While Madang was opening up, Jim Baird and John and Magdalen Endor were making good progress in Lae, a large coastal town some 130 miles [210 km] to the southeast. “We studied with large groups of people at our home nearly every night. Within six months, ten of our Bible students joined us in service,” recalls John. Later that year more than 1,200 people attended a screening of the film The New World Society in Action at the Lae picture theater. Many in the audience were contract workers who carried the good news back to their remote mountain villages.

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The home of Magdalen and John Endor was the first meeting place in Lae