Rainbow Ralph

Rainbow Ralph and the students from Faith Bible College joined us at the Ekoftau Good News Club today. We had a record of 83 pikininis and some of their mumma’s join us for the afternoon.

The students from Faith Bible College played Samari Warrior, and Peel the Banana, as well as singing some great gospel songs with the children.

Rainbow Ralph entertained the children with some slight of hand tricks, which he then showed the children how to do themselves. He then told the story of David and Goliath. The children enjoyed his presentation as he made it lots of fun. At the same time he challenged the children to ask God when they had giant needs in their life.

Camp Kumtugeta 2009

On Friday 3rd July 36  boys and their leaders travelled by bus and truck  to attend our very first Royal Ranger camp.  This was held  at  the  Scripture Union Camp at Pango Point. A very pretty area near Honeymoon Beach. Boys and leaders from 5 different outposts came to camp.

Tanoliu outpost had the biggest number at camp, 12 boys and their Pastor.

Manples outpost from Elim   Church was the newest outpost at camp, they offically start their first outpost meeting this Thursday.

Pastor Obi flew down from Luganville,  Santo. He is the Senior Commander at Calvary Temple AOG.   Santo is a large island up in the north. He said it was worth the trip and will go home and share what he learnt with his leaders.

Our volunteer cook and his assistants cooked up delicious meals, our musicians, song leaders, etc helped make camp a great experience for the boys.

Our Speaker, Pastor Colin Flitton who has had over 30 years Royal Ranger experience, challenged the boys to “Grow Natora Character”.

Pastor Colin came over from Bendigo, Australia to minister at our camp.

After lunch on Saturday there was a “Slipper Soccer”  playoff, won by Evangel Temple Outpost. In the spare time available we saw many relationships developing between boys and leaders from the various outposts. Some outposts have decided to connect regularly for joint activities.

Saturday afternoon the Royal Ranger Boys made kites with Pastor Russell, while the Royal Ranger leaders spent time learning leadership  skills with Pastor Colin. They also used this session to pray for each other.

Saturday night started with a concert, followed by a powerful sermon from Pastor Colin. The Holy Spirit’s  presence was evident in the meeting as people were touched and prayed for. We saw 15 boys make first time decisions to follow Jesus, and at the end of meeting no one moved but sat in silence soaking up the presence of God.

Everyone left camp blessed and having grown more as a Christian and as a Royal Ranger leader.

The purpose of Royal Rangers is to REACH, TEACH & KEEP BOYS FOR JESUS.

Visitors from New Zealand

We were blessed at Good News Club today to have a visit by 4 students from Faith Bible College in New Zealand. They ran the program with lots of games, singing and performed a great skit on the Prodigal Son. It is good for these students to gain experience in all types of ministry. The children loved our visitors  especially the song they taught them about peeling bananas.

"No Gat Klos"

Walking into the Village yesterday Robyn met up with a small girl that she taught last term at the nearby school.

“Tija Robyn! Tija Robyn!”

“Yufala pikinini no skul?”

“No gat  klos”

“Yufala kam church, plenti singsing, plenti stori long Jisas, plenti pleplei, plenti fun!”

“No gat klos”

“Yufala go haos  blong yu, putem shirt on, kam to church”

“No gat”

We will endeavour to make sure she has clothes (klos) so she  is able to come to Good News Club next Tuesday.

Taberaliu Assembly of God

We spent yesterday at Taberaliu Assembly of God church in a small village on the North West Coast of Efate. The church is called Taberaliu as this word in the village

language means “fire comes down” from the story in Numbers 10. The church was packed and people were sitting on mats outside.  In all 60 people were at the service which is 1/5 of the village. There are plans to build a bigger church as they have outgrown this building.

Robyn ran an open Sunday School with the help of “Ginger” the puppet. Russell’s topic for the morning sermon was “How to be a Giant killer” (David and Goliath) After a beautiful lunch of island food, Russell then ran the Royal Ranger program. The young girls came along and joined in the afternoon’s activities.

While the Royal Rangers had their program some of the mumma’s learnt how to make the vest for the boys. These vests are very important for the boys as they love to show off their achievements.

A highlight in the morning service was a personal  testimony by the village chief. He is a stately man and walked with dignity. He stood out amongst the villagers. With his “eyes full up with water” (tears were running down his cheeks) he shared that he had been very ill in hospital with heart problems and they thought he would die. He rang for the pastor, who then took a week off work to sleep on a mat by his chief’s bed. He cared for the chief day and night. The result of this care was more impacting  than a 100 sermons. The chief gave his life to God, and believes he has been healed because God has a purpose for him in this life.