It’s Thanksgiving Day here already and although we aren’t doing much celebrating here we do want to take this opportunity to give thanks for all of you who support us through your gifts and prayers!
We can certainly say along with Paul in Philippians 1:3-6 “I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Thankfully these last few weeks have been a respite from the busy months before. We’ve only had one overnight guest. David has been busy with supply buying for both teams up here. In fact he has a supply run today because the German family forgot this is an American holiday! 🙂 But we said we would gladly do it since we didn’t have anyone for dinner today.
This next week we have Steve Manda coming for a few days. Steve is in the country briefly to renew his paperwork before going back to the US to finish their home assignment. Steve and Lois will be filling in for us next year when we go to the US but they won’t be coming back until a month after we leave. So we will use the time he’s here to orient him to what we do here and where we get all the supplies for folks. Steve and Lois are not new to the area as they served in the Taman tribe for many years but it’s been a long time since they lived here and things have really changed.
Following that David is hoping to take a young Punan couple out by bus to Malaysia for medical treatment they were not able to get here. The young mother has what the doctor here thinks is a tumor on her leg and the doctor we contacted in Malaysia says those normally are not benign so she could be looking at some pretty serious surgery. Please be praying that all arrangements will fall together. They have to get passports. Also our passports are in the offices for our visa renewals. They say they will give David his for a week to go out of the country. This is all a pretty frightening thing for this young couple who have rarely been out of their village let alone out of the country!
Rachel will probably come down to stay with me while David is gone for a week or more. She will be needing to go on out to town later anyway to sign for her visa renewal when she’s told it’s ready. DJ is still doing OK as he adds things back into his diet. He’s not had any re-occurrence of the pain he had the week following surgery.