{"id":572,"date":"2018-08-22T16:38:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T21:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-swenson\/?p=572"},"modified":"2018-08-22T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T21:38:28","slug":"moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-swenson\/2018\/08\/22\/moving-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving On…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We have really enjoyed our time here in Madang province.\u00a0 We arrived in January 2017 and, except for 6 weeks in bush orientation, we have been able to live here ever since.\u00a0 We learned Pidgin here, made citizen friends, helped with two more e2 orientations after ours and helped with the Interface program for college age students this summer.\u00a0 We even had a short stint as the center managers.\u00a0 We were able to do a lot of our team talks here.\u00a0 We have made a lot of friends and memories here, but we are excited to be moving on into the \u201callocation\u201d phase of church planting.\u00a0 It is time to move to the Central Region Center which is the center for all church planting missionaries in our region.\u00a0 The men will be building our house, Sam will be getting used to the NTM school, which he will continue to attend as a boarding student when we move into the tribe.\u00a0 We are thankful he can live with us for the first few months as he acclimates.\u00a0 Ellen will homeschool the other 3 kids and continue prepping for moving into the bush this fall.\u00a0 So, this week we say goodbye for now to friends down here in Madang province and say hello to the highlands for a while.\u00a0 However, we look forward to hopefully visiting Madang province once a year to catch up with friends.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Keeping up with Hazen and Wesson (the guard dog in training)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tanguat\u2026<\/strong>Paul, Sam and our coworker, Derek, were able to have an adventure together this week.\u00a0 They went to Tanguat to talk about our coming and house building.\u00a0 First, they flew to the Inapang language group to meet up with Promise and the elders there to talk about the trip.\u00a0 Then they rounded in Tanguat with Promise and a small group from the Inapang church for two days, stopping to have meetings along the way.\u00a0 They were well received.\u00a0 The village where we are building is very excited to have us and help build.\u00a0 They had already marked out two plots for our houses and have offered to cut our house posts ahead of the build.\u00a0 They even offered to tear down some structures to make enough room for our two houses and a helicopter landing pad.\u00a0 Then some of the people from the young church there joined the hiking group to go on the 17 mile hike around the language group.\u00a0 The guys found out that the helicopter was grounded for maintenance and decided to take an adventurous route out of Inapang.\u00a0 A 24-hour boat and PMV (public motor vehicle) ride.\u00a0 We are thankful that they are home and excited about our next steps.\u00a0 Derek and Paul go back in late August to start cutting trees and milling lumber.\u00a0 The men of the Inapang and Tanguat language groups will be helping them build as well as at least one more missionary who has house building skills.\u00a0 See a video at Facebook: Swenson Tribe<\/p>\n

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Part one of the ride home: motor canoe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

What\u00a0else<\/em>\u00a0have we been up to?<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0We had a blast helping with Interface.\u00a0 There were plenty of missionary kids for our kids to play with and jobs for everyone.\u00a0 It was like summer camp and we had a great group of young people, many of whom left PNG determined to come back or help with the great commission in other places\/ways.\u00a0 Our boys were challenged too.<\/p>\n

Building Fund Update:<\/strong>\u00a0 We have about $53,230 of the expected $60,000 for the house build\/ air transportation costs associated with a house build in a helicopter location.\u00a0 This build will be starting within a week!\u00a0 Would you pray about helping us with this one-time expense?\u00a0 Here is the information on that:\u00a0https:\/\/swensontribe.wordpress.com\/house-building\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Revamping our Privacy:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0We will continue to send our newsletter updates via RSS with \u201cmailchimp\u201d through our website for now, but for more sensitive information, please see our closed Facebook group: Swenson Tribe.\u00a0 We may start bypassing our website in the future so if you read our updates directly from our website, e-mail us and we will add you to our newsletter list.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Praises:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n