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Wilson\u2019s Recap:<\/strong>\u00a0 After being apart for over 50 days, Andrea was reunited with the family in Papua New Guinea (PNG) late in February.\u00a0 Thanks for praying\u2026 her flights went smoothly with barley a hint of the COVID-19 storm that was beginning to arise.\u00a0 We spent the next 3 weeks finishing\u2026 Paul (and the maintenance team) finished working in the hangar completing a major helicopter maintenance event, the kids finished their 3rd<\/sup> school term and we all finished packing up our house.\u00a0 Then we hopped on our planes and came back to the US \u201cjust in time.\u201d\u00a0 Seven airports, six airplanes and three countries, the Lord was our strength and our shield. A few days after leaving PNG the COVID-19 situation became more REAL in our small missionary community.\u00a0 Many of our co-workers had to quickly decide if they wanted to return to their passport countries. International travel got very, VERY challenging.\u00a0 We are so thankful that we were already heading back to the States, unrelated to COVID-19.\u00a0 God did so many amazing things and we feel tremendously blessed to already have these travel plans on the books!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Wilson\u2019s Stats:<\/strong> \u00a0We are now back in Maryland and self-quarantining.\u00a0 The kid\u2019s wonderful mission school in PNG, Numonohi Christian Academy (NCA), sent us home with lots of work so we can finish the school year on track.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wilson\u2019s Future:<\/strong> \u00a0When we take a moment to reflect, we are amazed at how God has been working in our lives.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t plan to be back in the States for these next months but we are.\u00a0 We still have a lot of work to do with finalizing Andrea\u2019s Mom\u2019s estate and helping Andrea\u2019s sister get settled, who was living with and caring for their mom.\u00a0 We PLAN<\/em> to head back to PNG in late July in order for the kids to attend school, but we know that these are turbulent times.\u00a0 We can rest in knowing God will direct and guide us as we go!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Papua New Guinea Happenings<\/strong>:\u00a0 Just days after we left PNG, our leadership in PNG mobilized a Crisis Management Team. This is standard operating procedure to allow our directors and the organization to focus on church development efforts in PNG. Missionaries have been given the freedom to leave PNG and return to their passport country if they choose. The medical staff encouraged those on prescription medicines (like Paul) to depart as regular supply runs for such items have been canceled due to closed borders. \u00a0Those remaining in PNG will continue to work to maintain core church development functions. There are many exciting things continuing to happen in PNG. For example, the team in Amdu will be starting their first Creation-to-Christ teaching on March 23rd. Please be lifting them up in prayer. \u00a0Please also be praying for the remaining support team. With many folks leaving because of COVID-19 (we most likely would be trying to leave too), the team is being stretched even further!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings from Maryland\u2026 where all 4 Wilsons are together and enjoying (so far) some self-imposed isolation.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude0a Wilson\u2019s Recap:\u00a0 After being apart for over 50 days, Andrea was reunited with the family in Papua New Guinea (PNG) late in February.\u00a0 Thanks for praying\u2026 her flights went smoothly with barley a hint of the COVID-19 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,1630,1777],"tags":[448],"class_list":{"0":"post-715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"category-news-article","9":"category-ntm-aviation","10":"tag-ethnos360","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}