This January our team is partnering with Promise Land Ministries in Papua New Guinea for one of the most ambitious projects they have ever attempted. From January 5 to February 7, a team of six volunteers will travel to a very underdeveloped region to help build a church that will serve more than four hundred people.
For many years, the ministry has planted small village churches, but after much prayer and discussion they realized the need for a larger, central church in the city. Local believers do not have trained builders or access to proper construction resources. This new building will become a meeting place, a ministry hub, and a spiritual home for hundreds who are hungry for the gospel.
About Promise Land Ministries
Promise Land Ministries is led by the Konstantinik family, missionaries from Ukraine who moved to Papua New Guinea in 2011. For more than fourteen years they have lived among the local people and dedicated their lives to discipleship, church planting, youth ministry, and reaching remote communities that have little or no biblical teaching.
They have planted daughter churches, trained young leaders, and walked with families through challenges most of the world never sees. Their mission motto is simple and powerful: One more soul for Jesus, make disciples. Their heart is to build strong churches that can stand on their own and raise leaders from within the community.
Why this project is different
The local believers are hardworking and devoted, but they have never built a structure like this. Most construction in rural Papua New Guinea is done the traditional way using bush materials, woven walls, bamboo frames, and grass roofing. These homes are often built with hand tools and no measurements, no welding, and no engineered structures. They are functional for village life but cannot support a large congregation.
This church requires a steel frame, proper welding, engineered support, and a strong roof that can withstand extreme rain, wind, and heat. Without outside help, the community simply does not have the knowledge or equipment to complete a building of this size.
One of the men joining the team is bringing a unique and critical skill. He owns a metal fabrication shop in the United States and has more than thirty five years of experience in welding, custom iron work, and building large steel frame structures. His expertise will guide the entire construction process and train the local believers in the work.
Project challenges
- There are no design plans or engineering drawings. Everything must be created on site once the team arrives.
- The steel frame will likely be nine to eleven feet on the sides and eighteen to twenty feet at the center to handle heavy rainy seasons and the intense heat.
- A welding machine must be purchased on site. Wire welding materials are extremely limited and difficult to find.
- Welding electrodes take long to work with in the climate and terrain.
- A generator of at least five to six kilowatts must be sourced.
- A crane will need to be hand built to lift and position beams for the upper structure.
- January is the best and only workable season because other months bring constant rain or dangerous heat.
- The goal is to build the full frame within one month.
Why support is urgently needed
A small church in PNG normally costs about fifteen thousand dollars. This project is far larger and requires steel, transportation, tools, equipment, generators, welding supplies, and food for the team. The minimum budget needed is fifty thousand dollars.
Without help, this church cannot be built. It will become the central location for worship, discipleship, training, youth ministry, and community impact. Hundreds of people are waiting for a place to gather and grow in Christ.
How you can partner with this mission
Your support will directly help purchase materials, equipment, generators, welding supplies, steel, transportation, and basic needs for the volunteers and local believers working on site. Every gift lifts another beam, strengthens the ministry, and brings the church one step closer to completion.
