Pastor Jupeli’S Long
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Service To The Lms
PASTOR JUPELI, Chaplain of the London Missionary Society’s ship, “John Williams VI,” which arrived in Brisbane on March 10, preached at the evening service in the Brisbane Congre gational Church on Sunday, March 13.
Pastor Jupeli is a Samoan and was the only native missionary to remain in the Gilbert Islands when the Japanese in vaded them. The European missionary, the Rev. Alfred Sadd, who remained with him, was murdered by the Japanese in 1942.
Pastor Jupeli is returning to Western Samoa to retire after 47 years as a mis sionary in the Gilberts.
Gilbert and Ellice islanders from the “John Williams VI” comprised the choir at the service.