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 01^st 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

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 7^th 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

Prayer Update 6 May 2012

Dear Prayer Supporters,

Thank you so much for your prayers.  We depend upon them. 

 

Events Coming up that we need lifted up in Prayer:

 

Bible College Classes:

We are beginning a 3-week intensive Bible College Block on May 15^th.  The first week May 15-22 I (George) will teach “Spiritual Leadership” class (6 hours/day).  Then 2^nd & 3^rd week 23 May-7 June we will be conducting two classes.  I will be teaching “Pentateuch” in the Morning and Nancy will teach “Gospel and Culture” in the Evening.  Here are some of the specific prayer needs.

·         Pray for strength for Nancy as she is also Principal of our K-12 school.  Currently the school does not have a grade 4 teacher so Nancy is also serving as classroom teacher.  She is for sure busy.

·         Pray for calm seas so the students can travel easily.   We need rain for water but without the storms.

·         Pray for Nancy and I as we prepare our lessons.

·         I have heard of a number of first time students who wish to enroll.

I am teaching evening classes in an attempt to have more pastoral candidates ready for ordination.  This is keeping me busy.

 

District Advisory Board:

Keep our DAB in your prayers: The elders on the DAB are Alick and Dolasi, the lay persons are Dickson and Mairy.  Our DAB will be meeting on Friday evening 11^th May.  As a Solomon Islands District we are moving and need local leadership at the top.  I have served as D.S. but hopefully soon this will change.  We need the Lord’s guidance and your prayers during this critical transition period.

 

Greg and Wendy’s Visit:

Pray for our son, Greg and his family as they visit the Solomon Islands during Greg’s summer break from teaching high school science.  This will be the first time they have visited the Solomon’s.  After Greg and Wendy’s visit, all of our children will have visited the Solomon’s.  It will be great having our grandchildren here too.  This grandpa doesn’t get near enough hugs and kisses from his grandchildren.  Pray that their preparation will go smoothly.

 

Youth Camp:

Pray for the Malaita Circuit Youth Camp to be held in Mage in mid June.  Pray that the presence of the Lord will be felt in a powerful way.  

 

Festival of the Arts:

In July this year our country is hosting the Pacific Festival of the Arts.  I think the last I heard there will be 28 pacific island countries participating.  Our country is completing the building of venues, repairing roads, water supply, cleaning up the rubbish, etc. etc. in preparation for this events.  Company is coming so we have to clean house and get ready.  This is billed to be the largest ever Pacific Arts Festival.  They are preparing several different venues around town as well as in other islands.  The prayer need is that our Christian community will be the salt and the light throughout this time.  Not every cultural practice is Christian and in fact much of it has non-Christian roots.  The tension is how do we as Christians interact and be a transforming influence in culture, without compromising our faith.  During this time will be excellent opportunities to witness for Jesus and His love.  Nancy’s Gospel and Culture class should have some interesting discussions.

 

Zion Christian Academy:

ZCA has their building permit now and are ready to begin the construction of their new classroom.  Pray for the school administration, school board, building committee, fund raising committee, parents, teachers, students, as they all work together in the construction of this much needed building.  ZCA will need a few miracles along the way, but our God is still a miracle worker.

 

Your Partners in His Harvest Field

 

George & Nancy Miller, 

prayer update 5 April 2012

Dear Prayer Partner,

Baru and Christina’s 20^th Anniversary

Baru, Christina, and Children (Jeninah, Edessa, Mclane, Stephanie, & Elijah)

We had a wonderful time celebrating with Baru and Christina.  We arrived and was picked up at the airport by Baru and family.  Baru was a student in the very first MLA (Medical Laboratory Assistant) class that I taught at Kudjip, Nazarene Hospital when we first came to PNG as missionaries.  Another lady who met us at the air port was Jenny John, another student in that first class.  Baru and Jenny were like our children as we mentored them.  Now Jenny is working in the X-ray department at Mt Hagen General Hospital and Baru is the Hospital Secretary for the PNG Nazarene Health Services.

Baru's House

After picking us up at the air port we went to Baru and Christina’s new and very lovely home near Banz.  The Lord provided a beautiful place for Baru and Christina to purchase and build a home.  Underneath the house is where the Cornerstone Church of the Nazarene meets.  This is the house church that Baru started with his family and is only one year old now.  Now they have around 150 in attendance, a pastor (Pastor Cecilia), and the church is fully organized. 

Baru and Pastor Cecilia

Christina teaching Adult/teen SS Class

House Church singing



Worshipping, Cornerstone Church.



Cornerstone Congregation

Friday night and Saturday morning, I was affected by Diarrhea and vomiting.  I prayed about this because we were to attend the anniversary on Saturday, stay at Baru’s house Saturday night, and preach on Sunday morning.  I certainly did not want anything to interfere with that.  My explosive watery diarrhea left me about 10 a.m. on Saturday morning.  It did however leave me weak but the Lord helped me during the celebration.  I did however fast my breakfast, not wanting to add fuel to my potential problem.  After the dedication of his home/house church and their anniversary ceremony, we ate the meal (feast) prepared.  I enjoyed the excellent food but only ate a reasonable amount, unlike normally when I really put the food away at one of these events.  My problem did not return.  I was able to preach on Sunday.  There were 18 first time visitors at church.

Other happenings during our visit:

·         We had a pizza night with the missionaries.  Dinner with Jim and Kathy Radcliffe family with their children Lydia and Josiah and a visiting doctor and wife.

·         I was invited the share with the TCF (Tertiary Christian Fellowship) group, and so was able to share my testimony.

New Hospital



Laboratory with Andy the Supervisor



·         I visited the lab, where only one employee is a remnant of my time with the lab.  It was interesting though to see some of the things still in the lab that we gave them.  In the lab still hung the clock in shape of open Bible with the picture of the cross, and the picture of the head of crucified Jesus (the image was made from darker & lighter printing of the entire text of the Gospel of John), both of these we purchased while on one of our home assignments.  Then the procedure manuals that I wrote or compiled for lab and x-ray were still in use.



Miriam and George (old photo)

 ·         I walked to the Kudjip community school to see and pray with one of my “daughters” Miriam Kurup who is a teacher.  From there walked to the road bung [road junction] where the Kudjip market is.  I wanted to meet and talk with old friends and people along the way who remember me.  I met Bebi, our house girl when we first became missionaries.



Jenny and Sons [Otto, Gregory Michael, and George Miller]

 ·         Jenny brought her three sons for a visit.  The first born named George Miller [Pictured on my left side] and second born named Gregory Michael [on my right  side], named after our eldest son.  George Miller is now 20 years old and he goes by the full name.  If anyone tries to shorten his name to just George, he immediately corrects them saying, “My name is George Miller”.

·         It was great seeing old friends and meeting new ones, as we visited the hospital, etc.

·         We had a routine physical examinations while in Kudjip, which requires further evaluation and probable surgery for George.  (See Below)

George’s Medical Concern:

It was discovered on lab tests, Ultrasound, and medical examination that George had a cystic mass that needs further evaluation and intervention.  So instead of returning to Honiara, Solomon Islands as planned we are now heading to Brisbane, Australia.  This is the holiday weekend so I do not yet know when I’ll see the doctor but will keep you advised.  We are part of a great big family and our brothers and sisters in Australia are so willing to facilitate and assist us in this unscheduled detour.  Thank you so much for your prayers.

George Miller, 

Solomon Islands -Church of the Nazarene

PO Box 712, Honiara, Solomon Islands

Office/Home: 677 25-109     Mobile: 677 74 68920

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Nevada, TX   75173

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