Who are you?

For Church today, Rev Kwih Jonathan, the CBC Nkwen Association Pastor visited our small church and preached. His lesson was from Matthew 5:13-16. The question is who are you and this portion of scripture has got three answers: You are: verse 13: The salt of the earth but what good is salt if it loses its flavor? So as Christian, we ought to strive to remain salty else we risk being trampled upon. verse 14: The light of the world - like a city on the hill top that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket, instead it is placed on a lamp stand where it gives light to everyone in the house. So as Christian's we ought to make sure darkness doesn't overshadow the light of Christ that is shinning in us. We gonna keep the light shinning so that others might glorify our father in heaven.

Marriage Seminar in our Church

This July, we are having a marriage seminar in our church "Redeemer Baptist Church" (RBC) Bamenda. It is a wonderful time of discussions, ideas, questions and answer sessions all geared towards building and sustaining a happy marriage.

Jesse & Josephine's Wedding

"He who finds a 'spouse' finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord". Proverbs 18:22" Jesse and Josephine celebrated their marriage at Full Gospel Church Cow Street Bamenda on 27th July 2013. The preacher reminded couples that when you are married you are suppose to be transparent with your space. He said something that I have never looked at it that way. He said when we are young, our parents see our nakedness but when we grow up, they cannot but our wives are the only ones who can see it. Children go away but spouse remain. So your spouse is all you've got, cultivate it, take good care of it and you will all enjoy the marriage.

DressMaking

My wife loves dressmaking so much.  I am often times amazed at what she can produce.  What a wonderful talent she has got in that area.  Now that she's gotten a multifunction machine, she will certain do quite a lot and thrill her customers.

Bamenda Regional Training Center in Mbessi

We constructed our residence in Mbessi neighborhood in 2010 and moved in March of 2010.  Three years later, CABTAL has constructed their offices in the same area not far from our house.  This is a big blessing for us as I don't have to drive far to go to work.  I don't have any traffic to deal with.  Infact, I can actually walk to work easily.

Julia's girls and their mom

What world that God has made.  You never know who you are going to meet and how you people are going to connect.  All of this because of the love of Jesus.  It is wonderful to know Winifred and her daughters, Scipora, Emmanuela and Marinnet from Babanki in the North West Cameroon.  The girls are doing very well in their education while the mother (widow) is working hard on the farms, rearing pigs and chickens taken good care of them.  May the Lord richly bless these girls to grow up to be wonderful women with a heart for the Lord.  Thank you Lord for giving us an opportunity to minister to them in our own small way.

Send off for Roland & Lena & Bjorkestedt's

Roland & Lena has been serving with CABTAL since 2009. Lena worked in Bafmen doing

preliminary linguistic work. She traveled to Bafmen even so often and most of the time by motorbike something that is not common especially for women of her age. She also found a family and stayed with in Bafmen whenever she goes out there.
He worked more with Literacy especially functionary literacy with the Meta & Oku teams. He traveled to these villages every so often with the Suzuki vitara. They were also able to teach at the Ndu CBTS Seminary where CABTAL & SIL are running a BT degree program for sometime. Today we could hear everyone say it has been a blessing to have this couple. They've also been a source of encouragement to many people through their simple nature and teachable attitude. Roland wounds it all up saying that in all that we do, let us look at it a little more and be sure Jesus can be seen in it.

Development brings difficulties

When development comes, things can also be stressful for some people at least for a short while.  The people on one side of the road in Kimar in Jakiri Sub Division in the NW Region of Cameroon are having a hard time going home due to the road construction going on.  They rely on ladders to across the road for any business.  For kids, this is very interesting as they are smart but for adults, this is a very challenging exercise.  This also mean that they will have to work on their own to fix the roads to theirs homes when the road works company must have done its part.  This can really be very frustrating for these people.  In some cases two or three ladders are needed to reach one house.  Ladder makers can certainly make some business here.