The South Pacific Field announced the election of Talioe Meke as the new superintendent of the Samoa District on 13 November 2025.
Meke attended Samoa Nazarene Theological College from 1992 to 1994. He sensed God’s call to pursue theological studies at age 19, and for more than three decades, he has remained faithful in ministry.
His journey reflects a divine calling marked by perseverance, dedication, and humble beginnings. After graduating, he spent three years assisting elders in a Samoan-speaking Nazarene church in New Zealand from 1995 to 1998.
Holding a district license, Meke has served as pastor of the Falelima Nazarene church for seven years before being ordained as an elder in 2014. He later spent five years pastoring a local church in Savaii after planting the Satufia Church of the Nazarene.
Meke is a long-standing member of the District Advisory Board, having served as district secretary from 2017 until he was elected superintendent. During this period, he also served on the local Board of Trustees for South Pacific Nazarene Theological College (SPNTC).
One of his key strengths is urban evangelism, demonstrated through weekly open-air services held every Sunday evening at the Apia marketplace. There, he has partnered with fellow elders since 2008 in soul-winning efforts through one-on-one and group outreach. Meke has also played a vital role in the JESUS Film ministry, delivering the gospel in the Samoan vernacular throughout local churches.
While he is optimistic about digital evangelism, he remains deeply committed to oral evangelism and orality as powerful tools for discipleship and outreach. With prayer and grace, he envisions using orality to teach membership classes on the 16 Articles of Faith, Nazarene identity, church administration, and, eventually, the 24 Course of Study modules.
“I wanted to enter Bible college back in the early 1990s,” Meke said, reflecting on his calling to ministry. “I was turned down due to my young age, yet God looked at my obedient heart. From humble beginnings in the rural villages, knowing what it was like to have nothing, yet God has been faithful. From that day on, I counted discipleship as my business—and so should every Christian in the church.”
He is married to Fotuosamoa, and they have three children and one grandchild.