Feet washing

 

   

Box full of Fall Goodies!

Oh how we miss seasonal items!  Our friends, the Sawyers, sent us a box.  It got here after Scott left for 5 days, so we broke family tradition and opened it without him.  Allan and Teresa, if Scott asks, there were only 2 bags of Candy Corn…got it? 

Now we can’t wait for the Harvest Party to share the caramels for caramel apples and make white chocolate Peanut butter eyeballs, pecan pie, and candy corn.  The Littlest Pet shop toys, and mechanical pencils were immediately put to use. Sharing the Crystal Light with the missionaries.  The Dog nail clippers are waiting for Scott’s steady hand. The packs of sugar free gum is slowly disappearing and I now have one Butterfinger bar added to each hip!  It’s going to take some exercise to get rid of those!

Thanks for the Fall Bounty!

Suzanna and Kiau

 

This is our friend Suzanna, a pastor’s wife.  I was busy with homeschooling Emma, when Suzanna came to visit 2 weeks ago.  So she painted with Olivia for several hours while her cell phone charged. 

During a break between Math and Science, Suzanna and I had coffee and cookies together.  She shared about a young man in her village, her neighbor, his name is Kiau (egg).  3 days before, Kiau had attempted to rape a 18 month old girl.  This was Kiau’s fourth rape, the others being young women and teens.  The village was up in arms.  What could they do with Kiau?  Kiau’s adopted father, who lives in a different city, said “Throw him in jail.  I give up!  There is no hope for my son!” 

The 18 month old’s father, a Lutheran pastor, forgave Kiau.  What a miracle of God.  I do not know if I would ever be able to do that!  And pray that God will never let that happen to our family!

Suzanna and I prayed and talked.  How could anyone be so filled with evil to do these horrible things.  I pleaded with God to get a hold of Kiau and change his life.

After I prayed, Suzanna said “I am going straight home, find Kiau, and tell him of God’s love.” To be honest, I was fearful for her and that was not my intention at all while I prayed.  But God must have been directing her. 

Yesterday, Suzanna came back to visit me.  We talked for a long time and then I brought up Kiau.  She said “Oh! How could I have forgotten to tell you!  When I got home that day, Kiau was waiting for me, walked straight up to me! He had been hiding out in the bush and I thought I would have to go find him!  But he found me!  He said ‘I am such a mess.  Suzanna, I need God!’” 

PRAISE GOD!!!!

Did you hear what I wrote?  Even while we prayed at my house, God was already working in Kiau’s heart!  This man, who seemed beyond hope! Kiau prayed with Suzanna to give his heart to God and asked forgiveness that day!  Every day since then, he has been getting spiritually fed by Suzanna and her husband!

I am so thankful that God let me see this miracle and share it with you.  No matter what you are feeling, thinking, believing…I am TELLING you….GOD IS REAL.  GOD IS ACTIVE. GOD LOVES YOU!

Crocs, bridges, canoes…oh MY!

 

  A croc farm, typical ladder into a Sepik home, Trying my hand in a canoe, with the help of Annette.  The swinging bridge that created fear in many of the team’s hearts.

More Hauna

 

My favorite patient, Tessa.       A canoe full of patients coming to see the medical team!  

At the Hauna Hospital

 

In the Emergency Room/Outpatient Room.

Waiting to go the Outpatient area and see the Doctor. Sue in the recovery room area.

Jeannie in her beautiful lab! Henry pulling teeth in the Surgical Outpatient area.  This is where Joyce and I would sit for most of the morning, screening patients, listening to complaints, and pointing the patients to the correct doctor.

The surgery area, where I would hang out in the afternoons.

Sepik homes

The houses in this area are very different from where I live.  About 6 times the size, off the ground and made out of very different resources.

  The river was very low, but at times can come right up to the floor of the houses. This is where we stayed at Missionary Shirley’s house.

This is inside the house, at our morning meeting/ devotion time.