Last year the lay preachers in Papua New Guinea made a resolution to go out to every city, town,and remote area to preach the Three Angels’ Messages.
The following is a brief account of how God has used the lay preachers to accomplish our plans and strategies during the last four months.
January: Five teenagers walked to a remote village in another province and discovered a group of people who worship an old man as their god. They stayed with them for three months. At present, the villagers have accepted Christ and worship on Sabbath.
February: Most of the lay preachers traveled throughout the country to preach the Three Angels’ Messages. One group with twelve members, including four young women, walked to Port Moresby through the jungles, climbing the high mountains. They shared the Three Angels’Messages among the Sunday-keeping churches. One Lutheran church has accepted the Sabbath truth.
More Bibles have been received from Tree of Life Fund, Sydney, Australia. We appreciate the group’s help.
Another group of lay preachers walked the famous Kokoda trail to Port Moresby. It took them three days to reach Port Moresby.
Another group walked from the Madang Province to the Simbu Province. They shared the Sabbath truth with a predominantly Catholic village and the leaders of the Catholic church accepted the Sabbath truth.
One group discovered a nomadic people in the Owen Stanley Rangers. These people have never had any contact with the outside world. After lay preachers discovered them, they stayed with them for three weeks sharing God’s message of love. Three souls were baptized.
Other small groups went out preaching the Three Angels’ Messages and distributing Bibles. Many people are joining the church through the Bibles, and more are requesting Bibles.
March: Two churches stood for the truth in Mt. Hagen and now they are under censorship.
Two pastors from the United church had accepted the Sabbath truth. Three churches in the Madang Province are standing for the present truth.
Two churches in the Simbu Province and one church in Lae, Morobe Province are also standing for the present truth.
April: Pastors Colin and Russell Standish held a Loud Cry campmeeting in Kainantu Papua New Ginuea. Over 1,000 people attended the campmeeting and forty-one souls were baptized. Six former hard core criminals had joined the laymen movement.
A big nature campmeeting was hosted in Simbu Province where over fifty new converts were trained. God is calling the common people to give the loud cry. It says in Testimonies to Ministers, 299: “God will use ways and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hand.”
Please stand firm as prophecies are fulfilling before us and pray for the work in Papua, New Guinea.