CONCERN MISSION IN CAMEROON
The plight of the people in Cameroon is similar to those in the United States as far as their diseases and physical ailments, but they suffer far greater infrastructure issues. People are denied medical care when they cannot pay, children are denied education when the only school in the region is at maximum capacity – or has become unsafe to use!
Cameroon has one of the highest infant mortality rates in Africa, and with your support more children can grow up with an education. They will be able to work in hospitals, become engineers, and become the keys to success in their communities.
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We work in nearly five areas with local missionaries in the capital city, towns, and villages serving all people, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, or gender. We are challenged to expand God's Kingdom through humanitarian programs to meet all people's spiritual and physical needs.
Through its evangelistic outreaches and school for missionaries, pastors and teachers, a native ministry overcame spiritual attacks to expand the kingdom of God. The ministry recently sent a native worker to a primitive village where there is no Christian or church.
Male initiation rites lasting three months disrupted boys’ education until native Christian workers taught villagers how faith in Christ frees them from fear of the powers of witchcraft. “We taught that in Christ they are free from any demon; we advised them to be confident and to send their children to school,” the ministry leader said.
The West African country of Cameroon is slightly larger than California with a tropical coast along the Bight of Biafra in the southwest, semiarid plains in the north, and mountains in the west. It borders the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Nigeria.
More than 60% of Cameroon’s population is comprised of people under the age of 25. AIDS has ravaged the country and lowered the life expectancy to 55 years. The country essentially functions under a dictatorship, which provides subsidies for electricity, food, and fuel that have diverted funding from education, healthcare, and basic infrastructure. Though the nation has enjoyed stability and some economic growth through its petroleum industry and agricultural development, overall poverty is increasing.
Cameroon is home to a growing Christian minority but is a Muslim-dominated country. Christians face heavy restrictions on church activities and are subject to periodic attacks by hostile Muslim terrorist groups, like Boko Haram, especially in the northern region along Cameroon’s border with Nigeria. Boko Haram seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate across Africa and violently opposes any political or social activity associated with Western society, including voting, attending secular schools, and wearing Western dress. More than 100,000 refugees from Nigeria live in Cameroon, where Boko Haram is most active.
An indigenous ministry working in Cameroon requests assistance for training and discipleship materials to strengthen the Body of Christ in a country suffering from political unrest, a growing Islamic presence, and high unemployment, causing many to turn to crime and prostitution. They would like to improve the quality of their Christian school, which primarily Muslim children attend. In addition, they ask for help to drill wells in villages where it only rains three months out of the year. Missionaries with this ministry are reaching radical Islamic communities through evangelism, discipleship at their Bible school, prison ministry, medical outreaches, women’s education initiatives, and its orphanage.
How to Pray for Cameroon
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Pray for the growing Christian community in Cameroon, that God would supply them with the discipleship and training they need to be a strong, effective witness for Him.
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Pray for indigenous missionaries ministering in radical Islamic communities, that the Lord would grant them courage, wisdom, and provision for their work.
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Pray that God would end the brutal rampage of Boko Haram throughout West Africa and that He would open the blind eyes of those who are persecuting His Church as He did with Saul of Tarsus.