Little Evangelists

26  Royal Ranger boys and girls of Tanoliu village made salvation bracelets 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 bracelets to the village school on Monday to share the Good News with their friends.

Physical Hygiene Award

Seven Royal Ranger boys from the Ifira Island Outpost received their Physical Hygiene Award this morning. Ifira Island is across the water from Port Vila.  Pastor Paul who is the outpost commander runs two Royal Ranger groups. One at Ifira Island on a Saturday morning, and one  at Manples a suburb of Vila, Sunday afternoon.

Malampa Conference

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.

Fanafo Village

Last weekend we went to Fanafo Village in the interior of Santo Island. Saturday was spent training 8  leaders to run a new Royal Ranger group, which was  launched on the Sunday afternoon with 26 boys and girls participating.

The Sunday school bell rang at 9 am and by 9.50 around 50 children were ready for Sunday School to begin. Robyn ran the program for the teachers, then after lunch ran some basic skills training for the teachers making teaching aids out of materials that could be found in the garden and the bush.

The ladies gave Robyn a new “Mother Hubbard”  Island Dress and the men presented Russell with a new Island Shirt. Then as guests of honour we were served a very delicious lunch of Yam Laplap, with roast chicken in the centre  and coconut cream. Yummy!!!!!!!

17th Shefa Provincial AOG Conference