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Thank you very much for your prayers and letters of encouragement. Every day we understand even more the need for continual prayer support. As we face these people and the situation they are in we realize than only God can make a difference, through the working of his Spirit!
This past month leadership here in Papua had their annual meetings and we all really looked forward to it, due to the fact that it would be giving us some definite direction concerning our future. And so it had!
We with the Flanagan family will be moving down to the Islands region to locate in one of the works there. We are not sure exactly which one, but there are a few existing works to choose from as well as some new prospects as well. We will be moving there during August and the Flanagans will join us in September! We will keep you up to date…..
Our recent trip started of with a 5 hour PMV ride to the town of Lae, and for anyone knowing anything of local taxis, would agree that this is pretty nerve recking. Here we are sitting smiling but only because we have not yet left yet!
We stayed over in Lae for one night and then flew over to the town of Rabaul. We were suppose to stay over only one evening but eventually due to cancelled flights stayed over 2 nights in Rabaul!
Rabaul is overshadowed by an active Volcano. The ash is continually on your clothes and between your teeth.
Here you can see we are very happy to be leaving Rabaul, not because of our accommodation or the ash between the teeth but because of he fact that we had some important appointments that we could not miss.
The Island region consists of New Brittani, New Ireland, Manus and Solomon Islands as well as many other smaller Islands like these in the pictures. Many of them are not in habitat but many are making the Islands a logistic nightmare!
At the base we had the opportunity to visit with some old friends we had during training and this was an encouraging time for both us and them. Here is Stephen Thompson and his son Samuel.
On the major Islands the people grow Palm oil, Coconuts and Cacao which they use as cash income. This would be found in the more populated areas, but not so much in the bush locations.
Here is our potential new houses in which we will be staying while we wait to be located in the Islands.
During our visit we had the opportunity to spend some time with leadership and here we are sitting with Tod and some tribal guys at the Ata work.
We had some time to relax and during our visit to the beach we met this tribal guy! Seem to truly be unreached 🙂
On our way back we had to fly via Port Moresby. Once again our flight was cancelled and we had to stay an Extra day in Hoskins after that we flew via Port Moresby to Lae. In Port Moresby we waited more than 10 hours for a connection flight. Here we are eating some Big Rooster Chicken, which was much rather small Rooster.
After getting to Lae late at night we slept over in town and caught a PMV back to Goroka, this time only 4 hours because we apparently had the fastest PMV driver in Papua.
all in a days work….
And as the Papuan’s would say:
‘lukim ju sampla taim’
Most People are brought to faith in Christ, not by argument for it,
But by exposure to it.
Please follow the link to our photo album for more photos.