Aore My Home

e Adventist Academy. In 2009, the school's enrolment totalled 194 students and 17 teachers. Aore Adventist Academy is situated on the southern coast of the island of Aore. Aore is part of the nation of Vanuatu, an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean. It is some 1,750 kilometres (1,090 mi) east of northern Australia, 500 kilometres (310 mi) northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea. Vanuatu was known as the New Hebrides before achieving independence. The school buildings are located near the shoreline close to workshops, a hospital (now reassigned to other uses) and a slipway. In 1925, the small island of Aore was chosen as the regional Adventist mission station. The 8 March 1926 edition of the Australasian Record included the following poem reminding the division's sabbath schools of the project's offering at the end of the month. Adventist mission boat, 1926, Loloma, had its home port at the Aore school. In 1927, the church secured the property on Aore. In the early years of the school, a clear title to the land was difficult to establish. The newly acquired regional mission boat, Loloma, located there as well. They used the Loloma to bring the students to the school. Aore soon became the focal point of Adventist work in the New Hebrides. R. James, the mission superintendent, and a party of young New Hebrideans moved in with axes to clear the land and establish a school. Students have followed in increasing numbers, and the educational and spiritual work of this institution has been the heart of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) Adventist Mission.