Anxiously Engaged in Kiribati

  We spent this last week in the island country of Nauru.  Naauru is not a part of Kiribati, but it is a part of  the Marshall Island/ Kiribati Mission.  The church was just recently registered as an official religion in Nauru which has taken many years of patient persistentce of church leadership especially from Elder Tune our Area Seventy here in Kiribati.  Although they are now registered, they still don't have permission to baptise or marry anyone - baby steps.   Here is the history of the Nauru Wheelchair project:  In 2023, the assistant director of the Department of People Living with Disabilty (DPLD) in Nauru went to a  conference in Fiji where he mentioned the need of mobility devices for Nauru.  Someone there suggested the Church might be able to help.  They sent a request email to Elder Tune who forward the request to the pacific area wheelchair specialists.  Unfortunately, since the church was not registered then, an...

  It's fun to see the people using the wheelchairs.  Going for  walk with grandpa.  This wheelchair has a trike attatchment  We are feeling so much joy seeing the fruits of our labors. Many of the projects that we started over a year ago are coming to an end. A fluoroscopy machine is now installed and being used to help with diagnosis.  These people not only installed the fluoroscopy machine but fixed the building so the machine would be safe from the elements  and the people would be safe using the machine.   Special needs children with a new sewing machine The school of Nursing had a project to receive a computer server.  It finally came in and is being installed as I write.  There is always a 10% overage allotment to cover any unforeseen expenses.  There were none. so we used these funds to buy tools that the school could use to help maintain not only the server but the building and grounds where the server will be kept.  Ke...