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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

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