Opportunity in Cameroon

A great opportunity exists to use radio as a tool for Christian ministry outreach in the African nation of Cameroon.

This is according to Dave Hamrick of the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) who tells us

"The government is wanting English radio. They have a lot of French-speaking radio, but they are looking for organizations to come in and produce English programming. They're not concerned with the content; they're just concerned that it would be done in English."

The reason for that, says Hamrick, is because, "Some of the provinces are English-speaking by birth, a majority of them are French-speaking by birth, and the government is trying to bring these two groups together that have had conflict in the past, and so they've made the country bi-lingual. So there's a large group of young people who want to learn English so that they can get government jobs, business jobs in this new bi-lingual society."

A survey carried out by ABWE has revealed a need in this west African country and the Association is now bringing together a team, preparing to go into that new mission field within the year, with the goal of helping to strengthen and develop the church in Cameroon, and ABWE's Dave Hamrick says they're connected to local churches there.

"..... we found some small churches that asked if we would come and help with some leadership training and theological studies."

"Our goal is to build strong Bible-preaching churches with trained Cameroonian leadership that then will be able to go out and reach Cameroonians and reproduce that model in southern parts of Cameroon and then, Lord willing, that they would begin sending out their own missionaries."

With their help, ABWE hopes to see national Cameroonians taking the light of Christ into their own country.