November and December News from Cameroon
Greetings from Cameroon!!! Please excuse our delay in sending you our news, but we ask you to take some minutes to enjoy these answers to your prayers.
FAMILY
Thanks to the Lord we are very well. Anna finished her first quarter year of school on December 16 and will now enjoy her Christmas vacations here until the first days of January. We are very happy at how she is going in learning English and French. Besides these languages and Spanish, she has also begun to speak some words of the local dialects. She is a good apprentice and also a good teacher since Joshua is learning off her and is starting to desire to go to school too.
Remember our plantation of corn? We are waiting eagerly for our first fruits which should appear around the beginning of January. Some weeks ago we have begun the foundations for the perimeter wall as well as the production of the bricks to build the wall that through God we will complete by the years end. Are you wondering why it is so important?
1) For security as people use the patios of the house as a shortcut or roadway, and the whole day we see people that we don’t know hanging around the house.
2) For protection from some of the amazing creatures that live in this place. Some days ago One killed a snake in the place where Anna and Joshua play. This sort of thing makes us very nervous, but in this we saw the hand of God. One became very restless and got up to walk around, and when he left the patio he found the snake, thanks to God for His protection!!!!!!.
MINISTRY
2 Corinthians 4:18 Very clearly, as we said, we are very happy for the rapid adaption of the children, but at this time we feel like it says in this verse, that we were in a church where we were treated just like non Christians, even though the situation was sorted out and there were apologies, they are things that we sometimes find difficult to understand.
So we looked up to the sky and as we are a pioneer ministry, we continue ahead with our projects like the event of February 2006 when they celebrate here in Cameroon the National Day of Youth. This includes an Ascension of Mount Cameroon here in Buea and the preparation of the first Discipleship school for June 2006.
We are continuing to build relationships with the different churches and bases of YWAM at national level.
On December 1st is the commemoration of the International Day of the Fight Against AIDS, the new figure for Cameroon is now that 16,5% are infected.
GRATEFULNESS
To the Lord for His care, protection, provision, and for His manifested love every day in our lives.
To David, Mary, the Ministry of cCommunications and the whole YWAM family in Corrientes. Thank you for the effort and work to help us participate via phone in the Missionary Service, Thank you Chamigos.
In November the bells sounded, not because the holidays were near, but because we reached our 5th wedding anniversary. Thank you Lord for all that you have done through and in us during those years.
And the bells are sounding again and in the air you can feel Christmas coming closer. The only difference here is that most of the believers are Catholic or Protestants and they wait out their Christmas in the churches or in prayer groups. Those who don’t know the Lord spend it with their families, but there are also many that celebrate without knowing who Jesus really is, or even worse is that they don’t celebrate because they don’t know about our blessed Saviour, including the 58 unreached people groups in Cameroon.
Prayer Motives
- For the projects of February and June, and a new project for which we are praying how to strategize our evangelism, and that we would build solid relationships with the Christians in the City Christian Library, and for a COFFEE BAR.
- We are in contact with people that work with everything related to AIDS, please pray that we would know the best way to get involved in all of this area.
- For direction and wisdom from God for our lives.
- Please continue praying for the communication which is turning into a true battle, and also that the Lord helps us in our efforts to learn English.
- For the computer we are waiting the diagnosis of the technician.
- We are continuing to pray for the Panamanian families and for the retired police official, that they would have a true encounter with the Lord.
- For Martin, a young Cameroon man that completed his Discipleship School in Switzerland and is now returning to that country with a group of believers to work with a church there.
THANK YOU are two very small words that contain many emotions. Thank you for your prayers, for your generosity, for your time to read our letters and to write to us. Thank you Chamigo (means “friend” in the Guarani language of the northwest of Argentina). Thank you our friends for each little and big demonstration of love you have shown toward us. Our desire is that you would feel a part of all the work that we are doing here, we love you.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR AND MAY YOU SEE THE DREAMS OF GOD BE MADE REALITY IN YOUR LIFE.
Your friends
Onesime & Gabriela, Anna and Joshua Betsin
YWAM SOUTH WEST
CAMEROON
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Tel: +(237) 789 56 92
For offerings to the family or ministry please contact Graciela Astarloa at proyecto_africa@yahoo.com.ar or on +54 3783 455568 For offerings you can also deposit in the Argentina Bank of France. Call for details.