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Beasnael's Blog http://www.northpnt.org/blog.aspx?site_id=10155&blog_id=27463 EN-US Copyright © 2012 North Point Fellowship http://www.triplePixel.com Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:00:00 GMT Sem & Eunice Beasnael Sem & Eunice Beasnael no September 8, 2008 http://www.northpnt.org/blogentry.aspx?site_id=10155&entry_id=107479http://www.northpnt.org/blogentry.aspx?site_id=10155&entry_id=107479 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:00:00 GMT Why do we need this Evangelical University and why is it Critical?<o:p /> As the only Christian institution of higher learning serving French-speaking Central Africa, evangelization is included within the daily curriculum. We have been equipping leaders who spread the Gospel, and become self-supporting, negating the need for government subsidy for public services. The University provides training in modern agriculture, rural economics and animal husbandry, with the intent of raising the standard of living for the poor. What Are the Objectives?<o:p /> Vocational, social and technical training of the membership of member churches through social, economic, health and educational activities and services. Provision of teaching with a view of developing the capacities and leadership skills required to face new challenges. These objectives reflect the response of the church in the face of unbearable living conditions of the youth of Chad. The church also considers with great concern, past failures in the educational system in the country, resulting from inadequate policies, being implemented by the various governments of Chad since independence in August, 1960. The day to day reality in the life of the population is overwhelming. The Evangelical churches feel compelled to sustain and encourage any necessary effort of survival that gives glory to God. Within the framework of the Fellowship, they want to offer hope in Christ, an alternative through spiritual, technical and vocational training to face the implacable conditions of modern life. By so doing, the churches want to face the challenge of hunger and self-reliance in suggesting the opening of evangelical polytechnic in N'djamena, the capital city, headed by Doctor Daniel Guelko and agricultural Institute coupled with animal husbandry and rural economics in Moundou, headed by Pastor Sem Miantoloum Beasnael. <o:p> </o:p> We receive support from some dear concerned friend donors from Holland, and the United States of America. Their support has been materialized in putting up two buildings on the Institute. Since the day it open its doors in 2001, several graduates are now operating out in Chad. Some go abroad, that is in the neighboring African countries to further their students they go to work with organization. Below is the list of students by fields of training:<o:p /> <o:p> </o:p> We are always seeking brethren from Europe or America who can give us their time by coming and teaching with us here in Moundou (Chad). So we need: All those who share in this approach to the ministry, by presenting God's love to the world. All those who support efforts for survival, and spiritual renewal in sub-Saharan Africa. All Mission organizations interested in spreading the message of God to the unreached.<o:p /> All friends and supporters of the Institute. Individual Christians or philanthropists sharing in the vision to help us build the campus of the Evangelical Polytechnic of Chad. Sem M. Beasnael <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Why do we need this Evangelical University and why is it Critical ? As the only Christian institution of higher learning serving French-speaking Central Africa, evangelization is included within the daily curriculum. We have been equipping leaders who spread the Gospel, and become self-supporting, negating the need for government subsidy for public services. The University provides training in modern agriculture, rural economics and animal husbandry, with the intent of raising the standard of living for the poor. What Are the Objectives? Vocational, social and technical training of the membership of member churches through social, economic, health and educational activities and services. Provision of teaching with a view of developing the capacities and leadership skills required to face new challenges. These objectives reflect the response of the church in the face of unbearable living conditions of the youth of Chad. The church also considers with great concern, past failures in the educational system in the country, resulting from inadequate policies, being implemented by the various governments of Chad since independence in August, 1960. The day to day reality in the life of the population is overwhelming. The Evangelical churches feel compelled to sustain and encourage any necessary effort of survival that gives glory to God. Within the framework of the Fellowship, they want to offer hope in Christ, an alternative through spiritual, technical and vocational training to face the implacable conditions of modern life. By so doing, the churches want to face the challenge of hunger and self-reliance in suggesting the opening of evangelical polytechnic in N'djamena, the capital city, headed by Doctor Daniel Guelko and agricultural Institute coupled with animal husbandry and rural economics in Moundou, headed by Pastor Sem Miantoloum Beasnael. We receive support from some dear concerned friend donors from Holland, and the United States of America. Their support has been materialized in putting up two buildings on the Institute. Since the day it open its doors in 2001, several graduates are now operating out in Chad. Some go abroad, that is in the neighboring African countries to further their students they go to work with organization. Below is the list of students by fields of training: We are always seeking brethren from Europe or America who can give us their time by coming and teaching with us here in Moundou (Chad). So we need: All those who share in this approach to the ministry, by presenting God's love to the world. All those who support efforts for survival, and spiritual renewal in sub-Saharan Africa. All Mission organizations interested in spreading the message of God to the unreached. All friends and supporters of the Institute. Individual Christians or philanthropists sharing in the vision to help us build the campus of the Evangelical Polytechnic of Chad. Sem M. Beasnael January 31, 2008 http://www.northpnt.org/blogentry.aspx?site_id=10155&entry_id=87973http://www.northpnt.org/blogentry.aspx?site_id=10155&entry_id=87973 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT Beloved brethren and sisters in the Lord, By the time you receive this message; things might either come down to normal or heat and get worse. But we need your prayers very badly. Rebels are attacking the Chadian incumbent corrupt Government. N’djamena the capital city is now under threat and fear as 300 pickups carrying each twelve rebels are heading from eastern part of Chad to N’djamena, the capital city of Chad. All Americans and foreign humanitarian activists are trying here and there in order to run away from the hail of bullets that will rain from the machine guns. We are in regular contact with the US Embassy for updates and attitude to adopt when it might come to evacuate people from Chad. My wife and I are not yet convinced that we will run away through evacuation. We are here to minister to people. This might be the only best occasion to minister to people here and share the Gospel better, so all we need are your strong prayers. We do not think to leave with the crowd of people to evacuate. Kindly go to Internet for details of what is happening in Chad now. When such woes arrive in Africa, the market becomes inexistent since everything closes down. Hunger and thirst took place everywhere. Kindly pray for dear Christians in Chad for whom the Lord our God died. May the Lord bless you for your concern and prayers that we covet. Sem & Eunice Miantoloum Beasnael (Moundou, Chad, Africa). Beloved brethren and sisters in the Lord, By the time you receive this message; things might either come down to normal or heat and get worse. But we need your prayers very badly. Rebels are attacking the Chadian incumbent corrupt Government. N’djamena the capital city is now under threat and fear as 300 pickups carrying each twelve rebels are heading from eastern part of Chad to N’djamena, the capital city of Chad. All Americans and foreign humanitarian activists are trying here and there in order to run away from the hail of bullets that will rain from the machine guns. We are in regular contact with the US Embassy for updates and attitude to adopt when it might come to evacuate people from Chad. My wife and I are not yet convinced that we will run away through evacuation. We are here to minister to people. This might be the only best occasion to minister to people here and share the Gospel better, so all we need are your strong prayers. We do not think to leave with the crowd of people to evacuate. Kindly go to Internet for details of what is happening in Chad now. When such woes arrive in Africa, the market becomes inexistent since everything closes down. Hunger and thirst took place everywhere. Kindly pray for dear Christians in Chad for whom the Lord our God died . May the Lord bless you for your concern and prayers that we covet. Sem & Eunice Miantoloum Beasnael (Moundou, Chad, Africa). January 2008 http://www.northpnt.org/blogentry.aspx?site_id=10155&entry_id=85814http://www.northpnt.org/blogentry.aspx?site_id=10155&entry_id=85814 Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,<o:p></o:p> Because of the difficulty to find Email easily, we wish to crave your indulgence to bear with me as we need to share the information below with other prayer partners. <o:p></o:p> We are getting back with you now as yesterday we could not write any longer, due to the Email situation we faced. However, better later than never they say. Thank you brother, for not forgetting us in your praying lists. All we have read from your message is telling us here that you are concerned and you care. Is there a way we can receive that brochure you’ve made brother? Is it in any webpage?<o:p></o:p> The wall, it will be great if the Lord can allow you to help us put it up. It is a big challenge. Our students cannot make a little experimental farm because the wall is not there; the land is open to goats, sheep, pig, chicken dogs and to the public who turn it into an open toilet area. Sometimes we inform the city about this violation of property. But we are told “Look, build a wall around your property and nobody will bother you” If the Lord put the wall in your heart as a burden, he will do it, but how long will you stay with us and how long will it take you to complete it? Died you take the measurement of the intensity of the work to be done? All your tentative intentions quoted below are great!<o:p></o:p> “1. set your University up with English/French language computers.<o:p></o:p> 2. Spend some time doing more construction on the wall.<o:p></o:p> 3. Aid the ladies of your household with their chores.”<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> The other things that you were possibly looking at are what I would like to address here:<o:p></o:p> 1. The Internet: May be you need to rethink the matter otherwise. Individuals both Americans and Chadians are having it in their compounds. At the Missionary station in Koutou, a missionary has it. In Moundou, a guy who has been teaching in our college has it put in front of his house right there in his compound facing our Dutch building. May be the price has come down. Unless you do not think it necessary, you may wish to check the price from our angle here and see before dropping it all together. Don’t you think so? If it is not in your priority, I cannot force it in it. But we think that it is of a big interest to us here. The other alternative is that we may as well register with that neighbor lecturer so that we can use it but our students have to do it on their own or go somewhere else. Internet nowadays has become a powerful education tool, and the prices are falling, otherwise this very guy in front of the school could not afford it just like that.<o:p></o:p> 2. The Orphanage: Now let us talk a little bit about the orphanage. Almost the whole country of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chad</st1:place></st1:country-region> is an orphanage on its own. However, some people organize here and there a group of small kid orphans to give them help. That is why the French people came and try to help. They call themselves the “Arch of Zoë” but finish their adventure very miserably. They gathered 103 kids ready to take off with them without informing the French government. They wanted to go with those kids to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region> and shelter them into some designated families. The police was informed and stopped the operation. The French President has to come personally to rescue some members of the crew. But the Air Craft they used has been impounded and the rest of the staff of that organization had been tried at court sentenced to hard labor before sending them to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">France</st1:place></st1:country-region> where they are supposed to carry out their imprisonment chores. Hence anybody who comes to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chad</st1:place></st1:country-region> and mention orphanage is seen as a suspect, a person who is out for young people to deport in order to sell their body parts. Before you intend to go and visit an orphanage, you will be put into strong questioning to find out whether you are out for real.<o:p></o:p> There is a Pastor here who is running an orphanage here in Moundou. His name is Pastor Bako. He is the incumbent Secretary General of the Fellowship of Evangelical churches and Missions in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chad</st1:place></st1:country-region>. His organization is funded by fellow American Christians in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wheaton</st1:place></st1:city>. The campus has been built in no time at all, and the orphans are accommodated in that orphanage with dormitory, cooks, Primary and secondary schools. Those American brethren from <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Wheaton</st1:place></st1:city> came to visit and see the work they have archived and dreamed to do more. If you come, I will take you to the place to see. We think that those orphans are there to fuel our college if one day they want to go to college. I went to visit that campus twice.<o:p></o:p> In our school here too we have orphans, I mean the ISETAER that I am running; we have three categories of needy students: we have made up a list of orphans. That means:<o:p></o:p> 1.<span face="'Times New Roman'" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'times new roman';"> The students who have lost both parents, <o:p></o:p> 2.<span face="'Times New Roman'" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'times new roman';"> Those who lost either a father or a mother and <o:p></o:p> 3.<span face="'Times New Roman'" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-family: 'times new roman';"> The very poor ones whose parents cannot do anything for their kids. Those kids have to cultivate peanuts, sell them and use the product to pay their studies. They rarely succeed to go to college with that kind of income. <o:p></o:p> We talked to the Dutch brethren who put up the other building you saw. Out of the 33 students we have this 2007/08 academic year, 11 of them are in that miserable situation; they are the orphans. The Dutch brethren are talking of coming in February to see us and examine the situation of those 11 orphans, and see whether they can help us with those orphans or not. Kindly pray for our very poor students.<o:p></o:p> Well brother that is my feedback to your kind and fruitful message. May the Lord himself back you up and help you reach out the way your strength can afford. My work here is to be a facilitator who enables you to do what you have in heart to do for the Lord abroad. My work goes with all the risks it takes for the future. I do not have a salary except the sustenance that you brethren sent from time to time to keep me going. I do not have any superannuation laid aside for the old days when my wife and I will retire, should we still be alive. But all this has to do with faith. The Lord knows why He put in us the burning burden of coming back and work within our community using your support. Yes, He is not a man to come too late into a situation or to plan wrong. May he bless you all for your support and once more Happy New Year.<o:p></o:p> Sem & Eunice Beasnael Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Because of the difficulty to find Email easily, we wish to crave your indulgence to bear with me as we need to share the information below with other prayer partners. We are getting back with you now as yesterday we could not write any longer, due to the Email situation we faced. However, better later than never they say. Thank you brother, for not forgetting us in your praying lists. All we have read from your message is telling us here that you are concerned and you care. Is there a way we can receive that brochure you’ve made brother? Is it in any webpage? The wall, it will be great if the Lord can allow you to help us put it up. It is a big challenge. Our students cannot make a little experimental farm because the wall is not there; the land is open to goats, sheep, pig, chicken dogs and to the public who turn it into an open toilet area. Sometimes we inform the city about this violation of property. But we are told “Look , build a wall around your property and nobody will bother you ” If the Lord put the wall in your heart as a burden, he will do it, but how long will you stay with us and how long will it take you to complete it? Died you take the measurement of the intensity of the work to be done? All your tentative intentions quoted below are great! “1. set your University up with English/French language computers. 2. Spend some time doing more construction on the wall. 3. Aid the ladies of your household with their chores.” The other things that you were possibly looking at are what I would like to address here: 1 . The Internet: May be you need to rethink the matter otherwise. Individuals both Americans and Chadians are having it in their compounds. At the Missionary station in Koutou, a missionary has it. In Moundou, a guy who has been teaching in our college has it put in front of his house right there in his compound facing our Dutch building. May be the price has come down. Unless you do not think it necessary, you may wish to check the price from our angle here and see before dropping it all together. Don’t you think so? If it is not in your priority, I cannot force it in it. But we think that it is of a big interest to us here. The other alternative is that we may as well register with that neighbor lecturer so that we can use it but our students have to do it on their own or go somewhere else. Internet nowadays has become a powerful education tool, and the prices are falling, otherwise this very guy in front of the school could not afford it just like that. 2. The Orphanage : Now let us talk a little bit about the orphanage. Almost the whole country of Chad is an orphanage on its own. However, some people organize here and there a group of small kid orphans to give them help. That is why the French people came and try to help. They call themselves the “Arch of Zoë” but finish their adventure very miserably. They gathered 103 kids ready to take off with them without informing the French government. They wanted to go with those kids to France and shelter them into some designated families. The police was informed and stopped the operation. The French President has to come personally to rescue some members of the crew. But the Air Craft they used has been impounded and the rest of the staff of that organization had been tried at court sentenced to hard labor before sending them to France where they are supposed to carry out their imprisonment chores. Hence anybody who comes to Chad and... April 2007 http://www.northpnt.org/blogentry.aspx?site_id=10155&entry_id=27464http://www.northpnt.org/blogentry.aspx?site_id=10155&entry_id=27464 Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:00:00 GMT Praising the Lord for Pastor Bouangar’s Performance<o:p /> The Plymouth Brethren churches in the country would not gather their congregations in one single village last year for the Baptismal ceremonies. Every church will have its ceremony in its own village instead of moving the Baptismal candidates out of their areas of dwelling. The reason is that due to hunger that stroke villages in remote villages, there will not be enough food to cater for such a big gathering. Young Pastor Bouangar, in his capacity of the President of the Regional Committee of churches had to go to a village called Djanga, together with one elderly Senior Pastor named Pastor Ali Djogro to baptize the congregation there in their village. Since there was not enough food in the village, the local Pastor was compelled to kill a goat for the two baptizing pastors. They will eat without any bread or millet thick porridge. When the village people overheard that their local Pastor was slaughtering a goat for the guests, almost all of them came to the Pastors compound. Each of them expected to leave the place at least with a slice of the goat skin in order to burn it and make a soup out of it for the family to eat. The cooked goat meat was ready by <st1:metricconverter w:st="on" productid="4 a">4 a</st1:metricconverter>.m. Young Pastor Bouangar and his Senior Pastor Djogro were waked up to eat the meat. By <st1:metricconverter w:st="on" productid="6 a">6 a</st1:metricconverter>.m. they started to ride their bicycles back to their village at <st1:metricconverter w:st="on" productid="21 kilometers">21 kilometers</st1:metricconverter> from where they had baptismal service. When they were left with five kilometers to ride before reaching their home, Pastor Djogro fell very hard from his bicycle. Pastor Bouangar who was riding behind him stopped but refrained from touching him. This is the effect of hunger, he told himself as he narrated the event to us. Then he remembered one opportunity they missed, at least the old man missed it: An elderly woman in the congregation suggested giving them porridge of a dried pounded wild oignions so that they could eat. The old man said that he ate that kind of food during the greatest hunger in the year 30s when he was a mere boy. But he would not allow the young Pastor to taste it because he would be intoxicated. Accordingly he too did not take that suggested food. Had the elderly Pastor eaten the porridge, then he might gain strength. When Pastor Djogro gained back his consciousness after his fall; Pastor Bouangar took his bicycle and dismantled it, then tied it up on his own bicycle. He then made Pastor Djogro walked in front of him and he, Pastor Bouangar pushed the loaded bicycle behind his senior Pastor. By the time they arrived to Bouangar’s house in Bébédjia, it was getting dark. He immediately ordered some millet porridge for his senior and elderly pastor. He kept him in his house for three days until the old man was strong enough to ride the bicycle before he let him ride back to his village, a location far from Bébédjia. <o:p> </o:p> Who is Pastor Elie Bouangar?<o:p /> Pastor Elie Bouangar is a young pastor trained in our local language at a village bible school. He was the one to baptize a 90 year old paramount traditional chief I a local village at <st1:metricconverter w:st="on" productid="47 kilometers">47 kilometers</st1:metricconverter> from Moundou, the city where we are having ministry. That is where we discovered him. That old chief died in 2003, three years after his legendary baptismal in year 2000 by Young Pastor Bouangar. My wife and I met Pastor Bouangar when we came back to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chad</st1:place></st1:country-region>. We decided to give him support and sent him back to a Bible school but this time to study in French, which he did. We paid for three years of his training at that Bible school in the City of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Doba</st1:place></st1:city>. Now he is assigned as pastor in a church of 300 members in Doba a city where he studied the Bible. Pastor Elie Bouangar is a fruit of the support you gave us. We shared our support with an able bible learner and servant of the Lord. We, my wife and I, are nothing behind pastor Bouangar’s biblical education. You are the ones who helped make the difference in his life, in the community and the country at large. All the credits are for you. We are only your transmission belt. Be happy for such a training you give to a local pastor who did not need to go out of his country before serving the Lord. You equipped him right there on the spot. Last year (2005), when Pastor Chuck Ballard from <st1:placename w:st="on">Eldersgate</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype> in Greenville Dallas came to <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chad</st1:place></st1:country-region> with the Thompson Chain reference Bible conference for Pastors, we invited Pastor Bouangar to that conference and he thus has been equipped by Pastor Chuck Ballard with the best evangelical tool available in the country. This time, if one of you comes to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Chad</st1:country-region></st1:place> to visit with us, we will introduce Pastor Elie Bouangar to him for contact and also to notice part of the fruit of your partnership. Prayer needs for Pastor Bouangar: 1 - The Bible school where he was trained is now promoted to The Advanced Bible School. My wife and I are praying so that the Lord can help us give three more years support to pastor Elie Bouangar to go to that advance school. 2. Pastor Bouangar needs a Motorcycle for ministry in the bush as he has to go out regularly to visit churches and conduct baptismal or communion services in one hand and in the other hand, to encourage churches to do the work in spite of the rampant adversity in the country. Sem & Eunice Beasnael Praising the Lord for Pastor Bouangar’s Performance The Plymouth Brethren churches in the country would not gather their congregations in one single village last year for the Baptismal ceremonies. Every church will have its ceremony in its own village instead of moving the Baptismal candidates out of their areas of dwelling. The reason is that due to hunger that stroke villages in remote villages , there will not be enough food to cater for such a big gathering. Young Pastor Bouangar, in his capacity of the President of the Regional Committee of churches had to go to a village called Djanga, together with one elderly Senior Pastor named Pastor Ali Djogro to baptize the congregation there in their village. Since there was not enough food in the village, the local Pastor was compelled to kill a goat for the two baptizing pastors. They will eat without any bread or millet thick porridge. When the village people overheard that their local Pastor was slaughtering a goat for the guests, almost all of them came to the Pastors compound. Each of them expected to leave the place at least with a slice of the goat skin in order to burn it and make a soup out of it for the family to eat. The cooked goat meat was ready by 4 a .m. Young Pastor Bouangar and his Senior Pastor Djogro were waked up to eat the meat. By 6 a .m. they started to ride their bicycles back to their village at 21 kilometers from where they had baptismal service. When they were left with five kilometers to ride before reaching their home, Pastor Djogro fell very hard from his bicycle. Pastor Bouangar who was riding behind him stopped but refrained from touching him. This is the effect of hunger, he told himself as he narrated the event to us. Then he remembered one opportunity they missed, at least the old man missed it: An elderly woman in the congregation suggested giving them porridge of a dried pounded wild oignions so that they could eat. The old man said that he ate that kind of food during the greatest hunger in the year 30s when he was a mere boy. But he would not allow the young Pastor to taste it because he would be intoxicated. Accordingly he too did not take that suggested food. Had the elderly Pastor eaten the porridge, then he might gain strength. When Pastor Djogro gained back his consciousness after his fall; Pastor Bouangar took his bicycle and dismantled it, then tied it up on his own bicycle. He then made Pastor Djogro walked in front of him and he, Pastor Bouangar pushed the loaded bicycle behind his senior Pastor. By the time they arrived to Bouangar’s house in Bébédjia, it was getting dark. He immediately ordered some millet porridge for his senior and elderly pastor. He kept him in his house for three days until the old man was strong enough to ride the bicycle before he let him ride back to his village, a location far from Bébédjia. Who is Pastor Elie Bouangar? Pastor Elie Bouangar is a young pastor trained in our local language at a village bible school. He was the one to baptize a 90 year old paramount traditional chief I a local village at 47 kilometers from Moundou, the city where we are having ministry. That is where we discovered him. That old chief died in 2003, three years after his legendary baptismal in year 2000 by Young Pastor Bouangar. My wife and I met Pastor Bouangar when we came back to Chad . We decided to give him support and sent him back to a Bible school but this time to study in French, which he did. We paid for three years of his...