SDAs prepare for nationwide convention

**The SDA members in Morobe’s Nawaeb during the campaign march on March 31. – Nationalpic by JACINTA COHLEE**

By JACINTA COHLEE and LIBERT SANGUNDI
SEVENTH-Day Adventist (SDA) church members in Morobe’s Lae, and the National Capital District (NCD) have been walking the streets for an evangelistic campaign called “PNG for Christ.”
This is a lead up to a nationwide convention from April 26 to May 11 where about 300 world preachers are expected to be in the country. These include president of the SDA church worldwide Pastor Ted Wilson and Dr Ben Carson.
The PNG for Christ evangelistic campaign aimed at uniting everyone despite their denominations.
On March 31, at least 10 SDA churches in Morobe’s Nawaeb, flooded the roads along the Situm, Bumayong and Tent City for the evangelistic campaign.
Some members marched from Hobu and Situm River to Situm Junction. They all met at Situm Junction and walked towards Bumayong, Kaisa and Tent City and ended at the Lae Adventist School.
District programme director Pastor Enapo Umba said the campaign was to advise people that the SDA church would host a programme called “PNG for Christ”, from April 26 to May 11.
The gathering is following a study in the book of Revelation of Hope and Daniel which talks about prophecies.
“The awareness is also to let the community know that the country is affected by law and order issues, and we have to let people aware that these are temporary issues because PNG is for Christ,” Umba said.

**Youths, pathfinders and church members of Morata Community Seventh-day Adventist Church in their uniforms holding posters and banners of the PNG for Christ campaign last Sunday. – Pictures supplied**

Morobe Mission evangelism director, Pastor James Dirye, said the country will host about 2, 000 location sites, while Morobe alone will host 200 sites for the evangelical programme.
Dirye said that other centres in Morobe had also done the same campaign already. Lae held theirs on March 24, followed by Nawaeb on March 31.
In Port Moresby on Sunday, March 7, the Morata Community SDA churches marched from Morata community hall to Waigani.
Morata two SDA church member Samuel Pank said the PNG for Christ campaign signaled the start of a spiritual awakening leading up to the PNG for Christ event campaign.
“It is a nationwide discipleship reaping initiative set to be the largest in PNG’s history,” he said.
“These sermons will be shared nightly across more than 2000 sites and broadcast live for national and global participation, with the main site in Jiwaka, Minj, featuring Elder Wilson.”
He added that the Morata community would host its meeting at the community hall with an international preacher.
In East Sepik, Angoram SDA pastor Malcom Nenai who led the campaign there recently, said the programme would be held at Angoram centre opposite Angoram primary school from April 26 to May 12.
He said regardless of the double disaster of prolonged flooding and the recent magnitude 6.9 earthquake that hit Angoram recently, church members woke up at 4am, got into their canoes and dinghies and travelled upstream the main Sepik River to Kandawanem for the campaign and ended at Angoram.
He encouraged fellow SDA Christians to pray for Angoram people to know and accept Christ in their lives.