God's Word is falling on fertile soil in the heart of Kletus, an Inapang man who helps missionary Bill Housley translate scripture in Papua New Guinea.
"Bill, last night my wife came and told me that her brother had called us all down to his hamlet to do magic," Kletus told Bill on Tuesday. "I am tired of the lies and just told her my stomach hurt and I couldn't go down. While she was there, I laid in my mosquito net and thought and thought.
"When she came back, I told her this: 'I know that he is your brother, but you are my wife and I don't want us to do that magic any more.' My sister's husband [the village chief] was also there and he said, 'What he is saying to you is right. You are his wife, you do what he says.'"
And the young wife didn't seem to mind the instruction.
Kletus has helped with several chapters of Genesis and heard chronological Bible lessons about Creation and God's character.
"We haven't even talked about right and wrong yet, only God," wrote Kelley Housley. "Isn't that how it should be? Man sees God first in His holiness, then sees himself in his sin and pride and lies, then sees his not-enough-ness to make it right again, and then begs for mercy. And then … amazing grace, he receives!
"It has been a hard three years," she went on to explain. "But the tiny shoots of reward are beginning to show their buds like a beautiful spring morning and we are just so excited to be able to be here, bringing [the Inapangs] to tension points within their own culture and coming to the teaching of the Gospel for the first time."
Your prayers are carrying this work. Keep praying for the Housleys, and their co-workers Daniel and Elizabeth Moore and Matthias and Petra Mueller, as they look toward sharing the Gospel with the Inapang people.
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