Dawn & Gloria are been welcomed by Melten (my finance officer)

to the Assembly site in Louneil on Tanna

Here is the newly built Church at Waisisi on Tanna

It took 10 months to build

we had the opening ceremony on Saturday 25 Sept 2018

Here is the Moderator of the PCANZ Church

handing out Bislama Bibles as a gift to the Waisisi people.

I had a small speech to make, as we closed the official

opening of the Waisisi Church.

The Global Mission Coordinator  Phil King handing out Bibles. 

We were all able to meet and greet  with the President of Vanuatu and 

The First Lady, and later joined them for lunch.

Here is part of the team who have  had just received the 

70th Jubilee medal from the President of Vanuatu

for work that they have contributed to in Vanuatu.

Here we have the cutting of the cake to celebrate the 70th Jubilee 

at General Assembly

This is the big meeting hall made for the occasion and for hosting the 

Assembly,and catering over 400 people.

The Village and communities have been preparing 

for this for two years.  

The people are sitting and listening to the speeches 

at the opening of the Assembly. 

This is my breakfast at Louneil village

a good start for the day

The bread slice got thicker each day.

We are heading down to Tanna today

to join the PCV General Assembly 

We land on the West Coast of the Island, and then have a truck ride over

to white sands area, which is about 1 and half hours drive.

We have to open a New church building at Waisisi at lunch time

before going to Louneil for the welcome and start of the 

General assembly in the afternoon.

The top of the South team will be going down to Port Resolution

to set up a building program to build

a New church in 2019, while we are in Tanna.

Here we have the team from PCANZ

Martyn & Annette are unable to make the trip

to Tanna as Martyn broke his leg. 

It is great to catch up with Rev Dawn who arrived from Talua Santo

to attend the General Assembly.

Here is the our Church family from Blenheim NZ

its great to see you all. 

The guys are now getting ready to put the flooring

on the new toilet block at Etas school,

The men have laid the floor joyce for the toilet

We all arrived at Etas to find the container locked

and the key had been lost !!&##,

but this guy with his lighter opened the lock.

Ambae has now been evacuated

Gilbert who is from NZ, 

is making these smokeless stoves for cooking.

 You don't need much wood to cook with. 

Yowell made this wooden box so the PCV could transport

their big printer to Tanna, We were pleased it fitted.  

Here is a sunset in Port Vila harbour.

The guys are preparing the foundation for 

the new toilet block up at Etas school.

The toilet will be a long drop type of toilet, as their is no

water available in Etas to have the flush type

toilet, also leaves may be used as paper.

Here is a photo of the materials that the Hibiscus team have been waiting for. 

The team arrive's  next month (Sept) from the

Hibiscus Coast in Auckland to do this project.

It will be good to see all these materials

being put up, and the toilet block completed. 

The sand for the foundations.

This is a photo of what Mr Kim (our neighbour) has been building,

miles out in the bush on Efate Island. 

It's a Church building for the community.

The community are vey excited about this building,

which will be used as a kindy class  ( Monday - Friday's).

We had a builder come from Dunedin, to help his

friend to build the family house, in a suburb of 

Fresh water,  Thanks Campbell.

The house wasn't completed when he returned home

today, after being here working on it for 2 weeks

but it will get completed!!

Their are a few walls still to be lined, but 

this will get done in time.

Here are some water containers up at Etas area, waiting to get filled

as we enter the dry season.

Travelling Light  

Kate arrived from Blenheim today, and is going to Santo tonight.

Her bags didn't make the flight to Port Vila and have remained in Auckland.

Hoping they will make it to Vanuatu tomorrow. 

Our life in Port Vila

This was Knox's first ever ride on a Quad bike.

He is our neighbour ,and spends a lot of time with Gloria.

They popped down to the Seaside Library to get some books.

Today I had to purchase 80 blocks for the New toilet block

up at Etas school 

They had to make the blocks as stocks were low

My Havaianas flip flop didn't last the full year

the rough roads in Vanuatu takes a high toll on flip flops.

This is what I call a coconut drink !!!!

I tasted a coconut drink in Australia which tasted of sugar.

Campbell from Dunedin NZ arrived over a week ago to help build this house

for a friend and they are up to putting on the roofing iron

The dry weather has arrived and people are

collecting water from the water sources

a 20 ltr cost 20 vatu

The cricket pitch grass is all brown 

as the weather warms up

Our neighbourhood broke into a frenzy of excitement,

when a small piglet escaped, from this wooden holding pen

from a house two doors down.

Adults, youth, children, and dogs all raced from section to section in hot pursuit 

of a  squelling small getaway pig

It reminded me of the days we had the event

"Catch the greasy pig" on the Picton foreshore 

  It was great fun for us children.

but not the pig.

It took about 30 minutes before the pig was caught.

It gave this dog a great workout 

He's puffed out. 

I think the pig would rather be in the cage now.

While in the Vila market, we came across this very small pineapple. 

                                     It was time to get the first aid kit out today at School,
                                                       and attend to some wounds.

This wee lad in green, has a boil on his foot, 

 so he was off home to have it looked at  ........ouchh

 after I covered it.

It's a very common sight at School.

          The night Diver, this boy scraped his foot on the rocks affecting his 4 toes

 He was excited to have bandaged up.