Prayer Update 30 March 2010

Dear Prayer Partner,

Thank you for your prayers.  It has been too long since the previous prayer letter.  Our internet in our house was out of order for nearly 4 weeks.  So we didn’t do much on-line except emergencies. 

 

The Cyclone missed Honiara, at least the brunt of the cyclone missed us.  We had some high winds and lots of rain but nothing serious.  The Bible College students I asked you to pray for in their travels home, did not get far as they held up for a week at Russell Island before proceeding on to the West.  They did arrive home safely, even though it was a week late.  We tried to convince them to stay in Honiara for a week but the ship was sailing and they were anxious to get home.

 

Easter Programs:

Pray for the Easter camp and program at our Zion Church and other churches in the Solomon Islands.  Our camp in Honiara begins on Thursday night and goes through Monday.  We have services each evening and Good Friday morning and Easter Sunday morning.  Remember me as I preach the Good Friday message.  Our NYI will lead the service, and perform the crucifixion drama.  Actually each service we will have a drama re-enacting a different part of the Easter story.  The men’s ministry on Thursday will dramatize the Last Supper.  Then the women’s ministry will dramatize the resurrection on Easter Sunday Morning.  Nancy taught a course (or rather facilitated a time of discussion) at the women conference.  I just passed by as they were discussing some interesting things about marriage.   I was asked some questions and threw in my ten cents worth.  I’m not sure what exactly I told the women, but they have requested us to teach this same “good stuff” to their husbands.  So on Saturday we are to teach a class to the married couples.  I guess I need to try to remember what I shared.  I’m not sure if the men and women are separate or together.  I guess I need to find out soon, as I was thinking I’d leave the preparation to Nancy and just throw in a few nuggets here and there.  Pray for Nancy or maybe both of us as we prepare to answer their questions and lead a discussion.  We do want to equip couples so they can live together in harmony and really be “Team mates”.

 

ZCA School Break:

School one-week break begins on Thursday 1 April and classes will resume on Monday April 12.  Pray for Nancy and the school during this break time.

 

Trip to Malaita:

I have a trip planned to Malaita on April 9^th, to return to Honiara on 12^th or 13^th.   Pray for this trip.

 

Solomon Island Infrastructure:

Pray for the infrastructure in the country, as we are now go without public electricity for 4 hours every day.  They cut the power from 10 a.m. to noon and from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.  The most productive part of the day we have no power.  I do have an electric generator but it is not powerful enough to run the photocopier and many other things around the house.  Daily power outages have been going on for years, but it is progressively worse.  We now have our own water from our well.  So far we have good sunshine and so our solar pump pumps during the day but by the next morning the storage tank is empty.  I am looking into another pump to transfer the water to our storage tank.  Our public water supply is pretty poor and we have to be able to transfer enough water from our well so the storage tank will not run dry at night.  Pray for us as we conserve water.  Mobile phones have been hopeless.  They have installed a new system and we are optimistic that this will solve a lot of the problems.  I was wondering when I awoke this morning and had no bars on the phone and SIM card had failed.  We are about 500 meters as the crow flies from the nearest tower.   I don’t know if the bugs are all out of the mobile system or not.

 

Your Partners in His Ministry,

George & Nancy Miller

Prayer Request from 14th March

Dear Prayer Partner,

Urgent prayer is requested for Solomon Islands as we are in the path of two cyclones. Cyclone Ului is not moving fast and should arrive in two to three days. Right behind Ului is Cyclone Thomas and is much larger. We have been through a lot but this is our first cyclone, if it hits us. We are preparing according to the directions issued from the Disaster Management and the US State Department.

Our internet has been out at our house for 2 weeks now. We will get back to you as soon as we can but the turnaround may not be as fast as you have come to expect with email.

Thank you for your prayers for the Bible College class it went well. I had 21 students in the Homiletics (preaching) class and 23 in the Church History Class. There were some spiritual victories too. Prayer for five Bible College Students who left this morning by ship to the Western Province. The sea was rough due to the approaching cyclone. They are traveling away from the cyclone but I still ask for your prayers for their safety.

Praise the Lord our water well is now pumping water. We have a Solar pump and of course that involves a solar panel on top of the roof, so as part of our preparation I will take that down and lock it away for safe keeping. I want to thank everyone who contributed. We still need to plumb to the buildings and add a few rain collection tanks.

Your Partners in His Ministry,

George & Nancy Miller

PO Box 712

Honiara, Solomon Islands

george_nancy@reachone.com

Phone: (677)25-109

Prayer Requests 19 February 2010

Dear Prayer Partner,

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.

4. 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

Solomon Islands. We have some that are really serious 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

george_nancy@reachone.com

http://oceanianazarene.org/

Prayer Update 26 January 2010

Dear Prayer Partner,

Thank you for your prayers.

On 15^th of January I left by ship to travel to Auki and then on to Northeast Malaita to dedicate a new church [see below]. It was a wonderful trip. I traveled over on the Bikoi and returned on a new small ship (or maybe large boat), 360 Discovery. The Discovery is a passenger vessel and very fast, making the trip in a mere 3 hours. I praise the Lord for this ship. I understand they just began the service at Christmas time, but when I went to Malaita was the first time I heard about it. They have daily service to Malaita which is very handy for our work because now I can go for a one day trip or meeting and return next day without having to pay the high air fares. It will be handy if we have teams visit because we can take a one-day excursion trip. The sea on the return trip was rough however and a number of people became sea sick. I also praise the Lord that I am not bothered by motion sickness. The Bikoi ship travels once weekly to Auki and then to the Western Province. I thank the Lord for the Bikoi ship as it is owned and operated by a Christian man and friend who allows us to transport cargo for ministry or pastors belongings free. That is a huge saving when we move equipment and relocate a pastor. Also our pastors have an opportunity to hold devotional services for the fellow passengers on board the Bikoi while enroute.

New church plants,

Bethany:

I returned Wednesday 20^th January from this trip to Malaita. I went there for the dedication and opening of a new church named Bethany. The Bethany church of the Nazarene is located at the village of Anasao in Northeast Malaita. Our Bethel church, led by pastor Joel Sada, and his nephew Stephen Miki, is the mother church of this new church. This was the smallest church building I have ever seen, and has a maximum seating capacity of 24. I think with children we crowded 30 or so into the building for the opening service. The opening Sunday I counted 70 people, over half of them were standing outside. They had erected a tent to have the meeting in because they were expecting a number of visitors. Due to the heavy rains the ground was wet under the tent so we only used it for the food. Sunday morning the rain stopped and it was a beautiful day until the program was over.

John Lofta, the head man of this place who invited the Nazarene Church into his area was sick for two weeks before our arrival. He was so excited to have us come that as soon as we arrived he was encouraged and got up from his sick bed and I actually didn’t realize he had been sick until we left his village. Once I was told that he had been sick I thought that he didn’t act all perky. Pray for John and his family.

Tautaumalefo:I went back to Auki and visited another area where they are beginning a new church, Tautaumalefo, where a Bible College Student Revelation Kalia, is pastor. They are struggling trying to get the church going there. This is among Revelations in-laws.

Masupa:

Then Sunday, 24^th a group visited our Honiara Zion Church from the village of Masupa in the Are’are area on Malaita. They have been holding prayer cell meetings and are starting a church in their village. This village is the home of the wives of, Jeremiah, our Zion Church pastor and, Osborn, our district NMI president. These family connections are instrumental in getting the work going there. There have been students from there attend our Bible College too.

Please pray for these new works.

Zion Christian Academy:

ZCA began classes yesterday, Monday 25^th. Nancy is the Principal of the school again this year. She is also going to be teaching High school English for half the day. Last year her main goal for the school was to get the school out of debt and she accomplished that paying off the SB $300,000 debt (US $40,000). At the end of last year all bills were paid and we had SB $6,000 (US $800) in the bank. This year her goal is to work on the procedures as some of them were a little lax last year. Pray for her, as she has a tough job. There are challenges with getting teachers to come to work on time, and toward the end of last year it was discovered that there was cheating among some of the students, and the student record keeping needs help too. Pray for Nancy as she faces these challenges

Office Secretary:

One of our devout members has retired after 21 years with NPF (National Provident Fund-equivalent to our US Social Security). We have hired her on as a secretary. She will serve where needed. She will assist Nancy in the school as well as in the District/Mission office. She will bring a lot of experience as she desires to serve the mission.

Water Project:

Here is an update on the water project. WE have completed the well house and are obtaining estimates for the pumps. We are looking at solar pumps which will cost more initially but should quickly recoup the money, especially considering our electric rate. We have constructed a stand for one tank and are ready to work on the second stand. We need a couple days of dry weather now, but as much as we have been without water, we are not complaining. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this project.

Pastor and Family Needs Prayer:

Please pray for one of my recent Bible College Graduate pastor’s family. This pastor committed adultery with a high school student. This is also one of the things I had to deal with when I went to Malaita. I am in tears about this deal, and I need your prayers. Enough said about this request. Pray especially for his wife who just delivered a healthy baby girl around Christmas.

Your partner in His Ministry,

George & Nancy Miller

http://oceanianazarene.org/

Christmas 2009 in the Solomons & Happy New Year

Dear Prayer Partners,

I Want to thank you for your prayers and support during this past year 2009 and looking forward to a great year ahead.

Christmas in The Solomon Islands:

This year we had District Assembly up until 12 of December and had a house full of people until the 17^th. Then we left on the 19^th to attend a Christmas camp on Makira Island. We returned on 26^th December. Since we were so busy during the Holiday period we did not even get out our Christmas decorations this year. In some ways it did not feel like Christmas, at least not the traditional Western Christmas, but it was awesome anyway.

So you want to know; “How did we celebrate Christmas in the Solomon?” I’m glad you asked. Even if you don’t want to know I’ll tell you anyway. In the Solomon Islands, most people travel to their home island during the holiday period. Schools are out for the “Summer Break” in early December and do not resume until mid-January. We held our district meetings the first week of the break 8-13 December.

Zion Christian Academy, ZCA, held their closing Christmas program and graduation on Thursday 3^rd of December. George was the guest speaker, but found out about it the day of the event. He sensed that this would happen so had something “on the back burner” ready to share. It worked out fine. Pray for Nancy as she leads the school for another year. Pray that our students will be well equipped to meet the challenges in the future. So I suppose the Christmas celebrations here began December 3^rd. But actually 3 weeks earlier they began making preparations for the closing program.

Then December 12^th we killed three pigs and held a feast primarily for the Bible College graduation but it was also the Christmas dinner. The tables were full of all kinds of delicacies. Some of our church folk presented special music for the event. The youth, particularly female youth, helped in the food preparation and serving.

December 19 we boarded the Solomon Airline flight to Kirakira on Makira island. Then we took an outboard motor boat to Nukukaisi village. This was Nancy’s first time to visit this village. It was a joy for George to have his wife along. Nancy and George were both involved in teaching and preaching. The camp was a combined youth and women’s camp. I wasn’t sure how that would work out, but everyone enjoyed it and they chose to have the next district camp combined in 2011.

Sunday we had our opening service and we had a big feast and we were full of pork, fish, sweet potatoes, greens, and all kinds of Solomon Island delicacies, complement of the Tikopian (Polynesian) people at Nukukaisi village can fix.

The camp was awesome. All of the classes and services were great, but the Wednesday night service was very special and memorable. Many came to the altar to pray. I was worn out and exhausted from the teaching and preaching duties, arising early for prayer and going to bed late after the evening services. At 9:30 or so when they requested me to pray for those around the altar, I was really tired and ready to go home and hit the sack. As I was praying the Holy Spirit fell in upon the service and then I was no longer sleepy. After the prayer I said, “Anyone who needs someone to pray for them to remain at the altar”. Some remained and while we were praying for these, others came to the altar. Anyway we had spontaneous testimonies and prayer. I was praying with people until 2 a.m.

Christmas Eve, we held a combined outdoor service, on the beach. It had rained everyday while we were at camp, but even with the clouds threatening rain they decided to go ahead as planned. There was no rain during the outdoor service and it was in the middle of the night, well after all the equipment was safe at home before the rain began falling. The rain was always a welcome sight and provided us with fresh drinking water. The rains always came at the most opportune time and did not interfere with the services.

Christmas morning we had a baptism and baptized 14 children and youth. Then after the early service (7:30 a.m.) baptism at 9:00 a.m. they held the village combined Christmas service. All the denominations met in the Nazarene Church to standing room only. They expanding the church building by extending the roof and removing the side walls to accommodate the attendance. I would estimate 300 in attendance. We had an excellent service, with Bro. Dickson Manongi preaching complete with the celebration of the Lord’s Supper.

Now today as I write this is New Years Eve and I expect to have the ship ferrying the campers to return sometime today. Tonight we are planning a church fellowship and service welcoming in the New Year.

That is the Christmas in the Solomon’s. I know yours was different, but I trust it was just as enjoyable.

1 January 2010 - HAPPY NEW YEAR

Well in the Solomon Islands as I get around to concluding this letter, 2010 has officially begun. We are looking with great anticipation toward the future.

Last night we had a fellowship meal followed by a service at Zion church. People shared their testimonies and we had communion together. The ship arrived at 3 a.m. this morning returning with those who attended the youth and women’s camp. The sea was rough and the ship they were fortunate enough to catch has a tendency to roll from side to side even when the sea is fine. It is good to have them back and are looking forward to their sharing about their camp experiences.

As I heard the revelry and the parties going on around the church. The beer was flowing and many were celebrating the New Year in this way, the thought of it all just made tears well up in my eyes. When I think of the price that Jesus paid for these people in spite of their addictions and sins. “Lord please help us to make a difference, to be the Light and Salt of this dark world” was my prayer as I sat teary eyed praying and weeping over the challenges faced in the Solomon’s. It is overwhelming, and to think this is in the Solomon Islands which claims to be a “Christian Country”.

Many things have happened recently which have intensified my passion for souls and has given me an urgency to be about the Masters business. I have no time to play games with the Lord, souls are hanging in the balance. Continue to pray for the Solomon Islands and Nancy and I as we want to make a difference this year.

Your Partners in His Ministry,

George & Nancy Miller

Prayer and Praise Letter December 16

Dear Prayer Partners,

[Picture of the youth leading the worship service]

Sorry it has taken me so long to post this to the Blog. Thank you for your prayers. Our district meetings were awesome let me give you some of the highlights of our time together.

District Meetings:

From the opening service on Tuesday night until the closing service on last Sunday night, you could sense the Lord’s presence. There was a good response at the altar.

The emphases of these meetings was on prayer and living in obedience to God. I held a “Prayer Awakening” seminar from materials I received at General Assembly from Rev. Elaine Pettit. Then we also used the “Concert of Prayer” that Toni & Jerry Porter, our General Superintendent Dr. Jerry Porter and wife Toni, {this explanation is for the many non-Nazarene prayer partners we have.} presented at the recent District Superintendent conference I attended in Malaysia.

Many people responded to the challenge to come forward and pick up a prayer commitment card, committing to pray for one hour minimum per day and fast once per week. Pray that they will return to their home villages with the challenges of this assembly and will be able to get their church’s prayer warriors organized so that we will really witness a spiritual breakthrough in the Solomon Islands. I’m having all the churches write down the names of those they should be praying for (Pastor’s family, members, unsaved in area, backsliders, and casual attendees, or anyone with contact with church). Then I’ve encouraged them to divide their list up and have each prayer warrior to each take some names and commit to pray daily name by name. That way everyone in the church is being prayed for by someone daily. Then after three to six months prayer, I’d like for the churches to hold a revival campaign.

[Picture of youth putting on a Drama]


Saturday morning was the District Assembly. Pray for the district secretary as he finalizes the report. It is Christmas time and he is ready to travel home, same as everyone else in Honiara. We gave a District minister’s license to 10 pastors. Pray for these pastors that they will lead their church to a new spiritual level.

It is always a blessing to have Harmon Schmelzenbach, our Field Strategy Coordinator, with us. He ministered to us and was our guest of honor at our first Bible College graduation. His address to the students was very powerful. We had three students graduate. A fourth student has completed his work but felt he would like to wait for next year because his wife was not here to witness the graduation. Pray for our graduates as they return home and to their places of ministry. Harmon left us and went to Fiji, where he was met by a cyclone. Please pray for those in Fiji. He then is to fly to Samoa for their District Assembly. Pray for the Samoan assembly and Harmon. Fiji was flooded and so pray that the Lord will strengthen Harmon for the challenges he faces, and that the flood waters will recede so he can make it to the air port.

[Pictures of our first Graduating Bible College Students.]

Praises:

We praise the Lord the rain came and gave us water until the meetings were over. We have not had rain since, and the water tank ran dry the Sunday night right after the assembly was over. Continue to pray for rain. Thanks to everyone who gave toward the water project. After the Christmas Holiday period we will be able to get someone to came and give us an estimate for the cost for pump, etc. Also we need it to rain so we have water to make cement for the pump house.

New Starts:

It was exciting hearing the encouraging reports from the new start churches.

1. Our Sovereign Grace Church in Munda, Western Province is off to a good start. They recently held their first membership class and took in 6 new members by Profession of Faith. They have three men attending the Bible College. One of the men who was a recent convert, Rodney, has a glowing testimony of the transforming power of Jesus. He owns a small store and uses his store as a place to minister. He closes at noon on Wednesday and Friday so he can attend the church’s programs, and he said that on the days he closes early his sales during the morning equals his daily take on the other days when he is open all day. Pray for Pastor Alick Hagi as they are involved in outreach into the neighboring communities.

2. Tautaumalefo is another new start and I request your prayers for them. Pray for Pastor Revelation Kalia.

3. Pray for Barakoma on the island of Vella la Vella and their pastor, Kendrick. They also have started a school. Pray for Rollingson and Grace as they administer and teach at the school.

4. Pray for Malasova, Vella la Vella Island, and Hudson as he leads this new church.

5. Pray for Jimmy Kwaisui as he pastors two churches. His primary responsibility is to the Iriiri Pasapasa Church, but he also goes to the Vilorae church. This area has recently seen an alarming increase in crocodiles, so pray for their safety and the safety of their children.

New Church Buildings:

I want to say thank you to those of you who have given to the approved special for new churches, as we had funds to assist the churches in building needs for these new starts.

Land Cruiser:

The land cruiser broke down before the start of the assembly, so we were without transportation during the assembly. I was returning from picking up people from the wharf at 2 p.m. or so when the timing belt snapped. I was thankful that this didn’t happen the previous night when I was taking people home on this very poor narrow road during a torrential downpour. I took it to the dealer and knew I was in trouble when it took 4 days work to get me the estimate for repair. Ouch! Anyway it will be after New Years before the parts ordered from Japan will arrive and then it’s anyone guess when it will be fixed. Thanks for those of you who gave generously toward our deputation during last home assignment.

Youth/Women’s Camp:

The youth and women are having a combined camp December 20 – 25 in Nukukaisi. They plan to leave by ship tomorrow. Pray for this camp, their travel, and their safety. Nancy and I will fly to Kirakira on Saturday and then take a boat to Nukukaisi. Nancy doesn’t swim and climbing down from a ship into a small boat to ferry us to the shore doesn’t appeal to her. I can’t imagine that. Anyway, I wanted her to go along with me so I purchased the air fare.

Pray that my new SIM card for my satellite phone arrives this week, because I like to have that contact in case we have an emergency while there.

Pray for Nancy and I as we prepare to share during our classes and we both are on the preaching schedule.

Conclusion:

Our Christmas letter will have to wait until our return from Nukukaisi on 26^th December. From the 20^th through the 26^th we will be out of contact so I pray there will not be an emergency.

Your Partners in His Ministry,

George & Nancy Miller

PO Box 712

Honiara, Solomon Islands

george_nancy@reachone.com

http://oceanianazarene.org/

Prayer Update 11 November 2009

Dear Prayer Partners,

My Brother Wesley’s Book:

Wesley’s book that he wrote and sent to the publisher just before he passed away is published and it is for sell just for the cost of printing and shipping. If you would like to purchase the book, “A Tale that is Told”, you would need to sent $12.50 check to Sara Miller. Contact her by email to make arrangements Revcwesley@dobsonteleco.com The church address I have for her and I think it would still work is Sara Miller, Rt. 2 Box 50, Taloga, OK 73667.

Wesley has written another book, “Redneck Reflexions”. It is a thirty day devotional book. I referred to some of his devotionals during his funeral service. It is also available for $12.50 or both books together for $24.50.

The “A Tale That is Told” book is a personal testimony of my Brother Rev. C. Wesley Miller. I’m a part of his story too, so you would read some about me. It is a challenging and interesting read, especially for those who know Wesley, our family, or me.

Water well Drilling Under way:

(I have three pictures here of the water well project. The last one shows the site in relation to the school building for those partners who have visited here.)

The Water well is being drilled as I type this email. Thank you for those who have donated toward this project. The big expense is down the road. The bore hole should be finished today or tomorrow. We have received enough funds to finish this first phase. When I get to it I’ll post the photos on my blog. After the drilling is completed, we still need power line run, water pumps, water holding tanks, a water tower, not to mention we will have to lay a lot of pipes. If you wish to contribute toward this project remit to General Treasurer, Global Ministry Center, 17001 Prairie Star Parkway, Lenexa, KS, 66220. Send a letter or mark it for Solomon Islands, water project. Also if anyone has expertise to assist in this project and would like to volunteer or come on a W&W team just let me know.

Water is very unreliable to our area of the city. Last week we only had water coming out of the taps one night. Normally water comes 2-3 nights per week. When it comes it begins around 1 or 2 a.m. and is off before 8 a.m. So that doesn’t give much time. Just imagine operating a school of 200 student with water one night/week for 2 a.m. until 7 a.m. Fortunately we have a rain tank but the rain tank is drained sometimes at night because our neighbors don’t have water either. Fortunately it has been raining regularly. The Water drilling might drain our tank today.

DS Conference:

Thank you for your prayers. We had a good DS and Regional Leaders Conference in Malaysia. The District Superintendents were challenged to return to their district and really make a difference. I met and made friends with a DS from one of the Creative Access Countries. When he shared his testimony with me I was really challenged. He is my age and was saved at 12 years old. He was the first believer in his family and was saved by talking with his Christian Classmate. His parents forbid him to attend church and so he was prohibited from attending church until he was 21 years old, when he could finally make up his own mind.

The mission statement of our Church is: “To Make Christlike Disciples in the Nations.” We were challenged to make Christ-like disciples and to live like Christ, and what does that look like in our contexts.

Your partners in His Ministry,

George & Nancy Miller

PO Box 712, Honiara, Solomon Islands

george_nancy@reachone.com