February 2026 – Sovereign Grace Baptist Mission International

February 28, 2026March 4, 2026

Special Report

SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST MISSION
International – Papua New Guinea / Malawi Africa
P.O. Box 60150 Ndirande Bt. 6 Blantyre Malawi /
P.O. Box 233 – Mt Hagen (WHP) Papua New Guinea
Tanggi Mission Station – North Koroba, Hela Province, PNG
Missionary / Evangelist: Peter A. Halliman
Email: panagioite04@gmail.com
Website: sgbm-malawi-africa.com

Date: 26th April 2026

Dear Pastor, Church, & All Supporters:

Special Notice to All:

The mission work here in Papua New Guinea is preparing for a historical event, I don’t know of another mission, church, denomination of any kind that has hosted an event such as what we are about to experience. Since the Bible Academy started up in early 2021, to the completion of the last school session, thirty-five students (pastors, Christian men) who attended, The LORD called out some of HIS men to be pastors, evangelists, missionaries and so on. The stress was laid upon the men that in no way are we humans to interfere, involve ourselves, pull, push, persuade etc…this work of the Lord. His hand is not short in saving His people or calling His men. We don’t need daddy, or mummy called men, or previous older pastors self-appointing young men to take their place.

I have invited different men, and or persons to come visit this mission work and take away their own testimony, the opportunity was given, but for some reason or another, I had a field I just bought, I just married, my oxen fell into the trench, and so on….the older, matured men I can understand, the younger men I wonder.

L.M.B.C. of Granite Bay, CA set a landmark many years ago when I was in Malawi full time, my pastor then (Elder Rick Perdue, along with five others) came to visit the work and assist, witness the ordinations of seven men. Now here in PNG, we have seventeen men who will be ordained at one session (not the same day) but each one following the next.

The Tanggi mission station will be the venue, the accommodations are being prepared for this event, and much work is being done to accomplish these tasks. Because of the scale of this event, it will make PNG history, and in my lifetime (to my knowledge) world history. If someone has information (world history) that they know of, find out where this has been exceeded in recent history, please share with me.

The Prime Minister, Hela Provincial Governor, the Koroba / Kopiago Member of Parliament (MP) are invited to attend, all the above-mentioned politicians are Huli tribesmen. There will be a number of people from other denominations attending to witness how we Baptist perform this kind of event. The PNG & AU news media have been invited, whether or not these people come is irrelevant to the biblical side of things. However, being PNG when such an event is being held and large crowds gather, more often than not these ‘big people’ are invited.

Don’t misunderstand this, I am not marketing the LORD’S work, I am not politically campaigning, I am not trying to get or draw attention to any one person, or myself, I have been at this long enough to know what I am doing. If any one person second-guesses what I am trying to do here, then buy your ticket and arrive here on the 15th of April and stay until the 8th of May then depart and go home and tell the real story! Some are coming and they will tell the tale.

I would like to present to any church, or individual that may have a willing heart to assist in a matter that I cannot. Bro. Edwin Chipala from Malawi has been invited to come, he is willing and ready to come participate in this great event, however the task we both face, he does not have the budge to purchase his ticket to come. I am heavily loaded with the mission budge here as well, this said if the LORD should give any of you a willing heart to help with this need, you may reach out to me personally on my email (panagioite04@gmail.com) or WhatsApp me on +1 (903) 830-0052 or PNG – (265) 7310-0777.

I again want to stress the fact and idea that I am not tendering for a contract, nor soliciting for money, however I do believe in putting the needs of the LORD’S work before GOD’S people praying about it and leaving it there.

In His Name,

Bro. Halliman

February 26, 2026March 4, 2026

Mission report Third in series Jan 2026

Date: 26^th February 2026

Dear Pastor, Church, & All Supporters:

2 Corinthians 8:2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

Series Three (3) continued from last Report….

Tuesday 13^th Jan, with the flat I rent in Mt. Hagen being small, one bedroom, Jacob gets the floor with a mattress and his sleeping bag and a pillow. When I rise, it’s time for the house to rise, lights on coffee being made, breakfast being cooked early. I appreciate his character and I being a morning person, but don’t like a lot of noise in the morning. Our coffee, bible reading / study and prayer for the day. No day begins without this, no day ends without prayer.

I had bought some spare parts for the x-military truck (airbrakes) needed repaired, in most developed countries instead of rebuilding the airbrake canisters, this is usually replaced completely as a package. I will not go into detail as most of you may not enjoy a mechanical lesson, only for you to know this…. On the mission fields I have lived and worked, most mechanical work on the vehicles, I have carried out myself. I cannot afford professional mechanical shops nor the parts. I usually service, repair and rebuild the parts myself. To give you an idea of cost effectiveness, to replace all the airbrake canisters (double & single) would have cost me close to $3000.00 USD, I spent just $180.00, I brought the items with me. Now is my time to start mechanic work on the big truck.

I sent word to the pastors out in the bush, villages to come into Mt. Hagen for discussions, and conferencing regarding the work, challenges, problems, etc…I cannot properly access the mission work unless I know what I am facing. The pastors were supposed to start coming in by Thursday and be here the latest by Saturday. We would worship together again at Kim Bap church, together with the four churches represented to congregate again one more time. Everyone agreed and were excited to do this. On Tuesday, I spent the biggest part of the day, Jacob with me. I went to see a mate (Papua New Guinean) who has been out of work for some time, past years he was employed as the workshop manager for a bulk fuel transportation company. He helped me with space in their workshop when I needed to do mechanical work on the old Land Rover, (which was frequently) and welding, I picked up work with the company back several years ago helping to pay for expenses in the mission work, vehicle repairs, purchase of new parts etc. Without work, he agreed to help me with the truck brakes. We started on the first double canister (airbrake / parking brake). Just a word of caution to any reader who may want to try or think to try, unless you really know what you’re doing (mechanically) dismantling airbrake canisters can be dangerous to fatal if you do NOT know what you’re doing. This is why in the U.S. and other developed countries they will not even manufacture these systems where they can be opened or serviced, too much of a liability. However, I am at the end of the world, and we do what we have to do. Tuesday to Friday Joseph, and I had all three-axle air-brake canisters rebuilt and functioning.

In the meantime, on Wednesday I & Jacob were again invited to the local church Kalifornia Bap church (their real name), we were again invited to be welcomed by their traditional mumu, two hogs were given for the food and again I was asked to help administrate the food, cooking and distributing of the cooked food. The normal process was followed, and whilst the food was being cooked, we had a bible study with the church members.

Most of the day was consumed with this event, the people are as excited about all this as we are, isn’t it interesting how the LORD always makes you (whoever you are) to feel as though you’re the one receiving the blessing? At least that is how it seems to me in my ministry. Much joy, real joy the true action of God’s people rejoicing in fellowship, sharing what God had blessed them with. I always feel somewhat guilty, when I am treated as someone who deserves more than they, not so but I am also reminded, we (all) God’s children are someone special, so special that it cost the Father His Son, and heaven’s best to secure our citizenship in His eternal Kingdom, Amen!

Again, we had meat and food to carry home, the groceries I bought were not even broken into. I do what is we mostly do here and that is share the food with others, the men who help me work, the church members that live close by and so on. It is a completely different world than Africa, or even the mindset. For the most part, people have their hand held out in Africa and it’s not to shake hands, it is to for you to give, fill it with something. Here the people have it in their blood to give, to share, to help. Remember something, if it’s not in someone’s heart to do or give you cannot put it in there, and if it’s in there, you cannot get it out.

Mumu at Kalifornia Bap church, Jacob was presented with two PNG string bags (hand woven) called bilums. I was presented with one.

Thursday & Friday of that week, I was quite busy getting food in advance for the pastors that would were coming. In the evening hours I was busy with translating of material for the following week with the pastors (all would be in class). The preparation of dinner, cooking etc… are all a necessary part of life, Jacob helped out with what I asked and what he could.

I will keep these series short and to the point, as I want to include some pictures as well.

To be continued….

In His Name,

Bro. Halliman

February 25, 2026March 4, 2026

Mission report (2nd in series) Jan 2026

Date: 24th February 2026

Dear Pastor, Church, & All Supporters:

1 Corinthians 16:9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. 2 Corinthians 2:12 Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, Colossians 4:3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:

There are eight hours difference between the timetable here in PNG (ahead) of Malawi. Our arrival into Mt. Hagen, getting settled in the house, not having any groceries, we did have the Lodge restaurant to eat at, which we did. I was able to start up the Land Rover (thank the LORD)….this is a big big issue when leaving one’s vehicle for several months in the tropics, many things go wrong, however God had preserved the vehicle, connections, fuel, batteries and so on. If you don’t think Satan works to frustrate the work of the LORD, meaning its us people who get frustrated, not GOD, he (Satan) does do this. With the vehicle running and all seemingly in order, we had our evening to study, shower and retire after a very very long journey.

It was a miracle indeed that we arrived after so many roadblocks, again thank each of you for your prayers.

Sunday morning, coffee, breakfast, prepared for church, I asked Jacob to prepare a S.S. lesson, and I would be preaching the main service. There were four churches that gathered together at one location to worship together, and also to greet us into PNG, the Highlands, Mt. Hagen.

As we parked the vehicle and walked a short distance off the main road, we came to the church area (Kim Baptist church), people were lined up on both sides of the walk, we were decorated with wreaths put around our necks and as we walked through the gate to the church building, people lined up on both sides, shaking hands, the welcome and excitement of the people burns within your memory that is not soon forgotten.

The building was filled, and people sitting outside, these are firm Christian people, the core of the churches, the kind of Christians who bear fruit, some 30, some 60, some 100 and so on, the salt of the earth!

Jacob was given time after the singing, to teach his lesson, he has to learn how to slow down with a translator, but all in all he brought a good lesson, the people were attentive, then I preached my message.

The service started at 09:30 and went through to 12:30, but people did not mind and wondered why I stopped early.

We were given a lunch of fruit, which was so refreshing, it was not long we were on our way back home. We both ran out of steam, thank the LORD for His days of rest.

Monday morning, we had been invited to a local mumu (PNG) customary way to welcome guests. There were several families gathered for this occasion, mostly church members of the local church (Bela Bap church), they use the same building that is used for the Bible Academy in Mt. Hagen on Rondon Ridge. This was the (first) mumu -food cooked in the ground with hot rocks, can be only veggies, but most of the time some meat is involved, like chicken or mostly pig.

The butchering of the pig/hog is a privileged position, and mostly the elder men perform this, I was given the honour to do this, (it’s not my first time), I was taught by my father long-ago how-to butcher farm animals. This talent is being lost and most men now a days in developed countries only know to go to a grocery shop and buy the meat, take it home and have their misses cook it, and even a lot of young women don’t even know how to cook any longer!

Once the hog was cut up and ready to be put into the earthen oven, I cleaned up, left Jacob with the people and I went to do the grocery shopping. When I returned a couple hours later, the food was ready to come out of the ground, final cutting up, dividing, giving out of portions to people. I did mostly this part as well, all were served, each family, group had enough portions, all were happy, well satisfied their custom was honoured…Jacob and I too had more than we could eat, but again this is PNG and such is the custom. We would eat on the pork with greens, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, Taro root, cooked bananas, fern leaves, etc…. for a few more days.

Something I want to express here, the pig (hog) they needed, could use the money from that to assist in their great poverty of living, yet with a willing heart, a benevolent gift, they wanted to honour the LORD for sending them the gifts of Jacob and I. In their vernacular…. God has given us not one but two men to come minister to us, how do we honour the giver of all gifts (our LORD), what or how do we say thank you to the LORD? By ‘sacrificing’ that which we need but believing HE will honour the gift.

I fear that in our materialistic world; we are consumed by the importance of these ‘things’. Exodus 35:5 Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the LORD; gold, and silver, and brass, (make note, the value herein).

Luke 15:23 And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

It took some time to complete this task, I will also list (in the next report) as I don’t have the list in front of me, comparing the prices of groceries from the two different mission fields and living under two different economies. You cannot just look at a exchange rate from one country to yours, rather you must consider the economics of that country, to understand the cost of living.

The day had ended with many blessings, gifts, and honours. It humbles me that such a people who live in great poverty, will offer the best they have to honour the LORD, and HIS servants.

Thanking each of you for your prayers, financial support of this work, and for us here. Jacob is a big help to me physically, doesn’t’ complain, does what I ask and does the best he can. He is learning many things of which, some I will detail in the next few reports.

To be continued….

In His Name,

Missionary Peter Halliman

February 17, 2026March 4, 2026

Mission Report Jan 2026 1st

Dear Pastor, Church, & All Supporters:

This report is being written from my home in Mt. Hagen, Papua New Guinea, much has passed since my last report, the amount of news, happenings, events, challenges and so on are much more than this report will detail. I will need to start a series of reports in order for you…the reader to facilitate the ease of reading. It is not the object to load you or place you under heavy load in the reading of my mission reports, on the other hand, it is my obligation and desire for you to know what goes on in the mission work of which, you are a part of, either financially or prayerfully or both.

The last report was written (from Malawi side) and we (Jacob and I) were only a few days away from departure. I will pick it up from there.

8th January our journey began for PNG, a couple days prior to our departure, I had been informed by a longtime friend (PNG) former politician that the ‘option’ for U.S. citizens to obtain a short-term visa upon arrival here in PNG has been dismissed, meaning, all U.S. citizens arriving here in PNG must apply online. Turnaround time usually is minimal of three business days for an answer. I received the news a day before departure from Malawi Africa.

I had Jacob make his application to the PNG immigration entry (short term) 60 days, this was filled out (lots of data to upload), submitted for approval, and the prayers started. I put in order as much as I could the mission work in Malawi, gave firm directives to Edwin & Eric for the mission work, and the morning of departure we were up early, had our bush showers, breakfast, packed and hiked to the road. I had organised a public vehicle to transport us to the airport. With five of us (Eric, Edwin, Jacob, the driver and I, plus our two backpacks, two suitcases, & handbags the vehicle was packed.

Departure from mission station in Mulanje, Malawi.

Our check in at Chileka Airport, Blantyre International Airport was quick (being a small airport), the farewells were mixed with emotions as always. We soon were inflight to Johannesburg, South Africa. Our time there was only in transition, however when we attempted to renew our boarding passes (different airlines) do this, mine was ok, Jacob’s was denied due to the idea that his PNG online visa had not come in yet. I took time with Jacob, and we went to the LORD to help us out on the matter, to return to Malawi we cannot, to stay in Johannesburg we cannot, to board we were denied, or at least Jacob, but how do I leave him?

Time passed, much prayer was made, God opened the door, we were given a boarding pass for Jacob, and we departed South Africa for Dubai. Once there, (eight hours later) we had a short window, and faced the same issue, the airline did not want to grant Jacob a boarding pass, because his PNG visa had not come in yet, I explained the process, showed proof of payment, a sponsor letter that I had to write for his entry to visit the mission work etc… but still they refused. We prayed again, and again the LORD opened the doors, we were granted a new boarding pass and departed Dubai for Brisbane AU. We also needed transit visas for AU. I had mine from previous travel, Jacob had to apply, online and this was granted. Fourteen hours later we arrived, disembarked and started the process through immigration. A short window for our departure to PNG, Jacob was held up with Immigration five times pulled, all this due to the fact (Americans need to pay attention) to this if you plan to travel abroad.

No one else in the world writes, dates, or names like the Americans, this put Jacob’s name in the AU system as him having two passports with different identities. Reason being, his passport states the Surname: (Americans say last name) the passport states given names: (First and Middle): Birth dates written in the U.S. are opposite from the rest of the world, only the U.S. military and security will write it out as used in other parts of the world, meaning (day then month, then year) or possible (year first, month secondly, and day finally). All this said, there was a senior officer who figured out the error as a typo-error, and they cleared the system for future reference, and we were given the green light to carry on. Don’t just assume the rest of the world complies to your way of doing things. Jacob’s visa came through to his email, as we had landed at Brisbane, AU! Answer to many prayers.

We did make the flight to PNG, it was a two-hour flight, we passed through Immigration, and Customs no issues in Port Moresby, then about two hundred metres walk to domestic, we checked in and waited for our flight to Mt. Hagen. The flight was soon boarded and forty-five minutes flight across many large mountains and touched down in Mt. Hagen. We collected our baggage and out the terminal where we were met by a team of excited Papua New Guineans that were there to greet us.

The team of men who escorted us to the house.

A minibus was organised (public transport) to ferry us to the Lodge quarters, where I stay. People were excited and several men came all the way with us to the lodge quarters escorting us. They stayed for a little while whilst we talked, had some fellowship and then they departed to go home. It being Saturday and we had travelled for two days getting to our home now. Tomorrow would be Sunday where we had church services scheduled at Kim Baptist church within Mt. Hagen. The four independent churches around Mt. Hagen area would merge together for church services, I asked Jacob if he could be ready to teach a S.S. lesson as I would preach the main service.

We unpacked, had dinner, scrubbed up and called it a day after many miles, prayers, and doors being opened that no man may close. We had a final prayer for the evening thanking our LORD for answering our prayers, and opening doors that Satan wanted closed. Greater is HE that is in you, than he who is in the world.

Thanking each of you who had joined us in prayer during that long, trying journey. Stepping into the unknown is simply an act of (faith). We walk by faith, not by sight. This makes great

Arrival ay my quarters here in Mt. Hagen

preaching; it’s a different story when your called upon to live it

This will conclude the first part of a series in the mission reports. I will be sending out more in order to bring you up to date before the end of February.

Thanking each of you who have a part in the work, both prayerfully as well as financially and or both. I could not do what I do without you participation and cooperative efforts.

To God be the glory, may He bless the work of our hands for His eternal Kingdom Amen!

In His Name,

Missionary Peter Halliman