Children and Youth Ministry in PNG

Children and Youth Ministry

This project needs $20,000 in 2011.

Juliet Kolai and Margaret Kurawae teach Sunday School in the Parish of Mt Hagen in Papua New Guinea. The 20 or so students who gather for each service are taught in small groups, separated by age, if there are enough teachers to help.

Juliet said, "I really enjoy teaching children, they are very interested in learning new things and when we teach them, they also help me to learn something from them."

"When these children grow up, they will be the future leaders of our church and if we don’t work with them now they may be lost. I think it's really important for us to be very creative in teaching the children," she said.

Amongst the everyday challenge of teaching children the women regularly run out of resources and have no funding to offer training to those who might be able to assist.

"We need to train teachers to be good, to be creative and prepare their lessons. Then when they teach the children are satisfied and show interest."

With seven years experience in teaching Sunday school Juliet thinks one of the hardest things is to keep the children interested which the teachers do through singing and Bible stories.

"The hardest thing is when they are making noise or they don't listen. We need a lot of teachers to work together to look after them, especially the little ones," Juliet said.

Margaret agrees and said that while she has been in Mt Hagen for the last two years she has found other parishes had much better resources and has experienced some ups and downs teaching Sunday School.

The Parish has been undertaking some fundraising initiatives to assist the development of the Sunday School projects but it's not enough.

You can help Margaret and Juliet and many others continue this important ministry to children and young people in Papua New Guinea by supporting this project.

You can Donate Now to this project by selecting Children and Youth in PNG from the full project list.

Download the 2011 Project Information Sheet.