We believe that God is calling us to reach the unreached through Indigenous Church Planting, Discipleship, and Youth Mobilization.

Indigenous Church Planting

1) Research and Survey work.  We research all people groups in a given region that some call unreached, to find out which ones are truly unreached and which ones already have some ongoing Christian witness among them.  For those that are truly unreached, who have no indigenous church among the entire tribe, we make a list of the villages of that tribe and gather some other information on the tribe.

2) Casting Vision.  We locate the mature churches in that region and meet with their leaders.  We talk about the unreached people groups nearby and ask the leaders what has been done or is being done to reach them.  Then we ask them if they would like us to help them to reach the unreached tribe nearest them.  When they say yes, we discuss various potential strategies with them and ask for their oppinions. 

3) Prayer Focus.  With the permission of the church leaders, we start prayer groups in congregations of that area, praying specifically for the unreached people groups that we will be targeting. 

4) Moblization.  We go to the elders of congregations throughout our region and ask them to tell us if there are any individuals from their congregations (and prayer groups) who they would recommend as missionaries, and who may be sensing a call towards that kind of work.  We then meet with the individuals that the elders mention, and ask them if they sense God calling them to this kind of work.  We explain what dangers and hardships they will face in it, and tell them to put down their names as missionary candidates only if they believe that God is calling them to become missionaries and if they are willing to sacrifice anything and everything for the sake of the Gospel.  Once we have a list of names down, we visit the neighbors of these candidates to ask questions about their character.  When the nieghbors have good things to say, we keep the names on the list.

5) Initial Training.  We invite all candidates that are still on our list to come to our Missionary Training School of Yimbere.  There they attend a series of intense 1-2 week modular courses on topics pertaining to the Bible, Prayer and Witnessing, as well as Bible Study methods and Bible teaching methods.

6) Support Raising.  After a few months of initial training, the missionary candidates begin support raising at their local churches and at nearby churches.  This process goes for several months, until the beginning of the next training program.

7) Final Training.  The second training session goes for two months and follows a simular format to the first one.  At the end of that time, those missionary candidates who have passed their final exam, demonstrated godly character during training, and raised a satisfactory level of support - graduate from Yimbere Missionary Training School.  They then return to their home congregations to be sent out.

8) Being Sent Off.  The missionaries are sent out by their home congregatoins with sending services and free-will offerings, which cover their transportation costs.  We supply each missionary with a tentmaking project (a means of supporting themselves through some kind of micro-business).  We raise the funds for this in Nigeria, United States and Canada, since the local Cameroonian church cannot affort it.

9) Moving.  The missionaries settle among the unreached tribe that they were sent to, build a house and begin building relationships with the people.

10) Moving on.  As soon as there is a thriving, missional church that is comprised of the believers of that formerly unreached tribe and led by them, the Cameroonian missionaries among that tribe will be ready to move on to a different people group.

Discipleship

We believe that the way that Jesus did discipleship is still applicable and strategically effective today.  We believe that by investing significantly in a few key people, who will in turn do the same, one can change the course of a nation and greatly contribute to the advancement God's Kingdom globally.

We believe in life-on-life discipleship.  This means that mentoring people and helping them become mature in Christ involves living everyday life with them.  It takes time, it takes vulnerability, it takes long-term investment.  Now let me explain how this could look practically.

I (Sammy Weber) hope to take on three men every year that I am in Cameroon, and disciple them for four years.  This will have me working with 12 men at one time, with the strongest emphasis on the three that are in their first year.  The first year will be focused on helping them feed themselves from the Scriptures.  My goal during this time will be for them to come to a place in their understanding of God's Word where they could open the Bible to anywhere, and understand what God is saying to them and the people around them through whatever passage they read. 

The second year will be focused on them becoming men of prayer.  I believe that prayer is absolutely essential to the victorious Christian life.  I will teach them about prayer primarily by spending time praying with them, and looking at Scriptural prayers.

The third year will be focused on fellowship and ministry.  During this year, they will learn to minister to the people around them and to invest spiritually in others.  They will learn about living at peace with everyone, confronting people when that is needed, church discipline, preaching, etc.  I would train them in ministry by doing ministry with them and allowing them to experience first hand they ways in which God works.

The fourth year each of the three men (if they are ready) will take on three men and begin the first year with them.  They invest in them over four years as well.

One thing that is important to understand about the "program" that I just described is that it is a very loose program.  There will be much overlap between the first three years, and it will not always be exactly three years.  It will vary based on the spiritual maturity of those being discipled, the other ministry endeavors that my team and I are working on at that time, and (most importantly) the leading of the Holy Spirit.

We believe that by following these basic principles in life-on-life, relational discipleship, many people will grow in their faith and become evangelists and disciplers among their own people and to other nations as well.  Ultimately though, the effectiveness of this strategy depends not upon how well we invest in people spiritually, but rather upon how the Spirit of God chooses to work.  It is He who works in us to will and to act according to His good pleasures and divine purposes.  To Him be the glory!

Youth Mobilization/ Future Leaders' Program

We believe that God wants to raise up a new generation of youth in Cameroon to be evangelists, disciplers, and Christian lights in secular jobs all around the country, and the world, for the advancement of His Kingdom.                

One way that we hope to help facilitate this dream is through a scholarship program.  We hope to provide scholarships for Cameroonian youth who would not otherwise be able to go to school.  In exchange for the scholarships, these youth will attend discipleship classes and do development projects for their local villages and communities. 

The goal of the discipleship classes is to educate Cameroonian youth in what the Scriptures teach, what God wants to see done in the world, and how they can be an active part of His Kingdom if they so choose.  These classes will be held with much prayer and fervent dependence on God, asking Him to move in the hearts of the youth for His glory.  It is our hope than many of the youth who finish their studies under this scholarship program will either go into vocational ministry of some kind or become a Christian influence in the secular workplaces of Cameroon and other nations where the Lord may send them.

The goal of the development work is threefold.  It will encourage the students in the scholarship program to maintain a healthy work ethic and be willing to get their hands dirty with physical labor.  It will help the local communities that the students are from and set a good example for them of some small things that can be done to improve their impoverished situation.  Finally, it will eventually generate a small source of income coming back into the scholarship program, enabling it to become (at least partially) self-supporting.

This development work will involve things like planting hundreds of fruit trees, digging fish ponds, planting soy beans and other new crops, etc.  They will be things that will benefit everyone involved.