The only easy access to this village is by small airplane. Otherwise, a 3-day journey through rugged terrains awaits you. But despite the remoteness of this area, the women of Barai, Boto, Onohuro, Dorobisoro and Mimai villages were very much eager to learn the function of Women’s Ministries for the first time. Central Papua Conference’s (CPC) Women’s Ministries (WM) Director Min. Julian Lava was in the area for 2 weeks from 30th August to 13th September 2021.

She was accompanying CPC’s Stewardship Director Pr. Wally Kapi the speaker of the one-week district camp meeting at Dorobisoro.

During the one-week program, Min. Lava would organize small gatherings daily with the women in the area and would give them firsthand information on the function of Women’s Ministries in the church. She gave several handbooks regarding Women’s Ministries to the ones who can read as many of the ladies in the area were illiterate. Also, attending those smaller meetings were several United Church goers.  
Min. Lava encouraged them to pray more often as this will help them in their spiritual life.

During the night the WM director would hold prayer bands or prayer warriors meeting with the women (pictured above) where they would pray for the speaker, the program and their personal requests. During one of the nights while Pr. Kapi was on stage preaching, the prayer warriors prayed for the Holy Spirit to speak to the listeners’ hearts for them to give their lives to God. Amazingly, while Pr. Kapi was preaching, crowds began to stand up and walk to the front one by one to surrender their lives to the Lord.

Pr. Kapi was dumbfounded as he wasn’t making any appeal that night.

Min. Lava later revealed to him that she and her women folks have prayed for such to happen.

After seeing with their own eyes the work of the Holy Spirit the women’s faith in God grew stronger. They came to the WM director bringing their sick children to pray for.

The Women’s Ministries has planted its seeds in this area. Women are now visiting their fellow women folks to encourage each other’s faith in the Lord.

Before departing to Port Moresby, Min. Lava encouraged the ladies to stand firm in their faith and to help advance the gospel of Jesus to the unreached territories before His soon return.

Thirty-four souls gave their lives to Jesus in the water of baptism following a one-week district camp meeting at Dorobisoro Village from 30th August – 04th September. The guest speaker of theKwikila District Inland Camp Meeting was Pr. Wally Kapi, Stewardship Director of the Central Papua Conference (CPC). He was preaching on the theme ‘God’s final call – I will go.’
 
Dorobisoro, located in the jungles of Central Province and about 81.2 km from the capital city Port Moresby, is a United Church village with a population of approximately 250 people. Adventist church is only present in the nearby 4 villages of Barai, Onohuro, Boto and Mimai.

Dorobisoro is the only easy link from the area to the outside world with an airstrip that only see one or two flights per year or none at all.

The camp meeting saw faithful Adventist church members from the 4 villages converged at Dorobisoro to fellowship in the one-week religious meeting.

With Pr. Kapi were Minister Julian Lava, CPC Women’s Ministries Director, Kwikila District Director Pr. Pali Veroli, Minister Garry Jack and CPC Media and Communications McValen Kaminiel.

Throughout the week, the United Church members have secretly attended the nightly meetings to hear Pr. Kapi preaching on the end time issues and God’s appeal to the world before his soon return. On the final night on Friday nearing conclusion of the sermon Pr. Kapi was shocked to see people walking up towards the stage without him making any appeal. Young people came in numbers to give their lives to Jesus.

On Sabbath 34 souls went into the water of baptism. Among them was Saul, a United Church member from Dorobisoro village.

Later on, Saul told Pr. Kapi that he and more than 150 other United Church members have attended the meeting every night and have sat in the dark to avoid being noticed.

Pr. Kapi encouraged the new baptized members to be disciples in order to make more disciples for Christ in the context of the world church theme ‘I will go.’

The Women’s Ministries (WM) of the Central Papua Conference (CPC) usually conducts its main events in the city of Port Moresby. This year 2021, it was different. The CPC WM’s-organized End It Now campaign was staged at Hula village, 94 km (58 miles) outside the capital city.

The campaign was the first of its kind to be held in the rural district thanks to the commitments and efforts of the WM leaders of Kwikila District who have liaised with the CPC Women’s Ministries to bring such an event to their community.

The End It Now campaign is the worldwide church event and the women folks in Kwikila District were very much part of it.

CPC’s WM director, Min. Julian Lava, when invited to the district on Thursday 26th August, was in shock to see 2,500-plus women young and old from different Christian denominations joined hands with Adventists in a massive End It Now march from Kamali to Hula village, a distance of 5 km (3 miles) chanting ‘stop violence against women’ with placards spelling out words such as ‘End it Now – Adventist say no to violence.’

Accompanying Min. Lava to the event were CPC’s Stewardship director, Pr. Wally Kapi and Ministerial Seretary Pr. Gibson Lohia.

The invited guests to the event were greeted on the road with women in uniforms chanting, bellowing and expressing their voices against violence. One of the invited guests was the local Parliamentary member, Mr. Lekwa Gure who decided to get off his vehicle and walked with the women for the last phase of the march.

Min. Lava in her address to the people who gathered at Hula to witness this first-of-its-kind event said this year 2021 the church chooses to focus on the issues of youth, violence and pornography and the church must find ways to help deal with the harmful and destructive effects of this issues. She further stated that the Adventist church encourages its members and leadership to facilitate awareness in their churches, communities, schools and workplaces to let the victims know that the church cares for them.

Merolyn Pokana, a local women leader, was very vocal about the event and its significance. She said the home was now becoming a very dangerous place for violence. She called on the men folks to honor women as weaker vessels and wish to see the change beginning at home.

MP, Mr. Gure, who was the former Civil Aviation and Labor Minister, shared the same sentiments saying to break the cycle of violence is to start at home. ‘Family unit is the basic unit that constitutes a society. Thus, if the family unit is breaking down, our society breaks down as well.’

The End It Now campaign was observed by several Adventist churches in Port Moresby city. Through social media posts, these churches were June Valley and Mango Avenue SDA churches. The WM director thanked those churches who have taken heed of the circular advising them to celebrate the day in their respective communities.