About Kabiufa

Nearly a century in the Eastern Highlands.

A Legacy

Kabiufa Adventist Secondary School sits on the Highlands Highway, ten kilometres north of Goroka, in Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands Province — 1,750 metres above sea level, where mist settles over the campus most mornings. Founded from a small mission classroom in the 1930s, Kabiufa has grown into a coeducational boarding secondary school of over 1,100 students, and one of the longest-running Adventist institutions in the PNG Highlands.
OUR CHRONICLES

Our Story

1930s

Mission classrooms begin

Teachers Moses and Masibau, from Mussau Island, hold the earliest classes with very little equipment.

1954

Coral Sea Union Training School

Renamed under missionary Kenneth Gray, who led a staff of eight. For years the school’s own farm — vegetables sent to markets in Port Moresby and Lae — made a significant contribution to school finances.

1991

First national principal

Samson Kuku becomes the first Papua New Guinean to lead the school.

1999

Kabiufa Adventist Secondary School

The institution adopts the name it carries today.

2024

1,127 students, and growing

A new prayer room is dedicated in the library, and more than 160 students are baptised in a single year.

Throughout this rich history, Kabiufa has been regular hosts to visiting General Conference, Division, and Union church leaders. Each visit has reaffirmed our heritage and mission to educate minds and inspire souls for eternity.

ESTABLISHED IN FAITH

Our Core Foundations

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Our Mission

To provide quality Christian secondary education that develops the spiritual, academic, physical, and social character of every student.

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Our Vision

To be a leading Seventh-day Adventist secondary school in Papua New Guinea, known for academic excellence and Christ-centred character.

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Our Motto

[DRAFT — to be confirmed with the school]

Leadership

A Message from the Principal

“Welcome to Kabiufa, the school of the prophets.”

For nearly a century, this campus has sat above the clouds on the Highlands Highway, and in that time it has never stopped being both a school and a mission. Our students come from every province of Papua New Guinea, and what we ask of them is the same thing the earliest mission teachers asked of their first students: that they grow in knowledge and in faith together, not one before the other. Every morning here begins in mist and in worship. Every day ends with the same question we started with in the 1930s — how do we send young people out from Kabiufa better equipped to serve their communities, their country, and their God? I’m proud of how that question still shapes this place, and I welcome you to see it for yourself.

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— Freddy Pennington, Principal

Administration & Leadership Team

Dr. Elizabeth Vianni

Deputy Principal

Pastor Joshua Kumo

Chaplain

Mr. Silas Orai

Boarding Master

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