Please continue to PRAY for Jujin. He didn’t show up for the Sunday meeting in order to ask forgiveness of his fellow believers for his going astray and quitting his teaching of the children.
We have mentioned how excited we were because there might be opportunity for an outreach to start in another province that we’ve been praying about for years. Mahan’s in-laws who are believers are living in a Manubu’ village there. We had been told by a believer who has visited there that it is in the mountains on a good gravel road about 6 miles from a town on the coast where we could possibly relocate to. We were all set to go there and check it out as soon as our road dries up. Mahan’s wife called her family asking for specific directions. It turns out that we were all misinformed about it’s location. It is about 100 miles further away! One of our considerations in relocating and taking a Bible translation helperBible teacher with us is that we need to be within a reasonable distance of the second dialect we work in so we can check out translation with translation helpers there. That place would not be within a reasonable distance.
We’re thank the Lord that we found out where Mahan’s in-laws are actually living before driving out and wandering around trying to find them where we had mistakenly been told they are living.
It is a bit of a disappointment that where they are living is not an option because it is much cooler there on the coast than our other option – and now only option – which is way inland and VERY hot and humid. It’s hot and humid where we live now, but not as bad as that place. But, if that is where the Lord wants us, that’s where we want to be.
We planned to drive out this week to check out housing possibilities, including in the town which is now our only option, but folks from our village who have traveled the road from our village for the first 25 miles via motorcycle say that because of the rainy weather we’ve been having even our off-road 4×4 wouldn’t be able to get through. Occasional palm oil trucks have left deep ruts and it is too muddy to straddle them. So, we’re waiting for a few days of dry weather before trying to drive out. With the winch on our truck not working we don’t want to take a chance on getting bogged down.
So, please PRAY for a long spell of dry weather so we can get out to the highway and also get back in again a few days later.