A network of church members, pastors and international volunteers has helped bring the Solomon Islands for Christ evangelistic campaign to 323 locations across the country’s nine provinces.
Pastor Newton Langai, discipleship and evangelism director for the Solomon Islands Mission and overall campaign coordinator, said preparations began in the middle of 2025 after the initiative was introduced by the South Pacific Division and Trans Pacific Union Mission.
Pastor Langai said coordinating hundreds of sites across the scattered islands of Solomon Islands had presented significant logistical challenges.
“Geographically, [the Solomon Islands] have nine provinces and a lot of islands. In total, we have 323 sites, in all provinces right around the country,” said Pastor Langai. “Some of these sites are right in the remote parts of this country where logistics and transportation are quite difficult.”
In some locations, ships arrive only once every three or six months. These limited services, together with other challenges at the beginning, delayed the arrival of some presenters and equipment, meaning many sites began later than originally planned.
Despite the challenges, Pastor Langai said most teams have now reached their sites and the Mission has completed the work to supply them with their necessary equipment, including data projectors, PA systems and generators.
Local church members have also played a vital role in making Solomons for Christ possible on a practical level. Many members have offered accommodation free of charge to house groups of presenters serving in the Honiara area. Others have given sacrificially, foregoing entire paychecks to fund the campaign at their local site. Every day, hundreds of meals are prepared to feed the presenters and their teams. Much of it is done freely, without expectation of compensation.
“We thank the church members offering their homes for accommodation. We also wish to thank the [South Pacific] Division for providing funds, as well as the Trans Pacific Union Mission and Papua New Guinea Union Mission for assisting us. I believe the Lord’s hand has been with us through the many different forms of support we have received,” Pastor Langai remarked.
Presenters and volunteers travelled from countries including Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati, South Africa, China and the United States, often paying their own travel expenses. Together with the local team of pastors from the Solomon Islands Mission, as well as other supporting ministries like ADRA, 10,000 Toes, Amazing Facts and more, they have been working together in a way rarely seen in a campaign like this one. Pastor Langai described this collaborative effort as both a blessing and a historic experience for the Solomon Islands church.
“We have no words to express our joy,” he said. “What they are doing here for this country is something we value so much. We will cherish this long after this event.”
Solomon Islands for Christ is part of the wider Trans Pacific for Christ initiative. While baptisms (scheduled for Sabbath morning at dozens of sites around the nine provinces) will be a significant moment at the conclusion of the campaign, Pastor Langai said the Mission’s greatest responsibility would continue after the visiting presenters returned home.
“The biggest work will begin straight after all the overseas preachers leave this country,” he said.
Pastors, administrators and local congregations will focus on providing Bible studies, discipleship, training and ongoing support for newly baptised members and others who expressed interest during the campaign.
“The biggest task that I pray for is that this whole Mission will be united in nurturing all these newly baptised people,” Pastor Langai said. “We pray that God will help us in continuing with this after the program.”
