Across the rural highlands of Papua New Guinea, night falls the same way it has for generations: in darkness. No electricity. No streetlights. No safe way to read Scripture, prepare a sermon, or gather as a church once the sun goes down.
You can change that.
LIGHT PNG exists to bring sustainable, solar-powered light to rural churches and communities throughout Eastern Highlands, Simbu, Jiwaka, and the Western Highlands Provinces. Every lantern placed in a pastor’s hands does more than light a room. It extends the hours a congregation can gather, a student can study, and a family can feel safe. You can read more about what that looks like in practice in A Solar Lamp Can Change a Pastor’s Entire Week in Rural PNG.
Why Your Support Matters
- One lantern, one church. Each lamp is placed directly with a pastor or ministry leader already serving their community.
- Light with purpose. Every distribution is paired with discipleship, training, and encouragement, not just equipment.
- Built to last. Solar lanterns mean no ongoing fuel cost and no dependence on a grid that may never arrive.
- A growing vision. Your support fuels today’s distribution and the outreach it opens the door to next, from spiritual teaching to practical training like first aid and eyesight care.
Ways to Get Involved
Sponsor a Lamp
Fund a solar lantern for a pastor or church family. A single gift puts light directly into the hands of someone leading a congregation in darkness, often after a full day of farming and family work of their own.
Donate
Help Paul and Light PNG local team to cover the real, practical cost of hosting the LIGHT PNG overseas team each time they come to Kerowagi. Specifically, your gift will go toward: Food and hospitality and transportation for the visiting team during their time on the ground.
Partner With Us
Walk alongside LIGHT PNG as an ongoing ministry partner. Churches, businesses, and individuals are all welcome, whether that means regular giving, in-kind support, or joining an outreach trip directly.
Volunteer
Lend your time, skills, or trade, from mission trip participation to behind-the-scenes support back home. There is a place in this work for people who will never set foot in Papua New Guinea and for people who will.
Pray
Stand with the mission team, the pastors we serve, and the communities of Eastern Highlands, Simbu, Jiwaka, and the Western Highlands Provinces in prayer. The men and women carrying the Gospel into these places are already doing the work faithfully, often without pay and without recognition. Prayer is never the smaller option here.
Be Part of the Light
“You are the light of the world… let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:14 to 16.
Whatever form your support takes, a gift, a prayer, a partnership, you become part of the light reaching Papua New Guinea’s highlands. Choose how you would like to get involved: sponsor a lamp, give a donation, partner with us, or volunteer your time.
Yes, the Nation needs the Light of Glorious Word of Our God, to display & proclaim the Power of His Word.
Amen! Thank you Pastor Duli for the support. We are grateful to God for this opportunity to serve the pastors severing in the rural communities placing a solar lanttern in their hands to encourage them to go one more mile to share the Good News of Jesus Christ when the sun goes down. – Paul.
Great initiative. We need that in our rural churches and communities.
Thank you, Isaac! We truly appreciate your encouragement.
You’re right. So many rural churches across Papua New Guinea share this same need, and that’s exactly what burdened my heart to initiate LIGHT PNG in partnership with a retired missionary family: to put solar light into the hands of pastors, evangelists, and church workers serving without electricity, so their ministry can continue safely after dark.
With the help of Light PNG US partners, we are initiating a trial distribution and launching program coming November to Decemeber, distributing solar lanterns and reading glasses to pastors and church workers coming from 62 churches in Simbu and Jiwaka provinces.
If you’d like to stand with us, you can sponsor a lantern, share this page with others, or keep our team and the churches we serve in your prayers — every bit of it matters.
Grace and blessings to you, Isaac.
Paul Mondo
Director, LIGHT PNG