Conference to remember death of television evangelist

TWO years after his death, Pastor Joseph Kingal is fondly remembered for the work he had put into Christianity in the country.
Now his wife, Pastor Susan Kingal, is continuing the work of the JK Ministry although she says her husband’s shoes are too big to fill.
Nevertheless, the determined wife of the country’s first television evangelist and founder of the JK Ministry isn’t stepping out of the shoes.
On the anniversary of Kingal’s death that occurred in a road accident on Oct 18, 2010 on the Markham stretch of the Highlands Highway, Susan is assuming leadership and will host the annual conference at the Christian Miracle Centre at Kamkumung.
That will ensure that her late husband’s vision to spread the word of God to the rest of Papua New Guinea remains alive and well.
The church was founded in 1994 and became the headquarters of the JK Ministry.
“The annual conference is the second without Joseph Kingal.
“There will be a memorial service when we will tell partners, friends and pastors that the man is dead, but the vision still continues. Our friends should still be attached to the vision,” Susan said in Lae yesterday.
“I cannot wear his shoes, but I will wear my own shoes and carry on the ministry. His shoes are too big for me which I can’t fit into as I have to raise four children.
“We are keeping the ministries running but not at the same rate as the late pastor did,” she said.
The late evangelist from Gumanch in the Dei district of Western Highlands had said he was called on by God while still a student at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology in Lae.
He wrote that in 1993 he had healing powers that  “came to my spirit like an ice and a cold, sweet wind during the June-July crusade at Unitech.”
“I started to minister to the sick, I ministered without the laying on of hands and to my surprise people were healed by the power of God, the power of God came upon me like a river and I spoke with a pen of a ready writer,” he wrote.
In 1998, he wrote that the crusades had expanded on the national scene and extended to other parts of the country, including Mt Hagen, Wabag, Mendi, Kundiawa and Lae.
Susan is calling on Christians, partners and the public to attend and hear the word of God on Saturday  at the centre.