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

Evangelism

The first part of what God is calling my team and I to do is evangelism.  This often involves trekking long distances by foot to remote villages that have never before heard the gospel.  At other times it means traveling by bike, motorcycle or horseback. 

When we first arrive in a given region of Cameroon, we begin our work by doing some research on that region. We locate the nearest unreached people group, and the nearest mature churches to that unreached people group.  We define an unreached people group as an ethnic or language group that has no community of believers made up of members of that group.  If a people group does not have any churches then it is usually because no one has yet presented the Gospel to them in a clear and relevant way.   My team and I will go to those churches and meet with the leaders of those churches.  We will serve the local pastors in whatever ways we can, and also begin to pray with them for the nearest unreached villages.  Then, after some time of praying with them (if they do not suggest it themselves), we will suggest to them that we train some of the more mature believers in their congregation to go and plant a community of believers in the unreached village(s) nearby.  Where pastors are in favor of this, we will begin to train members of their congregation in basic methods of evangelism and discipleship; using the Bible as our primary text book.  

Then we will go with the national believers and help them in any ways we can as they present the Gospel for the first time in the unreached village.  Then after a week or so, we will move on from that village and begin the same process somewhere else, leaving the national believers there to disciple and instruct the people in the Word of God.  We will visit the church there about six months later to see how things are going there.

In this way we will not only be reaching unreached villages with the Gospel ourselves, but ultimately getting the national Cameroonian believers to do so.  We will do this by God's grace, and as His Holy Spirit enables us and inspires His church in Cameroon.

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

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.