Thursday, August 9, 2012

Report from Munda Church

Western Circuit Report 2012.

 

I would like to bring you greetings in the Mighty Name of our Saviour and Lord Jesus Christ. This year 2012 is a challenging year for us as a Circuit. Sovereign Grace Nazarene at Munda is building their Church building that will be also use by the School. As you can see that the District NYI President Pastor Revelation Kalia and Jimmy Ata a youth from Honiara help with putting up the roof under the supervision of Mr. Rex Daga

 

 

Mr. Rex Daga and Jimmy Ata and one youth from Sovereign Grace on top of the church house nailing the roof. What a blessing to have and host the District NYI President Pastor Revelation and Jimmy Ata at Sovereign grace when they were here for a stop over to Petra Nazarene church for the Circuit NYI camp.

The building is now almost complete with only three more pieces of roofing Iron that is need to put up and the walls all half way. The building will be use by End of August 2012 for worship and School.

  

Pastor Revelation Kalia the District NYI President is help by Pastor Alick Hagi of Sovereign Grace putting up walls of the Church/School house.

 

After completing the Walling of the church building. The group went to attend the church of the living God opening program at Nuza Roviana. They invite Pastor of Sovereign Grace to their Opening ceremony. Pastor Revelation and Jimmy Ata accompany Pastor Alick Hagi to the Program at Nuza Roviana. They were having refreshment after the opening program in the tent with Pastor Dona Ellison Wate and Brother Collin Auasia.                                                                                                                                                                                    

  

 

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The opening night of the Western Circuit Camp at Petra Nazarene church Iriri pasapasa. Pastor Fred Mane of Petra Church gives a Welcome to all Delegates to the Circuit NYI. The Circuit Pastor Alick Hagi Officially declare the camp open.

 

The Vilorae youth sing their song at the first night and so as a youth from the united church at Vivia. They were excited to be part of the program. Their leader say it was a different to what they use to attend.

      

 

The youth group from vasa vasara presents their item and next is Marama Elaine wife of Pastor Fred Wane from Petra leading their youth in singing their item.

      

Below Lay Pastor Johnson Biara from Vilorae with his wife lead their youth sing their song then Sovereign Grace Nazarene church from Munda.

        

 

 

 

 

 

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District NYI President Pastor Revelation Kalia above giving his first remarks to the youth on the first day of the youth camp meeting at Petra church. He is assign to take the younger ones. Those below age 14 years.

 

Pastor Alick Hagi taking on youths and break them into three groups. They discuss three topic, group one Time, group two-Talents and group three Tithes

Pastor Alick Hagi.                                                              Group 2-Talents

Group 1.-Time                                                       Group 3-Tithes

 

Pastor Alick Hagi reinstates Lay Pastor Johnson Biara assist by Pastor Revelation Kalia and then they lead the worship.

 

 

Pastor Johnson Biara was put under discipline by Rev.Jimmy Kwaisui when he was assigned Pastor at Iri iri pasapasa. He is reinstate to lead the church at Vilorae that is been inactive for the past few years.

 

 

 

 

Jimmy Ata with Pastor Revelation Kalia and Pastor Alick Hagi singing their item. Pastor Gibson Pina preaching on Saturday night at Petra Nazarene Church.                             

 

Handing of Torch by Pastor Fred wane of Petra church to Pastor Johnson Biara from Vilorae as the next host for 2014.

 

 

 

 

Pastor Fred Wane ready to hand the Torch.

 

Petra Nazarene Church building that hosts the Circuit Camp. Seen is Pastor Fred wane and Clement standing beside the water tank of the school.

The School  has been boast with the 10 sheet of roofing Iron that Pastor Alick Hagi get from the Member of Parliament for the West New Georgia and Vona vona constituency. The School now has a proper water for the children.

 

 

The District NYI President Pastor Revelation Kalia Minister God word on Sunday 01st July 2012 at the last service of the circuit youth camp at Petra Nazarene Church. The alter was open after the message and Pastor Alick Hagi lead the Pastors to pray for those who response to the altar.

Those response were divide into two group on the right are the one who rededicate their life and on the left is those for the first time.

Session

28th Jun 12

29th Jun 12

30th Jun 12

01st Jul 12

Morning Session

 

 

 

5  youths

 

Afternoon Session

 

 

6 youths

 

 

Evening Worship

19 youths

14 youth

 

 

Sunday Morning

 

 

 

12  Salvation

  7  Recommitments

 

Feast time after the Sunday service and after the delegate leave for their respective homes.

The current school building and a structure of a new building one is seen here. At the back is the water  

The play ground for the children is set up next to the church house and at the back is the toilet for the children that is build and just completed.

After the Circuit camp meeting the Sovereign Grace is backing to Munda under the skipper of Pastor Gibson Pina. He is the circuit NYI President.

 

 

Good bye and see you at Vilorae in 2014.

 

Thank you.

 

 

George Miller

Solomon Islands -Church of the Nazarene

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Bible College Class

This is a prayer update on the Bible College Class. 

We want to thank you for your prayers.  The class ended on June 7th and you are probably wondering why it took so long to post.  I am too.  Our son Greg and wife Wendy along with 4 of our precious grandchildren arrived before the class ended.  We certainly enjoyed spending time with them.  Now that they have returned to the USA I am taking time to share some of the highlights of the Bible College class.

<![if !vml]><![endif]><![if !vml]><![endif]>During this block period I taught two courses: Spiritual Leadership [There were 16 students]; and Pentateuch [20 Students].  Nancy taught Gospel and Culture to 18 students.

These classes were exciting to me because these classes were the best ever as far as open classroom discussion and participation.

In Spiritual Leadership we looked at Jesus’ model of servant leadership.  This definitely involves a change of mind-set because when we, from a human standpoint, think of a leader we don’t think of a servant.  This concept evoked a lot of discussion.  The Solomon Island motto is, “To lead is to serve.”  But even though that is the motto and frequently quoted, it has not widen been put into practice.  But Jesus taught the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven was the least on this earth, to be first you had to be last, etc. etc.  God is moving in the SI and is raising up Godly leaders.  We need leaders of integrity.
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In the Gospel and Culture class, Nancy asked the class to identify cultural concerns, problems, and issues that they felt needed to be addressed by the church.  Then the students were assigned different topics and researched the scripture to see if and how these cultural issues were addressed in the word.  Then there was open discussion as they looked at their own Solomon Island/Melanesian culture and discovered how the Bible spoke to this culture.  This was primarily a class of discussion and searching the scriptures and then also using reason, experience, and Christian tradition to discover and identify the proper response.

The Pentateuch class can be described by one word, “awesome.”  This was the first time for me to teach this class and the first time it required a lot of preparation and prayer.  We primarily used the Bible as the text, but I also drew heavily from Victor Hamilton’s “Handbook on the Pentateuch”, and “Discovering the New Testament” edited by Alex Varughese.
What has been a blessing is the results after the class.  I have visited churches where one of the students is preaching and hear sermons that were taken from the material talked about during this class.  Every scripture class I have the students preach a sermon as part of their grade. 

By George Miller