All of our traveling went smoothly. We left early Weds morning, Jan. 5th, and spent about 30 hours in the air to get to Papua New Guinea. We didn’t have much time to wait between each of the four flights until we arrived in PNG. We raced through customs and were able to make our flight. We were so proud of ourselves for being fast but as soon as we sat down on the last plane we were told the plane needed to be worked on so we spent an extra five hours in the airport waiting for the plane to be repaired.
It was very hard saying good-bye to Kara Linn and Josiah. Kara Linn has started back to college and Josiah will head back this weekend. Please continue to pray for them as they adjust to not having parents to call on.
We are so thankful for friends that helped us clean the house in Texas when we moved out! It was not easy to have everything packed and ready to go so soon after Christmas.
Our bush house appears to be in good shape so far. Ned is ready to get back into full time translation work. He also needs to figure out how to split his time between translation consulting and his own translation work. There is much to be done in both areas.
Pray for rain. We have some water in our tanks since we have not been there to use it but the rest of the island is dry. They are having to make trips off the island to get fresh water. Ours will go fast if it does not rain.
We are thankful to be back and able to minister among the Tigak people once again.