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USP Evangelistic Centre. 3 rd Quarter 13 th Sabbath Mission Project. The Project Objectives. Build a church for the student group at the University of the South Pacific, Suva. To provide a stable worship environment for students to be spiritually and socially nurtured in.
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USP Evangelistic Centre 3rd Quarter 13th Sabbath Mission Project
The Project Objectives Build a church for the student group at the University of the South Pacific, Suva. • To provide a stable worship environment for students to be spiritually and socially nurtured in. • To enable members to also focus on evangelism and share the message in their secular institutions.
Membership • Current count approx. 250 members • Multi-cultural – Solomons, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu, PNG, Vanuatu, Fed States of Micronesia, Australia and NZ and others • Trans Pacific Mission expatriate workers
Tongans Samoans Vanuatu Fijians PNG Aust & NZ I-Kiribati Tuvaluans Solomons Cook Islanders
Institutions • University of the South Pacific (USP) , Fiji School of Medicine, Fiji School of Nursing, Fiji Institute of Technology, Fiji College of Advanced Education and other institutions.
Challenges • Weekly search for a worship venue • Financially costly – securing venues and transportation to venues • Fluctuation of church service attendances • Children's needs not prioritised.
Children having Sabbath School along the corridors
Challenges cont… • Venue preparations done on Sabbath. • Transporting equipment, church decorations, and ordinance service requirements on Sabbath to the various venues.
Building Project Progress & Plans • Plans began in 2002. • 2003 – a singing group went to New Zealand to raise money. Collected approx. $15,000 • Weekly offerings for Project = $180 weekly. • Special segment of prayers for the project in weekly services. • Promotional visits to local churches in the Central and Western divisions.
Building Project Progress & Plans • Building Committee meets weekly to discuss developments and action plans. • Applied for 4 blocks of land in a new land development at Laucala Bay. (To be confirmed in September). • Each block will cost $120,000. • Architect presently working on conceptual design of church. • Day of Prayer & Fasting – 16th September.
Vinaka Vakalevu God Bless Give generously this 13th Sabbath to help the USP Church in Fiji