Wali's Wits

Vision Board We all have various pictures of what visions we have of our lives and how it would turn out to be. Vision, as defined in the Macquarie Junior Dictionary, is the” power or sense of seeing”. What pictures do you conjure up in your mind as you think of your journey in life? The bible is filled with lots of faith pictures telling us stories of the various Bible heroes and what they went through in life to reach the various callings that God has for them. Faith is defined as seeing what you believe about yourself and more or less it is about seeing pictures of what and how you want your situation to turn out.   In the book of  Habakkuk:  2-3 “it says to write the vision make it plain that those who read it may run with it’.  Well, one Sunday morning the kids stayed at home because it was raining so I decided to have creative church with them. Our scripture reading was based on Habakkuk 2 and to make it become more practical and realistic I got them to do Vision Boar

The Art of Basket Exchange I was privileged to witness a basket exchange ceremony recently held by the Gemsao mama’s in Lae. Basket Exchange is an event that was created when mothers in various churches throughout PNG saw the need to raise funds and at the same time bless each other. Sometimes it is within the same church group or at other times this event takes place with ladies in the towns and cities and ladies who fellowship in village churches.  This is the reasoning behind the exchange and usually it is for fund raising event to assist renovation or build a church so what takes place is ladies buy various goods to the worth of a ceiling amount usually not strict and you can go beyond this amount if you feel like it.  Then the groups come together and exchange goods and the money is given to the worthy cause. In the traditional times goods are placed in a basket and then exchange thus earning the name “basket exchange”. In the recent event I witness this group of la