NTM

Many thanks to all who prayed for Gail’s allergy!  Not 24 hours after we posted it last week, we saw a dramatic improvement.  Watery eyes and constant sneezing are all gone .  Thank you so much for lifting us up in prayer.  Allergy may seem like a non-consequential minor annoyance at times but being free from it really helps Gail’s daily routine.

We started packing for bush orientation already.   Today we went to the supply store and bought some of the groceries we will need in the bush.  Everything need to be packed, weighed and packed away.  “New Tribes Airline” charges by weight – let’s say our family weighs a total of 165KG…plus 58 KG of groceries, we would pay a distance-adjusted rate according to the total weight.  So there is a huge incentive to lose some weight!  We’ll be flying in on a single engine Cessna, landing on a grass airstrip.  Some of you may think anything less than a Boeing 747 is pretty dangerous.  Well, did you know that more people die from falling coconuts in PNG than plane accidents?

For the first time since college, I will be completely cut off from the internet for two months.  We will still be able to send and receive emails so we will definitely continue sending out news and prayer updates.  Please note that we will not be able to receive any emails larger than 100K…so no large attachments please.

During our bush orientation, we will have the chance to visit several tribal locations in the Sepik region (we’ll stay mainly with one tribe and make weekend trips to other locations). We are very excited about meeting tribal believers in the bush and witness what God is doing in some of the more remote places in the world.

We have blogged a lot about interesting cultural stuff, exotic animals and fun stuff here in Papua New Guinea but that is not why we are here.  We are here because God has a message to share with these people in the bush.  It is our prayer that bush orientation will rekindle this vision and excite our hearts again for tribal church planting.

Overlooking Town

One of the people groups we will be visiting

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