Patrick and Dawn Eggleton Just another weblog 
We Moi people are very strong people, but we die quickly.
The spirits eat us.
They control everything – what we eat, what we hunt, where we build our houses.
The spirits watch us.
We hear them in the wind.
They control the night.
They send centipedes like arrows to bite us and kills us.
They demand that we kill.
The above words are from a video about Awayo, a man from the Moi people of Western Papua. His story is so much like the stories of many who live here in Papua New Guinea. If you have the internet means, I would encourage you to watch this video and perhaps share it with a friend. The message is powerful. (You can see the video at http://www.ntm.org/video/ ).
It is for people like Awayo that we are here – to give them a chance for freedom and life that can only come through a knowledge of their Creator. Though we don’t sit in the jungle learning the culture and language, the school we provide for the children makes it possible for those who do sit there day after day. Though you may not be able to be here meeting the needs of these families, your prayers and financial support make it possible for that to continue. The body of Christ is an amazing thing!
School is back in session and we are enjoying the opportunity of working with the missionary children of Papua New Guinea. It is wonderful to walk past the classrooms and to hear the children busy at their latest grammar lesson or learning about some country of the world. Our classes often stand in a perilous position. While we are fortunate to have a full faculty this year, we have had years where classrooms had students pouring over correspondence courses – no teacher to ask for help, no activities to help them learn and grow. We continue to pray that God will provide a full faculty for next year, so those quiet correspondence classrooms will not have to exist! If you know of teachers who are considering offering even a year to serve on the mission field, please encourage them to contact us or look through the information on the New Tribes website (www.ntm.org). It seems early to be considering this for next year, but preparations for foreign teaching have to be started early.
