Today, Lima Tupuo also serves as the Interim Secretary for the Fiji Baptist Convention and is leading figure in South Pacific Baptist ministry.
An educated man with a wife and family, he condescended to having a weekly bible study in his home, and sat down with the rest of them, listening to the bible teacher and as hospitable and courteous as one might be in such a situation.
This is the story of so many good solid citizens around the world, who married Christian women. These men are not opposed to Christian things, the social gatherings are affable, opening one's home to bible studies provides a sense of belonging, but that is as far as it goes.
Then one evening in 1977, after having a little too much to drink, and as was Lima Tupuo's custom, politely listening to the bible teaching, he heard the words of Paul's letter to the Romans, 'If you do not have the Spirit of Christ you do not belong to Him.'
"Those words bothered me. I knew deep within my heart I did not have the Spirit of Christ. Therefore I realised I did not belong to Him although I belonged to this group," Lima Tupuo explained.
Lima was one of the Fijian delegates at the recent Baptist World Alliance Living Water Australasian-South Pacific conference held in Cairns where he gave a video testimony for Australian Missionary News IPTV.
"After that bible study I quietly but surely invited Christ into my life in order that I, too, would belong to Him. It was as simple as that," Lima Tupuo told Mark Tronson of the Australian Missionary News IPTV.
When he became a Christian man, Lima's life perspectives changed. He says that an inner peace came upon him, such as he had never previously experienced.
"I began reading the bible and a most memorable verse was where Jesus said that the peace He gives to you is not as the world gives," Lima Tupuo noted. "To this I can attest. It has changed me and my relationships with my wife and family."
Lima Tupuo said that he never thought he'd become a Pastor of a Church way back in 1977. But he said that God has a way of working within the heart of His people, and this is what happened to him.
It was never a sudden burst of light, rather a deep assurance of peace within his heart, gradually developing to a fullness, that only Christ can bring.