Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand

Since our visit in December, Lelepa Island Church members milled timber on the island for the rafters etc and these were soon erected onto the concrete block work.

After reporting back to our congregation at the end of January we were thrilled to find out that a Johnsonville church family had offered to fund the major part of the roof on the new church on Lelepa Island. Various further funds raised were added to unused funds raised for our visit  meant that we had achieved the $24,000 needed to put the roof on the building.

The roofing materials were ordered and uplifted from Port Vila Hardware and were soon landed on the island. The roofing iron was very quickly placed on the building.

These funds were forwarded to Vanuatu on 11 April. We have recently raised another $5400 including a very generous donation from Unicat, our church catering organisation. This money will be used to purchase guttering etc to enable rainwater to be collected and stored in large tanks at each end of the new church.

There are still ongoing needs for the church so we are having another small fund-raising venture in June. See Calendar

The initial phase of the partnership between JUC and Lelepa has been an outstanding success.  We congratulate the Church in Lelepa for getting the roof in place and the members of JUC for their commitment to this project