How a bush school built on faith, grit and prayer changed the lives of Indigenous Australian children against all odds.
Category: Record Rewind
Battle Creek may seem a world away from the South Pacific. Yet for Adventists, this American village is part of our story.
Vaiola Kerisome, known as Malama among her people, was a translator and missionary in New Zealand and among her people of Niue.
A young couple leaves a comfortable life to share their faith on Mare Island, facing family conflict, loss and a church destroyed by fire.
In exchange for money or gifts, the people believed that Patimo would talk to the devil and ask that their life be extended, and their health restored.
Pastor Rick Ferret and his family were involved in the joyful celebrations . . . until the moment arrived when every parent’s nightmare became a reality.
The people of Tench Island always received a dream before any mission ship arrived.
It was required that Seventh-day Adventists “shall abolish their daily morning prayers, and they shall work on the Sabbath. Their tithe system for the support of the clergy shall be abolished”.
The first person to drive right around Australia achieved this great feat without realising they would be first!
