Solomon Islands school introduces dawn prayer program

A Seventh-day Adventist school in Solomon Islands has been starting the day in a powerful way through a dawn prayer initiative.

Each term for 40 days, Kopiu Adventist High School in Honiara holds a 40-minute prayer program beginning at 5:20 a.m. Along with prayer, the participants do Bible readings together, read from Ellen White books, and go on prayer walks. Sometimes they gather in small groups beside the houses of staff and students and pray for them while they are asleep.

“We also have the outreach aspect of it by taking the students out of campus at dawn to visit families in nearby communities to conduct morning devotions for them and share basic need items,” says Pastor Jason Gulea, school chaplain, who came up with the prayer initiative and says God’s answers to their prayers have been evident. 

“Needs were met, the sick were healed, challenges encountered this year come and go, but we are not down and out,” he expresses. “Outreach initiatives were successful as a result of prayer. We also thank God that two of our non-Adventist students who regularly attended the prayer program and also joined the Bible study class eventually made the decision to be baptized.”

A recent baptism of 28 people included ten students from the prayer program. Ten of the other candidates were baptized as a result of the school’s Sabbath outreach initiatives and Bible studies conducted by Rexley Aloysio, husband of a Kopiu teacher.

“With the school enrollment affected by the pandemic, and with only about 80-plus students currently on campus and with a little over 30 non-baptized students, it is encouraging to see ten of them giving their lives to Jesus,” Gulea says.

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