Praise the Lord! We are going back to PNG. We have a late night flight out of Los Angeles this Thursday the 5th and arrive Saturday (PNG time) the 7th. Two days later we celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary! Soon after that we will take our truck up to the Dom and reunite with all our Dom Christians who haven’t seen us in a long time. We will inspect the house and property and evaluate the extent of the damage. Please pray for wisdom and insight from the Lord as we try to decide whether to repair or rebuild and if we rebuild where the Lord would have us do so.
As excited as we are to return to PNG we are equally saddened to be leaving our children, grandchildren, family and friends here in the USA, many of whom are in very difficult circumstances. Pray for us that we will continue to learn the grace of trusting the Lord for them all, especially our own children. Our children all have employment for which we are thankful.
There is always a time of readjustment in returning to PNG especially after being gone for 21 months. We would appreciate prayer that we would adjust quickly. We are excited to be returning and to see what all God has for us in the coming months with regard to our house situation, the Dom Work, concluding the Dom New Testament translation, etc.
You all are such a part of our team. Thank you so much as we could not be effective without you. Please keep the emails coming or letters. They encourage us a lot. Our email address will remain the same: jim_burdett@ntm.org (there is an underscore between jim and burdett). But please remember that we will be back on a slower system and also our emails will be limited to 100 kb. Larger emails will go into a large file which we can retrieve later so don’t stop sending pictures, just realize that you will get a message saying the file was too large. But we will get it. If you included something urgent, then resend just that part without the picture. Please don’t let the size limit stop you from emailing us. We so want to hear from you.