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St Barnabas Day on Rah and Mota Lava in Rah/Mota Lava
St Barnabas Day on Rah and Mota Lava is a community observance in the Banks Islands of northern Vanuatu, an area with a long Anglican mission history. Available sources confirm nearby saint-day festivals in the same island group but do not independently document this specific event's program in detail.
Rah and Mota Lava sit in the Banks Islands, the northernmost cluster of Vanuatu, an area whose religious life was reshaped in the nineteenth century by the Melanesian Mission, an Anglican effort based out of Norfolk Island that trained local catechists and built a network of small island churches across the Banks and Torres groups.