Summer Ministry Chapel

Last Tuesday we held our annual PIU Summer Ministry Prayer Chapel. Our VP of Student Life,  Rob Watt introduced the three teams that the school will be sending out this summer, gave each time an opportunity to inform of what they would be doing, what their needs are and how we could be praying for them. We then broke up into groups after each team shared and prayed for their needs. We are excited about the three teams who are going out as PIU ministry teams this summer and ask that you pray for them and for the many other students who will be returning to their own churches and islands for ministry this summer.

 PIU is sending a team back to Yap for 6 weeks (May 22nd to the end of June) this summer to work with the Yap Evangelical Church, to lead their Vacation Bible School, help with the large youth outreach event and to be involved in daily discipleship and evangelism ministries in the villages. In addition the team will be representing PIU in Yap and recruiting new students. Their prayer requests are listed on the screen in the picture on the left. The staff leader for the team will be our assistant librarian and alumna Stella Fatag and Josh Ladd will be the student leader. (Also pictured on the left)

The second team will be joining the Liebenzell Mission International Impact Team from Germany to do ministry in Palau and Chuuk. Alvin, Rusty and Mike (pictured with Rob – left) will be “big brothers” to the young people coming from Germany helping them with cultural adjustment, teaching them about Micronesian culture and working with them in various ministries with the Palauan and Chuukese churches.

The third team will be working with the 1st Baptist Church of Susanville, CA. The leader of the team will be Kita Mokut and she will be mainly leading women’s and children’s ministries there, working in the summer camp and helping with Vacation Bible Schools in several churches in the area. The church there in Susanville has large Palauan and Chuukese congregations within it, and Kita will be working with the already extensive ministries among the Micronesians there and provide some much needed help to the leadership of those ministries. If all goes well she will be joined by Jesse Hartt and Jonie Jones after they finish their ministry in Yap.