Youths change, baptised

Faith

BY JEFFREY ELAPA
TWELVE people surrendered their lives to God when they were baptised in the sea at Taurama in Port Moresby.
They are members of the Christian Union Church of Papua New Guinea.
The people were led by soldier Titus Timothy Pei, who testified that despite peer group pressure he decided to give his life to God.
“Although there is temptation to follow my friends and my colleagues, I forgo these as I see them as not good,” Pei said.
“I have decided to give my life to God and preach his words while being a soldier.”
Church regional treasurer Pastor David James told the young people that there were many temptations when one became a Christian.
The baptism ceremony was witnessed by all church pastors and elders who gathered for the weeklong pastors’ national conference at Taurama.
The CUC started when the first missionaries from Ohio, United States, arrived in the Poroma Valley of Southern Highlands.
The church spread throughout Poroma and Nembi Plateau in Nipa Kutubu and Lai Valley in Imbongu.
Church headquarters and Bible school are in New Town, Mt Hagen, after relocation from Kar in Poroma. It has several churches in the Western Highland. It also has three churches in West New Britain.