MAUR Seventh-day Adventist Church took its World Adventurer Day celebration beyond its walls and into the community this weekend, loading 32 Adventurers, 38 Pathfinders, leaders and more than 20 church members onto transport on Friday, May 15, and heading out along the Turubu Highway to Tumarau-Mundangai Village for a three-day program of worship, outreach and mission.
The group represented Maur SDA Church and its three branch churches, travelling together to celebrate World Adventurer Day on Sabbath at the Mundangai Branch Church and to conduct a church commission for the branch church on Sunday, May 17.
SABBATH: ADVENTURERS LEAD, A COMMUNITY IS TOUCHED
On Sabbath, May 16, World Adventurer Day, the youngest members of the group stepped up and led out in the Sabbath School program, living out the day’s theme of “Walking with Jesus” in the most practical way. The Divine Service that followed was addressed by a special guest, Sepik Mission Youth Director Pastor Rayden Wanji, whose presence gave the celebration added weight and recognition from the mission.
After lunch, the group went into the community for an Act of Kindness walk distributing soap, washing powder, salt and stationery to children and adults throughout Mundangai Village. The walk also included prayer, with the team stopping to pray with five sick community members along the way. It was a tangible, visible expression of the gospel taking its feet into places it is most needed.
The weekend concludes on Sunday, May 17, with the church commission for Mundangai Branch Church a milestone occasion for a community that has been faithfully supported by Maur SDA Church and its branches. For the Adventurers and Pathfinders who made the journey, the weekend stands as a lesson they will not soon forget: that walking with Jesus is not a metaphor. It is a direction.
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