord & Co-Director IBISR

More resources in Kenya

Brethren,

We thank God for His love and goodness to us at KSOP. It has been a very difficult time throughout the world but we are conquering the monster. We have not had any faculty member, students, their family members with Covid despite many cases and deaths. Despite the pandemic, we have been having classes with strict adherence to government rules and regulations on Covid 19.

We received another container full of Bible materials, New commentaries from Truth for the World, used Library books, tracts, ESVs from WBS and correspondence courses. The students were very useful in offloading the container and excited to receive more materials.

We have received many preachers coming for tracts and books for their congregations while others coming for their assigned boxes. We thank brother Richard Renfro and Mission Printing for the container and all who made it a success.

The second quarter, first year is over, our students are home for a two weeks break. During the quarter they studied Pentateuch II, Homiletics II, Hermeneutics I, Matthew, Marriage and Family, Godhead and the book of Job. We thank our foreign teachers, Dr. Michael Reese and Peter Ray for coming to teach two short courses and also working with different congregations.

Because of the restrictions, the students did not go out to evangelize while in school and that is likely to change by next quarter which begins on Aug 20.

KSOP water continues to serve the community during the long drought that we had. It was/is the source of water for all their domestic use.

God bless you brethren, God bless KSOP.

His servant and yours,

Charles Ogutu

New students in Zambia

July 2021 Report

Introduction

Warm greetings to you all brothers and sisters!! We give honor and glory to God who has given us this rare occasion to work in His Kingdom. As we have indicated and said in the past that courageous Christians are not slowed down by the threat of the pandemic. We wake up daily with the sense of doing God’s work!

Health situation in the country!

We saw the third wave of the Corona pandemic reigning havoc in Zambia. The new cases and the number of deaths during the wave have risen sharply. The country has recorded disturbing high numbers of new cases of Covid 19. But we thank God that we are slowly getting out of the “third wave” as we see the drop in the new cases and deaths of Covid 19.

This development has prompted the Zambia government to direct all school for examinations classes to reopen. School for examination classes will reopen on August 5th, 2021, after being closed due to a spike in cases during the third wave.

The national and provincial conferences for men, women and youths of churches of Christ in Zambia were put off indefinitely because of the pandemic. These conferences were supposed to take place in July and August 2021 respectively. Brother Cephas Mwamba was slated to be one of the keynote speakers during the provincial gospel conferences that were scheduled for August, 2021.  We continue to pray that this meeting takes place as planned as we all monitor and assess the situation. However, our students did evangelism in Luanshya district and part of Chingola and we had good results, twenty one souls were restored back to the Church and three baptisms were recorded. They had set Bible studies and members of the community often came to study at the Institute premises.

News from the students!

All the students were sent back to their respective homes after we saw the spread continued among the students, the students who contracted Covid 19 remained at school and were sent home after they recovered. And reports are that they are all doing well as far as their health is concerned. And that they are all looking forward and are very much eager to resuming classes after our general elections. Zambia goes to the polls next on August 12th 2021. We continue asking for your prayers that these elections go on peacefully

Each student has made tremendous progress in their studies here at BVBI-Zambia. We are hopeful that in their individual capacity are making a meaningful contribution to the Kingdom of God at the local congregations. Our students have continued in their preaching and we have continued to receive good news from all of them that they are doing well as far as evangelism is concerned. Nicholus Mulubwa of Samfya district in Luapula province has been preaching and managed to win four souls to Christ. We have also receive a good recommendation from Church leaders there

Daniel Kapata reports from Zimba, Southern Province of Zimba that seven people were baptized and other eight were restored back to the Lord. This was during the District Gospel meeting held in Zimba district, Southern Province. Daniel also had time to preach to prisoners in a correction facility and 130 prisoners gave their lives to Christ

Gershom Chansa is in Luwingu District, Northern Province. He reports that out of the seven he has been studying with four have so far obeyed and were baptized by him in the Lord. He also reports that three people were restored back to the Lord. We give God the Glory!

Winston Changala in Mpaka Village of Northern province has continued to evangelize in that area and since there is no Church of Christ there, we are doing the best we can and hope to establish a new congregation there soon. Winston is currently studying with eleven people.

Our alumni are also doing fine, we have received good reports from Boniface Sianjina who is currently worshipping with the Church in Kitwe District and doing evangelism in Kanfisa police mobile unity. He has so far restored back to the sheepfold three police officers.

Joseph Musonda of Mansa District in Luapula ministering at central Church has reported four baptisms and one restoration.     

 Conclusion

Indeed according to our Master Jesus Christ, there is no sign to the end of the world just as the thief does not give a sign to come and steal in a house; we have to keep working for Him.

Thank you kindly to all who have helped in any way to prepare these men for the deep and meaningful task of preaching the Gospel. Special thanks go to Woodland Oaks Church of Christ for their continued financial support, Bear Valley Bible Institute family, Keith Kasarjian Director of International studies, Donnie our Country Coordinator, all our instructors and indeed everyone involved in this noble work. May our God continue to bless you all.

Thank you all once again!

Brotherly,

Cephas and Fred 

Guests in Liberia

Dear Fellow Workers In Christ

We bring you greetings from Liberia Bear Valley Bible Institute, West Africa. We want to take this time first and full most to extend our many tanks and appreciation for all yours prayers and supplications that is keeping us here going safe and protected through the COVID-19 that killing many of our countrymen and women, even Christians. Many thanks also to all of our instructional staffs who continued to come even during these very hard days in our country to impart knowledge to the students. We also appreciate God for your partnership with us in this work of our Lord directly or indirectly in Liberia.

KEITH KASARJIAN VISITS LIBERIA

We were so blessed to have brother Keith Kasarjian visiting the school in Liberia after about five years since its establishment. Brother Keith and Brother Steven Ashcraft came to Liberia in 2016 to see if there was a possibility of starting a preaching school in Liberia and that visit resulted in the school we have in Liberia now. And ever since after their visit about five years ago, thirty two (32) preachers have been trained and graduated from the Bear Valley bible Institute Liberia with over a thousand (1000) won over to Christ through the evangelistic efforts of both the students and instructors of the school.

His visit in July was an encouragement to our new batch of students who have heard of him but haven seen him in person. He spoke to the students and encouraged them to remain disciplined and focus on their studies. He also gave some books as gifts for the school.

EVANGELISM

During the visit of Brother Greg Grounds in Liberia, we had a month evangelism and the efforts resulted in the establishment of eight (8) new congregations in eight different town away from Ganta. The establishments of these new congregations have brought great opportunities to our students practical work. On a weekly basis, our students are sent to these new congregations a day or two before the Lord's to carried our house to house evangelism, encouraging members to be prepared for worship to on the Lord's day. In the month of June, we recorded 13 new baptism done by the students from these eight (8) new churches planted. Brother Greg Grounds helps with the transportation of the students to these locations weekly.

PROFILE OF AN INSTRUCTOR

We were privilege to have Brother Calvin Jusu Johnson come to teach our first short course in Research Writing. Calvin was born May 26, 1989 in Flehla, Bong County, Liberia. Like Timothy was, He was brought up by his grand mother who was the only Christian in my family. Fortunately for him, he was converted to the Lord's Church through her in 2006 upon graduating from secondary school. Due to his zealousness as a young Christian and a desire to share God's word to the world, he abandon his pursuit of sociology degree at sophomore level at the United Methodist University, Liberia and went to Nigeria 2011 where I studied Ministry at the School of Biblical Studies, Jos and graduated with a bachelor degree in 2015. He returned the same year and started preaching at his home congregation in Flehla lower Bong county and teaching Religious Education in the Public School on a voluntary basis, at the same time taking care of his aged grandmother. Having developed the mind of teaching, he enrolled in the Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute in 2016 and graduated with a "C" Certificate in Education 2017. He presently lecture at the Liberia Bible College and a short term lecturer at Bear Valley Bible Institute. Brother Calvin loves reading and writing. He has written two tracks tittle, Did Jesus Resurrect? The Passion of Christ; and a book: A Century With the Lord, but yet to be printed/published because of the lack of sponsorship.

CONCLUSION AND APPRECIATION

We thank the almighty God through whom all blessings flow and also appreciate you all for all you are doing directly or indirectly for the Lord's work here in Liberia. May God continue to bless you.

Your Fellow Servant In Christ,

Robert Dahn

BVBI-Liberia

Student campaign in Pt. Harcourt

Let me begin this report with a thanksgiving to God for the great progress of BVBI in Rivers State Nigeria. Let me also thank the American brethren for their relentless efforts and their commitment to sending the funds which we are using to run the two schools in Rivers State. Let me assure everyone who is supporting us that their effort is not in vain and that we appreciate all their contributions to us.

COURSES STUDIED FOR THE TWO QUARTERS

I want commend our teachers and students for their commitment, for the first and second quarters of 2021; we have successfully completed teaching, tests and examinations in the following courses at our two centres:

Acts of the Apostles 2

Research Methodology

World Religion

Prison Epistles

Leadership

1 & 2 Peter, Jude and James

Currently, we are teaching Old Testament2 (History books) and Denominational doctrines in our two centres in this month of August 2021.

A FEW NEW ADMISSIONS

We lost a student in one of our centres in year 2020 and a few students dropped out, that created some vacuum in the classes. To fill up the spaces, we did a few new admissions that had brought our total numbers of students at the two centres to 61. Many people are still coming for admission but we don’t have space to accommodate them. We are hoping that the school authority will see the need to approve more centres in Rivers state Nigeria.

EVANGELISM OUT-REACH

Our students and teachers have been committed to evangelism and soul winning in Rivers State Nigeria. On July 2021, our teachers and students went out for an intensive evangelism at a community known as Omachi, Rumuodomaya Port Harcourt. We conducted an intensive house to house evangelism, open air and tracts distributions. At the end of the out-reach program, we distributed over one thousand tracts, fliers and gospel booklets. We also discovered some Christians who are living in the community without knowing where to worship and we directed them to the church of Christ in the community. We also brought back names and phone contacts of many prospects which the local congregation in the community promised to follow up. On Sunday the 1st day of August, 2021 one of the prospects was baptized. We hope and pray that many other prospects will be baptised as soon as possible.

In conclusion, Bear Valley Bible Institute in Rivers State is doing very well. We thank our sponsors for their relentless financial and moral supports. We appreciate the prayers and goodwill of our well wishers. We are asking for more of your supports and prayers.

Anthony Ejike Oluria