There is a vast amount of travel and territory involved in the Pacific Region of the SDARM.

The Australian Union Conference has been active with missionary training, plus cooking, health, and depression classes for the community. This unit is a strong supporter of the South Pacific Union Mission which was organized with a headquarters in Vanuatu.

Properties have recently been purchased for local churches in Fiji and Samoa. The Papua New Guinea Mission Field has been active with health presentations, counseling, and cooking classes. The brethren and sisters of Indonesia are also very active in this type of missionary work.

In South Korea, a self-supporting minister has been having good success for the last 25 years as a naturopathic health practitioner in a natural clinic. The health message is thus being used as an entering wedge for the gospel.

In Vietnam there are around 167 members, and literature is being translated into the Vietnamese language to better equip our Bible workers in their mission.

The work in Japan has now spread to four places in that country. The believers there are very active in live streaming their programs every Sabbath, producing CDs of doctrinal presentations, distributing literature, and holding health and cooking classes. The message is being taken also to Okinawa through evangelistic programs.

Interests are growing in Taiwan and elsewhere as well.

In the Philippines, our church is quite active. The believers appreciated very much the aid sent to them following the severe climatic disasters that have crippled the country’s economy.

Truly the prophecies are to be fulfilled:

“The Lord would have you no longer confine to a few places at home all the great facilities that concern the moral and spiritual advancement of His work. The word of command is: ‘Go forward. You to whom I have given much are called upon to impart. Place your means where it will help now in giving light to darkened nations and to the islands of the sea.’”1

“The people everywhere are to have the Bible opened to them. The time has come, the important time when through God’s messengers the scroll is being unrolled to the world. The truth comprised in the first, second, and third angels’ messages must go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people; it must lighten the darkness of every continent and extend to the islands of the sea.”2