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In an incredibly touching good-bye ceremony, the Pawaian believers ask retiring missionaries, Jack and Isa Dougla to symbolize what the Douglases had done for the Pawaian people.
Isa relates:
"They gave us a big bamboo torch and asked us to go off a small road to the side and ‘find’ people who were hiding along the sides of the road."
One by one the people who were in the darkness joined Jack and Isa and using the light of the torch, they brought them back into the light and into the middle of the crowd of believers, who awaited them..
"Then the ceremony emcee explained," Isa said, " that we had been the ones to bring the light of God’s Word to the people so they could come out of the darkness. We then handed the torch back to the people to signify that they are now responsible to carry the torch to others.
Pray that the well-equipped Pawaian church, will stand strong and continue to illuminate God’s truth into the lives of their children, and into the neighboring villages and tribes.