arose from the deaths of those we remember this morning.  Their story inspired the rebuilding of the Anglican Church in Papua New Guinea after the war.  Immediately post war in 1947, a meeting of mission staff proposed that a secondary school in the Northern Province of PNG would be a suitable memorial.  The lay leaders of the church in Sangara offered a block of land for the school which was dedicated as the Martyrs Memorial School in 1948.  It was the first secondary school in Papua New Guinea and has produced many graduates who've contributed greatly tho the life of PNG -- their first Governor -- General, for example, Sir John Guise was a Martyrs student.  Inspired by the story of the martyrs, the Anglican Church in PNG continued to develop and grow.  It is not a large church numerically -- and it has its problems, but it has developed a great vitality of worship and action.  The litany prayer which we will use today was written by Bishop Denys Ririka for a Martyrs Day service at All Soul's Lae in 2004 and generously given to ABM for the use of the Australian church.  All these things are signs of life and hope -- resurrection life and hope. Our gospel reading speaks to this "unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single  grain, but if it dies, it bears much fruit."   It would be easy, hearing the stories of the New Guinea Martyrs