ESTABLISHING CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS IN OTHER COUNTRIES.
Our church has worked together with churches in different countries including Germany, Solomon Islands and South Korea in the area of Christian Education. We see this as the foundation of helping societies to be stable if they have a solid moral basis on which to stand.
We have set up over sixteen Christian schools in the Solomon Islands, mainly on the island of Malaita, starting in 2000. This has involved traveling to small villages in the bush and conducting training for two weeks every January and July. It is the village’s responsibility to put up the school building, and meet the needs of the teachers with us providing a starter box with the necessary materials to get a preschool and the first year of school—learning to read—underway.
From 2013 – 2021 we had a married couple on Malaita, resident in Auki, and running a small school there that catered for senior pupils. They also made periodic trips to the schools in the north and south of Auki, and ran the teacher training for villages that wanted to start a Christian school.
From 2013 – 2021 we had a married couple on Malaita, resident in Auki, and running a small school there that catered for senior pupils. They also made periodic trips to the schools in the north and south of Auki, and ran the teacher training for villages that wanted to start a Christian school.
We now have a base on the outskirts of Honiara, Guadalcanal, with a family running different projects as an example to those around and to those that come and stay—wanting to learn how to practically put these in place in their village.
We have had (before covid) overseas students from different countries including Germany, Japan, South Korea, China among others, come to study in our school here in Drury. Sometimes a whole family will come to stay for a time to train, and experience life in a community Church. We are beginning to see these return again.
Short Term Missions
We encourage our young people to use the school holidays to join us in short term missions including to the Solomons, Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, China, Israel…
We see this as not only valuable for those we go to encourage but also as a time to build confidence in our young people in feeling at home with different cultures.
Because we use the ACE curriculum in our school, families can also go on short term missions here in New Zealand and overseas—the children can continue their studies while traveling.