Genesis family assists to establish Lighthouse School in remote Papua New Guinea

Over the Easter holidays, Genesis staff member, Wendy Jones, along with her husband, Mick, and their three children (also Genesis students in Years 6, 4 and 2), embarked on a mission to the Autonomous region of Bougainville (off PNG) to start up a village school in the remote mountains. This is a very remote location without services such as power, running water etc.

As a College, we were grateful to be able to donate supplies for the Jones family to take with them. Additionally, our parent community rallied around this mission and provided pre-loved uniforms for the students to wear. Together with delivering the supplies, Mick and Wendy also facilitated teacher training workshops.

The school’s motto is Jeremiah 29.11, “a hope & a future”. As you can imagine, establishing a new school in the remote village of Siuema is no small undertaking and it requires both hope and faith in the future.

Earlier in May, the school had their official opening. The Lighthouse School of Siuema is so grateful for the support from Genesis in the early days of their establishment.

The Secondary NISSA (Northside Independent Schools Sports Association) competition has had a successful launch, after a couple of years of work on its development.

It has been wonderful to see teams from like-minded schools including Grace College Rothwell, The Lakes College and Prince of Peace Lutheran College, visiting our venues and enjoying challenging competition in netball, volleyball, touch football and futsal. With quality venues and healthy rivalries, there have been many exciting matches and teams are noticeably improving with weekly training and competition.

A special mention goes to our Year 9/10 Boys Volleyball team led by Levi T, who has already displayed great improvement, winning 3 out of their 5 games so far despite many of the players having little prior experience.

Check out the Genesis team standings from the halfway point in the season:

• 7/8 Girls Touch - 3rd

• 7/8 Boys Touch A - 3rd

• 7// Boys Touch B - 4th

• 7/8 Girls Netball A - 1st

• 7/8 Girls Netball B - 6th

• 7/8 Mixed Netball - 5th

• 7/8 Girls Futsal - 2nd

• 7/8 Boys Futsal A - 2nd

• 7/8 boys Futsal B - 7th

• 7/8 Girls Volleyball A - 1st

• 7/8 Girls Volleyball B - 5th

• 7/8 Boys Volleyball - 4th

• 9/10 Girls Touch A - 1st

• 9/10 Girls Touch B - 3rd

• 9/10 Boys Touch A - 1st

• 9/10 Boys Touch B - 4th

• 9/10 Girls Netball A - 2nd

• 9/10 Girls Netball B - 5th

• 9/10 Mixed Netball - 1st

• 9/10 Girls Futsal - 2nd

• 9/10 Boys Futsal - 3rd

• 9/10 Girls Volleyball A - 1st

• 9/10 Girls Volleyball B - 5th

• 9/10 Boys Volleyball - 4th

Weekly games are played at the following venues from approx. 1.00pm:

• Touch Football - Genesis Christian College

• Volleyball – Boys (Grace College, Rothwell) & Girls (The Lakes College)

• Netball - Pine Rivers Netball Association, Lawnton

• Futsal - South Pine Sports Association