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Dear Pastor,
ReplyDeleteI am an American volunteer from Texas, now working at Mizpah Adventist Academy in Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga. I am also an active member at the Neiafu Seventh-day Adventist church. (Actual membership still in Texas). This is my second year returning, and this year my entire family has come to join me. The church asked that I head the Pathfinder club as director. Although I have no experience in this department, and the club is struggling for support and attendance, I feel that God has brought me here for a reason. If I am here to serve, and He put me with the club, then this is where I will serve.
With introductions out of the way, I will get along with the purpose of my message. As a child, my Pathfindering experience was sketchy at best. I rarely was at one church long enough to attend a campout, let alone a camporee. However, as an adult and parent I had been involved with my local club when possible, and had the blessing of being able to attend the past two international camporees at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. During the last one, I met Pastor Fanueli for the first time. He had brought a small group of Pathfinders from Tonga, but none from Vava’u. Naturally, now belonging to the Vava’u community now, I hope and pray to change things up a bit and help some of these kids have the same opportunity. This experience is too awesome to ignore for them, and I fully intend to bring a group from Vava’u to the US in 2019, even if it’s just my own family.
Being a volunteer in Tonga, flying my entire family here on my own budget, I fully know the cost of such travel. For this reason, I am beginning to reach out now to make connections and possible support in a few years. I pray that you can help connect me with other Tongan churches as well, as I will need all the help I can get. For now I am not asking anything but prayer and contacts. Next month will be my first official camporee fund raiser, but I know better than to think that I can do this all on my own. I need help, and I’m afraid that there are not enough available funds in Tonga to bring the club over. Not only will it cost about $1,500 USD each to fly, but then there is club registration at the camporee, and camping gear and meals. My club does not even have uniforms, as this expense is simply too much for the local families. This is where I am hoping to find help from a US church, so that we can share in those expenses. Perhaps there are even family members in your church that would be willing to help out for the opportunity to see loved ones.
I will also be reaching out to Australian and New Zealand Tongan SDA churches as well. Please forward this letter to your church’s Pathfinder Director and any others that may have a personal interest in aiding a small club from Vava’u in making this adventure. Also, I’m sure you have better knowledge of other Tongan communities abroad than I do. Please, can you help me to make those connections as well.
Thank you,
Anthony Pearce
Director
Neiafu Pathfinder Club
Anthony Pearce,
DeleteGood Afternoon! Thank you for taking the time in writing. It's good to hear that you are helping and directing the Neiafu Pathfinder Club. We too are trying to raise funds for the international camporees at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Let's pray about it and hopefully we can help to raise the funds to help with your club. By the way we have and are forwarding your letter to all the Tongan Pathfinder Clubs and Tongan SDA church. Sorry it took 6 months to reply.
Thank you,
Faifekau Sione Latuhoi
Dear Pastor,
ReplyDeleteI am an American volunteer from Texas, now working at Mizpah Adventist Academy in Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga. I am also an active member at the Neiafu Seventh-day Adventist church. (Actual membership still in Texas). This is my second year returning, and this year my entire family has come to join me. The church asked that I head the Pathfinder club as director. Although I have no experience in this department, and the club is struggling for support and attendance, I feel that God has brought me here for a reason. If I am here to serve, and He put me with the club, then this is where I will serve.
With introductions out of the way, I will get along with the purpose of my message. As a child, my Pathfindering experience was sketchy at best. I rarely was at one church long enough to attend a campout, let alone a camporee. However, as an adult and parent I had been involved with my local club when possible, and had the blessing of being able to attend the past two international camporees at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. During the last one, I met Pastor Fanueli for the first time. He had brought a small group of Pathfinders from Tonga, but none from Vava’u. Naturally, now belonging to the Vava’u community now, I hope and pray to change things up a bit and help some of these kids have the same opportunity. This experience is too awesome to ignore for them, and I fully intend to bring a group from Vava’u to the US in 2019, even if it’s just my own family.
Being a volunteer in Tonga, flying my entire family here on my own budget, I fully know the cost of such travel. For this reason, I am beginning to reach out now to make connections and possible support in a few years. I pray that you can help connect me with other Tongan churches as well, as I will need all the help I can get. For now I am not asking anything but prayer and contacts. Next month will be my first official camporee fund raiser, but I know better than to think that I can do this all on my own. I need help, and I’m afraid that there are not enough available funds in Tonga to bring the club over. Not only will it cost about $1,500 USD each to fly, but then there is club registration at the camporee, and camping gear and meals. My club does not even have uniforms, as this expense is simply too much for the local families. This is where I am hoping to find help from a US church, so that we can share in those expenses. Perhaps there are even family members in your church that would be willing to help out for the opportunity to see loved ones.
I will also be reaching out to Australian and New Zealand Tongan SDA churches as well. Please forward this letter to your church’s Pathfinder Director and any others that may have a personal interest in aiding a small club from Vava’u in making this adventure. Also, I’m sure you have better knowledge of other Tongan communities abroad than I do. Please, can you help me to make those connections as well.
Thank you,
Anthony Pearce
Director
Neiafu Pathfinder Club