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The Seventh-Day Adventist church is celebrating the success of its \u201cPNG for Christ\u201d series, after announcing the baptisms of over 300,000 people in Papua New Guinea. The campaign was a combined effort between the Seventh-Day Adventist\u2019s South Pacific Division, the Papua New Guinea Union Mission (PNGUM), the General Conference, and Adventist World Radio. Ted Wilson, president of the Seventh-Day Adventist world church announced the numbers on May 19 on Facebook<\/a>, writing, \u201cPRAISE BE TO GOD!!!! The latest information from the South Pacific Division and the Papua New Guinea Union Mission is that 278,369 people have been baptized so far in \u2018PNG for Christ\u2019 with only about 52 percent of the over 2000 sites reporting\u2026\u2026this is a miracle of God!\u201d The high numbers required special baptismal pools to be constructed, with some being able to hold as many as 1,000 people.<\/p>\n

The announcement called the campaign a \u201creaping\u201d campaign. PNGUM pastors had met with people before baptism to ensure that candidates fully understood the undertaking. Visiting pastors and dignitaries assisted with the baptisms due to the large numbers. There were several reports of changed lives, with the South Pacific Division Record announcing, \u201cStories of drug lords burning their marijuana crops and being baptised, prisoners responding to calls, whole villages declaring themselves Adventist, healings and people understanding the gospel presentations in their own languages are just some of things that have been reported.\u201d Pastor Miller Kuso, personal ministry director for PNGUM who coordinated PNG for Christ oversaw 2,000 sites where baptism events were held. \u201cIt is a great privilege and honor for me to visit different sites right across our country. I would like to thank [the almost 300 international speakers] for standing together, as a movement, with PNGUM to deliver the message of hope, the message of salvation to the people of this great nation of Papua New Guinea,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Seventh-Day Adventist Church has already had a huge presence in the Papua New Guinea region. The country\u2019s current prime minister, James Marape, who was elected in 2019, is a member of the church. The current PNGUM membership is reported around 400,000, meaning the number could more that double with these new baptisms. There was another report<\/a> that a Church of Christ in the Banz township had converted to a Seventh-Day Adventist Church. A number of other denominations in the area have converted since 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Seventh-Day Adventist church is celebrating the success of its \u201cPNG for Christ\u201d series, after announcing the baptisms of over 300,000 people in Papua New Guinea. The campaign was a combined effort between the Seventh-Day Adventist\u2019s South Pacific Division, the Papua New Guinea Union Mission (PNGUM), the General Conference, and Adventist World Radio. 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