Jason and Toni Stuart Working in Papua New Guinea 
Dear Friends,
We are out in town right now for a translation check, and then will be here
another week for our annual conference when all the missionaries with New
Tribes Mission in this area get together. We are enjoying our time in town
(even though I am working all day), and Jedidiah especially is loving
watching the cars drive past (and even getting a ride every once and awhile
himself).
A few of you have written to ask about the status of our upcoming Bible
school. We are planning on doing it once we get back to the village on
March 20. Right now, our elder Raymond is travelling around the other villages of
our language group to promote the Bible school and he should be getting back to
Inaru this week. Please pray that we will get a good response from these
villages. Supposedly the pastors fromone village are out in town right now, so
if I happen to see them I will also talk with them about the Bible school.
I can think of a few roadblocks that could cause poor attendance at the
Bible school. Please pray for the following issues:
-We currently have two terminally ill people in Inaru and one young man in
another village was recently diagnosed with liver cancer. If any of these people die
before the Bible school, it would be unlikely that anyone would want to
attend.
-One man in our village wants to force the local widow to marry him and is also
accusing her family of killing his brother and nephew by sorcery. He is
threatening police action, and big court proceedings during the Bible school
would be very disruptive.
-Their is also a court case coming up regarding an unwed mother. Her family
want to put pressure on the father of the baby to marry her. He doesn’t
want to marry her because she is his cousin:-(
-The Inarus have recently started collecting a type of tree bark that Asians
buy and use as a seasoning. Everyone is collecting the bark and stockpiling
it and that has become their focus. We only had 12 people in church this
last Sunday because the rest were gone to find tree bark.
All of these could be problems that Satan could use against us, so please be
praying for God’s Word to go forward and for people to understand Him and
commit themselves to Him.
We do appreciate all your prayers for us and your
help and encouragement in many ways. Please keep praying.
In Christ,
Jason, Toni, Jedidiah and Ella Jo Stuart
