Big plans in Togo for 2024

EXTENDED PROGRAM ; BVBI – KARA – TOGO

December 29, 2023

INTRODUCTION

All churches of Christ of Kara (north of Togo) join me and my family to send you all the congratulations,  encouragements and greetings for your great desire and love to keep helping us through this Bible School to strengthen the spiritual capacity of the brothers to better help these local churches to achieve the goals of the Great Commission. We continue to pray for you so that we all have the courage to continue working together to reduce the  kingdom of satan  by the conversion of the souls. In this overall vision to reduce the kingdom of satan, our Lord will always be with us for good results in the future.

So, we take advantage of this opportunity to send you our best wishes and happy new year 2024. Much courage, wisdom and knowledge and good health for the new year 2024.

OPERATING  REPORT

1-      The current number of students : 09 (8 for regular time and 1 outside time)

 2-      The courses already taught the third quarter

a-      General episties by TALAKI  Nicodeme

b-      Galatians to 2Thessalonicians by KPELEVI  David

c-       The worship of the New Testament by Fidele

 3-      The courses that will be taught during the first quarter 2024 :

a-      Isaiah, great prophet  by KAGNON  Luc

b-      Major Cult by TALAKI Nicodeme

c-        1 Corinthians by Fidele

 4-      Instructors’ meeting :   Teachers discussed how to use students to effectively help local churches to grow spiritually and digitally. The different programs involved these students to help them have some experience to better lead local churches.They also discussed the methods to use to help students in research to better preach and teach. They have also made a decision to continue to encourage these students individually to the end.  They finally recognized that this Biblical School is a force for the achievement of the Great Mission objectives.

 5-      Congregational Activities :

a-      Worship and edification : 

We really started with the other evangelists to lay the foundations of the church. We have set up a work plan on all local churches. At first a specific teaching on the disciple life in his community has been taught according to a program defined on all local churches. Given the unity that is reacted among the evangelists, there is a glow of hope that binds to the face of the faithful. Some faithful encouraged us to continue in this unit and this will have a positive impact in the lives of the faithful and a good way to restore some faithful who were disappointed by the division among  the evangelists in the past by one of the evangelists who has returned yet  back to Lome.

We noted for now that these new local evangelists have a real   desire to work for Christ as servants engaged for saved souls for Christ.With this organization of overall work on local churches, we have been able to baptized a total of 17 people from October to December 2023 ( 3 baptized in Lama ; 01 in Soumdina Powayi ; 02 in Kara University : 10 young people in Sandate and 1 person in Lassa Lao).

With this new momentum in the work for the conversion of souls, there is hope to grow digitally and spiritually these already implanted churches and those that will be implanted in the future. We find that this evolution is slow but with insurance despite the pletorrous number of the denominations that are well organized and that we are challenging.

b-      Door to door evangelism : The program is developed with other evangelists to help local churches in their digital growth and also establish other new congregations. This work helped us to have Lassa Lao new congregation. By this work we have been able to baptize 17 souls. We will intensify this door to door work in the coming days.

c-       Seminars : We had organized the Leaders of the churches leading them to be dynamic and very vigilant to fight the false doctrine. We also could show the need that every local church can implant a new church.

d-      Practical work with students : To help our students do this more evangelization work, we worked in Kara University locality. In the end we had to baptize two (2) women. Thus we are realizing the importance of a Biblical Training Institute. If we continue to multiply together our efforts to amplify our strengths and extend even the actions of this school, the converts will still be many in the future. The existence of a Biblical Training Institute helps much in the conversion of souls.

e-      Denominational program : We were able to put a small group of biblical studies at the moment with a few Leaders of denominations. They are 4 Leaders. They come from different localities. We thank God who helped us to baptize two (2) of them who already propose to be on the list of future students of Bear Valley Bible Institute. We continue to do our best to find many denominational Leaders to enlarge the group.

We also started studying with a denominational church we want to convert for Christ. We want you to pray for this denominational church who does not want to discipline itself for this program.

f-       Annual camp : This camp brings all the members of all local churches in one locality for spiritual teaching to help each member to grow spiritually. It is also the opportunity to organize spiritual concerts where all local churches will sing one another and this helps us to choose the best singers. It is also the opportunity to organize biblical games with price at the end. This annual camp was a total success and each  returned home in the joy of being spiritually blessed. The general topic was : « Does the Church of Christ be a sect ? ». We have done this Camp in Soumdina Powayi up December 24 to 26, 2023.

This year we had the opportunity to celebrate the wedding of the new local Preacher Kpelevi. We had to share pleasant moments. Participants during this camp are nearly 114 people.

 6-      Radio Program : It is a very effective way to preach the gospel to other surrounding communities. With the arrival of these other evangelists we are more effective for this radio program. We continue to meet some who agree with the appointments. We preach every Friday from 15 O’clock pm to 16 O’clock pm on Radio « Kozah Fm ».

 7-      Upcoming Program : We will have a busy program

a-      January 2024 :

-          Campaign in Tchitchao Kigbeleng

-          Campaign Dapaong area

-          Campaign in Soumdina Powayi

-          Training « Reading  and Speaking kabiye » program

b-      February 2024 :

-          Campaign in Samala

-          Campaign in Sandate

-          Campaign in Soumdina Haut

-          Training « Reading and Speaking kabiye   » program

c-       March 2024 :

-          Campaign in Tchoou

-          Campaign in Tatale area

-          Campaign in Lassa Lao

-          Campaign in Soumdina Pida

-          Training « Reading and Speaking kabiye » program

We need your prayers for all those programs.

 In Christ,

Fidele

New congregations planted in Cameroon

We bring greetings from the Bear Valley campus in Mbanga Balong where the campus church of Christ do worship. The staff and students sends their greetings and also the congregation that meets at Mbanga Balong. Happy new year in advance, and also sincere greetings from my family, I pray the Lord sees us through these last few days remaining to end this year.

It is a great thing to report again about our mission work in the school and our activities in the campus.

Evangelism is our mission and our mission is evangelism. We do not relent our efforts with our weekend evangelism both in and around Mbanga and also out of the community of Mbanga. Congregational work is also ongoing, The church in Mbanga is also doing great spiritually, growing in number also and even in administrational measures. We have  been able to have different ministries in our congregation in charge of various domain such as evangelism, benevolence, organization, hospital etc just to name these few. Even though we still have financial difficulty, we have in mind to realize some need of our community such as hospital visits and even to touch the lives of some widows in the congregation and in our nearby environment. We beg on all to Pray and support the church in Mbanga for this work of the church to be realized. 

For the very first time that we experience over flood in our local campus due to too much rain fall and water table rising up to the point were some houses were affected right inside their sleeping rooms. Water was everywhere and our walls are still been affected till now.  

Because the water table rose up, our borehole was also affected due to the fact that the pit toilet also came up to the same level as the the wells or borehole. This needed serious intervention in order  to free the students and those who benefits from it also from our community. We did change some filters and treated all the water with white stones, chlorine, salt and some other elements.

Emerald complex is making great progress. Parents and the community now begin to see and feel the presence of Emerald schools in their community. We do chapel and devotional 3 times a week at 11 AM in the presence of both the staff and the students. This time around it was in the presence of the parents also. And it at the end of term occasion in our amphi open air. We pray that some day we should be able to have a hall that can contain a good number of people for chapelsIt is so great to speak out the word through Emerald bilingual complex. 

Our short course went on well very well with the help of bro Rufus and Arouna with the students and the wives of the students. It was great to have these men doing the Christian evidence for the students and evangelistic woman for the wives of the students.

We went immediately to the annual gospel lectuship after the short course. And the 2023 edition was in douala in cite de la paix. 

Our way to mission trip also followed immediately and our students left for various areas for a serious two or three weeks campaign. Tracts were distributed to all including those who were going to the north and to our newly created assemblies 

Two new congregations were established in Kribi and Buaka. 

The field is vast and our laboures are few. We are hitting the hinterlands and the town ship. 

Happy new year in advance 

In Christian love,

ITITI BENEDICT 

Graduation in Malawi

Hello Everyone!

The graduation ceremony was a success!  Fourteen individuals received certificates acknowledging their attendance and numerous hours of effort at the school.  

Everyone has returned to their home villages.  The campus remains with 8 people (as it was before the 40+ people arrived in October, 2022).  

We have a special prayer request.  One of the children, who is less than 2 years old, is very, very sick.  Notification was sent last night, and we read the message this morning.  All day we have been trying to get a call to go through so that we can find out more.  Please pray for this little guy!  

Love,
Dale, Leann & Alyssa Kastner

Campaign in Ondo State, Nigeria

Report Of Bear Valley Bible Institute Weekend School, Ondo State (October to December, 2023).

Dear Brethren, 

Compliments of the season to Bear Valley Family! We are ever grateful to God for seeing us through the year 2023 with academic activities. May the name of the Lord be praised forever, Amen. Our sincere thanks goes to Bear Valley Church in Denver, Colorado and her leadership for their uncommon partnership in the training of preachers in Nigeria! Thank you.

Evangelism: This last quarter report is eventful and quite interesting in Ondo City! We went to preach on the 30th of December, 2023 in Sabo Orimolade, in Ondo City! This area is our next place to plant the church according to our plan! A soul was baptized there! Glory be to God! God willing, in 2024, we will plan it fully to do a thorough evangelistic work there! We need your constant prayer for effectiveness! 

Also, in Akure center, the students there goes out to preach in Ilu Abo near AKure Airport! two of our new students are living in that area. All the students with their instructors were in attendance doing the Lord's work! The synergy is formidable! 

Classroom activities: In Ondo City, classroom activities went well as planned. In October, Brother Philemon taught Old Testament -3A (Job and Ecclesiastes). In November, Brother Akilapa taught Old Testament -3B (Psalms and Proverbs). In December, Brother Emmanuel Godwin taught Old Testament -5 (Minor Prophets).

In Akure study center, In October, Brother Akilapa taught Old Testament -3B (Psalms and Proverbs). In November, Brother Philemon taught Old Testament -3A (Job and Ecclesiastes). In December, Brother Victor Fasonu taught Revelation in Akure center. We thank God for His Strength in us to His glory.

Brother Ayomiposi Adebayo is a student of the School at Ondo study center! He is 33 years Old. He is worshipping with Church of Christ, Ayeyemi, Ondo City. He is very vast in the Scriptures. He is doing very well in Class! He is willing to learn and continue to do the Lord's work after graduation from the School. The Students body are happy as the studies progresses.

Financial Report: As a School, we have what we need! We are adequately supported to do the Lord's work in this quarter! We are grateful for the support!

Miscellaneous: For now, in Ondo City, We anticipate more students in the course of the year, so, we will need more Classroom Chairs and tables!

Dear loving brethren! Words are not enough to humbly shows our unfailing appreciation for your physical and Spiritual support to carry on the work of God! We will continue to do our best for the Lord in order to expand the frontier of the Kingdom. Our love for this synergy is wonderful to behold!

Fasonu Victor

BVBI, Ondo State, Coordinator

Big goals for 2024 in Guinea

Greetings from Bear Valley of Gueckedou, Guinea.

Please keep read our annual report for 2023.

Introduction 

This report covers all the activities carried out by  Bear Valley Institute of Gueckedou, Guinea, which operates mainly in the southern Guinean Forest region. This region includes seven (7) prefectures: Kissidougou, Gueckedou, Macenta, N'Zerekore, Lola, Yomou and Beyla. For this year 2023, the bulk of our activities have been focused on the prefecture of Gueckedou.

The Prefecture of Gueckedou is located in south-eastern Guinean Forest region, with a total surface area of 440,000 ha or 4,400 km². Founded by the Kissi ethnic group, its population was estimated at 310,602 in 2014. It comprises 10 Communes or municipality (Bolodou, Fangamadou, Gueckedou-centre, Guendembou, Kassadou, Koundou, Nongoa, Ouende-Kenema, Tekoulo, Temessadou Djibo).

According to our analysis, this Kissi community is very receptive to the Gospel.

This report presents the activities carried out by Bear Valley Institute in Gueckedou, Guinea during the 12 months of 2023. It is structured in four main parts: the first presents the Institute in general, covering its goal, vision, mission, and motto, while the second looks back on the Institute's essential activities by theme: training, evangelism, planting new congregations, the third summarize the prospects for the next 12 months and fourth the report's conclusion.

I-Presentation of the Bear Valle Institute of Gueckedou, Guinea

Bear Valley Bible Institute of Gueckedou, Guinea is a religious organization, created on February 25, 2018 at Gueckedou, Republic of Guinea following the collaboration of Steven Ashcraft, Francis S Musa and the brothers of the church of Christ 

Born in the context of Bear Valley International's extension in Guinea precisely in Gueckedou. 

Our: goal is to promote Bible teaching for Christians in Guinea.

Mission is to contribute to the improvement of the biblical knowledge of Christians in Guinea so that they are able to fill leadership positions in the Church.

Vision is to extend Christian teaching activities to the national level.

Motto is found in 2 Timothy 2:2

And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses, entrust to faithful men who are able to teach others also (2 Tim. 2:2 LSG).

II-Overview of  Activities 

This report provides an overview of all the activities carried out by the Bear Valley Institute in Gueckedou, Guinea, in collaboration with Bear Valley International and its technical and financial partnership during the year 2023. The activities focused mainly on the training of evangelists, evangelism, planting of new congregations...

Our objectives are to seek ways and means, strategies, appropriate and necessary support for the promotion of the integrated and sustainable development of the Church of Christ in Guinea through : 

- The training of evangelists or preachers for two years full-time from 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday with about 48 courses taught including the 66 book packs of the Bible;

- The evangelism of communities through evangelism campaigns, public evangelism, door-to-door evangelism and radio broadcasts;

- Planting new congregations to extend the kingdom of God in our community;

Results achieved :

In terms of results achieved, we have on:

1. The training of evangelists or preachers: we currently have 12 students who are in their 7th quarter and will complete their Bible courses at the end of the first quarter of 2024.

Another training method initiated by our coordinator Steven Ashcraft is called Rapid Training for Church Leaders, which is highly effective in converting denominations, multiplying leaders and planting new congregations.

This year, we trained 50 persons across Guinea.

2. In terms of evangelism, we converted 223 men and women over the past 365 days. This result is the combination of all our efforts: graduates, students, school staff, evangelism teams in putting into practice the different methods of evangelism: personal, door-to-door, public, and campaigns(we did 4 evangelism campaign).

3. In terms of planting new congregations, we were able to establish 5 new congregations namely: Yende Bawa, N'Wokouma, N'Diafassou, Gbolonin and Kokossou under the guidance of God through his Holy Spirit.

4. In terms of Bible seminar

To end the year on a high note, the Gueckedou churches of Christ organized a Bible seminar from December 22 to 24, 2023. During these three days of fellowship in Christ, participants were edified by the following themes:

1-Religious feasts taught by Antoine Fassa Tolno.

2-The life of the early church, taught by Eloi Tolno, a graduate of the second batch of Bear Valley in Gueckedou.

3- Responsibilities in the Christian home, taught by our brother Venecious Fallah from Foya, Liberia.

4- Supporting God's work by Niouma 2 Kamano. 

The event went well, with God's support, despite the fact that our country was going through a difficult period due to the fire at the hydrocarbon depot.

III-Our Outlook and Target Villages 

Outlook

The prospects for the year 2024 are many and ambitious, but we will be focusing our efforts on priority themes in line with our vision and mission. Specifically, these will be:

- Promoting the training of evangelists, preachers and churches leaders; 

- Promoting evangelism in all its forms, aimed at converting pagans, including dénominations, into the Lord's church.

- Promoting the planting of new congregations and their edification through Bible seminars.

- Improving the skills of our evangelism team members.

Target villages

Here are the villages target to establish locales congregations in 2024 by the grace of God.

1 Karima

2 Sembessou

3 Bandikoulo

4 Boboela 

5 Bakama

6 Gbonbou

7 Kolessoua

8 Bakouma

9 Fandou 

7 Banko restoration

8 Yenguela

9 Descendu

10 Douaha Moundeke

11 Menian

Conclusion 

It's true that two thousand and twinty-three was a special year for the joy we felt for the baptism of 223 personsin the name of Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins. It should be noted that we had experienced moments of sadness due to the death of some of our brothers and sisters in the congregations, in particular the death of one of our students Antoine Tolno, the death of Tamba Nestor Kamano a graduate of the first batch as well as the cruel death of Tamba Emmanuel Kamano evangelists at the same time instructor at Bear Valley of Gueckedou, Guinea. 

In terms of activity, in view of all that has been said above concerning the implementation of our various activities presented in this report, we must acknowledge that, we have been successful in evangelism and planting new congregations. 

For this reason, we will continue to invest effectively in training young preachers full of energy to work  in evangelism and in planting more local congregations...

We plead with Bear Valley International, brothers and sisters in Christ, congregations of churches of Christ: people of good will to continue incessantly to support us spiritually morally financially and materially in the implementation of our 2024 action plan.

Then, we would like first thank Almighty God for the health and the grace that accompanied us during the 365 days of successfully carrying out the above-mentioned activities.

We also thank Bear Valley International and all the donors who continue to support the church of Christ in Guinea.

Special thanks to Keith Kasarjian and Steven Ashcraft, respectively Extension Director and Coordinator of Bear Valley International, for their technical support in the management of the school.

We would also like to thank Ken Stanley, Barry Baggott and all those who contribute in any way to the development of the Church of Christ in Guinea.

We conclude by saying that all the churches of Christ in Guinea salute you.

Niouma 2 Kamano

Administrative Assistant 

Campaign in Nigeria

SABO ONIBA/LAGOS ISLAND CENTERS REPORT October–December 2023.

INTRODUCTION:

Accomplishing a set goal comes with excitement and fulfillment. The program that started in September 2019 ended this December with five students finishing 52 courses. The Lagos Island Center started with 26 students; however, only 5 were able to strive to the end for 4 years. This is the time to celebrate these men and women of faith. Thanks to God for holding our hands amid all challenges. Thanks to the leadership of the Church of Christ, Lagos Island, for giving us open doors to their facility all this time. We will not fail to appreciate the instructors for being resilient all this time. The efforts of Stoney Point Church of Christ will not go unappreciated for supporting and praying for us all these years. The unrelenting work of Bro Makinde, Bro Chad, and Keith to these successes is highly appreciated.  

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES IN SABO-ONIBA/LAGOS ISLAND: Islamic Religion was taught by Femi Adewuyi, Prison Epistles by Augustine Ani and Revelation by Tim Iwe. We have 5 new students presently in Lagos Island including a Medical Doctor who has decided to learn more about the Scriptures. The new set of students are excellent students. We are making an effort see how we can add more prospective students to them to make up another class that will continue the program in that center.

In Sabo-Oniba, Monday Unoke taught the Scheme of Redemption, while  1& 2 Peter and Jude were taken by Tim Iwe. Also, Emmanuel Odo took Church Leadership in December. Sabo had 2 new students who resumed in November and December respectively.

CAMPAIGN PROGRAM: For this last quarter, all the centers in Lagos converged in Owutu, Ikorodu on the last Saturday of December on their 7th Annual Lectures. It was an exciting event as our two Instructors spoke at the event. The attendance was massive.

LAGOS WBS WORK:

Lagos Team Work:. 

Online Students Activities: 191

 Under Follow Up:  2

Competed Lessons:  5302

Certificates Awarded: 1387

Baptism: 3

CONCLUSION: Once again, I want to sincerely thank Stoney Point Church of Christ for believing in us and therefore investing in training these men and women for the work of the kingdom. God will help us to continue to partner together in this great work for there is more to do in the vineyard.

Thanks and God bless you all.

TIM IWE

Sabo Oniba/Lagos Island Center Director

Taraba, Nigeria school celebrates second year

With profound gratitude to God Almighty, brethren, it gladdens my heart to write unto you this report of the last quarter of the year 2023. The Taraba School is two years old. Glory be to God. 

COURSES:

Mr. Elkanah Itom Madaki taught the students Church History in the month of October, in the month of November, Mr. Chindo Sambo taught Bible Geography, while Mr. Bala Egbwakoteh taught the book of 1ST and 2nd Thessalonians in December. The students were so excited to learn of Bible Geography especially with the current happenings in Gaza and the Middle-East. For the first time they were also exposed to the falling from the early church doctrine, reformation and the restoration. The episode of the early brethren in Thessalonica was another great lesson. It was all together an impressive quarter.  

EVANGELISM / EDIFICATION:

Our usual door to door evangelism was limited to Jalingo Metropolis due to insecurity. 182 bible studies were conducted under the period reviewed and only one baptism was recorded. In Lissam, the three day evangelism ended with two baptisms and one restoration, while the Gullung indoor lectureship ended up with selection of leaders to be ordained. Taraba Edification took place in Sarkin Dawa congregation where one of our students (Jerry Agbu) is the ‘student preacher’. Three souls were united with Christ through baptism and two restorations recorded.

NEEDS AND CHALLENGES:

The school is in need of public address system because most of the time the public address system we do rent is not delivered at the expected time or develops faults while using it. The school also is in need of a projector that will be used in classrooms and also during open air (public) preaching.

There are many interested candidates that wish to be enrolled into the school from other parts of Taraba and neighboring states as well the school lacks facilities to accommodate them, this has posed a problem for their admission. Our instructors are willing to sacrifice and teach all weekdays if such students will be provided with accommodation.  

Our radio program is facing financial challenges even though we have set up a gospel team with representatives from three congregations in Jalingo metropolis. We hope and pray that God will open more doors.

Ikorodu, Nigeria school had a prosperous year

Happy New Year to you all. We Pray the Lord will bless you for the good work you are doing in our country Nigeria.

The students and staff of Bear Valley Bible Institute Ikorodu study centre appreciate all that you've done for us and we also greet everyone of you in Jesus name. Amen.

1. In Ikorodu centre, we have 20 students

2. 6 students graduated from Ikorodu study centre on August 2023 at Butubutu Ibadan

3. We had four campaigns in 2023, the staff and the students participated.

4. Our campaigns produced 12 baptism through the effort of students and the staff of the school.

5. We assisted other congregation in evangelism and parts of church planting at Adamo Ikorodu. One of our student is now the preacher (Bro Tola)

6. Presently we have three teachers: Bro Mfoj Etim, Bro Okoro Chinyere and Bro Israel Tajovmawo

7. There is no congregation in our area that needs restoration

8. We conducted three lectures this year. The last one will be on the 30th Dec, 2023 which will be the joint effort of Lagos Centres.

9. We restored 14 members to the Lord's Church within this year 2023.

The last lectureship for the year 2023 was held on 31st December, 2023. With the attendance of four centres-ikorodu, Agege, Lagos Island and Sabo Oniba. We had 230 participants.

 The topics were as follows:

1. Liberty in Christ and it's Abuse

2. Individual and Family Roles towards Church Growth.

Theme: The Church as it was in the First Century

 We remain grateful to God and Bear Valley Schools for your support and steps taken to promote our knowledge in Bible Study and Evangelism in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. This helps us to organize many open air lectures every last Saturday of the month. We say thank you for the opportunity given to work with Bear Valley Bible Institute.

 Thank you for your support. God bless Bear Valley Bible Institute and God bless our supporting team in Jesus Christ name..Amen.

Special seminar in Accra

Bear Valley - Accra

Operating Report for November 2023

We thank God for a successful month of November 2023. We are grateful for His grace and guidance in all our activities.

Class Activities

The following classes were conducted in November:

- Bro Gyasi-Quansah taught the last short course on world religion and denomination doctrines. The students learned about the history and doctrines of various religious groups and denominations and how to respond to them biblically and logically.

- Bro Kojo Acquah Beenyi met the second batch of Bachelor’s students on congregational development. Six students were present and they discussed the challenges and opportunities of developing and growing a congregation in the contemporary world.

- Bro Samuel Sasu Ntim taught Elementary Greek where he delt with areas such as Greek alphabets, vowels, diphthongs, breathing marks, and syllabification. The students appreciated the introduction to the original language of the New Testament and its relevance for biblical interpretation and exegesis.

- Bro E. O. Larbi also taught the Book of Revelation and Christian Ethics. The students explored the apocalyptic genre and symbolism of the book of Revelation and its application to the church today. They also studied the ethical principles and issues that Christians face in their daily lives and how to make moral decisions based on the word of God.

Exams and Research

The students took their exams at the end of the quarter and submitted their research papers on various topics. The lecturers graded the exams and papers and gave feedback to the students. The results showed that the students performed well and demonstrated their understanding and skills in their respective courses.

Visitation to our Students' Churches

Bro Samuel Sasu Ntim visited two churches for the last quarter at Pakro Road and Fotobi. He observed the worship services and the activities of the churches. He also interacted with the members and the leaders of the churches. He reported that the churches faced some challenges such as leadership issues by some old brethren at Pakro Road and the numerical growth of the the church. Also, the Fotobi congregation is challenged with a noisy environment due to five instrumental churches circling the brethren. This has made four baptized members difficult to worship. He also offered some suggestions and solutions to resolve these challenges. He encouraged the churches to remain faithful and steadfast in the Lord. A relocation is ongoing for Fotobi church for comfortable services.

Talk with Past Students

We had a great and successful talk with our past and present students. We had a good turnout of our alumni who came to share their experiences and testimonies. Bro Keith spoke to us about Bear Valley policies; the importance of continuing education and lifelong learning. Bro Emmanuel Amoo-Gyima taught us about the role of the preacher in the church and society. Bro Kojo and Bro E. O. Larbi also made good contributions to the discussion. We were inspired and motivated by the words and deeds of our past students.

Working on Campaign for New Students

We are working on a campaign to recruit new students for the next academic year 2024. Currently, we have six outstanding applicants who have expressed interest in studying with the school. We are following up with them and providing them with the necessary information and guidance. We are also planning to conduct some campaign activities in the following places: Tamale, Pakro Road, Fotobi, and Akotoshi. We hope to reach out to more potential students and persuade them to enroll in the college.

Radio Campaign

The college has been conducting a radio campaign to promote the college and the gospel. The director, Bro E. O. Larbi has been delivering interesting and edifying lessons on the radio. He has made a great impact in advertising the college and solving counseling problems. He has also brought many people to know Christ through radio messages. We thank God for this opportunity and we pray that more souls will be saved through this medium. However, the college still needs more funds to sponsor the radio campaign. We appeal to all our brethren and well-wishers to support us in this endeavor.

We will need (GHC 48,000.00) Forty-Eight Thousand Ghana Cedis to continue this programme when the contract ends next year April 2024 apart from transportation. We still need your kind donations both in cash and in prayer.

School Bus

We are finding it very difficult in our campaigns and visitation because of the non-availability of school bus. The bus facilitates our movement in preaching and teaching, and wish a new bus is acquired. Hope to help find funds to purchase a new one next year.

Conclusion

We thank God for a fruitful month and the safe return of Bro Stephen Ashcraft. We also thank all our partners and friends for their prayers and support. We pray that God will continue to bless and prosper the work of the college and the church. Amen.

Graduation in Sierra Leone

ACTIVITY OPERATION REPORT FOR NOVEMBER, 2023

Full Time and the Extended Programs

INTRODUCTION

As we said in the conclusion of our October 2023 report, we were anticipating to share with you the November 2023 report of what is going on here at KBVBI. And now we can thankfully write and appreciate God because He has kept us alive and strong to share with you the good news of what is happening here. We hope that you would be very patient to go through this report and as you do that, we pray that the good Lord will be with you always as He has been with us.   The following activities took place in November 2023: a lectureship and the graduation programs were held the new class began, one of the instructors got married, the Bear Valley International Director visited the school for the first time, and souls were converted. Beloved brethren, we encourage to keep on reading for more information on the highlighted activities.  

LECTURESHIP AND THE GRADUATION CEREMONY

In the report for September 2023, we informed you that our 3rd graduation and the 2nd Biennial Lectureship were scheduled to be held from November 16-18, 2023. And by the grace of God, the program came and passed successfully. The lectureship was held on the first two days (16th and 17th November, 2023), and the theme for the lectureship was, “In Times Like These….” Under this theme, various topics were handled by various speakers. We were blessed by seasoned speakers both in Sierra Leone here and other parts of the world. Three of our external speakers included Brother Keith Kasarjian (The International Director) Arthur David and Brother Borton Pyee Jr., all from Monrovia, Liberia.  The program brought together many attendees from various congregations of Churches of Christ in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. Some of the Alumni were present and took active part in all the activities. We invited some non-Christians too and they came. One of them got converted after the whole program. Brother Dave Arthur together with his wife, Sister Enora Arthur and the team of 4 more that he brought from Monrovia. Sister Anora took ladies class and it was insightful.  The symposium was held and many issues were handled. 

The lectureship was followed by a football match between the Bear Valley staff and the graduating students. The match ended 1:1. We believe that if our International Director, Brother Keith had played, maybe the staff should have won. While the match was going on, spectators came and some of the brethren who were not playing were engaged in sharing tracts and preaching to them individually. We thank God that a social occasion like that could as well be used to share the Gospel with the perishing souls. After the whole lectureship and the other activities, on the 18th November, the graduation exercise was held. As we informed you in our October report, twenty (20) students were enrolled in 2021 for the program. However, in the course of time, three (3) couldn’t continue. Therefore, the school graduated seventeen (17) preachers and evangelists. Brother Keith Kasarjian charged them and were sent out to turn the world upside down with the Gospel. We thank God for the successful program.

THE NEW CLASS BEGINS

In our October 2023 report, we informed you that on October 6, 2023, an entrance exam and an interview were conducted for a new set of students in the full time program. After going through the due process, all of them were admitted and were told to go home and prepare to start classes on November 6, 2023. Therefore on November 6, 2023, seventeen (17) of them came and started classes. We are yet to see the 6 more students. The administration continues to check on them to see what is still holding them back. Though some of them said they are still looking for money to buy some of the things that they would be using in the school like the school attire, shoes, etc. There are even other brethren that are indicating interests to be enrolled, therefore, we are hopeful that the number will increase. Please keep on praying for them and for us also.

THE ACADEMIC DEAN’S MARRIAGE

One of our instructors, Michael Sahr Triyoh who also functions as our Dean got married on November 11, 2023 to his sweetheart, Edith Trioh. We know that we requested for your prayers for the success of that marriage and truly the Lord answered those prayers. Thank you all for your concerns. Thank you to our coordinator who was also very supportive in the process. Please keep on pray for the Triyohs as they have come together to form a godly family.

BOTHER KEITH KASARJIAN VISITS THE SCHOOL FOR THE FIRST TIME

There have been plans for the International Director of Bear Valley Schools worldwide to visit the Sierra Leone Bear Valley Bible Institute, but because of other demands and engagements, he was not able to until on November 16, 2023 when he landed here. His coming was very impactful and rewarding. During his visit, he taught a Bible lesson at our lectureship and also charged the graduates. He met and encouraged the new students; he also watched them use the E-Library that was set up by our hard working coordinator, Steve Ashcraft. Moreover, he held meetings with Bear Valley staff from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. He was as well encouraged by what he saw happening in the school and appreciated the coordinator and the staff here. We had a great fellowship indeed. We appreciate his coming and we are hopeful that he keeps on visiting us.

CONVERSION OF SOULS

As evangelism continues, souls are being won to Christ on a daily basis. We are grateful to God that He was able to add twelve (12) souls to the Church in this month of November. Please brethren, let us keep on praying for them as we have always done.

GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION

The entire one body family of Bear Valley Bible Institute Kenema Sierra Leone continues to express her deepest appreciation to her supporters, sponsors and all our well-wishers for your financial and the spiritual support you continue to demonstrate toward her. We remember very well that a year ago, we were asked to submit our prayer requests so you could pray for us. Your involvement in the work here is truly acknowledged. Brethren, we are really appreciative. May the Lord bless and uphold you and may your works follow you. May God bless all of you!

CONCLUSION

In summation, we pray that the Lord keeps us all to witness what will unfold in the last month of the year, December. Thank you, our patient readers!

Peter Sahr Makundu,

Director,

Sierra Leone Bear Valley Bible Institute

A great year in Port Harcourt!

END OF THE YEAR, 2023 REPORT FROM BEAR VALLEY BIBLE INSTITUTE

PORT HARCOURT, RIVERS STATE NIGERIA, WEST AFRICA

As the year 2023 is coming to an end, the Director, teachers and students of Bear Valley Bible Institute Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria are very grateful to the Almighty God and to our sponsors for the great success of our schools in Rivers State Nigeria this year.  Our first graduation ceremony that took place on July 29, 2023 was a very remarkable success.

NUMBER OF THE GRADUATES IN THE YEAR 2023

A total of 36 graduated from our two Centers.

NUMBER OF OUR CURRENT STUDENTS

Port Harcourt Center – 27, Omoku Center 16, total – 43.

 NUMBER OF CAMPAIGNS HELD BY STUDENTS AND TEACHERS THIS YEAR:

We held a total of four major campaigns this year. We called it quarterly students and teachers, evangelism outreach.

 NUMBERS OF BAPTISMS FROM STUDENTS AND TEACHER’S EVANGELISM WORKS THIS YEAR:

Port Harcourt Center 17, Omoku Center 9. Total baptisms this year 26

NUMBER OF CHURCHES RESTORED BY OUR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS THIS YEAR:

Nine

NUMBER OF TEACHERS IN OUR SCHOOLS  

Five

CONCLUSION

This year, 2023 is a remarkable year for our schools in Rivers State Nigeria. We are grateful to God who gave us the strength and we are also grateful to our sponsors in the United States of America for their financial and moral supports.

Reports from:

Anthony Ejike Oluria,

(Director BVBI Rivers State Nigeria, West Africa)

Reaching souls in Guinea

Greetings from Bear Valley of Gueckedou, Guinea.

Please see below our report of activity for November 2023

Introduction

We pleased to update you on all the activities we carried out during the month of November 2023. The result is satisfactory, as you will see from the rest of the report, which is divided into eight parts.

 Please read with interest and favor so that we share the same sense of satisfaction.

I-Teaching Class room.

Day after day we follow the program of teaching the Scriptures established for inspiration, instruction, edification and correction, so that our students may be accomplished and fit for every good work.

During the past month we taught the following courses:

1 Paul's Epistles to the Thessalonians, whose teaching began at the end of October

2 Christian leadership   

3 The Epistle to the Hebrews.

II- Evangelism

The gospel has always been a power endowed by God for the salvation of people of all nations. That's why Jesus sent us to proclaim the good new and baptize those who believe. In fact, we went to Kokossou to announce the gospel with the  evangelism team of Tekoulo, made up of Bear Valley graduates. Glory be to God, 14 men and women believed and were baptized, which means that the church of Christ is now in this village.

Door-to-door and personal evangelism also bore fruit in Fassaba, for 3 young accepted Jesus as their Savior and were baptized by their evangelist Eloi Tolno.

We should also mention the following baptisms: 2 in Kendessoua by Alain Mano one of the current students, 1 in N'Dendessou and 2 in Yende Bawa.

III- Rapid Training of Churches Leaders.

This method is also effective for multiplying disciples and churches leaders.

From November 20 to 30, 2023, we trained 14 people, 7 of them came from the denominations. After two days of teaching, the 6 people from the denominations understood the saving truth and immediately decided to convert. We baptized them in the name of Jesus to become simply Christians. It should also be noted that 4 of them expressed a desire to follow the two-year training program of Bear Valley for the next class.

IV- Graduation and Evangelism Team Meeting 

In the interest of advancing God's work in Guinea, our Coordinator Steven Ashcraft convened a meeting in Koindou,SL on 03/11/2023, all graduates and some current students from Bear Valley of Gueckedou were present to discuss work and plan evangelism activities with the goal of converting many lost souls to Jesus and planting new congregations. We also attended the graduation of students from Sunset Bible  College in Koindou.

V-Graduation and Meeting with Keith.

We took part in the graduation ceremony of Bear Valley students from Kenema on 16 to 18/11/2023. This gave us the opportunity to meet for the first time Keith Kasarjian Extension Director of Bear Valley International , who after our introduction and briefing on the school's progress in Guinea congratulated us and encouraged us further to continue the work with the same vision of having many harvesters for God's field.

VI-Work Equipment...

We're delighted with the acquisition of an electronic library initiated by our Coordinator Steven Ashcraft. During his last working visit at the beginning of November, he show us how to use it and he also gave us 3 computers and their connection accessories. As soon as he returned to the USA, he approved our request to pay a battery for the power supply. So please be informed that we had the nucleus of an electronic library which we hope to increase in hardware (computer and accessories).

VII-Black Page

Saa Votala Kamano member of Bouliedou's congregation, one of the students of the last rapid training session on 20/11/2023 mentionned below, died of a short illness. The third day of training, he suffered intense headaches that took his life after three days.

With the assurance given to us by the Scriptures in Revelation 14:13, we believe that our brother Saa is now happy to die in the Lord.

VIII-Suggestions

We ask all our backers, brothers and sisters in Christ, to continue support us spiritually, morally, financially and materially. Let us also pray for the family of our brother who pass away, that God may comfort them.

Conclusion

The various evangelism results, with a total of 25 people baptized, show that the dry season is shaping up well.

We thank God and the entire administration of Bear Valley International, for with their help we are becoming productive in the Lord's vineyard.

In particular, we thank Keith  Kasarjian and Steven Ashcraft, respectively Extension Director and Coordinator of Bear Valley International, for their love of doing God's work every where in the world, come rain or snow.

We also thank Ken Stanley and Barry Baggott for their support in the progress of the church in Guinea.

We thank every person or group of people, as well as all the congregations that support God's work in Guinea.

May God's grace accompany us all.

We conclude by saying that all the Churches of Christ in Guinea greet you.

Niouma 2 Kamano 

Administrative Assistant

Another good year in Lagos

The students and staff of Bear Valley Bible Institute Ikorodu study centre greet everyone of you in Jesus name. Amen.

1. In Ikorodu centre, we have 20 students

2. They were 6 students that graduated from Ikorodu study centre on August 2023 at Butubutu Ibadan

3. We had four campaigns in 2023, the staffs and the students participated.

4. Our campaigns produced 12 baptisms through the effort of students and the staffs of the school.

5. We assisted other congregation in evangelism and parts of Church planting at Adamo Ikorodu. One of our student is now the preacher (Bro Tola)

6. Presently we have three teachers: Bro Mfoj Etim, Bro Okoro Chinyere and Bro Israel Tajovmawo

7. There is no congregation in our area that needs restoration

8. We conducted three lectures this year. The last one will be on the 30th Dec, 2023 which will be the joint effort of Lagos Centres.

9. We restored 14 members to the Lord's Church within this year 2023.

We remain grateful to God and Bear Valley Schools for your support and steps taken to promote our knowledge in Bible Study and Evangelism in Nigeria and other parts of Africa. This helps us to organise many open Air Lectures every last Saturday of the month. We say thank you for the opportunity given to work with Bear Valley Bible Institute.

Thank you for your Support. God bless Bear Valley Bible Institute and God bless our supporting team in Jesus Christ name..Amen.

Bro Mfon Etim Aden

(Director Ikorodu Study Centre)

19 more baptisms in Malawi!

Hello!

Greetings from BV school in Ekwendeni Malawi. We all the joy we want to share with you the good news that have been received in this month of November from our students. 

When you think of holiday, you mean resting but this not with our students. The holiday for them means working, "we will rest when we die" I quote from one of the students. This month of November, alot have been done in the village congregations where our students are staying during this time of their holiday - 22 souls have been saved(19 baptisms and 3 restored)!

December plans!

The teachers have agreed to have some few trips to villages, checking on how the students are doing in their home congregations. It is one way of encouraging them.

Bibles in our local language

We are so thankful to brother Dale for the contribution towards they purchase of Tumbuka Bibles. We managed to buy 89 based on the funds we had.

We always appreciate the Bear Valley Bible Institute International and the Hillcrest church for the partnership that makes our school move forward. God continue to blessing you all.

"Eternity Is Forever, Think Souls

In Christ,

Ephron and Clergynton

Saving souls in Nigeria

NOVEMBER 2023 FIELD REPORT
Dear fellow soldiers of Christ Jesus.
Grace, peace and mercy of God and Christ Jesus be multiplied unto you all.
Here is the summary of some of our activities in Christ Jesus for the month of November 2023.

OVERVIEW
i- Second Semester Class begins
ii- Four WBS Seminars concluded
iii- Third Batch of BVBIN  Degree program begins on December
iv- VOTI Vol. 118 , Mission Printing small Songs Book and How God Speaks literatures distributed
v- Niger State preaching trip schedule 

SECOND SEMESTER CLASSES COMMENCED
Both Year 1 and 2 students reported for 2nd Semester classes between Nov. 3 and 6, 2023.
Second Semester classes began as scheduled on Nov. 6,2023 and is set to conclude Lord’s willing on Jan. 19, 2024 with two weeks end of year’s break between Dec. 16,2023 and January 2,2024.
Five conversions were recorded by the year-2 students during the four weeks Vocational week break.

FOUR WBS SEMINARS CONCLUDED
The four World Bible School Seminars sponsored by a close associate of SWSE-Grand Patron (Bro. Doug Wheeler) named Rob and Robin Thornton which begins on September 8th through 10th was concluded on November 12th at Asejire-Osun State.
To God be the glory, eight conversions were recorded with fifteen restorations as the results of this spiritual exercises.

THIRD BATCH OF BVBIN-DEGREE PROGRAM COMMENCED
As the Lord would have it, the third batch of BVBIN-Degree program commence their first two weeks classroom instructions on December 4th through 15th, 2023 at BVBIN & SWSE –Ibadan.
I, Bro Makinde Ebens will be teaching on December 4th through 8th on Advanced Fundamentals of Faith-1, while Bro Isaac Olaniyan will teach on Advanced Research & Writing on Dec. 11th through 15th 2023 Lord’s willing.

TEN THOUSANDS MISSION PRINTING SMALL SONGS BOOK,SIX THOUSANDS OF VOTI VOL. 118 AND TEN THOUSANDS OF HOW GOD SPEAKS DISTRIBUTED
10,000 copies of Mission Printing small songs book; 6,000 copies of VOTI Vol.118 and 10,000 copies of How God Speaks gospel literatures was freely distributed to Churches and WBSFUW across the country, between September 1st and end of November. We wholeheartedly appreciate the donors for their faithful commitments to serving the Lord.
Reports received at our office from several recipients indicate that these materials have resulted in the conversion of seventeen individuals and the restoration of twenty -four erring brethren from September to November 2023.

OUR NEXT PREACHING TRIP
Lords wiling the BVBIN & SWSE-Ibadan will travel with some of her staff and year-2 students on Dec.13th through 17th for a four days Mass evangelism outreach aimed at church planting at Samonaka town, New Bussa L.G.A. Niger state.
The estimated cost of the proposed trip will range between ₦400,000 and ₦500,000, covering transportation, feedings and possibly accommodation of some guest speakers

ABOUT A STUDENT
Bro. Edokpai Blessing Enoch was born on Oct. 1997 at Lagos state. He is a native of Auchi in Edo State, became a member of the Lord’s church in year 2018, and gained admission into our ministerial department in year 2022.His mission is to become a proficient Bible teacher.

CONCLUSION
We sincerely thank you for your partnership and support in the growth of the Lord’s church in Africa, specifically in Nigeria. We fervently pray that the Lord continues to bless our collaborative efforts.
I remain yours in His Grace & Love as a Servant,
Makinde Ebens
The Chief Servant of BVBIN & SWSE-Ibadan and WBSFUW

Praying for peace in Ukraine

Dear brothers and sisters,

I'd like to share with you some news from the Bear Valley Bible Institute and some  changes in my family life.

About a week ago the students returned to the online studies after the evangelical practice and vacation. Currently they are studying the gospels of Matthew and Mark. I'm the Instructor, and the course will last a week and a half. The students had an opportunity to help the local congregations with delivering the humanitarian aid and establishing the contacts with the people who were receiving it. It was a good experience for them  as well as learning to preach and demonstrate patience in ministry. Vyacheslav and Alexander worked in Dnipro while Maksim and Vadim helped the congregation in Bela Tserkva. Victoria was in Kiyv and Chernihiv where she helped her husband in ministry.

About 3 weeks ago my family left Ukraine, spent some time in Warsaw and now we are in Germany, in the city of Leipzig. This city has the congregation of the Church of Christ where we worship alongside our brothers and sisters. We decided to make this difficult and responsible decision to secure the safety of our three children. We were physically and emotionally exhausted to constantly live in a state of stress. While in Warsaw I had an opportunity to preach and teach a lesson in the middle of the week. We noticed that there were many Ukrainian speaking preachers there and we decided to move to a different location where our presence will be more beneficial in our opinion. The congregation in Leipzig is multicultural, brethren speak Ukrainian, English, German and Spanish. There are some families from Ukraine here, people who we've known for a long time.

It looks like there are not too many news but the last three weeks were very tiring. We can't wait for the return of peace so we can safely go back to Ukraine.

We are grateful to all who continues supporting the  Bible Institute, the Instructors and my ministry.

May God keep you safe.

Your brother,

Dennis Sopelnik

"A school without borders"

Dearest in Christ,

Greetings from the beautiful country of Cameroon, the land of our birth. God is good, and has allowed us another opportunity to share more good news about the work here in Cameroon that has been entrusted in our hands. We do hope you and your family are doing great and that God is at work in whatever you are doing in your corner, the space God has provided for you.

Our students are back on campus after spending time in 20 locations preaching, teaching, and nurturing congregations of the Lord’s church. They were involved in house to house. The house to house was more effective in some new areas as we were looking forward to establishing a new congregation in Mbanga mile 40 which is along the Kumba-Buea road. God blessed that work with 6 souls. There is now a new congregation there.

Another congregation was down to less than 5 members because of the crisis here in the English region. We went to that community and revived the congregation by preaching peace and being neutral during the struggle. We told those we met who carry guns that we are soldiers of Christ and God has sent us to preach the gospel free of charge to all who are willing to hear. Most of the time, security officers will ask us for authorization from the government. We just explain God’s government and commission from his word from Mattthew 28:18-20.

The Bear Valley Bible Institute in Wotutu has been looked upon by many and nicknamed “A BIBLE SCHOOL WITHOUT BORDERS.” The appellation is coming from “DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS,” who gets into the interior to save lives. Our students too are moving to save lives from eternal condemnation. The gospel is for all. It is for the old, the young, and anyone in between. These young girls happily listened to the gospel from our students and made a lifetime decision to follow Jesus. Keep them in your prayers.

The annual Bible lectureship of the churches of Christ in Cameroon, comes up from the 28th of November until the 3rd of December this year. I am one of the speakers there, and I will be teaching on “Future Leadership of the Church in Cameroon.” Please keep me in your prayers as I go there to do His work.

APPRECIATIONS

Thank you very much for all you do for the work that is going on here. Your prayers and support are the wheels that keep this work moving. God sees and He will reward. Do your best to share our report with others.

Make a great day in His presence.

Elangwe and family, by His grace director BVBIC-Wotutu

Classes resume in Chad

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Who, according to His vision, has called us to his work. May the peace and mercy of Christ be in you abundantly! Beloved, we hope this report finds you in good health. Receive our cordial, fraternal greetings in the name of Jesus Christ!

Indeed, we are delighted to bring to your attention some useful information concerning the life of our school. This information includes, among other things, the return of students to the Center and the effective resumption of classes.

We glorify God for His assured protection of our beloved students during their vacation. After taking advantage of the holidays to present the Gospel to the lost, they returned to the Center November 26. Classes resumed today, November 27, 2023 for the fourth quarter. We should note that our students provided very good reports from their internships. Regarding the current quarter, evangelism and vacation time will be from December 22, 2023 to January 6, 2024.

We will be having the great evangelization campaign of Alumni-Chad from December 25 to 27 in Fianga. Fianga is a locality approximately 200 km from the Center, where two former students of Bear Valley work. We want all our students to take part in this great meeting, but our challenge is transportation. Please put us in your prayers. From December 28 to 31, we have the Annual National Conference of the Assemblies of the Church of Christ in N'djamena. Let us pray for the Alumni-Chad evangelization campaign and for the national conference, which are great opportunities for brothers and sisters in Christ to meet.

May God help us, for the sole glory of his name!  May God bless you also, in equipping you for his work!

Fraternally,

Datoudji

Great evangelistic work in Tamale, Ghana

BEAR VALLEY INSTITUTE OF BIBLICAL STUDIES, TAMALE - GHANA

POST OFFICE BOX TL 925

OCTOBER 2023 OPERATING REPORT

We are marching forward by the special grace of God in Bear Valley Tamale in all areas. We thank the Lord for His gracious blessings upon us all.

EVANGELISM AT NYOJODO

We had a very successful missionary journey to the Zabzugu Tatale district in the Northern Region. It was an effective evangelistic journey put together by the Zabzugu evangelistic team and the Bear Valley Action Evangelistic teams for the first time. The program brought together 36 valiant men with a few women in addition.

We were at Nyojodo to revive a dead congregation. The community is a great mission field with the majority of its inhabitants being youth. The community is dominated by Paganism, Islam, and two denominational bodies (Roman Catholic and Church of Pentecost). We had a great time there and hope to build a good leadership in this congregation to help us grow the congregation. The community has a population of about 1400 people.

We had both public and door-to-door preaching at Nyojodo. A great conversion was also made. We had 23 souls added to the Lord’s church, with 7 souls restored also. A beautiful evangelistic journey it was. You could see great love playing among the entire group of evangelists who took part in this missionary journey. It is very possible if things are well handled with this congregation, we could get some workers for the Lord’s church.

There were some natural challenges we encountered which were normal. The rains didn't give us enough time to preach. Some of our days were disturbed by the rains, notwithstanding, we still had some success. It is our hope that this congregation will grow to become a self-supporting and existing one. Oh yes, it is possible and we will work hard to achieve that with the help of God.

VISITATION AND SEMINAR

In the month of October 2023, Brother James Bisong Legend embarked on four days visitation journey to the Zabzugu Tatale District again in an effort to strengthen some of the congregations. He hosted a two day seminar with the Jomoni congregation to deal with the issue of paganism. Haven received a message of some mysterious deaths and sickness of some indigenes of the community that has brought fear on many of the believers. it was necessary to go and educate them on the power of God. Many of the members were living in fear, as the deaths and sickness was linked to one sorcerer in the community. The situation left many of the saints in the Jomoni congregation living in fear, which warranted the seminar. Many were empowered to depend on our Lord Jesus Christ for protection and guidance in every situation. The preacher of the congregation, Brother Shei-Laboir David, encouraged himself, as he was also battling with snake bites. We praise the Lord that after the program, many confessed to being liberated from going back to the dark world. Praise the Lord.

Brother James also took the opportunity to visit and to address another issue at Nagbindo congregation under the Sanguli area of the Zabzugu Tatale District. The issue relates to Christians living with women who are not their legitimate wives. In some of the tribes and traditions in Ghana, it is allowed for one to stay with a woman and have children before performing the marriage rites. These traditions were moving into the church, becoming a normal thing. We had to go sit with the leadership of the congregation to address those issues. Christ won at the end of the day, as many admitted after us reasoning with them from the scriptures that they needed repentance, and did produce the fruits of repentance by sending their women away until the marriage rites were performed. We give God the glory for His grace and guidance.   

ANNUAL WOMEN SEMINAR

The annual seminar hosted every year on the campus of the Bear Valley Tamale by the women across the Northern Region took place successfully in the month of October 2023. Women of several congregations took part in it. On the final day of the event, which was the first day of week, all the congregations within Tamale came together at the Kpalsi South Congregation to worship. Brother James Legend taught the adult Bible class on the Topic: Youth and Substance Abuse. Brother George Dassah gave the sermon on the topic: Holding Firm the Doctrine of Christ.

The event and the worship was a successful one.

ACADEMIC AND CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

Students resumed back to campus to continue with their academic activities in the month of October after spending a good number of days with their families. Brother Albert Tamanja Malir took them through Old Testament 2. All of them were back to campus on the scheduled reopening day. We give God the glory for their commitment.

 SCHOOL GARDEN

We harvested the last batch of our crops from the garden. We are hoping to get not less than two bags of maize from what we harvested to support the feeding of our students. As we have finished the harvest, we are moving forward to continue preparation for the dry season farming. We are determined to put things in place to deal with some aspect of feeding our students. Yes, and yes, we are determined to do so. We know it’s a matter of time and we will successfully handle it.

We give thanks to the Lord for His blessings. Amen.

Thank you,

Bear Valley Tamale.

Tanzanian school celebrates graduation

A.C.S.O.P  Weekly Update

NOVEMBER ,18 . 2023.

   ACSOP GRADUATION REPORT     

I would like to give thanks to God and every one that is reading this report. I would like to share with you a short blessing that God blessed us with through you. The eighteenth of this month was a great day after over five hundred people showed up for the graduation of our successful graduates. This year we had twenty one graduates students from the Andrew connally school of preaching. Apart from that we had seven graduates from sister school which  under the church also, Kisongo Bible school and Arusha Bible school. We thank brother Sidney Aulman who came representing the Hoover church and all brothers and sisters who are dearly supporting this school. we thank brother Sid for His great speech as key not speaker. Please read the small quote from the reception schedule which was spoken by school director. 

 On behalf of the staff and faculty of the Andrew Connally School of preaching, we would like to express our appreciation for your attendance at this year’s graduation ceremony. As this group of graduates makes the transition from the safety of the classroom to the battlefield for souls we ask that you join us in praying for their continued faithfulness and diligence in the Lord’s Kingdom. The task before them is the most noble and yet the most difficult. We also want to take the opportunity to offer our gratitude to the hundreds of brethren that have sacrificed their time and their money to fund every aspect of this school. We operate 100% by the         contributions of brethren who love and care about the Kingdom. We thank God for their selflessness.

One of the graduate is an elder from Temeke church in dar Es Salaam. church is benefited by her leaders inquiring  more  knowledge from the respected school. The elder from Temeke in one of the elders that help the school to go next level in Dar es Salaam. When I was interviewing him I realised there is a great change from him and he confessed that there many good new things he learned from school.

Also we enjoyed having one of the graduate from Bear Valley Bible Institute. As the planned Bear Valley B. Institute and Andrew Connaly have exchanging students program.  In this case Naomi Racine gradated and was an exciting moment for her. 

Please in your daily prayers remember us and this work,  thank you very much for reading and supporting this work.

In His Work.

Ahimidiwe Kimaro

 Director, Andrew Connally School of Preaching

A Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver extension school

Arusha, Tanzania