Strawberries, sweatshirts, jeans, friends, roller hockey, lettuce and tomatoes are just a few of the things we are enjoying as we take a much needed rest here in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Thank you for praying over the last months as we continued on serving in the busyness of life. Now we are enjoying time to rest, reflect and re-energize ourselves or should we say God is re energizing us? 🙂
We are enjoying the church services with fellow missionaries while Jonathan gets to enjoy fun times with the other toddlers in nursery. One Sunday, the speaker said that many times in our life, we are going along and things are clear and we can see our goals and objectives. However, sometimes we look around and discover that what was once clear has lost its focus. And we seem to be wandering around in a fog. Many times, growing up in a fishing village, things were covered by fog. People would say that “you could cut it with a knife.” There is an old wives tale of a captain who was lost between the bow and stern of his boat for two days because of the fog. However, if he waited long enough, the sun would eventually come out and “burn up the fog.” It is a great metaphor for our Christian life. When we try harder to make sense of our lives while we are in a fog, it doesn’t work. How much better is it to look to Christ and let his light “burn up the fog”? Then after it is gone we can see clearly again! This break here in the Highlands has been a great time for us to let Christ’s light burn up our fog so we can go back to work with clear vision and refreshed.
This week we also enjoyed visiting our Bena friends who live around Interface, where we used to live. It was so fun to see everyone and everyone loved seeing Jonathan. Jonathan wasn’t too excited though because he was quite confused as to why all these people that he didn’t know were so excited to hold him and touch him. J We continue to pray that missionaries will still be able to go to help the Bena church become strong in the Lord.
Praises!
– God has given NTM PNG a second new Kodiak airplane! https://canada.ntm.org/mission-news/80094/kodiak-2-for-papua-new-guinea
– Another New Testament Bible dedication in the Sepik, another tribe with God’s word, on Oct 1st!
– A Savior who loves us, takes care of us and knows every detail of our lives!
– Opportunity for a restful and relaxing break in the Highlands! Strawberries, lettuce and tomatoes! And cool weather!
– A large unexpected tax refund from the Canadian government!
– Jonathan is now 19 months old… playing ‘ hockey’, cheering on sports players and helping mom with the laundry. J
– Success as we took Jonathan off of his acid reflux medicine just a few days ago!
– God’s continued provision for our needs moment by moment!
– Safety at work for Jacob!
– Soon arrival of the Shontere family to help us on the NTM support center.
– Opportunity to help out with the Interface program in Madang region next summer! Beth will cook and Jacob will fix everything that breaks.
– Jacob’s mom (and maybe dad) will be coming over to help next summer too, to take care of Jonathan so Beth can work in the kitchen!
Prayer requests:
– Ability to enjoy each day, no matter what circumstances God places in our paths each day.
– Rest in God as we enjoy being parents each day.
– Wisdom as Jacob works each day to repair and maintain the NTM Center.
– Wisdom for Jacob and Bill as they plan and work on the new Boat House.
– Jacob’s grandmother and family… we just found out that his grandmother has a tumor on her pancreases and bowel and are waiting for the results of an MRI.
– Healing of our friend, Elissa, so she can work full time in PNG.
– Greg and Kristen Michaels, as they headed home for medical reasons… healing and transition to a new ministry.
– The Myer and Goheen family as they head out on surveys into the bush to plan which tribe they will live in, to learn the language & culture in order to present the Gospel message!
– Opportunity to help out with Interface – Prayer for Jacob’s mom and hopefully dad as they plan to come over to help and take care of Jonathan… finances for travels.
– God would continue to raise up more missionaries to come to the Sepik and bring the Gospel to those who have never heard it their own heart language.
– Rich and Dawn Foster & family, as they raise more support so they can return to PNG and settle back into a ministry with the Bena.
– More co-workers to work alongside Rich and Dawn Foster.
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