We travelled by light plane to Malekula Island for the AOG Malampa Conference which was held at Uri Village 25th – 30th August.
There were 300 delegates, numbers swelled for the night crusades as people from the various denominations in the area, walked in to the village to attend. Each night featured choirs and skits from the different churches on Malekula Island. There were three main speakers who spoke 2 nights each. Russell spoke at 2 crusades, gave 4 youth lectures, Robyn 2 Women’s Ministry lectures. We both ran an all day Royal Ranger training course, then on the Saturday launched the very first meeting for Malampa Royal Rangers with 51 boys and leaders. Royal Ranger Groups will be starting in the near future on Ambrym, Atchin, Vinmavis, Lamap and Lakatoro.
The theme of the conference was “Church Revival”. We enjoyed being part of the conference and meeting so many new people. Russell had spent 4 days with these pastors back in May at a pastor’s retreat and was glad to catch up with “old friends”.
We will be working in this part of Malekula over the next two years as part of a project that we will be managing. We were able to connect with the people from Breha and Palu villages to start forming relationships ready for our trip up next week to do research.
