Caleb & Melissa Gibello

4th quarter quick points

  • Praise God, Moka airstrip officially opened Nov 14

  • Melissa helped with another baby birth in Moka

  • Elijah in highschool now

  • translated book of Mark

  • audio recorded Gen 1-11 and Mark 1-8

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Overview 

Here is an overview of our Pioneer Gospel missionary work in Papua New Guinea. Our family lives in Moka village which is located along the Turama River in the Gulf Province (coordinates: -7.28, 143.46). Our mission goal can be summarized as follows: evangelistic gospel-preaching and pioneer church-planting among the remote unevangelized people in and around Moka village. Our aim is to do missions Paul’s way, to follow the mission methods of the NT.

We settled in the village of Moka early 2018. Prior to our arrival and ministry in this village there was no evangelical presence, no Biblical Christian churches, and no one preaching the message of the Gospel in this region of PNG. We intentionally settled in this area to preach the Gospel to people who had never yet heard this message of Christ (Rom 15).

The people of this region speak their own distinct language (which is one of 900 languages in the country). The language of these people is officially unwritten. One of our tasks as pioneer missionaries is to learn the local language in order to preach the Gospel more clearly and effectively, and also translate Scripture.

Seeking to model the missionary methods of the New Testament, we do itinerant evangelism: traveling to the seven villages in our area having meetings to preach God‘s Word.

The long-term goal is to see Christ Himself save his people through the preaching of His Gospel and by the effectual working of the Holy Spirit, for local biblical churches to be started, for Scripture to be translated into the local language, and to train elders and deacons for the local churches. These are the goals and tasks we see clearly in the New Testament, so our goal is to do this missionary work.