What it’s about
First Teachers Head to Namu… Meet them…
Pastor Tommy Kilma Talks About Namu on Vimeo.
The school on Namu has not operated in over 10 years. Most of the outer island life in the Marshall Islands is subsistence living. The sale of fish and copra provide for the bare essentials of life. The $10-15/month tuition cannot be afforded by most families. Over the years the school building has deteriorated – the teacher’s apartment on one end of the building has completely collapsed.
Repairs Desperately Needed
Side view showing the condition of the building
The Upper Columbia Academy Seventh-day Adventist Church has chosen to adopt the school on Namu. We are planning on reopening it for the 2010-11 school year. There are many ways you can help us with our project.
- Pray. We need God’s guiding hand. This is big project and we are moving forward by faith.
- Be one of Namu’s Band of Faith. We need just 300 people to donate $5 a month to make the project financially successful. That’s just one Taco Bell meal each month!
- Spread the word to college students. We need two student missionaries each year to go to Namu. Our church will be supporting by sending regular care packages and helping them stay in touch with friends and family back home.
- Sponsor a short term missionary. In addition to the student missionaries we will be visiting the island on an annual basis to personally stay in touch with the project. We will be taking about 5 students from Upper Columbia Academy on the trip each year. They need financial support to be able to make the trip.
- Choose a special project. As we see specific needs on the island we will be posting them here. Help fill those specific needs with a donation.
Goals and Operating Costs for Namu SDA School
- To help train next generation leaders by helping the young students learn to read and comprehend clearly the written Word of God, write clearly, and have skills needed to organize and manage talents and resources for local church growth.
- To help students build healthy relationship with Christ, with their own family members and be an exemplary citizens of their country.
- To prepare and train church members to be missionaries to their own people living in surrounding islands.
- To teach healthy living and lifestyles by strengthening healthy habits. This can be done by i.e. training and providing resources to grow vegetables locally, teaching NEWSTART with the use of herbal, water, and charcoal treatments, etc.
- To be involved proactively with community needs, challenges, and concerns so that the school will reflect Christ’s love, compassion, care, and grace.
- To allow youth and young adults from North America hands-on experience with mission work, and allow the church members in North America a healthy way to assist the youth and the islanders through prayers and provision of resources while they themselves grow spiritually as well.
Annual Operating Costs:
- Teachers’ Stipend: $ 250/month x 10 months x 4 Teachers $ 10,000.00
Note: Each teacher will teach two/three grades - Textbooks and Classroom teaching resources $ 2,000.00
Note: Textbooks can be later applied in grants - Furnishing Teachers’ Living Quarter 800.00
Note: e.g. gas stove, gas tank, cooking utensils - Maintenance Supplies $ 2,000.00
Note: Church members will provide free labor service - First Aid/Sports Equipment/Gen. Expenditure $ 200.00
Total Annual Expenses $15,000.00
Hello,
I am a student at Southern Adventist University and I am planning on being an Student missionary next year. I am very interested in your call to Namu. I have been praying about this and I would be very interested in being a teacher there next year.