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$A1,033,718 was given and spent supporting missions of the South Pacific Division. |
| Most of these funds provided stipends ($A900 each per year) for national volunteer workers to grow churches in isolated areas (300 in 2001). This has more than doubled the church’s work force in some areas. |
| Malaita Mission president Pastor Baxton reports that Volunteers in Action has changed Malaita, with 250 new areas entered and more than 2,400 baptisms. |
| Volunteers were responsible for more than 16,000 baptisms from 1996 to 2001. |
| Sponsors provided four outboard motors for canoes and 36 bicycles to assist workers with transport. |
| Some 35 village packs of clothing, more than 300 cartons of schoolbooks, a container load of medical supplies, soap and sporting equipment have been distributed to needy people and institutions. |
| Volunteers have been provided with a variety of resources to make their ministry more effective—including 2000 picture rolls donated by mission-oriented church members in North America at a cost of $A130,000, provided free to pastors, volunteers, schools and church members in Papua New Guinea. |
| During 2000-01, 186 applications were approved at a combined cost of $A800,000 to put permanent roofing on bush churches in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Building a church leads to unity and team work among local members and is a catalyst for further evangelism. |
| Mission has become real and personal for almost 60 individual or family sponsors and eight church groups. They each support a volunteer, which, with their dedication and God’s blessing, brings great rewards to the givers. |