news from cameroon
BAMENDA
What a wonderful hope to share in Christ! Thank you so very much for sending two copies of "Where there is no Doctor". These books are a great gift. There are villages here where a nurse has never been, let alone the services of a health team due to lack of roads. The system here is too corrupt. Illiteracy is another reason for the abject poverty. It is a wonderful idea to help the people with the daily readings in any way they can. You can see that the Bible language is above the level of many here. Like the wise Mordecai wrote to queen Esther in Esther 4:14. and who knows whether you have not come to Africa (through GN) in such a time as this. Thanks once again for your effort in God's Vineyard. We are doing planting now but the rains that seemed to have come early this year have for the past two weeks stopped. The sun is too hot but the plants are still very green. Most roads are still passable and the dust hasn’t reach the dry season level.
MENCHUM
The gods of the nations. All Christians should know that these are very dangerous ‘god’ to serve and in which to hope and trust. As David, the man of God, put it, "The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands. They have mouths, but they speak not. They have eyes, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not, nor is there any breath in their mouths. Like them are those who make them. Yea, every one who trusts in them" (Ps. 135:15-18). Paul, in his journey to Ephesus, met with these dangerous men who were makers of idols. Listen to what one named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis, said to his workmen: "Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth. And you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia this Paul has persuaded and turned away a considerable company of people, saying that gods made with hands are not gods. And there is danger not only that this trade of ours may come into disrepute, but also that the temple of the great goddess Artemis may count for nothing, and that she may even be deposed from her magnificence, she whom all Asia and the world worship" (Acts 19:24-27). This is a picture for us who believe in the name of Jesus. Here we have seen the maker of these idols crying because he saw, not only the disregard of their hand-made idols, but the complete fall of their temple whom Asia and the world worshipped.
Let us now see the word of Christ to his disciples in Matt 6:33, "But seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well". All the apostles died leaving nothing behind them except the gospel of the Kingdom of God, because they knew it was the only word which could give life and hope to people who believe in God. They believed, like Abraham, that their ‘riches’ would only be given to them when Christ returned to set up God’s Kingdom here on earth. Paul’s letter to Timothy is a warning against this idol, "For the love of money is the root of all evils; it is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced their hearts with many pangs" (1 Tim. 6:10). Money is the real idol and ‘god’ of our present world. Brothers and sisters in Christ, let us all, in the household of faith, flee from this perishing ‘god’.
Bro. Kpah Chrisanthus Achuo
Photo: Bro. Kpah Achuo
MUYUKA
I am a regular reader of Gospel News. I am now in Muyuka, having been transferred from Douala.. This is a new ecclesia and we need much literature; please send us any books that you know will help us in defending our faith.
Bro. Tanyinjia Atabong Martin
TOMBEL
Happy to inform you I payed a visit in Tombel where my grandmother lives. I got in touch with some people who I told about our doctrine. After a long conversation some accepted the truth and three are doing the 40 lesson course.
Bro.Brain Ebong
