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Daily Scripture
 
"Oh, love the Lord, all you His saints! For the Lord preserves the faithful, and fully repays the proud person."

Psalm 31:23

Visiting neighbors across the river.

Life in Papua New Guinea

Living at a missionary center in Papua New Guinea has been a wonderful experience.  Our center provides support for all of the New Tribes missionaries in Papua New Guinea, including supply buying, medical, aviation, finance, and leadership.  Missionaries serving in these support roles are from all over the world, giving lots of diversity to our population.  With short-term missionaries and full-time missionaries taking furloughs, the population is also ever shifting.

Our children attend Numonohi Christian Academy, where we teach, along with many of the other children from the center and the students who board in the dorms.  The school and dorm programs try to provide a variety of activities that will develop the students while also preparing them for life back in their home countries.  Older students take on responsibilities by providing periodic "restaurants" where they do all the preparation, cooking, selling, and cleaning.  Students meet for discipleship groups for a type of  "youth group" experience.

Though we don't have Walmart or big grocery stores, we can get food products from our supply store and other supplies in a town nearby.    Many of our supplies are from Australia, so we have learned how another part of our world lives.  Many of our tribal neighbors work at our center in various capacities and some attend the school.  They speak a trade language called Pidgin, in addition to their tok ples (heart language).  Pidgin has some similarities to English. 

  While our tribal neighbors cook over fires in their grass huts and gather water from the river or other sources, we are blessed with electricity, running water, and many conveniences (like internet).  Our homes are very similar to homes back in the United States.  We do experience earthquakes and tropical rains.  That is all a part of life in Papua New Guinea.

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