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.

ONE SOUL, ONE SABBATH, ONE COMMUNITY MEAL

The week’s spiritual highlight came on Sabbath, when one soul was baptised, a single decision that carried the full weight of everything the week had built toward. The Sabbath program continued with a community bung lunch, bringing church members and Wesdeco residents to the same table to share a meal together.

The program concluded that Sabbath evening with an official closing ceremony. The response from the Wesdeco community was warm and appreciative, with residents openly acknowledging what the church had done to support them through the week both in body and in spirit.

For Vanimo Town SDA Church, the week at Wesdeco Settlement was proof that sustaining a community for Jesus often begins long before the first sermon is preached sometimes with nothing more than a shovel, a truckload of gravel, and a willingness to work alongside the very people the gospel is meant to reach.

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.