Mission, congregation celebrates golden jubilee

 THE Christian Union Mission Church celebrated its 50th anniversary last Friday at Embi village, in the Nipa-Kutubu district, of Southern Highlands.

Church pastors, members, youths and other Christians flocked to the village dressed in different clothes representing the provinces and districts they came from. To make the celebration more important, missionary Don Seymour and his wife travelled from the United States for the occasion.

Present at the celebrations were World Global Mission president Hubert Harriman and Ruth Hilton, the woman who interpreted the Bible to Henengangal language.

“I am so proud to be with you. Many fathers worked very hard to make sure good news reached the people have all died but their sons and daughters have continued the work,” Seymour said.

He said he came with three children when he first arrived in the country and his fourth child was born here.

“Today, we have good roads, good clothes, we are living in a civilised world,” he said.

“But if some people had 

lived long enough to see how changes took place over the years, you would have shed your tears with me.”

Seymour said many other churches in the country had done so much to bring development and change to the people.

People dressed in tradition attires on Saturday, danced and chanted thanking Seymour and to celebrate the anniversary.