Reverend Vunisuwai Reminds Ministers to Serve

Your responsibility is to serve and not to be served.

That was the challenge laid out to ministers of the Methodist Church as they meet for the week-long Methodist Church in Fiji and Rotuma annual conference (Bose ko Viti) that was opened in Suva yesterday.

Approaching the end of his three- year term, outgoing church president Reverend Ili Vunisuwai urged church ministers to stop thinking of themselves as the bigger people in the church.

"Get down to the level of members to solve the increasing social problems that exist in communities,” he said while challenging leaders yesterday.

Close to 800 members of the Methodist Church from 59 divisions in the 335 circuits in Fiji, Rotuma, and the world are part of the annual conference held at Furnival Park in Toorak.

“We don’t want to be a church of the heavens, but one that is rooted on the ground and finding solutions to social problems that is happening among us,” Reverend Vunisuwai said.

“It is embarrassing to note what Government had indicated that majority of people living in poverty are Christians,” he said.

“That is a slap on our faces.”

Reverend Vunisuwai urged ministers to check families that were in need.

“Lessen preaching, more education and trainings, set up committees that will enhance this in your communities and churches,” he said.

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