A New Approach in Mission Work
Training Men Where They Live
For decades we have sent families into the mission field to reach foreign cultures with the Gospel. These efforts have had mixed results at best. Many works thrive as long as the missionaries stay in the field, but as soon as they return home the work they leave behind crumbles.
As a brotherhood, we have also spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring men to the States to be trained expecting them to return to their countries and evangelize. This has also had mixed results as once these men spend two or three years in the United States, they don't want to return to their home countries. If they do return, they often want to live much like they did while they were in the States. Obviously, this poses many problems.
At Bear Valley, We take a different approach to these problems - we train preachers in their native country. Working with congregations throughout the brotherhood, preaching schools have been established in many foreign countries with more on the way. We train men to be preachers and evangelists while they live within their own communities and culture. They become the preachers and missionaries to their own people. No culture shock, no dependence on American missionaries.
School Reports (most recently posted):
- Ghana 279
- Ghana Extended Programs 134
- Cameroon 445
- Ibadan 69
- Nigeria 317
- Ekwendeni 30
- Malawi 70
- Togo 119
- India 85
- Accra 49
- Philippines 11
- Ukraine 160
- Nigeria Extended Programs 124
- Enugu 5
- Port Harcourt 5
- Peru 30
- Tirupati 52
- Luanshya 32
- Chad 10
- Kenya 79
- Kisumu 16
- Brazil 2
- Mombasa 9
- Gweru 48
- Uganda 25
- Cambodia 133
- Arusha 559
- Tanzania 129
- Liberia 66
- Tamale 147
- Sierra Leone 61
- Guinea 59
- Takoradi 87
- Lesotho 13
- Haiti 26
- Bikkavolu 2
- Dar es Salaam 5
- Nsawam 1
- Cebu 4
- Harare 10
- Fiji 49
- Lima 18
- Mbanga 88
- Trinidad 9
- Nepal 82
- Myanmar 10
- New Zealand 25
- Guatemala 44
- Chimala 94
- Paraguay 50
School Reports (alphabetically):
- Accra 49
- Arusha 559
- Bikkavolu 2
- Brazil 2
- Cambodia 133
- Cameroon 445
- Cebu 4
- Chad 10
- Chimala 94
- Dar es Salaam 5
- Ekwendeni 30
- Enugu 5
- Fiji 49
- Ghana 279
- Ghana Extended Programs 134
- Guatemala 44
- Guinea 59
- Gweru 48
- Haiti 26
- Harare 10
- Ibadan 69
- India 85
- Kenya 79
- Kisumu 16
- Lesotho 13
- Liberia 66
- Lima 18
- Luanshya 32
- Malawi 70
- Mbanga 88
- Mombasa 9
- Myanmar 10
- Nepal 82
- New Zealand 25
- Nigeria 317
- Nigeria Extended Programs 124
- Nsawam 1
- Paraguay 50
- Peru 30
- Philippines 11
- Port Harcourt 5
- Sierra Leone 61
- Takoradi 87
- Tamale 147
- Tanzania 129
- Tirupati 52
- Togo 119
- Trinidad 9
- Uganda 25
- Ukraine 160