Meeting with Pohnpeian Church Leaders

This afternoon I had the opportunity to address the leadership of the United Church of Christ Pohnpei. They are holding their executive meetings on Guam this week, and Saladier Ilai, recent PIU graduate and a senior pastor in the UCCP, arranged for me to be able to come and talk to the Pohnpeian pastors about how PIU could serve the education needs of their church. Many of the pastors I had met before. In fact, several of them had been in the church that met with us at Yigo Baptist back in the mid-1990’s. They seemed very excited about having their students come to PIU this Fall, exploring setting up a Teaching Facility in Pohnpei, and several of the pastors asked me about enrolling in the PIES seminary themselves. A few of them plan to join us for our monthly PIU theological discussion on Friday and then will get a tour of the campus. Please be praying for God’s direction as we move forward on this. Nico Daams from the Wycliffe “Isles of the Sea” Group was also there (that is Nico and Saladier in the picture above right eating and smiling at the camera) to talk about the Bible translation projects going on in Pohnpei. Two of the Isles of the Sea guys who teach at PIU (Ken Dixon and Peter Knapp) will be headed to Pohnpei tomorrow to help with outer island translation work and will also be offering the PIU entrance and placement test to prospective PIU students there.