DIOCESE OF AITAPE CHURCH BUILDING PROGRAM

	News report No. 16 July 2003 Diocese of Aitape P O Box 179 Aitape Sandaun Province Papua New Guinea Ph +675 8572046 fax +675 8572056
Aitape Haus Lotu Projects

Introduction:

Welcome to the seventh report for 2003. This is the sixteenth report in the Church Building program for the month of July 2003. Progress throughout 2002 established agreements with all of the sub parishes, and saw work started at Amu, and plans in progress for the other nine buildings to be built. This year we collected gravel for Arop1, Arop2, and Pou and began work at Arop1. This month we completed the foundations and continued cutting timber at the Arop church. This month is significant because it is the five year anniversary of the Tsunami disaster.

Photo 1 The Bible procession at the Tsunami commemoration Mass help at Arop on July 18 2003. The Mass was held on the coast where the village used to be before July 17 1998

Photo 2 Devastation July 17 1998	Photo 3 The monument to remember those lost.
Photo 4 Bishop Austen blesses the grave	Photo 5 Final procession of the Mass
	Photo 6 Fr Chinua parish priest of Arop and Malol at the memorial Mass with Bishop Austen.