THe SHoppE -- Taveuni's UNIQUE Handicrafts Store

THe SHoppE, a Delia Stolz and May Goulding collaboration -- unique gifts and handicrafts, art work, tailoring for all clothing needs and bookkeeping smarts by Delia.

LOVE...

PEACE...

JOY...

THe SHoppE -- located at Todranisiga, Matei.

WASTE of Breath, Money, LIFE!

The Naselesele Village Primary School kicks off the Drug Awareness Week with this poster-board, which will be posted near the road in Matei-Naselesele area.

WASTE of breath -- tobacco, cigarettes, suki, marijuana... every puff kills (sooner or later, cancer wins -- you lose).

WASTE of money -- alcohol, beer, wine, yaqona... every sip is poison that burns a hole in your liver and in your wallet.

WASTE of life -- can your loved ones truly rest in peace, knowing your life was wasted?

And so, dear brothers and sisters, i plead with you to give your bodies to GOD because of all He has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind He will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship Him. (Romans 12:1)

KRISTIKA -- Love One Another

JESUS said, "This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." (Matthew 15:12)

My young friend, Kristika.

Drug Awareness Week -- DRUGS 'n' SLUGS

Drug Awareness Week kicks off this week, June 20-24. This anti-drug banner will be posted around Matei area.

Home brew is now against Naselesele Village laws. Anyone caught making home brew will be prosecuted by the Village elders. (The penalty is severe -- the perpetrator is kicked out of the village!)

When i was in high school, we watched a video of a drunk's brain being cut up in pieces, showing how alcohol affects the brain -- that alcohol kills brain cells.

The Naselesele Village kids are urged to "Think pure, act smart -- don't even start!"

Drugs are for thugs 'n' bugs 'n' lazy slugs
Alcohol 'n' home brew are just bad news for you!
Use not, drink not -- or your brain will rot.
Think pure, act smart... don't even start!

P.S. i am again raising funds for the Naselesele Village school children in Taveuni, Fiji. Your charitable donation of any amount is deeply and heartfully appreciated! GOD bless your loving heart!

POSITIVE Discipline -- Banner for DRUG AWARENESS Week

Positive Discipline -- does not abuse the child.

PLEASE -- Don't hurt me, i'm only a child.

Listen to me and then respond.
Help me understand what i have done wrong.
Make rules easy for me to understand and learn from.

Talk gently; it scares me when you shout or scream.
Give me encouragement; don't beat me down.
Be firm but calm when you discipline me and praise me when i'm good.

SAVE the CHILDREN... Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." (Matthew 19:14)

Drug Awareness Week is June 20-24. The Naselesele Village Primary School is pro-active in fighting the spread of illegal (and/or illicit) drugs in the schools. This banner also reflects another aspect of this anti-abuse campaign -- the stopping of abusive adult behaviors towards children of all ages.

Please take note -- children are people in little bodies and deserve our respect and tender care. All children are gifts from GOD, our Father in Heaven.


P.S. i am again raising funds for the Naselesele Village school children in Taveuni, Fiji. Your charitable donation of any amount is deeply and heartfully appreciated! GOD bless your loving heart!

NASELESELE Primary School -- TOP KIDZ

rLn's OFF-the-WALL Wearable Art is dedicated to the Naselesele Village Primary School kids, and this blog (ADvertise for GOD: One Message at a Time) displays the art used for OFF the WALL. i thought it would be fun to share with you who some of these kidZ are!

This is Kani, leaving home for his first day in kindergarten, with sister Miri, cousin Jo and brother Leone leading the way.

The whole school was gathered Monday (May 30) for this special assembly -- to reward a prize to the top student from each class (Class 1 - Class 8). Here's master Sairusi lecturing about the week's lesson: sharing and cooperation. Sharing one's self and one's material goods is showing love with one another; and cooperation is helping one another. GREAT teaching! This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. (John 15:12)

From Class 1 is Mizpah Sowani -- top of her class... deserving of her prize!

From Class 2 is Karen Stolz. i'm so proud of this little gal for i remember her as a toddler clinging to her tata... and here she is "grown up" and so smart!

From Class 3 is Seini Caucauqoli... another bright light in Naselesele, shining with a joyful smile.

From Class 4 is Josese Kalaidreketi -- na tagane matai!

From Class 5 is Makarita Ranuve -- this little package can also sing an angelic wallop. She sang Crucified for me, acapella, and she belted the song with much emotion. i was impressed!

From Class 6 is Anabella (Talei) Taki -- very intelligent young lady... beautiful inside and out!

From Class 7 is Eric Petersen -- just glowing with his prize in hand. Keep up the good work, Eric!

And last but not least, from Class 8 is Elia Rakai -- leading the way for Naselesele School. After he graduates from the village school, he'll start secondary school at the bottom rung again in Form 1.

The prize money awarded to these eight kidZ was a type of scholarship to fund their school needs, but also to encourage all of them to do their very best for the next term exam so that they may also win a reward for their hard study and good behavior.

The donation came from a big-hearted brother in CHRIST from Ocean View Church (San Diego, California). GOD used this kind brother to bless the Naselesele Village kidZ. GOD is wonderFUL inDEED! JESUS said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 19:12)

rLn's TAVEUNI Art REVISITED

Bob G's house, across the Matei airport... Miriama and Leone from Naselesele Village, my gade ga companions...

Serenia's house at Naselesele Village...

Leone and Miriama, posing in front of Bibi's Hideaway sign, redone two years ago...

Bibi's Hideaway gate... weather beaten, but still colorful and bright.

Matthew 13:8... But others fell on good ground, and yielded a crop... (The parable told by JESUS about the Sower and the Seed... the Gospel of CHRIST.)

Bibi's Hideaway bure... my first work there.

Miri in front of the sunflowered door...

Bob G's caretaker's house... Love never fails. (I Corinthians 13)

Beverly's Campground...painted two years ago. Inspired by Genesis: In the beginning, GOD created the heavens and the earth..