Hope in Cameroon

The Gospel, a hospital, a college and self-supporting work in Nomedjoh, Cameroon.

“No amount is so small that Our Lord would despise it. He asks us only to obey.”

The Calling

For years Jonathan pastored a small church in Alabama and ran a home construction company. He made trip after trip to Cameroon, trying to build a mission from 5,000 miles away. Progress was slow.

Then his wife — who seemed to be in excellent health — suddenly died. In his grief and aloneness, the Lord made it unmistakably clear: go. Full-time. No more half measures.

After a period of struggle, he went.

The Mission

Jonathan is now Director of Development in Nomedjoh, Cameroon. His job: build a hospital campus, a high school and technical school, and develop a local economy to make the mission self-supporting within five years.

The Lord provided him a house, a wife — a fellow missionary who directs the hospital laboratory — and an adopted family. She is, in his words, “a beautiful and wonderful woman of great faith.”

The Fruit

Jonathan has served full time in Nomedjoh for over a year. He reports hundreds baptized, and new missionaries trained and sent out.

The plan is to send missionaries to at least six African nations and be self-supporting by the end of 2030.

The campaign

Goal

$200,000

by April 2027

Matching gift

$25,000

every gift received by December 31, 2026 is matched dollar for dollar, up to $25,000

Self-supporting

2030

then sending the Gospel deeper into Cameroon and into at least 6 other nations

Hear Jonathan tell it

Jonathan shares his full story — how he was called, what he found in Cameroon, and what the Lord is doing through this mission.

Read the full transcript

“We are not going to fail. He has always come through in the past, sometimes in the most remarkable ways.”— Pastor Jonathan Uncapher