I’m Leigh Rice, leader of discipleship ministries for the South Pacific. I’m in Port Moresby today and excited to be with Pastor Kove Tau, leader of the church in this city of 800 thousand people.

Discovery Bible reading is at the heart of our disciple making process. Members invite family, friends, work colleagues, fellow students to come together and read the Bible.

We asked Brother Peter to come and do some training for us. Peter has taught us the method of Jesus which is simple, anyone can do it, it’s reproducible, at no cost.

We decided to restructure the way we do ministry at our churches. We follow the model in the book of Acts, how the new testament church grew.

We turned our Sabbath school classes into discovery Bible reading groups. We’ve restructured our church Sabbath school classes according to the place where the members are living. We bring the church to their houses and their houses become churches.

My name is Nathan. I got excited seeing the method in which we can share God’s word. I heard of this idea and decided that I needed to bring that to my home. Now this is where we meet every Sabbath.

When we started this discovery Bible reading with my family and neighbors, it really had a big impact on our spiritual life. My family and kids, all three teenagers, were able to discuss the Bible for themselves and have fun with it.

Starting with the gospel of Mark, read one story at a time, commencing with a prayer obviously. A second person reads it and then one person in the group retells the story in their own words.

The process is built around five simple questions. What is new? What surprises you? What don’t you understand? What will you obey or apply? And what will you share with someone this week?

After discussion we pray, “Father, thank you for being with us. Please help us as we follow Jesus this week.”

I work for a construction company as a building supervisor. After running that group in my home, I decided to bring that idea to my workplace. It had a very big impact on my workers.

I know an old, blind man. I found out that he lived in a makeshift house. I had this idea of building a house. I went to discuss it with my crew. They got excited and volunteered their time to help me.

I believe Jesus is my savior. I trust in Him. One day He will return and I will go with him.

Every Sabbath there are two to three baptisms in each church. This has been the biggest baptism ever in the Central Papuan Conference.

I am seeing a paradigm shift in the way we do church. The church is now seeing we have to bring the church to where the community is.

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More members involved

Multiple Discovery Groups

New Churches Where People Live

= Multiple Baptisms Each Week and New Believers Integrated and Involved

God uses ordinary people to carry out His extraordinary plans.