Transcript CONFESSIONAL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CONFERENCE

CONFESSIONAL EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CONFERENCE
Lima, Peru
29 May – 2 June, 2014
Greetings from Cameroon
“Sorry we cannot be with you in Peru, but we are happy to send
our report from the Lutheran Church of Cameroon (LCC)”
Cameroon
-we are here!
• Two nicknames:
• “Little Africa”
• The “Hinge of Africa”
• Two Seasons
• Rainy
• Dry
Our working area:
• Primarily 2
(English-speaking)
regions.
• Outreach (?)
potential to other
8 (Frenchspeaking) regions
• Headquarters and
Seminary buildings
at Kumba
•
KUMBA
Current Statistics
• 16 pastors
• 34 congregations
• + 7 preaching stations
(= 865 baptized members)
• with 36 “Certified
Assistants” with some
theological training
“Early” history
• 1970 – Pastor Paul Chonasen
requests affiliation w/ WELS
• 1971 – Pastor EH Wendland visits
and recommends WELS to
affiliate with LCC
•
1975 – WELS accepts affiliation
with LCC
• 1988 – 9 LCC pastors attend a 2
week training course
• 1999 – Four year seminary course
completed
“Recent History”
• 2007 – After a series of
short-term missionaries and
volunteers, Pastor Dan
Myers comes on field to
train called workers.
• 2011 – Pastor Myers
returns to US due to health
problems; called to eternity
September 2013
• 2014 – Pastor Dan Kroll
(former missionary to
Zambia) arrives on field
Current contact:
[email protected]
Seminary at Barombi Kang (Kumba)
Classroom
Chapel
Dormitory
Under President
Ewang Joseph
Njumbe
• We hope to re-start the
seminary program for the
building of the Lord’s
kingdom in Cameroon…
“… until we all reach unity in the
faith and in the knowledge of the
Son of God and become mature,
attaining to the whole measure of
the fullness of Christ.”
- Ephesians 4:13