{"id":896,"date":"2012-02-26T22:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T21:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/jcstoker\/?p=896"},"modified":"2012-02-26T22:40:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T21:40:31","slug":"grace-baptist-church-a-place-of-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/jcstoker\/2012\/02\/26\/grace-baptist-church-a-place-of-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Baptist Church – a place of growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The church we attend here in Cameroon, Grace Baptist Church, has been\u00a0growing in many ways over the last few months.\u00a0 Significant changes began when the\u00a0original pastor of the church, Rev Herve Tsafack,\u00a0departed to begin planting another new church.\u00a0 He had accomplished what he came to do and turned the\u00a0pastoring of the church over\u00a0to a recent seminary graduate,\u00a0Pastor Jean Jacques\u00a0\u00a0Edjanga\u00a0 .\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Pastor Herve and wife as they move forward in ministry - planting another new francophone church in Yaounde.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Soon after Pastor\u00a0Jean Jacques arrived he came to visit us and reminded us that we had met him soon after our arrival in Cameroon.\u00a0 He was working for Campus Crusade for Christ and drove\u00a0the children of the director to our small middle school in the years before it joined RFIS.\u00a0 We were happy to renew the acquaintance and pleased to hear how he had completed seminary.\u00a0 This was a major accomplishment, since\u00a0Pastor Jean Jacques is francophone and the seminary holds all its classes in English.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the\u00a0reasons he has become our pastor is because this young church is intended to reach out to the local francophone population.\u00a0 Thus\u00a0our services are a mixture of English and French, with French being more prevelent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Pastor Jean Jacques Edjanga<\/p><\/div>\n

January was a significant point in the life of the church – because they became a full church (no longer a church plant of Etouge Be\u00a0 Baptist church).\u00a0 This was a special day as the church became responsible not only for running their programs, but for planning for the future and also for paying for their pastor.<\/p>\n

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Signs like this went up as the church became "independent" to give directions.<\/p><\/div>\n

The curch regularly has almost 200 in attendance each week, including a\u00a0 very large number of children.\u00a0 The youngest children remain in the service each week, while the older ones attend children’s church which currently meets behind the pulpit.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Some of the many children in worship for Children's Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0Since the church got a sound system (at the time of their becoming an independent church) the music in the main church is louder than the children, but even so both groups easily hear what is happening in the other room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The sound system is located at the front of the church and just behind the back wall is the children's church's meeting space. Here they are happily (and loudly) singing different songs than those being sung in the main church.<\/p><\/div>\n

As the church grows they hope to turn this simple wood frame into a building that can house the children’s church.\u00a0 It may look impossible to do – but only 18 months ago that is what happened when the\u00a0current building was constructed.<\/p>\n

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Skeleton of future children's church building in February 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

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Frame of the current church building in the early summer of 2010 - it can become a building.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The frame of the original church was tarped and used for a number of months in this condition.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A number of months later the tarps were replaced by boards. Doors, windows, and electricity have since been added.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pray with us for Grace to grow not just with buildings and more people, but also in their love of God and service to their community.\u00a0 We are pleased to be a part of this fellowship of believers.<\/p>\n

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