The Talk Place

Accompanied by two brothers,  we visited the town of Monatele.  It is situated just 100 km from Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon.  Monatele, is situated on banks of a large river called the Sanga. This area is the food basket of Yaounde.   It produces cocoa.  It also extracts sand, which is one of the important economic activities of this region.

The Catholic religion predominates.  There are about thirty other denominations.

Once we had settled in the town, we went out into the surrounding villages and their environs to distribute cassettes in language.  We did this distribution each afternoon, in a borrowed bush taxi and travelled around a large number of villages.

NKOLASSAN

At Nkolassan, there was a large family of nearly fifty members. They took us in and provided accommodation for us for four days. Each evening we set up multiple generators projecting films.  The people were interested because it was for them a “grand premiere”. They not only listened to the gospel in their mother tongue during the film, but at the end of the evening they received gospel cassettes.

The last day we projected a documentary film on sexually transmitted disease. The arresting testimony of many patients touched the hearts of many young ones.

During our stay in the village, the head of the large family who had given us lodging was pulled up by the local priest .  He reproached this family head for authorising the film “Born Again” to be used for evangelism in his village.  The head shared that he was very upset, so much so that we were forced to leave there, hurriedly and at night.  We nevertheless counselled him not to be afraid.  The "One" who sent us will surely protect His family, the family who accepts Jesus as its Saviour and Lord.

We have always known that where the Lord is at work, the enemy does not fail to come in and sow trouble.

Ndongo Onana Jean

from Echos d'Audio Gospel, No1 - 2008

translated from the French by Royalene