The South Sea Evangelical Church (SSEC) is an evangelical, Pentecostal church in Papua New Guinea. In total, 20% of the population of the people of PNG adheres to the church, making it the third most common religious affiliation in the country behind the Assemblies of God and the Roman Catholic Church. The SSEC is particularly popular in East Sepik Province, where 40% of its members live in East Sepik Province; the other 30% in West New Britain Province while the other 5% Scattered through out the Country. 10% In Madang, 10% Morobe, 5% in Port Moresby.
The organisation was founded in 1886 as the "Queensland Kanaka Mission" (QKM) in Queensland, Australia, as an evangelical and non-denominational church targeting Kanakas (blackbirded
labourers at the sugarcane plantations, mostly from Solomon Islands and Vanuatu).
Florence Young, the sister of Arthur, Horace and Ernest Young, the owners of the Fairymead plantation on which the mission was located, was largely responsible for the establishment of the mission, and served as secretary of the organisation. At its height in 1904–05, it employed 19 missionaries, 118 unpaid "native teachers," and celebrated 2150 conversions. Young used pidgin English and illustrations to explain the resurrection and other Christian ideas.
The South Seas Evangelical Mission (SSEM) was established in 1904 by Young as a branch of the Queensland Kanaka Mission. Its purpose was to follow the workers back to their homeland, and maintain their religious instruction there. At that time fewer workers were coming, due to the White Australia policy.
Florence Young continued to administer the organisation, from Sydney and Katoomba, and made annual trips to the island until 1926. Between 1906 and 1920, the SSEM established small enclaves on the coast of islands. On Malaita, these enclaves were always under threat from the more powerful bush groups. The first missionary in the Kwaio territory, for instance, was killed, ostensibly to purify a curse, but more because of the perceived threat to their power. Under pressure from the administration of the British Solomon
Islands Protectorate, the Mission re-evaluated its language policy, and in the 1920s began to use English as a medium of instruction, instead of pidgins or local languages; however, to facilitate understanding, they devised a simplified English. The SSEM was criticised for using its religious influence to support the Malayta Company, which was led by the Young family in Queensland, and maintained close connections with the mission.
After World War II, the experience of many Solomon Islanders that not all whites are strict Christians made some upset that the SSEM withheld what they saw as the real key to power, education beyond literacy. Some whites were then ejected from churches as Malaita Bible teachers participated in the Maasina Rule movement. The South Seas Evangelical Church was established in 1964 under its current name, and became independent from the mission in 1975.
On Thursday June 12th, 2014
THE Aliya Raising Israel Papua New Guinea has opened two offices to enable Christians to send financial assistance to Israel.
The two offices have been opened inKimbe, West New Britain and Mt Hagen in Western Highlands.
Interim chairman Pastor Albert Pawa said the Aliya Raising mission was to “help bring Jewish people back home and help them establish roots in Israel”.
The international director for Aliya Raising is businessman Alex Barrack.
He is a holocaust survivor who set up the PNG office in his hometown of Galilee.
He said Aliyah began 200 years ago with only 27 people and had since grown and gained momentum.
Aliyah is a Hebrew word meaning Going up or ascent. Aliyah figuratively means immigration, restoration and elevation. It also means increase.
Barrack is assisting Jewish people return home to Israel as a result of his own experience.
Pawa said the mission was opened to Christians from all denominations who wished to be part of living out the Biblical prophecy of assisting Jewish people return to their homeland.
He said in the past,Christians in PNG had been supporting the mission by sending funds through overseas missionary organisations.
Pawa said the two offices would facilitate the sending of funds directly to Israel which had a PNG office set up in Galilee.
Meanwhile, chairman of Kimbe Tower Elder Chris Akis invited people regardless of their denominations to stand together and see the Aliyah Raising meet its target.
In 2017 Aliyah Raising Israel PNG Came to East Sepik to Brugam. Awards was presented to Sir. Pita Lus and Sir. Michael Somare. This pave a way for SSEC Balif to take up a New Journey. The Path to Restoration.
Background
It all began with Prophet Michael Maeliau of SSEC.
The ‘Deep Sea Canoe Vision’ was given to him in early 1986, in his nation of Solomon Islands. It was during a normal Elder’s prayer meeting on which the agenda was the opening up of a new congregation in a suburb of Honiara city. He began to receive this powerful impression on his mind. The impression was so strong that he could not suppress or ignore it. He called the attention of his colleagues and requested if they did not mind; allow him to share with them what he was seeing in his mind. This is the account of the vision he saw.
Solomon Islands
A great flood was coming down a valley in spite of the fact that it was not raining at all. Unlike any normal flood, the water was pure crystal clear with no dirt or object whatsoever in it. The flood then came to a dam. It began to fill up the valley forming a beautiful lake with greenish blue colour. As the water had completely filled up the valley, it began to flow over the bank of the dam. And as it did, it changed into a water spray of mist like a cloud. At that point the map of the world came onto the scene. From the map he could see that all this was taking place in the Solomon Islands.
South Pacific
Then this cloud began to float around towards Australia, turned north towards Papua New Guinea, and then it turned east and headed back toward the Solomon Islands. From the Solomon Islands, the cloud headed east for the second round toward the Eastern Pacific countries of Polynesia. From the east the cloud turned around and headed back west through New Zealand, then Australia, and finally back to Papua New Guinea again for the second time.
Americas
From Papua New Guinea, the cloud changed into what he can only describe as currents. It looked like the effect of a speedboat on water without the boat. There were actually three streams of this. These three-pronged currents headed east towards the west coast of the United States of America. When they hit the West Coast of America, they split up in three different directions. The left stream turned north and headed towards the North Pole, the right stream turned south and headed towards the South Pole, and the centre stream went on straight towards the East Coast of the United States. When the centre stream reached the East Coast, it took a 180-degree about turn. And as it did so it became a great big tidal wave, a tsunami linking up with the northern and the southern streams, from the North Pole all the way to the South Pole.
World
This great tsunami literally covered everything within its path. It rolled back over the Americas and then over the Pacific. The wave kept travelling in the westerly direction until the southern tip came to the Indian Ocean. From there the southern tip swung around and went around until it reached the Arabian Gulf and then it stopped. The northern tip kept rolling over Asia, the whole of Europe, and then from there it turned south and went around until it encircled the whole of the African continent. When it came around Cape Horn, the tip of South Africa, it swung around northeast and travelled up until it linked up with the southern tip of the wave that had been waiting all this time in the Arabian Gulf.
Israel
As the two ends met up, they formed a perfect circle with Jerusalem right at the centre of it. Then from all sides, the wave zoomed in on Jerusalem, and when it hit Jerusalem, it shot up into the sky like a great pillar of water. As this great pillar of water reached deep into the heavens, it opened up like a mushroom and then floated out into all directions in the most beautiful cloud formation one can ever imagine until it completely engulfed the whole earth. Then these words came out from heaven,
‘And the Glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea!’
The Prophet Rev. Michael Maeliau
Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean, 1986
The Prayer Movement Behind the Deep Sea Canoe Vision
Background
A South Pacific Regional Missions Consultation was held in Suva, Fiji, in December 1989 under the umbrella of the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF). Rev Michael Maeliau of the South Seas Evangelical Church of the Solomon Islands and Dr. Raymond Windsor of New Zealand who represented the Pacific on the World Evangelical Fellowship’s Mission Commission organised this event. The real purpose and challenge out of this meeting was to see more mission activity out of the Pacific region, especially from the Pacific Islands who had been very active in Christian Missions in the past.
One of the things that came out of this meeting was the need for a Regional Prayer movement which started two years later in the Solomon Islands,1991, under the name of the “South Pacific Prayer Assembly”. It became the “All Pacific Prayer Assembly” in Vanuatu, 2003. In Taiwan, 2011, it became the “All Peoples Prayer Assembly”. This Prayer Assembly has also been tracking the Deep Sea Canoe Vision, outlining the move of God’s glory from the ends of the earth back to Jerusalem, for its official launching to the world in 2017. The Glory Cloud from Jerusalem will cover the earth as the waters cover the seas, bringing forth the rain for the ‘Latter Rain Harvest’ before the end of the age, for the glory of God.
The Deep Sea Canoe Vision revealed in the Solomon Islands (1986) and the Pacific Prayer Assembly that started in the Solomon Islands (1991) are both fruit of the 1st World Prayer Assembly (WPA) that was held in Seoul, South Korea, 1984.
The All Peoples Prayer Assembly (APPA):
2011 – 1st All Peoples Prayer Assembly (APPA) was hosted by the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan (29 April – 6 May 2011) during the 100-year anniversary of the Republic of China (ROC in Taiwan) since it was founded by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen in 1911. This was the first ‘Home Coming’ for Austronesia and the official Opening of the ‘Taiwan Gate’. The All Pacific Prayer Assembly became the All Peoples Prayer Assembly in Taiwan, 2011.
2012 – 2nd APPA joined the 2nd “World Prayer Assembly” in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 14-18 May 2012. This World Prayer Assembly under the International Prayer Council/Connect (IPC) was co-hosted by South Korea and Indonesia. Indonesia is the Gateway for the Pacific to the world, so the 2nd WPA 2012 became the gateway for the glory and APPA from the Pacific to the world.
2013 – 3rd APPA – East Coast, USA, American Continent
2014 – 4th APPA – Malaysia, Asia
2015 – 5th APPA – Europe?
2016 – 6th APPA – Africa?
2017 – 7th APPA. Israel will host in Jerusalem during Sukkot as the Deep sea Canoe finally arrives in Israel. 2017 will mark the 50th Anniversary or Jubilee for the City of Jerusalem since unification under the sovereignty of Israel. 2017 will also mark the 70th Anniversary for the UN Mandate for the rebirth of the nation of Israel.
2018 – The Glory Cloud/Sukkah/Tabernacle covering the nations from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth! This will be during the 70th Anniversary of Israel since their rebirth in 1948. The Glory Cloud will precipitate the rain for the Latter Rain Harvest for the whole world before the end of the age (James 5:7).
2021 Feast of Tabernacle in Malaita Solomon Island. Was the Launching of the Tabernacle of God and the final Invasion of God on Earth.
“Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!” James 5:7-9.
In January 2022 Alex Barakh from Galilee issued Jewish Calendar to all the Hause man. SSEC Balif the Hausman Chiefs Vincent Aiwan, Senus, Pastor Hans and Pastor Jessie Yalan open up and we hosted the feasts. Starting from Rosh Hashannah, Yom Teruah to Yom Kipur, to feast of tabernacles to simchad Torah. Program started 5th September to 18th october 2022. 1st of Tishri to 21st of Tishri, 2022.
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