There is a need to help people to "rightly divide the word of God". So Teen Missions opened a free Bible, Missionary, Work training center here in Cameroon. Those who attend must be part of a summer team....that's all that's required. It consists of 2 years of class room sessions in the morning and "work" in the afternoons. It is part of how they "pay" into the program. They help do the work around the base. They cook their own food (which is provided -- 3 meals a day), clean, do their own laundry. They sleep in dorms. It is an intense classroom/discipleship program. There have been tremendous stories of success and great testimonies of students being transformed into the godly men and women. The 3rd year of the program is spent interning either at one of the Aids Orphan Rescue Units or at a nearby ministry. We loved the closeness at the base (most of the time).....haha, we did have to set hours of "do not disturb unless someone is dying" during meals. It was a struggle to get a hot meal in when there was a steady stream of students at the door with questions etc...

One of the areas that we struggled with when we first started to teach classes was to get the students to interact and ask questions. Here they are taught that you don't question the teacher, period. And many had scars from beatings that they received and that still take place in the classroom. It seemed that no matter how hard we tried we just couldn't get them to engage. So....Tim spent 2 whole classes teaching Mormon doctrine (and some of the more bizarre parts at that) before one student finally raised his hand and said "Pastor....I am not sure that this is in the Bible...” FINALLY....Tim yelled! Then he explained that we want lively debate, we want them to think and to search scripture for themselves....not just believe anything that is taught. That was one of our goals.