{"id":164,"date":"2010-08-27T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jim-burdett\/?p=164"},"modified":"2010-08-27T01:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T05:54:00","slug":"we-have-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jim-burdett\/2010\/08\/27\/we-have-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"We have arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings from PNG!\u00a0 We arrived safe and sound, Saturday the 7th<\/sup> after a long but uneventful late night flight from Los Angeles (and a tearful goodbye to Darren and Heather who met us at the airport).\u00a0 Praise the Lord there were no hang ups or problems with anything along the way.\u00a0 We made all our connecting flights and breezed through immigration and customs in Port Moresby.\u00a0 For the time being we are staying at our PNG Highlands Headquarters in a cozy little guest facility while we sort out our affairs and make plans for the future.<\/p>\n

Has it only been a three weeks since we arrived?\u00a0 It feels like a lot longer as our days have been full with all the details of settling back into PNG life.\u00a0 Of course, we won\u2019t really be settled until we are back living in the Dom permanently and that sad to say will not be for a little while yet.\u00a0 Judy and I went up on Friday the 13th<\/sup> just for the day to see the house and all our Dom Christian friends.\u00a0 (Thankfully, our Christian friends had repaired our road down to our house so we could drive to the gate.)\u00a0 It was an emotional time for them and us. \u00a0We love every one of them so much.<\/p>\n

It was startling indeed to see all the damage in person.\u00a0 We definitely will not be able to merely repair the house where it stands.\u00a0 Both the house and the garage will have to be torn down and rebuilt for sure.\u00a0 The ground right next to the house is also beyond repair.\u00a0 It is now a big sink hole.\u00a0 And it turns out that what we thought was an earthquake was actually one of those PNG massive land shifts that happen from time to time due to heavy rain and the unique geology of the country.\u00a0 The result being a subterranean slippage that causes the top crust to sink and follow gravity downhill.\u00a0 According to our Dom friends, it had started early in the evening and continued all night.\u00a0 So praise the Lord they had time to run away to safer ground.\u00a0 The effect though was much like an earthquake; all that power and energy knocked the house down!<\/p>\n

We met with our Highlands leadership yesterday and discussed our options.\u00a0 We will have to move and rebuild but the question is where?\u00a0 We have inquired from both Gena and Kapia Joseph about possible parcels of land that may fit our needs but the pickings are rather slim.\u00a0 There are only a few Dom people we can trust to be good, honest land lords and they have only so much usable land to offer.\u00a0 So we are still weighing our options in that regard.<\/p>\n

Very soon Jim will make another trip up to the Dom by himself to investigate further into all this.\u00a0 He also needs to start getting our little clinic set up as a place to live for a while.\u00a0 The clinic is rather small, 12ft by 16ft but it has a shower\/toilet room and kitchenette.\u00a0 We can make do for as long as we have to.\u00a0 We are tentatively planning on moving up to the Dom the first part of September and stay in our little clinic-turned-cabin while we take the house apart and rebuild wherever the Lord leads us.\u00a0 We just want to be back in the Dom among our people.<\/p>\n

In the meantime we are keeping busy here at our PNG Highlands headquarters.\u00a0 Unpacking, repairing our truck, doing all the paper work PNG requires, shopping for building materials and getting to know our potential new partners, the Wuests, who are living here at our headquarters\u00a0 just across the way from us.\u00a0 Plus Jim is already doing translation related work here in our apartment as he has time.<\/p>\n

We have many challenges as you can see.\u00a0 Please pray for us that we will know God\u2019s leading and have peace about which options to take.\u00a0 Please pray that we will learn to trust the Lord ever the more for all our needs and that we will rest in His timing.\u00a0 We are so thankful that God knows all things and we just want to learn what we are to learn through all of this.\u00a0 God is good all the time so we rest in His goodness.<\/p>\n

Thank you so much for your prayers and support.<\/p>\n

Jim and Judy Burdett<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dom (dome) Tribe, PNG<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Business Address:<\/strong> New Tribes Mission, 1000 E First Street, Sanford, FL 32771, USA<\/p>\n

Translation account: <\/strong>Make check out to New Tribes Mission with attached note saying for the Dom New Testament Burdett account<\/strong><\/p>\n

House Rebuilding Project: <\/strong> Make check out to New Tribes Mission with attached note saying for the CIP-Burdett House 744M98<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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