Dompla is a remote village close to the border with Central African Republic. It rose to a level of importance (and notoriety) when an oil pipeline from Chad through Cameroon built a pumping station there. The work provided by the construction of the pipeline brought people from all parts. As is typical with growth hot-spots where people are separated from their normal social structure, Dompla became a cess-pool of immorality and complete societal break-down.
Into the middle of this arrived Dekfougna Benoît, a northerner who had been south and found the reality of faith in Jesus Christ while there. While working in Dompla, he spread the gospel, despite considerable opposition – not least from his own family. After years of hard work, sacrifice and times of discouragement, a little local assembly has been planted.
I go once a month to Dompla to give teaching and encouragement to the local assembly. Although the assembly is small, it is an assembly with a strong outward vision. Five members of the assembly go out in twos to visit seven villages along a strip of road of approximately 100 km (60 miles) to preach the gospel and teach. They share what they learn in our teaching sessions with these villages and they hope, in due course, to see assemblies planted in those villages.
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