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Papua New Guinea – the wait has ended

Christine Platt - Thursday 06 August 2015

One of my first acts as Australian CEO in 2012 was to close down our base in PNG.
We travelled up there knowing there were problems. While I was there it became apparent that we should be working there. A nation of 7 million people with 870 languages plus dialects, where the vast majority identify as Christian but where many cannot read, many have no Bible in their own language, and where many church leaders are not well trained.
Along with an appreciation of the need for GRN to be working in the country came the realisation that the work which was limping along there was so corrupted that it had to be stopped – it was beyond fixing.

And so we have prayed, looked, investigated, asked questions and prayed some more. A false start, travelling up to interview an applicant who proved unsuitable, led to a meeting with Vincent. Vincent applied to lead out work there. We returned to interview him, a positive event, and also found potential members of an Advisory Council.

And so we returned last week to induct our new GRN PNG team. Vincent Gigmai is our base leader. Kathleen Sakias chairs our Advisory Council. We also spent a week with them in orientation and training. It was an exciting time – and now the hard work begins.
Please pray for Vincent, Kathleen and the Advisory Council as they make a start. At this stage they are setting up an office and Vincent is preparing for a longer training period in the Philippines where he will get a better idea of what he is trying to do.

We pray that one day there will be a GRN team in PNG working with the church and missionaries to making recordings and teach people how to use them. We hope to see the church in PNG grow and develop with the help of GRN resources and would love to see GRN PNG reach out into the Pacific to help their neighbours in the tasks of evangelism and discipleship.

If you would like to pray for the work in PNG please contact us and ask to be put on their prayer letter list.