Sunday’s twin ceremony at the courtyard of the Presbyterian Comprehensive Secondary School (PCSS) Buea Town also saw the induction into service of the new PCC Synod Clerk, the Rev Miki Hans Abia.

The solemn church service was pegged on the theme “Wake Up, Watch Out” drawn from the Revelations of John Chapter 3:2.   Attended by a cross section of lay faithful and the clergy, Rt. Rev Fonki worshipped God for abiding with the PCC for the last five years, praying for better days.

The PCC Moderator said “Wake Up, Watch Out” will be the mantra of the Church for the next five years. It shows the church’s commitment to God and its service to the nations, Fonki said.

“The message ‘Wake Up, Watch Out’ is timely. Strengthen what remains and is about to die. To wake up is to be watchful,” the Church leader said in a soul-searching sermon. “This is a call to the church to do the right. As a church we should do the right things out of love and not to please people but to please God. Be faithful even if it costs your life. Repent and believe dear Presbyterians by receiving the word of God in your lives.”

The Moderator preached further: “Keep standing, hoping and believing because Jesus is coming soon. Watch and pray. Presbyterians Repent, Repent, Repent or you perish. Time has come for us to change the world; we must stand up as true Christians of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon. Let us stand up and win Cameroon back for God.

“Wake up and let us fight corruption, let us take our church from self-sustainability to self-sufficiency. Watch out for the wolf in sheep clothing, watch out for those who smile with you in the face but have negative plans for you in their mind. Time is not on our side. It’s either now or never. Arise, wake up, and watch out, the destiny of our nation is in our hands.

“Presbyterians Wake Up, Watch out God is on our side; Hallelujah”

An institution and induction ceremony is an ecclesiastical rite by which a church leader is introduced into his/her new function and endowed with spiritual authority to function to the glory of God. Moderators in the PCC are elected for a five-year term renewable once.

The PCC is carved out into 30 presbyteries over the national territory with 567 clergy with a total of 1,553 congregations. The PCC which has congregations in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, USA and South Africa is aimed at proclaiming the good news of God through Jesus Christ, in word and action. The ceremony was also set aside to raise funds for the construction of a new Synod Office.

Rev.Fonki Samuel Forba

The Rt. Rev. Fonki Samuel Forba hails from Bombe village in Akwaya Subdivision, Manyu Division of the South West Region of Cameroon.  He was born to late Lucas Fonki Forba and Mama Miriam Anava. He is the first child in a family of fourteen children.

 He started his elementary and primary education in Akwaya. His secondary school education pursuits took him from SAR/SM Akwaya to Government Technical High School Kumba where he specialized in carpentry. He later on had his vision and calling into the ministry of word and sacraments. He then wrote and passed the entrance examination into the then Presbyterian Theological College Nyasoso in 1987.

 After many years of serving God and the church in multiple denominations throughout the nation, the Rev Fonki Samuel was in 2005 appointed Presbyterial Secretary for East Mungo South and Parish pastor of Bonamoussadi congregation in Douala, a position he held until 2013 before being appointed Presbyterial Secretary East Mungo North Presbytery and Parish Pastor of PCC Bastos Congregation, Yaoundé.  The PCC Synod of Hope in Bamenda in November, 2014 elected Rt.Rev Fonki Samuel Forba to become the sixth Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon since the independence from the Basel Missionary Society in 1957.

Aside being the Moderator of the PCC, he is currently the President of the Council of Protestant Churches (CEPCA) in Cameroon, the Chancellor of the Cameroon Christian University (CCU), The vice Board Chairperson of the Administrative Council of the Protestant University of Central Africa and one of the leaders of the National Council of Religious Leaders in Cameroon. He is happily married to Dr. Perpetua Bi Numfor Fonki and they are blessed with two children.

Rt. Rev. Fonki is the 6^th Moderator after the late very Rev. Abraham Ngole (1958-1969), late very Rev. Jeremiah Chi Kangsen (1969-1985), late very Rev. Henry A. Awasom (1985-1999), the Very Rev. Dr. Nyansako-ni-Nku (1999-2009), and the Very Rev. Dr. Festus Ambe Asana (2009-2014).

Rev. Miki Hans Abia, New PCC Synod Clerk

The Rev. Miki Hans Abia hails from Njindom, in Meta, Momo Division of the North West Region of the Republic of Cameroon. He was born in Tombel, Kupe-Muanenguba Division of the South West Region, where his parents Pa Joseph Mejang Miki (late) and Ma Elisabeth Miyeh Miki had lived for more than half a century.

He was the fourth among eight children, two of whom are of late. He acquired his FSLC, GCE O/L and GCE A/L in GS Ebubu Tombel, RCM Ediki-Kumba Road, GPS Kumba Town, PSS Kumba, PHS Kumba and NCC Bamenda. His ministerial journey began in 1993 when he received his pastoral call at Mile 20 in Tombel. He would later pass the entrance exams into the Theological Seminary in Kumba in 1993 and graduated in 1997 and authorized to serve as Assistant Pastor in the PCC. He was ordained into the ministry of word and sacraments in a December 1999 in PC Kumba Town.

During his 23 years in the Ministry, the Rev. Miki Hans Abia has served at the PCC in many capacities. He is married to Nyango Afor Viviane Miki and God has blessed their union with 4 children.

The Synod Clerk, Rev. Miki Hans Abia was inducted as the 10^th Synod Clerk after late Rev. Aaron Su (1959-1962), late Rev. Moses A. Fondo (1962-1964), late Rev. Jeremiah Chi Kangsen (1967-1969), late Rev. Thomas N. Ediage (1969-1985), Rev. Dr. Jonas N. Doh (1985-1989), Rev Nyansako-ni-Nku (1989-1999), Rev. Dr. Festus A. Asana (1999-2009), Rev. Abwenzoh Williams Membong (2009-2014) and Rev. Babila George Fonchang (2014-2019).