As a famous movie once said, “if you build it, they will come”.
From 2017 to 2024, we built building after building, and remodeled the 2 buildings that were already there. We furnished them all and as we learned what the Bible School needed, we would add things like more latrines, more water tanks, benches, a kitchen, and much more.
Now the facilities can handle comfortably; 2 waves of students on different tracks (2 classrooms), 7 married couples dorms, a boys dorm that fits 15 men, a guest house, and a kitchen that can seat 100 people. The main classroom allows 36 students to have adequate space to learn God’s Word. There are plenty of places for hanging clothes, cooking, a garden to supplement the students, not to mention that it’s one of the few villages in Vanautu not to struggle with a water shortage (because of the amount of water tanks).
If you have followed our journey, we made awareness of needs from time to time, but most of the funds came through “random” gifts and one time donations, some very much unplanned by the giver side, mostly just felt led by God to “give”.
This is just one of the testimonies of how God built a facility that literally trains indigenous pastors, is used by the Tiale Christians for a quiet place to learn, host youth events, medical teams, and is used as a place of refreshment for local believers. This place is always being used, and in the “off time”, children flood the area and play soccer or volleyball as it is one of the best kept areas in the country.The countless souls saved, the many lives changed to look more like Jesus, the multiple language groups already reached… and the school has only been truly established since 2022.
(Prov. 29:18) “Where there is no vision, the people perish”. We see a vision that God will use the Tiale people and the Big Bay Bible school to reach the nation of Vanuatu.
Please continue to pray as God uses these men and this facility for His work.
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Here is our latest update 👇
https://stokingthefires.com/2026/03/08/newsletter-february-2026/
Your feet to the Tiale people and the country of Vanuatu. Seth, Nicole & Selah Stokes.
Stoking The Fires 