How To Help

Thank you for wanting to help us in serving undertrained pastors, churches, widows, refugees, and the Shekinah Glory Children’s Orphanage in Cameroon.

If you’d like to help any of these ministries with financial support please provide your gifts through our mission agency—Central Missionary Clearinghouse.

You can give online using a credit card or deduction from your bank account through Central Missionary Clearinghouse (CMC) by going to their website at cmcmissions.org and following the giving instructions on the DONATE page. You will need to select Mark Waite, as the missionary you are giving to and you can also designate where you want your funds to go (i.e. Orphanage, Mark’s Training Trips, etc.). Once you get to the “Select Payment Method” please disregard the box that has Southern Hills Baptist Church Charitable Giving as that account no longer exists. If you run into any problems making your donation online please call them at (281) 599-7411 or (1-800-262-7729) and someone will be glad to help you

OR . . .

The other way to give is to simply send a check, made out to Central Missionary Clearinghouse, to:

Central Missionary Clearinghouse P.O. Box 219228 Houston, Texas 77218-9228.

Please write “For Mark Waite’s Ministry” on a separate piece of paper, 3x5 card, or post-it note and include it with your check.

You can also include what you want your gift to be used for (i.e. The Shekinah Glory Orphanage; Mark’s Training Trips; The Guest Apartment; etc.)

All gifts are tax-deductible.

Current Needs & Projects

Cholera Outbreak At The Shekinah Glory Orphanage

The Shekinah Glory Orphanage in Cameroon is currently battling a severe cholera outbreak that has already affected the majority of the children at the orphanage, many of them very young and vulnerable. Cholera is a fast-acting, potentially deadly disease that causes extreme dehydration and can quickly become life-threatening without proper medical treatment. Several of the children, including toddlers, have been critically ill, and one of our national leaders was recently hospitalized due to exhaustion and dehydration. We are receiving and sending funds to help purchase life-saving antibiotics, IV fluids, and essential medical supplies to care for these children and staff. If you would like to give toward this urgent need, please follow the giving instructions above through our mission agency, Central Missionary Clearinghouse (CMC). Every gift, no matter the size, is a tangible expression of Christ’s love and a vital part of God’s provision during this crisis.

Cameroon Ministry General Fund

We use our Cameroon Ministry General Fund to support and resource our five resident Bible Training Schools which are located in Yaounde, Bambili, Mamfe, Maroua, and Bafoussam. We also use these funds to support and resource our Mobile Bible Training Schools in cities and towns where we do not have a resident school nearby. Presently, we provide mobile training in Ngaoundere, Bertoua, Mora, and Douala. We also provide monthly support to the Shekinah Glory Children’s Shelter in Yaounde as well as financial gifts to Cameroon mission churches and pastors’ families in need. Finally, we try to provide financial relief to widows, refugees, and others experiencing great need as a means of adorning the gospel. If you’d like to give to this fund please use one of the giving methods above and designate your gift for the “Cameroon Ministry General Fund”. Thank you!

Training Trips

These funds provide us with the ability to make at least three trips each year to provide Bible, Theological, and Ministry training to under-trained pastors serving in challenging, hard-to-get-to, often-dangerous, and very needy areas of Cameroon. To help with the expenses for Mark’s training trips to Cameroon in 2025 which, includes his airfare to Cameroon, in-country travel and living expenses as well as funds to help pay for the travel expenses, food, lodging, and lesson materials for all the pastors who come to the training we need to raise at least $6000 for each trip or $18,000 for the year. Mark is planning on three trips in 2025 which will take him to Yaounde, Ngaoundere, Bertoua, Maroua, Mora, Garoua, and possibly the country of Chad where he will be teaching 1, 2 Peter and Jude. If you can help please give using one of the two methods above and designate your gift for “Mark’s Training Trips”. Thank you!

August 2025 Pastor’s Two Week Intensive Course

This August I will be traveling to Cameroon to lead in the training of 8 pastors desiring to begin a residential GCM3T training school out of Bertoua Baptist Church in the city of Bertoua which would serve the whole East Region and the Central African Republic. We will be bringing these pastors to the Shekina Glory Childrens Shelter Orphanage for the 15 day training. In addition to helping with their transportation expenses we will also provide their food and lodging as well as all course materials. In addition we will give each pastor who graduates with a hard cover ESV Study Bible. Whereas, Mark will cover his own transportation costs to Cameroon and back home we do need to raise $2500 to cover the rest of the expenses mentioned above for the training intensive. If you can help please use one of the two methods above and designate your gift for “August 2025 Training Intensive Course”. Thank you!

Guest Apartment—2025 Project

As Nancy and I approach becoming empty nesters, we desire to spend extended periods in Cameroon in the coming years to invest more fully in this ministry. Recognizing that our window of active service is growing shorter, we want to steward our remaining time and resources wisely by giving more concentrated time to training pastors, strengthening churches in Cameroon’s northern regions, expanding our training schools into all ten regions, and serving the orphanage as grandparents. If the Lord wills, spending more time on the ground will also allow us to reach unreached people groups in the North and lay the groundwork for expansion into Chad. To make longer stays feasible, we hope to build a two-bedroom apartment at the Shekinah Glory Children’s Shelter where we can stay on extended stays. In addition, the apartment will provide a safe place for Nancy when I travel to less accessible areas while also allowing her to minister at the orphanage. During those times when we are not in Cameroon the apartment will be used for visiting ministry teams. The estimated cost for this project is $10,000, and when not in use by us, it will serve as housing for visiting individuals, couples, or mission teams. This will be our first major project of the year, enabling us to pursue greater gospel influence in Cameroon together. If you’d like to give toward this project please use one of the giving methods explained above and designate your gift for “Guest Apartment”. Thank you!

Bible Resource Print Shop

There is a great need in Cameroon for sound Bible study and theological resources which are translated into French and Fulfulde. Presently, we utilize local print shops in some of the bigger towns and cities in Cameroon to print our course notes and some study resources. But the cost of utilizing these shops to produce large amounts of sound Bible study materials, theology textsbooks, and other Christian books is prohibitive. With this in mind, we are raising funds to purchase printing and book binding equiptment to move to our school in Bambili where we will set up a print shop. Besides printing our own course materials and notes we have been granted permission by some publishers here in the US to translate their books into French and Fulfulfe, print, and distribute them in Cameroon to pastors and churches at no cost. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to provide this under-resourced country with Bible and theological resources. In addition, we will be able to continue printing the Bible in Fulfulde which we started in 2013 but were unable to continue due to the high cost of printing such a large book.

We need to raise $3000 for the printing equiptment. If you desire to help us with this project please designate your gift to “The Print Shop”. Thank you!