In those nine years, the school graduated two classes of Grade 8, with a number of students selected to continue their studies at Nagum Adventist Secondary School. Education was happening. Children were being shaped. And now, after nearly a decade of perseverance, the school has been approved for registration — set to become the first registered Adventist primary school in West Sepik Province under Sepik Mission.

A COMMUNITY THAT SHOWED UP

The day’s program drew a broad cross-section of community leadership. Speeches were delivered by the Ward Councillor, the Principal of Aitape Secondary School, Pastor Jonah Hombi, Minister Reuben Apari and others — a gathering that reflected just how much Wauningi Adventist Primary School has come to mean to the wider community it serves.

For Sepik Mission, the approval of Wauningi Adventist Primary School for formal registration is more than an administrative milestone. It is the recognition of nine years of faithful, uncompensated service by a community that believed in Adventist education long before the paperwork caught up with them.