WHITE SUNDAY
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Local businesses — especially clothing shops and grocery stores — are hoping for an uptick in customers this White Sunday, shopping for White Sunday outfits for the children and food for the Sunday feast. (See today’s Samoa News edition for businesses advertising their...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In American Samoa, White Sunday is a day parents honor their children with special programs during church services which include scriptural recitations, biblical story reenactments, creative dance performances followed by a feast of their children’s favorite foods.
In...
Apia, SAMOA — Let us cherish our children. That was the overarching message at the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa (C.C.C.S.) at Savaia, Lefaga, when children led their White Sunday church service.
The C.C.C.S. of Savaia, Lefaga joined various church denominations to celebrate White Sunday...
New Plymouth, NEW ZEALAND — Children were the focus of the Sunday church service at Samoan Assembly of God in New Plymouth.
The day marked White Sunday, or Lotu Tamaiti which translates to children’s service, a national holiday in Samoa which falls on the second Sunday of October.
More than 20...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Except for Nu’uuli Vocational Technical High School, which has ongoing construction projects on its campus, Education director Dr. Ruth Matagi Tofiga said all public schools would be back on full schedule of classroom instruction on Oct. 13th — after the upcoming long...
Apia, SAMOA — Businesses across the country are registering a surge of orders and advertising special offers for clothing and food more than a fortnight ahead of the White Sunday holiday.
Typically on White Sunday children lead Sunday services, reciting scriptures and performing in plays and...
This precious little one can hardly contain her excitement as she performs at the Vailoa CCCAS White Sunday celebration, Oct. 13, 2019. [photo: Salima Eucharist Elisara Reupena]
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The annual White Sunday celebration, dedicated to the children of American Samoa, is today, Sunday, Oct. 13th.
Introduced in the islands by Christian missionaries in the 1800s, White Sunday has became a special holiday, with children being treated to the best — from...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The annual White Sunday celebration, coupled with the Monday federal and local holiday (Discoverers’ Day), adds up to a three-day weekend — and a busy one at that — as residents gear up for a day dedicated to the children of American Samoa.
Sunday, Oct. 13th is White...
Middle schoolers at Manumalo Academy got an early White Sunday treat Thursday morning when the first graders (pictured) took center stage and performed beautiful songs that wowed everyone. Sunday, Oct. 13th is White Sunday, which is celebrated every year on the second Sunday in October. Tonga and...