We are thankful to have Tom and Beth Carlton back in the tribe. We were able to meet their beautiful new daughter, Iris! As you can imagine the Tigak ladies are in love with her and can’t wait for their turn to hold her. Iris is 3 ½ months old. The Carlton’s firstborn, Jude, is 2 ½ yrs old and loves his girlfriend, Christina. Christina, our 10-year-old, takes him outside or over to our house to play for many hours every afternoon. Jude is totally into Thomas the Train – so all our boys’ old toys are being drug out and put into good use again. Christina certainly doesn’t mind an excuse to put off school…
We are having a lot of visitors this month. The Carltons just had our NTM-PNG solar specialist here to set up their batteries and solar panels. Thankfully it all seems to be working. Batteries are always the weak link in solar power and we are finding that our own batteries are on their last leg and need to be replaced. Right now we just run a generator every evening in order to use lights, computers, etc. when the sun goes down. Not the ideal but it is getting us by. When the batteries completely die we will lose the use of our fridge and freezer and we certainly don’t want to go there! So, we are in the process of trying to get some batteries shipped to PNG. We would appreciate your prayers that this could happen quickly and the Lord would provide as He always does for the finances.
We also have a leadership couple coming to visit tomorrow and then later in the week we have language consultants coming! The language consultants will be doing a Culture and Language Kick-off for the Carltons and a 6-week check for Aimee as they begin the process of learning the Tigak language. We are very excited that the consultants are bringing believers from their own tribes – Siar and Patpatar – so they can fellowship together with the Tigak believers. It will be a great encouragement to the national believers and to all of us!!