Having an impact on Simbo Island
UCB Solomon Islands Board Chariman, Coxwain, sent this picure and report from the Island of Simbo.
This is a picture of the Out back youths of Simbo Island with Simbo United Church Circuit Superintendent Minister, Rev Beckly Kahui and his Marama posing for a photograph with The Word for Today & Identified Bibles.
According to the Superintendent Minister, the Youths are not only enjoying casual reading of these Christian materials in public but have actively engaged in daily personal devotions and meditations at their homes.
He also noticed a gradual change in behaviour among the youths as well as the improvement of Church attendance and Christian activity participation in the area.
Please do pray for them as they were devastated by the impact of the recent severe tropical cyclone Maila.
A blessing in Vanuatu
We received this letter from one of the staff at Au Bon Marche in Port Vila:
Dear Team,
Thank you so much for the Books that we had received last year 2025, and for the new Edition 2026.
We would also like to thank you for your beautiful hearts that shows and contribute to the word of God , we are so inspire and blessed by the word of God as we read daily from our work places and with our families at home.
I would like to inform you that I had distribute all the books and still I had some more request for the books.
Therefore I would like to request for 1 cartoon if it possible for your team to deliver this week.
Our Donation will be done direct to your bank account,
Thank you so much for your kind assistance much appreciated.
May God Bless you and your family today and forward.
Blessings,
Senma
The Word for Today is available in Vanuatu thanks to the donations of our supporters, so THANK YOU for supporting our ministry.
God at Work
This is Martin Huyeng from St Mary’s. This year Martin will be doing Grade 12 at St Andrew’s Technical High School.
Listeners Being Impacted by Jesus
We received the following testimony from Rio in Timor Leste, where he has been visiting people, and they have shared some amazing things… Luis Apin, a longtime listener who works in Korea, has accepted the Lord. Not only he, but his youngest brother has also accepted the Lord and is a member of the VfC congregation. He is working in Korea, and last trip brought around 30 copies of Today’s Devotional, which he distributed to his friends who work there. However, he recently returned to Timor Leste for a vacation and suffered a heart attack while playing soccer, which caused a blood clot in his chest. The first time he was in critical condition, he was unconscious, but thanks to the swift intervention of the medical team, he was saved.
Luis and Rio at the Hospital
I have visited the hospital twice to pray for him and share God’s love with his family, who are waiting for him. We pray for his full recovery and his return to Korea. Every time he comes to visit me, he always asks for my prayers and discusses some spiritual issues, and I am becoming a place for him to raise questions.
Melly Beduku is a longtime listener and feels blessed by the radio ministry. She always hears worship songs, and her heart is touched. Until one day, she met a servant of God from AOG. She took the courage to ask about Christianity based on what she had heard on Radio Voz. Pastor Moises shared the gospel with Melly Beduku, and she accepted Jesus and continues to faithfully listen to Radio Voz.
Rio, Melly & her husband at their wedding
She was a widow and living with a widower without marriage. I had always asked them to have a legal marriage in church, praise God, after a long time, they finally agreed to get marry. I was present for their happy moment.
Amalia is a longtime listener. I met with her and shared God’s Word with her and prayed for her. She is very grateful to have Radio Voz with her every day.
Amelia and Rio
When I met her, She thanked me and encouraged me to continue spreading the Good news through Radio Voz.
If you have testimonies and pictures of how The Word for Today is making an impact in your nation, or the radio or God, please email [email protected], thank you and looking forward to hearing from you.
Inspiration for you from…
The secret to success
‘Were made strong out of weakness’ Hebrews 11:34 ESV
The so-called ‘secret’ to success is really no secret at all! It’s simply getting back up when life has knocked you down and taking with you into the future the lessons you have learned. In talking about heroes such as Samson and David, the Bible says they ‘were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.’ (Hebrews 11:34 ESV) Notice these people weren’t always strong, but they became strong. They didn’t win every battle, but they went on to win the ones that mattered.
In 1928, a 33-year-old American named Paul Galvin found himself staring at failure… again. By this point, he had failed twice in industry, his competitors having forced him to fold up his latest venture in the storage-battery business. Convinced, however, that he had a remarkable idea, Galvin attended the auction of his own business. And with the $750 he had managed to raise; he bought back the battery eliminator portion of the inventory. With it, he built a new company, one in which he succeeded, one from which he eventually retired, and one which became a household word: Motorola. You have probably heard of it.
Business innovator Roger von Oech said: ‘Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn’t work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach… Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.’ Failure is delay, not defeat. We all make mistakes, especially those who act. It’s only when you become unwilling to risk failure that you stop learning, you stop growing, and you stop succeeding.
SoulFood: 2 Tim 1–4, Matt 27:33–44, Ps 14, Pro 19:1–4
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