Five weeks ago, I put a report on this website about how a small group of Christians, on one of the islands in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, had been affected by the deadly cyclone “Pam”. A week later, I was able to explain that a fund, accessible online, had been set up in New Zealand, whereby these brothers and sisters of ours could be helped. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s all in the two short articles below. The second of those two articles was, of course, written first – so… read more →
(If you haven’t already read the details of the Request below, you had better read it first, or you won’t really understand what I am now saying!) The situation of the small group of Christians I wrote about a week ago is now known. Tanna was the nearest island to the epicentre of the cyclone – the “eye of the storm”! Adam flew there as soon as that was possible. He reports that his ‘Christian Family’ out there were all physically unharmed, though still in shock. All the houses in the village have been totally… read more →
Some years ago, I related, on this website, a series of incidents that had happened on a remote island in the Pacific. The story actually began in New Zealand when a couple of “out-of-traditional-church” Christians (Graham and Shirley) befriended a migrant worker (George) from one of the Pacific islands. The simple friendship eventually led to the islander becoming a Christian, and later to the invention and installation of a water-pump by Graham and Shirley’s son Adam – a development that hugely helped George’s village. In time, the United Nations became interested, and were so impressed… read more →
