Looking at Life through God’s perspective… Eternity.

First day of 2nd Grade and 6th Grade!

Building forts with friends using papaya tree and sago branches         

Driving our solar goft cart-brakes fixed!     

Enjoying a coconut at campfire

Jonathan is back at Tang Soo Do with Jacob but misses his friends    

Beth and her grandma (now with Jesus) a few years ago at the Labor Day parade

Nannie Jane (now with Jesus) teaching the kids how to play checkers

Efeke and Fred, worked with Beth at the old Interface kitchen                               

A Bena village – please pray for more missionaries to plant a church in Fred and Efeke’s area

Eternity is a long time! We are thankful that God is in control and has a plan for each one of His children on this earth, and that we get to be a part of all He is doing. Sometimes letting go of what we think should happen is a hard thing. But when we do, we get to watch and enjoy the amazing work of God in people’s lives in a way that we would never imagine. This year we have had four deaths in our family, this isn’t something that we would have anticipated but God has a plan and we are thankful that all four of our family members are with Him in glory now, rejoicing. And because of the testimony of their lives, more family and friends have a desire to know God. We are thankful that God is working, even when we can’t know everything He is doing, we can trust that He is doing what is best to bring people closer to Him.

Recently we heard that the old Interface Campus, where we met and used to live for many years, was having a SingSing (celebration). We were interested to go and see what was happening. We found out that the Teachers College, which is now located on the campus, was finally going to get registration papers from the government, so they could graduate students. The Member of Parliament was coming to make it official and they were going to celebrate! So we went to see our old friends and see the celebration. Unfortunately the Member of Parliament had a change of plans and couldn’t make it. But the school is registered and soon they will celebrate! About 11 years ago, we were thrown for a loop when, after Jonathan was born, we couldn’t return to our ministry at Interface because the Interface program was moving to a new location, downsizing. But God… many years later we see that God had a purpose in moving us to Wewak and back here to Goroka, and a purpose for the campus in training teachers. We are excited to see what God has in store and thankful that we get to watch and see and be a part of what God is doing by serving at the guesthouse.

Please pray for us in the next month, as the guesthouse will be a hopping place! We get the opportunity to host a work team for two weeks, while they renovate the office building. Following this we will have a few days to prep for the Central Area Conference, as we will be helping with two meals for about 120 people! We are thankful to be able to be a part of Church planting by helping people with meals and accommodations and much needed rest to enable them to get back into their ministries.

Praises! 

• The New Testament is now the hands of the Soromi believers!
• Opportunity to host some Bible Translators at our guesthouse for a conference.
• Opportunity to host a work team arriving from the US this week.
• Jonathan and Naomi are enjoying school and learning lots!
• God has provided all funds to pay off our medical debt! (Yay God!)
• God has provided the rest of the finances needed for Jonathan’s treatment to correct his jaw. (Yah God!)
• Thankful for our Guesthouse team of four citizen ladies who cook, clean, organize and buy market produce and our citizen driver who does guest airport runs.
• Extra help in the guesthouse for the next few months as Jamie (missionary learning pidgin English) join us to help and learn pidgin better and work and talk with the ladies.
• After the brakes failed, the Guesthouse golf cart is up and running again!
• A God who loves us so much He continues to guide us in our steps day by day and moment by moment.
• Because we are God’s children we have abundant daily life and REST in Him.
• God’s continued provision for our needs moment by moment!

 Prayer requests: 

• We need Teachers and Doctors (long term)!
• Healing for Beth’s Uncle Allen Schott currently in the hospital and will get biopsies soon. Please pray for her Aunt Trudi and family too.
• Comfort and peace for Beth’s parents, Dennis and Corrine Weaver, sister Ruth and Beth as they grieve our daughter/sister’s passing into glory.
• Comfort for Beth’s parents as they continue to grieve and find a new normal, after Sarah’s passing
• Comfort for Beth’s family after the passing of her grandmother, Marcella Weaver (98 years old).
• Comfort for Jacob’s family after the passing of his grandmothers, Janie Devine (95 year old) and Joyce Sears (89 years old) this year.
• Wisdom, strength and healing in life transitions as Jacob’s parents, Stanley and Cheryl Devine are between ministries.
• Stanley and Cheryl as they move to the Ethnos360 Headquarters in FL to volunteer for 6 months starting in November.
• Wisdom, strength and safety as Jacob manages the Water System for the NTM centre and is involved in various projects at the Guesthouse.
• More dog training will start this week, as Jacob will start training a 2 ½ year old dog for security at our centre in the capital of PNG.
• Wisdom in making good decisions as Beth represents our coworkers on both the school and community councils.

• Ability for Beth to balance all the different aspects of ministries that she is involved in… Guesthouse, Family and School life
• Wisdom and strength for Nate in Port Moresby, and more missionaries to join his team at the NTM POM Centre.
• Each of us would continue to allow God to direct our days.
• Leadership discussions about the maintenance department and a plan to move forward.
• New citizen driver to help Kiso, our main guesthouse driver.
• Finances to become 100% supported… we are in need of only $250/month which is only about 5 people giving $50 or 10 people giving $25 a month.
• That we would remember that God holds everything together including us! And He is working all around us.
• Wisdom and Love as we teach our children how to walk with God daily.
• God would continue to raise up more missionaries to come to the PNG and bring the Gospel to those who have never heard it their own heart language.
• More laborers to minister to the Bena people.