As we are starting to think about going into a village, there are a lot of plans we have to make when it comes to house building. Things like buying lumber in town at three times the cost, or cutting and milling all of our wood taking three times as long. The possibility of using all bush materials and living with the bugs, or buying plywood and being bug free, and how much of our own goods do we want to bring in or how simply do we want to live.
There are a lot of factors that go into making these decisions. One of them being relationship building, what kind of example are we making for the people that will one day be the church, and how much are we feeding into their cargo cult mentality that believes white people have the spiritual secrets to getting more cargo from the spirits. There is also the cost factor.
With there being no roads into the locations that we go into, we have to pay the $1000 per hour for the helicopter to transport of the materials we will need for our house. Things like our solar panels and wiring are a necessity, but many of the other things we can live without. So the question is, what do we NEED to be effective in this church plant, and what are the things that we can really live without? This means that we are letting go of many of the niceties that we may have in town or America so that we can better reach these people with the gospel.
This is a big task and it takes a lot of people to get us where we need to be. First it takes people like you, praying and giving so that we can make the wise decisions of what we need to buy. There are also people who help us buy the materials in town, people that will help us mill the wood we need, a helicopter pilot that transports all of the materials to our location, and missionaries and people from the village that come out and help us build our homes.
So what stage are we at right now? Right now we are in the first stage, finding people like you who are willing to diligently pray and generously give to this cause. As of right now, we have all of the solar panels, batteries and things for wiring our house. So now we need your help over these next few months to help raise the funds we need to build this house. If you are giving monthly already, we are putting everything that we aren’t using for living expenses towards this fund. If you would like to give a one-time gift or monthly, you can do so at http://usa.ntm.org/missionaries/coleton-and-shawna-williams
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