Little Evangelists

26  Royal Ranger boys and girls of Tanoliu village made salvation wristbands  as part of their activities on Sunday afternoon. They used black, red, white, green and yellow beads threaded on leather stapping. This exercise was a fun time with the older children helping the younger children with the threading.  Some of the parents watching joined is as well and made their own bracelet.

They learnt how to explain the salvation story by using the coloured beads.  These children are going to wear their wristbands to the village school on Monday to share the Good News with their friends.

UPDATE:

Last night (17th November) The  Pastor who is also the  Royal Ranger Commander of this group shared at our leadership the next part of this story. The  Sunday after he asked for testimony from the children about what happened when they wore their Salvation wristbands  to school. Many gave testimony that they were able to share with their friends the plan of Salvation, some even had the opportunity to share with their teacher.

This Pastor is also a teacher at a French School, he shared with us that using the Salvation wristand that he had made  he was able to witness to the teachers at his school. He also used it in his parent teacher interviews, when talking about the students problems, and point the parents to Jesus.

We will be making more of these as we travel around the various groups next year. What a way to empower children to witness.

We were blessed!!!!

Last Wednesday night we were blessed by an unexpected visit from the ladies from Ekoftau Women’s Ministry. We were just settling down for the evening when we heard footsteps on our front veranda. These ladies blessed us no end, they brought along staple food items for our pantry. They held a small meeting, singing a cappella, sharing testimony and bible readings.   We felt very humble to be blessed by these women, these ladies have little or no income.  “ A little is much if God is in it”

Thank you for caring

The media seem to be very good at getting the bad news out, but not so good at making sure of the follow up good news.

We  had  many emails from friends around the world concerned about our welfare after a series of large earthquakes to the north west of Vanuatu. The predicted tsunami did not eventuate.

Thank you for caring!

We regularly get earthquakes where we live, just a part of living on the pacific rim. In Vila alone during June/July we had 3 over 6, and quite a few around the 4.5 to 5.5 mark.

Last Thursday the early warning sirens started at 9.30am, and the  residents of the city soon evacuated to higher ground. Schools closed, and resorts were evacuated. The small islands of Ifira, Erakor   and the villages on the coast were all deserted. Everyone was relieved and thankful that the predicted disaster did not happen.

One very enterprising young man  came up with a novel idea. He climbed onto the roof of his church, set up his video camera to capture the predicted tsunami wave. He had with him, his surfboard, his suitcase packed with his precious books, and his wedding shoes.

Honouring the Chief

This morning a special service was held at Pango Family Worship Center  to honour the new chief of Pango Village. The previous chief had held his position for 49  years but stepped down due to ill health. The new chief was installed two weeks ago at a special ceremony in the village. He  had been one of the founding members of the church many years ago.

The Chief and some of his counsel sang a hymn “a cappella”  in their village language. After the church service, there was a feast to honour the chief and many gifts were given to him and his wife.

The Chief plays a very important role in Vanuatu   Village life.  He is very respected.