{"id":123,"date":"2010-05-09T22:55:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T02:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jim-burdett\/?p=123"},"modified":"2010-05-10T00:19:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T04:19:33","slug":"new-development-in-the-dom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jim-burdett\/2010\/05\/09\/new-development-in-the-dom\/","title":{"rendered":"New Development in the Dom"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CloseLast night (April\u00a0 19) we got an email from the field of PNG informing us that an earthquake had struck our village area last Sunday and toppled our house over.\u00a0 So our fellow missionary, Will Tallman who works in the next tribe over drove out to our place\u00a0 to check things out.\u00a0 The house was indeed knocked off its posts and pitched forward about five feet.\u00a0 The house is still in tacked but sitting on the ground like a beached whale.\u00a0 Our garage was also knocked off its moorings, thrown downhill ten feet and twisted sideways.\u00a0 It is basically ruined.\u00a0 The property all around the place is buckled badly as you can see from the photos.\u00a0 Our road into our place is impassable for now.\u00a0 Our former partners\u2019 house that used to sit 25 yards up from us also collapsed and is partially slid down the embankment that runs the length of the wide ridge of mountain side we all live on.\u00a0 To clarify; our partners left over ten years ago and the land owner has been living in that house since.\u00a0 (See album of more pictures).<\/p>\n

The area of damage extends from just below our property all the way up to the main village.\u00a0 Many of our Dom neighbors have lost their homes too, plus gardens due to the combination of rain soaked soil and the quake which caused their gardens to slide downhill.\u00a0 (As you can see in the picture that says Dile\u2019s House).\u00a0 They are all in collective shock, scared and wondering what to do next.\u00a0 How we wish we were there to help them!<\/p>\n

For over 27 years our house has rode out dozens of earthquakes and tremors without a problem.\u00a0 All this damage is the result of many months of relentless rain and then a whopper of a quake that shifted the plates right underneath us, buckling the ground as much as three feet and basically \u201ctossing\u201d our house to the ground.\u00a0 The rain continues to be a problem for everyone and will hamper any attempts on our part to go in there and clean up and repair things.\u00a0\u00a0 This will add of course to the security issue of our home and belongings.\u00a0 Like everywhere else on earth we have people who will vandalize and loot if given the opportunity.\u00a0 We will just rest our hearts in the Lord and leave those concerns to Him.\u00a0 There is nothing of course that we can do about it from here.\u00a0 We don\u2019t know how much damage there is inside of the house as they weren\u2019t able to check inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We are so very thankful that no one was hurt in this.\u00a0 We are thankful too for our fellow missionaries that went out of their way and quickly got out there to inspect and do whatever they could to help.\u00a0 One of them was able to call us and send pictures to our email via his cell phone right there on site in the Dom.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t technology wonderful (most times)?\u00a0<\/p>\n

What do we do now?\u00a0 We don\u2019t know yet.\u00a0 The situation is complicated and we are waiting on our field leadership to advise us.\u00a0 We need to be proactive but we need to wait on the Lord as well.\u00a0 This may possibly mean heading back to PNG sooner than planned.\u00a0 That option has its complications too.\u00a0 So please pray for wisdom and direction for us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yours in His service,<\/p>\n

Jim and Judy Burdett<\/p>\n

Dom (dome) Tribe, Papua New Guinea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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