Скачать или смотреть Discover how this innovative training is transforming communities in Papua New Guinea

In the Eastern Highlands Simbu Mission (EHSM) of Papua New Guinea, has implemented some unique training to win souls for the Lord as well as retain these people in the church.

Life Skills Camps
Practical stewardship in the form of life skills trainings is taking the EHSM by storm, and they’ve even launched it into other missions including Morobe, South-West Papua, and Bougainville. From October 6 to 20, Mathew Kamo, the EHSM stewardship director, organized 18 one-week life skills training camps attended by more than 15,000 people.

The life skills programs, which also attract at-risk young people, revolve around the acronym GATE — God first, Agriculture, Trades, and Entrepreneurship — and are often accompanied by health education and outreach, including “10,000 Toes” diabetes prevention activities.

With hearts overflowing with God’s love, skilled church members generously give their time and resources to teach new believers more than 25 different life skills, including income generation from growing rice, tomatoes, citrus, grapes, mushrooms, and cocoa. The products and skills in the training also include sweet potatoes, tapioca flour, vanilla, baking, and sewing, as well as goats, poultry, fish, cattle, cooking, packaged meals, mechanics, solar electrical, plumbing, carpentry, and brick making. Finally, it includes literature sales, bookkeeping, business registration, and small business skills.

The camps include morning and evening spiritual messages for new believers, explanations about God’s tithe and offerings, and testimonies from beneficiaries of past trainings about how they have been blessed by God in their new-found faith and skills.

FAITH Gardens
A powerful part of the program was visits by Joanis Fezamo, EHSM president, and James Kiangua, EHSM secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist church, who shared stories of their own personal commitment to growing healthy foods for their families.

With fast-rising food costs in the shops, the two pastors outlined the need for every household to have a FAITH garden. The acronym stands for Food Always in the Home and is a powerful reminder of God’s call for us to care for our families. Fezamo gave ready-to-plant rice and wheat seeds from his own family’s FAITH garden to each of the camp attendees and encouraged them to multiply the harvest.

EHSM’s practical stewardship activities are a testament to the members’ love for their neighbors. Many onlookers are seeing that they are Christ’s disciples because of their love for one another. Eyewitnesses are describing it as a beautiful re-creation of the early church’s sharing of their faith, love, and resources in Acts 2:44-47.

Many who are not yet Christian believers are also attending the life skills camps and are being introduced to the love of God through His people. The camps, originally aimed at new member retention, have become an effective outreach in themselves.

Join us in the documentary as we visit these life skills training camps run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Don't miss the exciting conclusion at the end of the video.

Here is a link to Vimeo to download the video: https://vimeo.com/1054013077