Jiwaka education board recognises camp

THE Jiwaka Provincial Education Board has recognised the Lutheran agency schools reformation camp and will declare holidays on the days once all guidelines and policies are in place.
PEB representative Rev Peter Wamp said once proper policies and guidelines were submitted to them by the schools, they could work on them for next year’s camp.
Wamp said that teachers were the first pastors and it was more educational to teach students on Lutheran faith.
“Hosting schools have a mammoth task to make necessary arrangements to carry out the reformation camps’’, he said.
This is the third year of The Reformation camp which is hosted annually since 2017 by the Lutheran Agency Schools from ELC (evangelical Lutheran Church)-Jiwaka district.
It was first hosted in 2017 by Lutheran Church Banz College, 2018 by ELCONG Primary School and this year by Lutheran Day High School.
They are a total of 18 Lutheran agency schools in the province that are expected to attend the camp every year.
The Reformation camp was initiated in 2017 in commemoration of 500 years of the Lutheran Reformation worldwide.
This year’s Reformation camp theme was “Transforming and Knowing God’s will through Christ’s Resurrection Power.”
Bible studies were carried out based on the theme. Presenting bible studies during the camp Rev Jack Gagara from social concerns office urged the students to become reformers in their minds.
“Our thoughts have to change and not remain the same.
“In that way, we can be liberated truly by God’s power,” he said.
ELC-Jiwaka district is the first within ELC-PNG to run reformation studies on Reformation day.
Lutheran Church College Banz during the opening ceremony witnessed the unveiling of their Luther Rose Monument which was built in 2017. This year the Lutheran Church worldwide celebrated 502 years of Reformation.