Australasian Record and Advent World Survey for 1978
11JSTRALASIAN 111?40MI1) Ind advent w lc survey Fc Itor:Robert H ,Parr legistered for posting as a Periodical—Category A VOL. 83, NO. 9 PRICE 17 CENTS February 27, 1978 PAPUA NEW GUINEANS VISIT THE HOLY LAND JOHN HACKWELL, Pastor/Evangelist, Eastern Highlands Mission, P.N.G.U.M. ON OCTOBER 26, 1977, four national pastors and twenty-one Highlander church members set out from the Mount Hagen airport on what was to be one of the most successful Lay Activities training prog- rammes ever conducted by our denomina- tion. Our destination: Jerusalem and the land of the Bible. On what basis can we claim it to be so suc- cessful? Well, we always look for the results in any venture, and this experience seems to have already broken all previous achievements in the areas of Evangelism, Public Relations, Com- munication, Lay Activities, etc. Allow me to illustrate: Walter Nombe is our church elder at the Goroka headquarters church, and his experi- ence is typical of what the other twenty laymen are doing right now. On a recent Saturday even- ing, using his own projector and transparen- cies, Walter spoke to an audience of more than 1,000 people. His message was clear and deci- sive: "I have seen the land of Jesus. I have seen the town where He was born, and the city where He died. I visited the town where He attended church on the Sabbath. It was a great privilege The touring party in front of the Church of the Nativity at Bethlehem. Pastor John Hackwell is in the for me to go to Israel.
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