Akwaya Outreach

Life during the last month has been a blur, but I wanted to take a minute to thank the Lord and give some highlights at least from the Akwaya outeach.

Thank you to everyone who prayed for the two-week Akwaya church planting outreach.  Thirty-one Americans came over to join with over 70 Cameroonian believers and missionaries already on the ground here.  Three of the Americans are still here helping with some of the follow-up and seeing continued open doors.  As for some numbers, there were over 1,000 professions of faith, over 200 baptisms, and over 20 new baby Baptist churches organized!  My group was led by Pastor Chrysantus and were able to charter Bible Baptist Church and Fellowship Baptist Church both in Akwaya on the border with Nigeria.  On our team was my brother Chris for one week when we tag-teamed and I joined for the following week since I had a lot of flying to do for the other teams.  Also, that helped keep some order in our home of two families :)  Ben Lineras from America was on our team along with four other from our Ndop church, two young men from the Bible institute in Akwaya Town, and at least four or five adults and some boys from three other church in or around Akwaya!  Our team was diverse but truly unified in the mission!  Over 150 made professions of faith in Christ for salvation, but due to family and church persecution only a handful followed the Lord in believer baptism though many came to watch.  Pray for those on the verge of decision for baptism to join with these new Bible-preaching churches.  Pray also for men to be stable and grow to be leaders.  Pray for the strong-holds of alcohol and man-made churches which teach works-salvation and traditions of men (infant baptism) to be broken.