We Found the Secret | unScripted EP 17
23 May 2026
Shawn Boonstra sits down with Kyle Warren, Media Manager for the Adventist Review, to pull back the curtain on what they witnessed firsthand in Papua New Guinea — a revival so massive, so raw, and so unexpected that even the church wasn't prepared for the results.
From 6,000 Discovery Bible study groups born out of COVID, to 2,300 simultaneous evangelistic sites, to over 250,000 baptisms — and projections of 1 million by 2030 — this is the story North American Adventists aren't fully hearing. And there's one piece nobody's talking about: what happened to all the children?
Kyle shares his unlikely path from video games to Adventist media ministry, and what 40 hours in a plane (in lavatory class) and 8 days at 4 a.m. did to his understanding of what the local church is actually capable of.
Pastor Miller Cuso, Sabbath School & Personal Ministries Director for PNG, reveals the "secret sauce" behind the revival. Jim Rennie of Operation Life explains the Lamb Shelter crisis — and why they urgently need 100 more Sabbath school classrooms for the thousands of new children flooding in at $5,400 each.
What you'll discover in this episode:
Why prayer at 3 a.m. moved heaven — and why Wednesday night prayer meeting doesn't
How Discovery Bible study bookmarks ignited 6,000 small groups
The retention strategy PNG is using to keep people after baptism
What the local church did for years before the evangelists landed
The Lamb Shelter project — and how you can sponsor one
Why Kyle left video games and never looked back
What Shawn came home believing about soul winning after 30 years
Timestamps:
0:00 — Shawn's opening: PNG, Kyle Warren, and what you're about to see
4:17 — The PNG for Christ story begins
7:40 — Pastor Miller Cuso reveals the secret sauce: Discovery Bible Groups
11:48 — 3 a.m. prayer bells — what PNG did that we said was impossible
14:35 — How PNG is retaining hundreds of thousands of new members
21:17 — The Lamb Shelter crisis: nowhere to put the kids
21:57 — Jim Rennie & Operation Life's Child Rescue Center
23:50 — What a Lamb Shelter costs — and how you can sponsor one
27:53 — What's next: Fiji, Solomon Islands, New Zealand
This is what revival actually looks like. Raw. Unfiltered. unScripted.
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