About our Activities
Highland Lutheran International School
Students at HLIS enjoy informal sports all year long. Those which are the favorite are rugby (above), soccer, volleyball (below) and basketball. The campus has a large field for open running sports, a basketball court and a volleyball court. Sports competitions with other schools and local sports clubs are [...]
Highland Lutheran International School students come from all over Papua New Guinea, but most of them come from the Enga Province between Wabag and Wapenamanda. The grade 12 students in the picture above will take their exams this year and graduate. Other students range in age down to prekinder students. In the picture below, [...]
Read full post...About Our History
Highland Lutheran International School
The property at Amapyaka was purchased in 1953 by missionaries from Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS), and the original school was a grass hut that was used to prepare young national men to teach the Word of God throughout Papua New Guinea.
In 1957 the number of missionaries coming from [...]
About Papua New Guinea (culture)
Highland Lutheran International School
Papua New Guinea is a developing country, geographically comprising the eastern half of the New Guinea Island north of Australia. Its rich cultural heritage includes more than 800 language groups, each with a unique tradition, from the boat people of Milne Bay to the rugged mountain tribes of the Chimbu, [...]
About Our School Facilities
Highland Lutheran International School
The school is located on a nine-acre property on the Highland’s Highway between Wabag and Wapenamanda. The campus has several education buildings, including a main office and classroom complex, two early childhood buildings, a stand alone science laboratory and two classrooms attached to the dormitories. New classrooms, a central [...]
About Religious Education
Highland Lutheran International School
A center piece of the program at HLIS is the Christian message of love and service that permeates every school activity. This specifically involves weekly Sunday worship, weekly chapel worship on Wednesday mornings, daily devotions at morning assemblies and a full curriculum of Christian education classes from prekindergarten to [...]
