Regions In Need

Jude and Jennifer live and serve the Lord in Cameroon’s very dangerous and war torn Northwest Region with their young son, Gildas. They have serveded as church planters and are presently directing and serving in our Regions In Need missionary training school, also known as *GCM3T Bambili, 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 sometimes is 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.

*GCM3T stands for Global Centers For Missionary Training, Tactics & Theology.

Martin and Colette were among our first students when we launched our first missionary training school in Cameroon’s Northwest Region in 2012. Even before that, they were dear friends who helped us navigate our first year overseeing an orphanage in Cameroon. After graduating from our Missionary Training School, they returned to Yaoundé and established a similar school. Since then, they have trained numerous men and women from Cameroon, Congo, Nigeria, and other parts of Central Africa.

Today, Martin and Colette continue leading *GCM3T Yaoundé, expanding its reach into remote areas of Cameroon. They frequently travel to the East Region, providing Bible and ministry training while sharing the gospel in villages where it is still unknown. They also serve as our Regions In Need liaisons in Yaoundé, offering support whenever we travel there for training and acting as our home base in Cameroon.

In April 2020, burdened for war-orphaned and abandoned children affected by Cameroon’s civil war, Martin and Colette shared their vision with us. Together, we launched the Shekinah Glory Children’s Shelter in Yaoundé, where they continue to serve as directors and house parents to 17 children, including newborns rescued from life-threatening situations. If you would like to support Martin and Colette or contribute to the orphanage, please contact us or visit our “Give” page for more information.

*GCM3T stands for Global Centers For Missionary Training, Tactics & Theology

Our Bible training school in Maroua, Cameroon, was established in 2012 by two of our original graduates from the Ngymbo school—Fidele Daile and Parfait Borme. Our family relocated with them to Maroua, in Cameroon’s Far North Region, to support these two bold and faithful men in launching both the school and a church in this predominantly Muslim city.

By God’s grace, the work flourished, and soon a small house church was formed, with new believers being baptized in a hotel swimming pool. Before long, we also launched GCM3T Maroua to equip new converts, as well as pastors and church planters serving in and around the city.

In February 2013, we had to leave Maroua due to the rising threat of the Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram, which had begun kidnapping foreigners for ransom and intensifying persecution against believers and churches in the region. Eventually, Boko Haram took control of Maroua, forcing the closure of our Bible training school. Despite these challenges, our small house church continued meeting under Parfait’s leadership.

In 2021, the Cameroon Army successfully drove Boko Haram out of Maroua. A year later, Mark was able to return, and in 2023, Parfait, with the help of local pastor Remi Dama, relaunched the school. Now, in 2024, the school continues to provide essential Bible, theological, and ministry training for under-trained pastors, church planters, and church workers throughout Maroua and the Far North Region.

Please pray for Parfait as he leads GCM3T Maroua and supports local pastors in their church-planting efforts beyond the city.

*GCM3T—Global Centers For Missionary Training, Tactics & Theology

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.

Pastor Remi and his wife, Rougayatou, are both from Cameroon’s Grand (Far) North Region, an area predominantly inhabited by Muslims and followers of African Tribal Religions. Having grown up among the Fulani people, they are well-acquainted with the region’s culture and fluently speak Fulfulde, French, and several tribal languages, with Pastor Remi also speaking English.

By God’s grace, after coming to faith in Christ and being discipled, they began serving the Lord in the town of Mora in 2012, following the departure of missionaries due to the rise of the radical Islamic terrorist group Boko Haram in the Far North Region. Though they initially had no formal Bible or theological training, they faithfully ministered to churches in and around Mora and Maroua.

Recognizing the need for deeper biblical and theological education, Pastor Remi and his family relocated to the Northwest Region, where he attended the Cameroon Baptist Seminary. Upon graduating, they returned to the Far North and planted their first church—Agape Baptist Church in Maroua. Since then, Pastor Remi has been instrumental in training and mentoring five Cameroonian church planters who are actively working to establish new churches.

In 2021, Regions In Need officially partnered with Pastor Remi as he joined our Cameroonian co-worker, Parfait Borme, to help reopen our training school in Maroua, which had been forced to close due to Boko Haram’s presence. Since then, he has become an invaluable partner in our efforts to advance the gospel by providing solid Bible and Theological training to pastors and churches in the Muslim regions of Cameroon.

In August 2024, Pastor Remi was appointed as the supervisor of all Cameroon Baptist pastors and church planters in the Adamawa, North, and Far North Regions—areas that remain predominantly Muslim. In this role, he is responsible for the ongoing training and equipping of pastors, pastors-in-training, evangelists, and church planters serving in these regions.

Given Regions In Need’s longstanding commitment to pastoral training in these areas since 2012, and our close partnership with Pastor Remi, we will be actively assisting him in providing biblical, theological, and ministry training to the pastors and churches under his leadership.

Please pray for Pastor Remi, his wife, and their three children as they faithfully serve the Lord in these challenging regions. Additionally, pray for the establishment of a new pastor training school in the city of Garoua, where Pastor Remi is now stationed. If you desire to know more about Pastor Remi and his family as well as help with their financial needs please contact us.

Kingsley and his wife Comfort are alumni of Region In Need’s Bible & Ministry Training School in Bambili, Cameroon which is also known as GCM3T Bambili. Kingsley is one of the first graduates of this school which was started by our Regions In Need Cameroon co-worker Jude Nibafu.

Upon graduation from our school, Kingsley was assigned by the Cameroon government to work in Mamfe which is in Cameroon’s Southwest Region. Their move to Mamfe coincided with a rebel takeover of the area in 2022 which caused many established and seminary trained pastors to temporarily flee Mamfe leaving many churches without properly trained pastors and church leaders. In God’s providence however, Kingsley was able to begin providing Bible, Theological, and Ministry training to pastors and church-leaders who were left behind to shepherd some of these churches in November of 2023. Praise God, they graduated their first class of seven students February 2, 2025. They currently have five new students registererd to begin classes soon.

Please pray for this young couple whose passion is to know Christ ever more passionately and to make Him known to others. Pray for their safety as they continue to serve in a very volatile area in the midst of Cameroon’s civil war. Please also pray for their financial needs as they bear the support of their school in Mamfe.

Watchman and his wife Christelle along with their two daughters live in Yaounde, Cameroon. Watchman serves in our ministry at the Shekinah Glory Children’s Shelter assisting Martin and Colette with the education and care of the children living there. Watchman also helps with administrative duties. In addition, he is our primary Fulfulde translator and interpreter when we provide pastoral training in the northern Muslim regions of Cameroon.

Watchman was one of our original twelve students back in our very first training class in Ngymbo. He arrived for class a couple months early so that he could learn English before the classes began. With just two short months of English under his belt he began our theologically intensive and vigorous training program and several months later graduated as an honor graduate. Since then he has spent the last 14 years helping Mark provide training all over Cameroon and has also partnered with Martin in teaching Theology and Bible in our training school in Yaounde (GMC3T Yaounde).

Watchman, Christelle, and their daughters are precious partners in our ministry in Cameroon and serve the Lord sacrificially at the orphanage. If you’d be interested in helping them financially please contact us.

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 premier and most sought after instructors at our GCM3T school in Bambili. His keen theological mind and passion for Christ not ignites and inspires our students’ own imagination for serving Christ in this very hard place.

A few years ago, Pastor Ezekiel was called to be the senior pastor of a large church, not far from Bambili, which primarily serves university students in Bamenda. Pastor Ezekiel’s leadership and level of respect within the Cameroon Baptist Convention has provided us with many opportunites to serve Cameroon Baptist Churches and pastors throughout Cameroon. Because of this he serves us well as our Regions In Need Liaison with the Cameroon Baptist Convention.