Sometimes our mission work is aided by non-Adventists. We had just returned to Kewa village after being away for furlough. On Sabbath afternoon, as is our custom, we got together with members of our church for the Adventist Youth (AY) program. On that particular Sabbath, we gathered in the public meeting house in the center of the village just a stone’s throw from the village leader’s house. Since there is prejudice in the village against outside groups like ours, we are always looking for ways to break down those walls of prejudice. So we decided that for the activity portion of our AY program we would go to certain houses in the village and sing for the residents, share a thought from the Bible and pray with them. The second house we went to was the village leader’s. He already had a gathering of men in his yard, so we had a ready-made audience. At the end of our short service, our group went around to greet the men and shake hands. Among the men was a guest who had come to his home village for a two or three-week vacation before returning to his job in Port Moresby. People like this, who are educated and live in a city, wield a lot of influence with the locals. We finished our AY program and closed the Sabbath together.

The next day, one of our members came to our house excitedly to tell me some news. “After we did our AY program at the village leader’s home, that man visiting from Port Moresby talked with the leader and said, ‘In the city, I have met Seventh-day Adventists, and I have looked at their teachings. You treat these Adventists well. They hold the truth.’”

Praise the Lord for this man’s encouraging words!

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