We’re excited to launch our mid-term mission program. https://talkingabouttanna.com/compelled/
Please be in prayer that this work will support local mission workers and their church planting work on Tanna as well as grow Christian ministry here and overseas.
‘A – a – ants,’ the class chants, diligently repeating after the teacher. Along with the photocopy of the alphabet and its corresponding sounds, the students each have a copy of John’s Gospel in front of them; a book they very much hope to be able to read one day after completing the three modules of their literacy course. ‘It will only be through reading it for themselves that they will really change,’ the mission worker explained to me. After watching for a while, I had the feeling that it will be a long process. But when they have come as far as they have, there must be hope. Continue reading
Three students on field experience from Southern Islands Presbytery Bible College were practicing pastoral visitation, going from household to household praying for people’s needs. They entered one house where the upcoming circumcision of their son was weighing heavily on the people’s minds. The students brought the matter before the Lord and moved on. Later that day the family discovered that their son had been miraculously circumcised.
Six further ‘miracle circumcisions’ took place within about a month at that location, which is one of our mission fields. But these weren’t the first circumcisions of this kind to take place on Tanna. The first took place in 2000 when it was prophesied that miraculous circumcisions would take place across the island and radiate out from here around the world. Continue reading
Pastor Yarwell and his wife, Elsie
Pastor Yarwell, principal of South Island Bible College, presented us with this letter when I visited the college in February, with Mission to the World. It says a lot about the needs of the college and how we can meet them. Continue reading
Cargo cult in Vanuatu | Vlad Sokhin, photojournalist.
The link above is to the blog of a photojournalist who has recently travelled to Sulphur Bay to photograph the Jon Frum movement.
I was interested in his opinion that the Jon Frum cult won’t be around for much longer. I asked him why he thought that, and his response is interesting (see the comments on his page). Continue reading
Talking About Tanna 