Pictured above is our buddy Reuben Salle. Reuben works as a night watchman at the base we live on, and works 3 or 4 nights a week. He is one of our better friends here, and is very helpful with teaching us Pidgin. Christopher meets up with him at least 3 times a week for language, but he hangs out with him nearly every day under the fallen Marmar tree across the street. He’s about 20 years old, and his mother Lynette is one of Evie’s language helpers.

These are most of the Kreer Heights Hoodlums, the the boys Chris hangs out with.

The older boys are involved with a weekly Bible study that we (our mission) has started. It is a great experience for all involved, discipleship and teaching done here will hopefully bear fruit in the form of a nationalized church planting movement one day.

The last month has been a blur, and here is a really inadequate highlight reel thrown together on our phone from the videos we’ve been collecting with it. We’ve been here 6 weeks, and it feels like 2. A bit of a better video is in the works here, coming down the pipe, for sure.

Lots more to come, there is almost too much to cover, so we’ll have to cover it all as it becomes more pertinent to ministry here!

Life has been all about orientation lately… seeing how things work here in PNG. We live in a city in PNG called Wewak, and the bases here are populated by support workers and 3 other orientee families. Everyone works hard to keep missionaries in the jungle equipped to do ministry there – Really an amazing place to be. Because we will one day be supported by these guys when we are in the bush, it really helps to know the kinds of things they can and can’t do, so we know what exactly we are asking of them when we need, for example, literacy materials printed, or medical supplies flown in, or a house built in the middle of the jungle. Good stuff to know!

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