In order to not compromise on the work being done in Papua New Guinea, I have cut out the specific information about my side trip that you had seen here previously. Although there is no real threat of terrorism in PNG at this point, the NTM's contingency commettee at their headquarters in the USA has asked for the entire mission across the board to be very careful to not pinpoint the locations where their missionaries are working. Thank you for your understanding.
Well, I found out where I will be going on my side trip. I hear it is very beautiful there, and as an added blessing, we won't
have to take any malaria medication!
The current missionaries there are Darryl and Becky Jordan.
I heard that Darryl loves to go hiking so we will be doing
a lot of that too (yay!). He normally runs 5 miles a day
up and down the mountains so I've heard! Which is pretty
good for a guy in his 50-60s.
There are about 100 believers and we will get to visit
with them, hear their testimonies and attend Sunday
service with them. I am very excited to see how their
indigenous church differs from other places I've been.
Some prayer requests for the trip are that the weather
will be OK to fly in and then out of the tribe again. It
will be a 1/2 hour flight on a Cessna 206 airplane (very small)
and I heard that the airstrip we will be flying into is
slanted (we will land going up the strip and take off
going down it) so that should be a bit of an adventure!
For the moment the weather is holding well, though for
the last two days it was not and a missionary had to be
dropped off at a neighboring village and had to walk 7
hours to get to the village (sleeping in the jungle
overnight). If the weather is not good on Tuesday when we
plan to fly out we will just have to wait for it to clear;
which may lead to us missing our flights out of PNG.
No one there besides the missionaries will speak any
English, so please be praying that I will be able to
remember enough of my Tok Pisin to get by alright.
Also please pray for our health as I, along with several
others, are coming down with soar throats.
Thanks everyone!
God bless,
Jeniene
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