Regions In Need

Jude and Jennifer, former Regions In Need students, live and serve the Lord in Cameroon’s very dangerous and war torn Northwest Region with their newborn son, Gildas. They have serveded as church planters and are presently directing and serving in our missionary training school which is located in the village of Bambili on the outskirts of the city of Bamenda. Since 2016, when Anglophone separatist rebels in the Northwest and Southwest Regions declared independence from Cameroon, life and ministry in Bambili has been challenging. Great care has to be taken every week to ensure Jude, his family, and students keep out of crossfire situations when Army soldiers and rebels are fighting. Because the fighting has gone on so long, food is becoming scarce, hospitals are meagerly supplied, and prices are high making everyday life tougher than usual in this village.

But, in spite of the difficulties, Jude continues to train students and fulfill his ministry role assisting pastors in the region. In addition to directing and teaching in the school in Bambili, he has also begun a new training school in the city of Bafoussam where he also provides Bible and theological training to church planters, pastors, and church workers. On top of all this, he is involved in developing our training infrastructure throughout seven of Cameroon’s ten Regions. Finally, Jude is our Regions In Need Liaison in Cameroon and is responsible for the logistical planning of our training trips throughout the country.

Jude and his family are worthy servants who have served with us for several years. They sacrificially give of their time and resources to serve others for the glory of Christ. Please pray for them as they serve in a very difficult place during a very dangerous time. And if you’d be interested in helping us provide financial support for Jude and his family please contact us to find out how.

Pastor Ezekiel and his family planted Antioch Baptist Church in the village of Bambili which has a population of about 15,000 people. But, Pastor Ezekiel was more than just the pastor of this church. In the few years he served in this village, he became the “village’s pastor”. Whether preaching the Word of God to his flock, visiting the sick, caring for widows in their distress, meeting and talking with the residents of Bambili, teaching future pastors and church workers in our school, or strategizing about a new church plant—Pastor Ezekiel has been a tremendous blessing and partner to our ministry in the battle weary and war torn Northwest Region of Cameroon. Pastor Ezekiel, who was once one of our students, is now one of our teachers with a keen theological mind and passion for Christ that not only keeps students awake but ignites their own imagination for serving Christ in this very hard place. Recently, Pastor Ezekiel was called to be the senior pastor of a large church which primarily serves university students in Bamenda. Pastor Ezekiel is also our Regions In Need Liaison with the Cameroon Baptist Convention which provides us with training and ministry opportunities throughout Cameroon.

Martin and Colette were two of our first students when we began our first missionary training school in Cameroon’s Northwest Region. Before this they were our friends helping us navigate our first year overseeing an orphanage in Cameroon. After graduating from our school which was called Center For Missionary Training, Tactics & Theology or CM3T in 2012 they moved back to Yaounde and began a similar school there. Since then they have trained probably hundreds of men and women from Cameroon, Congo, Nigeria, and other places in Central Africa. In the years that followed more schools were started by other graduates as well throughout Cameroon. In addition, students from other countries began to take the training they received back to their homes which caused us to rename our school Global Centers For Missionary Training, Tactics & Theology or GCM3T.

Martin and Colette direct the GCM3T School in Yaounde and have expanded its influence into other remote parts of Cameroon as well. They regularly make trips into interior areas in the East Region providing Bible and ministry training as well as preaching the gospel in villages where it is unknown. Martin and Colette serve as our Regions In Need liaison in Yaounde whenever we travel there to provide training. They also serve as our home base when we venture into Cameroon’s East Region to work among the Baka people as well as the Adamawa and Far North Regions when we provide training to those working primarily among Muslims.

In April of 2020, we helped Martin and Colette begin an orphanage in Yaounde for abandoned and orphaned children. They continue to direct and serve as the house parents to several children including newborn babies rescued from situations in which they would have surely died without their intervention. The orphanage which currently has 17 children is called Shekinah Glory Children’s Shelter. If you’d like to help provide financial support for Martin and Colette as well as the orphanage please contact us or go to the “Give” Page for more information.

In 2013 after establishing a mission work and school in the Northwest Region of Cameroon we moved with two of our missionary training school graduates to the Far North Region capital city of Maroua. Our desire was to help these two courageous and bold men begin a church and Bible training school in this predominantly Muslim city. God richly blessed our efforts and GCM3T Maroua was launched with a few believers in our home taught by our two graduates whom we cannot name due to security reasons. Soon a small house church was started with new converts who were baptized in a hotel swimming pool.

Shortly thereafter we had to leave Maroua and the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram began kidnapping foreigners for ransom and persecuting believers and churches in and around Maroua. Eventually, they took control of Maroua and our Bible Training School and church were closed. Then in 2021 Boko Haram was forced out of Maroua by the Cameroon Army. A year later, Mark was able to return to Maroua and in 2023 the school was restarted with the help of one of his former students and a local pastor. Today in 2024, the school is providing Bible, theological, and ministry training for under-trained pastors, church-planters, and church-workers in Maroua and the Far North Region.

Please pray for GCM3T Maroua and it’s leaders who remained unnamed for security reasons.

Pastor Felix Nfrmi, his wife Angela, and his family are faithfully serving in the town of Mora, located in the Far North Region of Cameroon. They originally came to Mora in 2010 because of Felix’s job as an English teacher. But, once Felix arrived in Mora and saw the great gospel need in this Muslim town of 55,000 souls, he knew the Lord had sent him there to preach the gospel to the people in their language—Fulfulde. So, he began going door-to-door to each house sharing the gospel with whomever would listen. By 2012 eight people had repented of their sins, trusted the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation and been baptized. As the Cameroon Baptist Convention became aware of Felix and his new church they adopted this new church and began providing Felix with more training. Since 2012, the Lord has used and blessed Pastor Felix in the planting of four more churches in and around Mora.

However, even though being used by the Lord mightily in the far North Region, Pastor Felix realized the need for more Bible and theological training in order to faithfully shepherd his church and further mentor the leaders of the other churches he had started. With this in mind, he has attended several Regions In Need training programs since 2022 and is involved in mentorship relationships with other pastors. He is currently working alongside our Regions In Need co-workers in Maroua and Garoua to organize training venues in both the North and Far North Regions. Pastor Felix has also played a key role in extending these training opportunities to under-trained pastors in neighboring Chad.

Despite the challenges of living in an impoverished area, where his family survives on just about $70 a month, Pastor Felix remains dedicated to his calling. Please join us in praying for Pastor Felix, his family, and their ministry. If you would like to support them financially, please contact us for more information.