The first Monday I was
in Papua New Guinea (PNG) we went to a meeting place on the edge of
Mount Hagen town to watch the start of the National Baptist Women’s
Conference. It was a week-long
conference which started with a march around the school they met in and the
whole town. We turned up whilst they
were still setting up, almost everyone had arrived (Over 1,000 women from
across the country) and they were lined up in their regional groups singing to
God and having a great time waiting to march!
Every group were dressed
in different coloured “Meri blouses” singing in different languages. I couldn’t understand most of them, but the
Mount Hagen women were singing “Mi gat Jisas, mi amamas” which is roughly “I’ve
got Jesus, I’m happy”! That was a very
popular chorus as I heard it so many different times during my visit; even now
I sometimes find myself humming it.
What a noise and what
an experience, so many women joining together to praise Jesus, have fun
together and demonstrate against the ill treatment of women across PNG.
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