It has been a great year! We finished up the school year with two short course instructors: Bill Steward from Bear Valley in Denver, CO who taught a course entitled Christ of the Covenants, and Stan Dean the pulpit minister at the Killen Church of Christ in Killen, AL who taught a class on the Book of James.
They both did a great job and also stayed over to assist with our graduation exercises on Saturday 2nd of November. Stan did a devotional for the graduation, and Bill did the commencement address and also handed out the certificates to our graduates. We had 4 students to graduate from our program, including two international students:
Alphonsus Rickimae was our top student from the Solomon Islands
Asher Abraham received our Heart of a Servant award and came to us from Micronesia
Kitione Solinadrotini from Naila village here in Fiji
Samuela Tupou from the Ten Miles Church of Christ in Nakasi
We have continued to do follow up work with the Nadi Church of Christ following our campaign there in September. While I am reporting in the U.S. several of the students plan to travel over and do visitation and help with the Sunday worship services on the weekends. The brethren in Nadi have fixed up the upper floor of the church building so that they will have a place to stay while they are in Nadi.
Since we are south of the equator, we are headed into Summer here. The students will have time to plant their gardens and rest up before starting back to school on February 17, 2020.
Thank you for all you do to make this work possible. May God be gloried by this work. Please keep the Bible Institute at Raiwaqa in your prayers!
Your servants in Christ,
Rocco Pierce, Jason Pierce, and Emosi Sailo