John and Anna Weeks YOUR link to tribal missions 
“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
Travels here and travels there…Thanks so much for your prayers the past couple of weeks during all of our travels. Anna, Katie and Grace made it safely to Jakarta for some medical appointments, but not without event! They first headed to the airport an hour away from our home (they had found plane tickets cheaper than train tickets so thought that would make the trip quicker and easier)around 10:00 a.m. with the plane scheduled to leave at 11:40 a.m.. But, due to local flooding, they were delayed 8 1/2 hours along with all other passengers from other delayed flights. Even the train station was closed as the tracks were under water! The doctor there in Jakarta, an Indonesian trained in the U.S., was very thorough and ran a complete battery of tests on Katie who had been suffering from a lot of random, but disconcerting symptoms this whole past year. Most everything checked out fine, but he was a little concerned at the results of an ultrasound that showed very slow moving digestion which could be due to several things. We’ve decided to treat this with diet and exercise for now, but are also looking into pursuing some more tests that have to do with other possible causes. How’s that for keeping things vague? 
Let’s just say we’d appreciate your prayers as we look into things!!!
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
While Anna, Katie, and Grace were still in Jakarta, Paula left for Kalimantan where she helped with the youth program for their regional conference. Her flight left out of the same airport on time! PTL! She traveled with three other couples heading there for the conference. Paula had a great time “being on her own” as well as working with the children. Paula made all the colorful posters for the teaching on the 7 C’s of History, Creation, Corruption, Catastrophe, Confusion, Christ, the Cross, and Consummation. She also got to teach the lesson on Catastrophe, about the Flood and Noah building the ark.
Finally, I traveled to Kalimantan to lead two tribal team “kick-offs” for the Da’an and Sekadau teams. My trip overlapped with Paula and we were in the same location so we got to room together! Everybody had good things to say about Paula and her connecting with the little kids! I was able to team teach with Mike Henderson who did the church-planting part of the team kick-offs and Shane Whatley who is a consultant-in-training. The team kick-offs are to help with relationships between the consultant and the tribal teams, to help keep church-planting in focus, to review and instruct with language-learning techniques, and to motivate them before they move into their tribal locations. We were also able to meet with native speakers of each of the two language-groups who had moved out to town. Normally, the kick-offs are done on-site in the tribal locations, but because of logistics this time we met in town. To see more pictures of this kick-off and others as well as some pictures of Paula working with the youth, go to our website under Photos, Tribal Team Kick-Offs.
Thanks again for your prayers these days,
In this together,
John, Anna Marie, Katie, Grace, Paula and Kurt
