SOME villages sit at the centre of everything. Yibrew sits at the edge, tucked against the international border with Indonesia, in the remote reaches of Green River LLG, in a part of Papua New Guinea that most maps barely have room to label. It was here, between June 7 and 13, 2026, that a combined team of pastors and elders from Bewani Green River District chose to bring the gospel.

What the team found waiting for them was a community whose orderly lifestyle and friendly disposition already spoke of a quiet godliness, a people living far from the country’s centres of attention, but not far from its character.

JESUS OUR ONLY HOPE

Each night, Sumumini Church Pastor Stafford Opovi and Bewani Green River District Director Pastor Kembol Yawisaho delivered evangelistic presentations under the theme “Jesus Our Only Hope.” The messages drew crowds night after night, offering a sin-stricken world the one hope that does not waver and the village responded.