kids at a Highlands church song leader in a Highlands church Highlands church percussion section kids at the church curious about the new person mothers visit in a Highlands church after church song time, teenager holding a baby snacking on tapioc and smeared on face concentrating on the picture taking process silly faces the trail the river hiking the hills another trail hiking with friends a house line we passed working at the edge of the river houses neighbors teaching us to sew ‘bilums’ neighbors teaching the men to weave baskets some of the bilums the women have made the older teaching the younger tok tok (talking) language notes while learning bilums some of the baskets the men made rolling the string into thicker yarn for sewing bilums bored with the procedings blind man making umbrella spokes into bilum needles wet trail meri wok: rausim pinats (women’s work:digging out peanuts) peanuts man wok: removing peanuts from the vine the heavens declare the glory of God–no editing! my front porch view rain storm power lines across the road waiting for the repair so that we could pass–they eventually just raised the line with sticks and waived us through… mountain top view with the clouds setting in our trail exploring mountain top rest Aute’ and a house we passed weird tree ‘Bilas!’ (decoration! i.e. face paint with our area’s red clay) Aute’s bilas mountain road recently worked on rausim kokonas (cutting down coconuts)–see the guy at the top of the tree? baskets for sale wooden carvings for sale–unusual to see the crab, the shark, the toroise, and the snail! bilums (bags) bamboo carvings/burnings for sale souvenirs walk in town selling flowers Goroka Show 2012 Goroka Show 2012 Goroka Show 2012–goofing off Highlands bridge–two logs together across a small falls garden near the river coffee beans drying centipede and yes, they bite–do not do this if you see one this size! “chicken on sale” homemade pinwheel coffee bean flowers wedding mumu guests mountain top crew Aute’s bilas moa bilas (more decoration–i.e. face paint) preparing for the wedding mumu–stuffing greens mixture into bamboo tubes for roasting the meat being carried over for the wedding mumu wedding gifts wedding gifts ready for the wedding mumu the bride arriving watching the rain move in learning to start a fire using sofpela mambu (soft bamboo) fire started successfully with bamboo fresh dug sweet potatoes crossing the river when it’s high on a gumi (inner tube) river trail river riding high banana trees men crossing the high river on a gumi (inner tube) Hed man haus (head man’s house) in this family line drying coffee beans lombo–VERY potent mini-peppers! coffee on the tree coffee grove–trees bear fruit once a year based on the time of year they were planted so that if you plant your grove one segment each month you could get a harvest each month. Veiw from a church across the river pig jaws PNG art–bird-of-paradise PNG art–bird-of-paradise PNG art PNG art–bird-of-paradise PNG art–bird-of-paradise PNG art PNG art–mudmen aerial view aerial view–PNG river aerial view aerial view–hills full of trees aerial view–waterfall aerial view–coming in for a landing highlands houses airplane coming in for a landing bridge bridge up close crossing bougainvilla tree–beautiful but thorny! mangoes farngipani flowers pink farngipani flowers carrying his bliums and gumi (bags and inner tube) aerial view–logging road or broad trail aerial view–cresting the mountain range connecting helicopter-only location missionaries to the outside world bath time this family actually shaped their bushes into animals! fun learning to sew bilums learning to hold the bilum string weaving baskets teaching the men basket weaving displaying baskets he’s made displaying baskets they’ve made building a house working on the house bush church bible teaching literacy program learner literacy library for students learning to read literacy teacher using flash cards literacy class starting simple drying coffee beans re-enacting the crucifixion during a crucial point of the chronological bible teaching church leadership blowing the conch shell during a ceremony bush air strip Newly printed New Testaments ready to distribute with bags to be carried in! Another people group has God’s word in their heart language!!! log canoes bush house too tired to keep his eyes open New Testament dedication with missionaries that have worked to establish this church and translate the Scriptures into their heart language testimony of what this newly printed New Testament means to them reading aloud from the newly printed New Testament in his heart language reading aloud from the newly printed New Testament in his heart language listening to the New Testament read in their heart language listening to the New Testament read in their heart language listening to the New Testament read in their heart language listening to the New Testament read in their heart language listening to the New Testament read in their heart language presenting of the new New Testaments church leaders holding their newly printed New Testaments handing out the New Testaments church leaders holding their newly printed New Testaments bush house the bibles arriving! the bibles arriving! gumi (inner tube) to go tok-tok (talking) the usual state of roads the usual state of the roads washing clothes at the river [album id=1]