Woman travels three days to attend ministry launching

MARTHA Ove travelled for three days from her home in Baimuru to attend the Revival Women’s Ministry launching in Port Moresby last month.
“We have travelled to do the work of God and the long distance does not matter,” she said.
Ove and other women group travelled for three days from Korava village in Baimuru, Gulf to reach Port Moresby for the event on Saturday Dec 28. They brought with them handicraft from their village which caught the attention of people visiting their stall.
Ove said it took them a month to cut pandanus in the swamps to weave sleeping mats and baskets.
“We travel for days to access the market, school and aid post when we are sick,” Ove said.
Travelling from Baimuru to Kerema town costs K200 per adult and K50 for a student. Kerema town to Port Moresby costs K50 per adult and K30 for a student.
They brought 50 baskets, 170 sleeping mats, 37 brooms, cassowary feathers, lizard skin, wooden soup bowls and others.
Church committee member Philip David said 10 per cent of the money they earned from the sale would be given to the ministry in Port Moresby and 70 per cent to their ministry at the village.
Revival Centre of PNG founder Pastor Godfrey Wippon said it was an annual event to bring women together to pray and share the gospel.
The women sold garden food from their villages, baskets, mats, bilum, meri blouse, pillows, hammock and brooms.
Philip said their main source of income at the village was sago. which they sold at Kerema town.