Seven Solomon Islands students along with 20 other students from around the pacific graduated with the certificates in family ministries.
Along with other subjects covered in eight units, the program started at 2007 and ended this year.
It is a summer course with a program of two weeks of each year completing two units and is a four year program.
Mr Selwyn Kouto a participant of the program expressed what he found in the course as very rewarding and that it has boost his own family life’s aspiration and as a church minister it is rewarding as well, “because as I work with the church I only work with the families,” he said.
Mr Kouto said “a family is a church, society and the very foundation of our country”.
“Therefore as leader of the church I am sure that we can now be able to do our work in meeting the needs of every family socially emotionally and spiritually.”
The participants of the courses are Adventist church pastors, school teachers, chaplains, media officers, the ABC bookshop workers, church administrators and church leaders in the local churches with church members.
All their expenses for the courses and the tuition fees were met by the Adventist church.
Other participants from the pacific region who have also graduated on that day were form; Vanuatu, Kiribati, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, and Cook Islands.
By Ruth Morisudah
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