Women worry about youths cycling to synod

By SCHOLAR KASSAS
A GROUP of women from Yabem, Morobe, are concerned about 35 men still travelling from Lae to Port Moresby on bicycles for the 33rd Evangelical Lutheran church synod currently underway in Port Moresby.
One of the women, Gilam Michael, said the youths were called the “bicycle ministry”.
Michael said they had travelled by bike to four church conferences and this would be the second longest distance they had travelled.
“They travelled from Lae to Goroka for the national youth conference, from Lae to the Yabem women’s conference in Kaiapit and from Lae to Yabem conference in Deka,” she explained.
Michael said the bikers had left Ampo in Lae last week and should have made it to Port Moresby earlier this week.
The women told The National that the youths had taken the Black Cat Track from Morobe to Gulf and would then reach Port Moresby.
“We are trying to keep in touch with them to find their location but we can’t, they must be in an area that does not have network coverage,” they said.
“We are worried and keeping an eye out for them for the past three days and prayed for their safe travel to Port Moresby.”
The women added that the men were reformed youth who had given up a life of homebrew, drugs and other illegal activities.