Please pray for the following:
1. Bible College Classes that 
begin on Wednesday 24 February. I will be teaching two classes Homiletics (Preaching) in the morning and Church History in the evening. We expect 20 students give or take for each class.
2. Water Project is moving ahead we have ordered the tanks and pumping system. We have ordered a solar pumping system as it will save power bill. Thanks to all who have contributed to this project. The two tank platforms are completed and ready. Some of the plumbing supplies are out of stock so pray that they arrive soon. Hopefully within a month this will be up and running.
3. Pray for our church in Malaita, where Satan is working hard. One of my pastors committed adultery which has essentially closed the church. In another church there was some strong disagreement between the pastor and the one who ‘owned’ the church so he forbid them from worshipping inside the church house. {I know in the Western culture it doesn’t make sense about a person owning the church, but that is the reality of many SI churches.} As I was going through all these issues I was reading in our family devotions from our denomination’s daily devotional book and this past week it has been from Nehemiah. The opposition that Nehemiah faced was very similar to things that are going on here. Pray that we can keep focused on mission and trust in the Lord to build the church in the Solomon’s just like Nehemiah and the Jews rebuilt the broken down wall in Jerusalem.
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. We have a new secretary, Mairy. She works part time in the mission office and part time helping Nancy at Zion Christian Academy.
5. Pray for Nancy as she is Principal of ZCA and she is doing more teaching in the High School this year. She has faced many challenges and really needs you to lift her in prayer.
6. Pray for two high school students at ZCA that are staying here and going to school.
a. Hannah Konainao is a wonderful Christian young lady. She is on the church’s worship team. She is quite a blessing to us and is really a help in the ministry here and around the house too.
b. Ezra Kuki is a high school student and was pastor of one of our churches for a couple of years as he attended high school. He was going to school in the province and his schooling was not going well. He wanted to come to the Nazarene’s school ZCA so he could finish his High School and enroll in the Bible College too. He wants to start a poultry project and grow a garden to make money for his school fees.
7. Pray for James Age our 
resident carpenter who is doing a lot of the work on the water project. He is just a general handy man and is doing the work for very little pay. He opens and locks the doors and really takes pressure off of us. We feed him and give him a little to tie him over. He is bothered with boils and a sore/stiff neck.
8. Pray for the youth in the 
about serving the Lord and we really want to encourage them in their faith. A missionary colleague once told me as he approached the end of his missionary career that he wished he would have invested more time in the children and youth as they are not as set in their ways as the elders. Then I purchased a book written by S Truett Cathy, the founder of Chic Filet entitled “It is Better to Build Boys than Mend Men”. How true!I was reading from Oswald Chambers, “My Upmost for His Highest” a few months ago and one of the devotionals struck me when it made reference to the fact that salvation and sanctification is receiving from God. He said there are lots of conversions but many who are converted have not received anything. Salvation is more than merely a personal decision to become a Christian and be a good boy, it involves a born again life changing encounter with God. In the Solomon’s we have many conversions, that is they have converted from their old life to a life of going to church and following the church rules. But it appears by the way people can easily revert back to their former lifestyle, without even feeling remorse, that many have not received that gift from God, the gift that transforms the heart. Pray for the Christian Churches in the Solomon Islands, including the Church of the Nazarene, that we can make a difference at the heart level.
Your Partners in His Ministry,
George & Nancy Miller
PO Box 712
Honiara, Solomon Islands
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