Updates

This picture is of some fruit and vegetables that were recently given to us as thanks for helping some needy national friends. May they be a reminder of our thanks to you who pray for and give toward our ministry. Your giving enables us to give to others. God is eager to make Himself known to all people, and your prayer for us is an important part of God's name being given the honor it deserves here in PNG.

Thanks to you who prayed for our relations with the College Council which met recently. I'm not sure the strain of the workload is sufficiently understood by the Council, but we did have a friendly working relationship.

The saga of the ransomed van continues. Someone is holding the van. The college doesn't want to pay ransom.

The story of the broken washing machine continues too. The people whom we helped and who offered us the pictured goodies have loaned us their old machine while ours gets fixed.

The college employee accused of complicity in robbing college money was supposed to appear in court last week. I haven't heard any news about what happened there, but there is joyful news about her ministry in the prison. Large numbers of women are listening to her witness to them, and they want Tok Pisin Bibles. People from the college are gathering them to send.

Jeff and his team must have climbed Mt. Wilhelm today. The plan was for the four guys to take it easy back at the lake camp the rest of today after coming half-way down. They should return tomorrow.

This week as I was preparing for a History of Missions class, I was struck by Isaiah 45:22:
"Turn to Me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth;
For I am God, and there is no other."
He is the one true God. He wants all people to know of His kind intentions and His provisions for relationship with Himself.