About Rumginae

Rumginae is a former mission station now under leadership of the Evangelical Church of Papua New Guinea. It consists of the Rumginae hospital, Community Health Worker School, Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) base, Bible school and Primary School as well as an English-speaking church and local language church. The local language is Aekyom.

The 60 bed hospital is a church-run but government funded ministry to the remote rural community. Along with fifteen associated aid posts and the support of MAF, it serves much of Western Province. It is staffed by two or three expatriate doctors with the remainder of the staff from throughout Papua New Guinea.

Healthcare ministry is a strategic area where beliefs can be confronted with the truth of the gospel and the loving service of Jesus can be shown. Most patients describe their illness in terms of a battle between the spirit and physical world, which needs to be approached in terms of restoring relationships in both the seen and unseen worlds to restore holistic health.