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Sepik Christian Ministries

Hauna, Papua New Guinea

Missionaries first came to this area in 1968 to translate the Bible into the previously unwritten local language. In 1979 Shirley Killosky went as a literary specialist and teacher. After the translation of the New Testament was finished in 1989, Shirley joined Kids Alive to continue the teaching program on the Upper Sepik River and to provide other, less fortunate villages with an educational program. Today, the Kids Alive ministry has a large mission house where meetings are conducted, a school, a church, and several other buildings for a variety of activities and vocational training (sewing, carpentry, stores, laundry, mechanic shop, etc). Over 500 students in Kids Alive schools receive basic education as well as training in three languages, Bible, and Christian discipleship. Because of the high rate of malnutrition and sickness in this area, the mission provides a nutritional daily meal to these day students who return to their families at night. A total of about 5000 people receive assistance of some kind through the ministries of Kids Alive in the Upper Sepik River area.