Bumayong students urged to prioritise education

MOROBE education adviser Keith Jiram had urged Bumayong Lutheran Secondary School students to move in a new direction for a better future.
Jiram was at the school to witness the surrendering and burning of cult materials which students had been using since cult was introduced there in 2016.
“This is the dawn of a new era and you must embrace this change in your heart from now on and make education your priority,” Jiram told the students.
In 2016, Education Minister Nick Kuman said they were looking at blacklisting the school because of cult practices and worship which often caused school fights.
“I told them to give me time to look into these things to try to find ways to solve it. Now you students have gone the right way in doing what you have done.
“Let that be the end of everything and move on.”
Jiram told the students that truth was a total submission and what was witnessed should be made in the name of Lord God Almighty.
“Let’s do away completely with this mentality and declare in one faith that this old flame will never burn Bumayong again and the new flame in the Holy Spirit may prevail forever,” he added.
School principal Saya Daniel told the students that everything had its own timing and the beginning of one was the end of the other.
He thanked pastors and Shalom Foundation members and asked them to be in the forefront of making sure reconciliation took place and cult practice and worship materials were destroyed.
“It is the members of Shalom Foundation and teachers’ hard work that led to the convincing of the male students to surrender all those materials and give up on those practices and worships,” Daniel said.
Evengelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea Bishop Rev Dr Jack Urame said: “We must have values in life.
“Embrace what people expect of you as students and change.”