Phil and Janelle Sutton Reaching People for Christ in Sanford Florida 
Greeting from POM,
This month we purposed to share with you our co-workers, John and Bob. John began working with us back when we lived in Port Moresby in 2005. He moved on to this property when Jacob, the previous owner offered John residence. Bob already was in place, having been here to take care of the grounds for Jacob. Jacob and his wife were missionaries to Port Moresby from Denmark. They had an active ministry and met Bob when he was in prison. Bob accepted Christ as his Savior through Jacobs teaching. Jacob and his wife retired and New Tribes continued to house and employ both Bob and John.
John works with us doing our Government paperwork. He stands in line many hours at the Dept of Immigration and Labour. He also runs errands. He picks up and drops off passport applications at various Embassies. He is a great addition to the team and makes our work possible. John is also learning more each day on the computer. He scans passports, entry permits and work permits. Presently John is entering a lot of hard copy data into a spread sheet.
It is harder to write about Bob. Bob had a stroke last Friday morning. Phil and John found him in bed when he didn’t answer the door. They carried him on a make shift stretcher to our Toyota Surf and took him to Port Moresby General Hospital. Bob could talk, but with effort. He went downhill fast and died by Tuesday noon. This took us very much by surprise. Bob was 61 and seemed quite healthy. We notice all he did now that he is no longer with us. We are in the process of sorting out who Bob’s family is and who should get his belongings and final pay. Bob came from a highlands tribal group. They are a people group who can be demanding. Phil is still dealing with this and leaning on our national co-workers as to how deal with the situation. Pray for wisdom for Phil.
We haven’t mentioned Manuel yet. He was the guy way up in a tree in our last month’s update. Manuel is our handy man. He is very capable at almost anything that comes to physical work. Manuel is the one that discovered we had termites in our office. He carefully pulled out the damaged boards and put a new one in its place. Manuel was part of our workers on the old property. When we moved over here he was glad to join us again. We are very thankful to have this faithful employ with us.
Oh, Bane is our Sunday man. He comes every Sunday to guard our property so we can all go to church. We just asked him to come 2 other days during the week to water and do some general maintenance so Manuel can dedicate his time to help Gordon. He was glad for the opportunity.
Gordon and Lillian are our temporary co-workers. They are here to help us build our house. We are very happy to have them with us. Gordon is first helping Manuel get the shop back together after our termite disaster. We have a whole pile of lumber waiting to be made into walls. That will be what Gordon will start on next. I’m sure you’ll hear more about him later.
Dave and Diann are our co-workers too. They are presently in the States. We are living in their house. We do look forward to their return and working with them. They are hoping to be back in PNG in February. They too are very interested in how our house is progressing.
Hope this helps you understand a bit about who we minister with here in Port Moresby. We are glad to serve here. Thanks for keeping us in your prayers.
Phil and Janelle Sutton
