The church ministers from different churches around Samoa gathered to be shared different experiences, as a way of strengthening their spiritual selves in serving churches.

This was an initiative by the South Seas Christian Ministries who has been serving Samoa for 35 years in different areas, not only for church ministers but also in the Samoan communities with free health medical services, food and so forth.

The conference was held yesterday at Tanoa Tusitala Hotel and about 60 different church ministers turned up with their wives to participate.

According to the church minister of the Christian Church West Valley California, Rob Denton, the involvement of Samoan church ministers this year has increased.

"We did this last year but only with the church ministers and it was successful too and so we thought we should also have the wives come too."

"We saw the hearts of the faifeaus and so we figured if we could get to share with the pastors of the vision then that would filter down," he said.

Speaking to the Samoa Observer, one of the Samoan church ministers who did not want to be mentioned said this should be