Vanuatu

Overview

The islands of Van­u­atu are locat­ed west of Fiji in the South Pacif­ic. In the late 1800s, the first mis­sion­ar­ies came to these fierce can­ni­bal­is­tic islands. In an amaz­ing­ly brief space of time, many became Chris­tians. Entire pop­u­la­tions of some of the islands came to Christ. In spite of this, there are few who teach through the Bible today.

Due to this lack of teach­ing, the peo­ple of Van­u­atu hunger for scrip­ture, and there are many oppor­tu­ni­ties for shar­ing the Word with these peo­ple. Our desire is to assist peo­ple in know­ing and lov­ing Jesus more as a result of learn­ing who He is through the study of His Word. Sev­er­al of the Ni-Van­u­atu men have risen up to help us shep­herd local church­es. Pas­tors Floyd and Samuel care for the needs at Nata­nara. Pas­tor Zachy has start­ed two church­es in near­by Fanafo and divides his time between these churches.

Tad and Mar­na just recent­ly returned from a trip to Van­u­atu of sev­er­al months in which they had oppor­tu­ni­ty to encour­age the broth­ers and sis­ters there and fur­ther estab­lish the work.

Prayer Requests

• Praise the Lord that the Nivan pas­tors are doing well in teach­ing the Word and build­ing up the believ­ers there.
• Praise the Lord that there are more oppor­tu­ni­ties for out­reach and Bible teach­ing to oth­er unreached peo­ples and islands.
• Pray for wis­dom on how to best pro­vide for the work at this stage of the mission.