Papua New Guinea

WMF PNG has three ministry hubs and six communities in which we engage in outreach.

On the upper Sepik, Clemence Komnapi works with a team of 30 volunteers reaching the five Yamano Speaking villages with literacy and community health programs, a vernacular Bible Translation endeavor, and discipleship opportunities. Throughout the year, Clemence also mentors and leads an outreach team that goes into even more remote commuinities to share the gospel and teach from the Word of God. He has recently been invited to engage in discipleship in a community in Maprik as well.

In Wewak, Steven and Helen Lemeki engage in compassionate ministries in their settlement area and at the local hospital. They engage in fellowship and discipleship at the provincial prison, and hold regular events for youth in their community in order to reach them and their families with the Love of God. Steven has also engaged in evengalism and discipleship outreach to several communities on the Lower Sepik, and has frequently been called on to mediate reconciliation talks between feuding groups in those communities. Anthonia James – also based in Wewak – has had the opportunity to share the gospel, and now follow up with discipleship and literacy classes in two previously feuding villages on the Middle Sepik.

In Port Moresby, the Grimm family are engaged in discipleship and literacy training with a group at their local church as well as discipling a couple of new believers in their neighborhood. They are currently working with their local community to get a learning center started in order to give local children access to literacy and the Word of God. Mary is currently teaching children as well as training up a handful of teachers to continue this work. Benjamin has provided first aid training and engaged in a restoration project, which simultaneously teaches sustainable agriculture and land management skills. The Grimms have also worked to provide trainings and support to other mission organizations in the Moresby area – BAMA (training rural health workers in life saving practices surrounding birth), iCare4U (Providing care and support programs for women with HIV/AIDS), and ShapeLife (equipping and mentoring local ministry teams to reach out to children in the Moresby settlement areas).

We are blessed to see our ministry teams growing and receiveing more and more invitations to teach  people about the Word of God. God is working powerfully in this country, and much of the work He is doing is through a growing number of mature PNG Believers! We rejoice over this and pray for the Lord's ongoing provision for and direction of our teams around the country.