Bouganville 2020 in Review
Review of 2020 Bouganville events
2019 Update for Papua New Guinea & Bougainville
PNG is called ‘the land of the unexpected’. Irregular transport, an ineffective communication system, local political pressures and issues of personal safety, have made visits to Bougainville impossible over the last 12 months. The brethren have asked that the ACBM keep out of Bougainville until after the forthcoming referendum for national independence in October 2019.…
2018 Annual Update for Papua New Guinea & Bougainville
Our activities have been focused in the Bougainville, Lae, Alotau and Goodenough Island areas. Each area presents its own set of peculiar circumstances. Unfortunately, these areas are separated geographically by sea and mountain ranges, and are only readily accessible by air. We have been very delighted by the response of a group of friends on…
Bible school in the Land of the Unexpected
A Bible school is held an- nually at the Arawa High School on the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. It is generally held in the first week of January and this year went from Saturday 2nd until Sunday 10th. For Brothers Neville Rice and Michael Scerri, Sister Bronte McLean and her son James, it…
ACBM April Bulletin, 2012
Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country bounded by Russia in the north and China in the south. It covers an area twice the size of NSW but with a population of just 2.7 million is the world’s most sparsely populated nation. There is an ecclesia of four in the capital Ulaanbaatar which meets regularly in a small flat rented by…
Papa New Guinea & Bougainville Update
Papua New Guinea is north of Australia close to the equator. Bougainville, one of the poorest countries of the world, is its most easterly island. After nearly eight years of war with Papua New Guinea, Bougainville now has its own autonomous government. The first brother and sister in Bougainville, Bro. Boniface & Sis. Mary Dituama, were baptized in 1987…