Many people lost everything except the clothes they were wearing as they ran to escape to higher ground.
Tag: Vanuatu
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Vanuatu has recently begun construction of a women's refuge and orphanage.
Adventist education in Vanuatu has such a good reputation that communities are very eager to establish an Adventist school in their village despite differences in religion.
The General Conference president will travel to Fiji in late November to celebrate the rebuilding and reopening of 27 churches destroyed by 2016’s Cyclone Winston. He will also stop over in Sydney, Australia.
Currently under construction, the 5000-seater multipurpose hall will be finished this month, and will be used for the weightlifting competitions.
A state of emergency has been declared on the northern Vanuatu island of Ambae, following increased volcanic activity in the past few days.
"Reading Man-Eaters of Malekula is like discovering a time capsule of the earliest days of Adventist missionary work in the South Pacific."
Presbyterian minister Tallis Obed Moses has made his first public appearance as president of Vanuatu by visiting an Adventist church.
Two Adventist pastors were on the final shortlist of Vanuatu's 16 presidential candidates.
Vanuatu head of state, President Baldwin Lonsdale, aged 68, died at Port Vila Central Hospital after suffering chest pains late on Friday night, June 16.