Church helps clothe poor to promote Christian values

A church has donated a bale of secondhand clothes to a community at 8-Mile settlement in Port Moresby.
Christian Apostolic Fellowship Church Pastor Joseph Aruni presented the clothes to the Back Street settlers of 8-Mile, near the Moitaka power station.
The community members were happy to receive the clothes as free gifts for Mother’s Day weekend.
For the community, it was the first visit by a church group to give gifts to people who were mostly poor.
Aruni said the church was mindful of the fact that members of the communities were neglected and marginalised.
He said his church would continue to donate secondhand clothes to other settlers within the vicinity of 8-Mile so people would know the church and understand what it was doing to help the community as part of its mission. He said the church was not about making money.
Resident Anna Pen said the community acknowledged and appreciated the donation from the 8-Mile Apostolic church leaders and youths.
She said the clothes would be distributed to the children, men and women in the community.
“We thank you for such donations, we will wear them to church, schools and to work,” Pen said.
Community representative Pastor Manson Lakoo spoke of the good ethical values and morals Christianity promoted to communities.
“Observing the Christian values of our faith and helping each other with our needs would help us to survive another day to worship God,” he said.
“And helping to fulfil others’ need would help us daily in our journey as Christians to have more faith and courage to worship him.”