Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Prayer - away for 10 days

Tomorrow at 9am we leave Ukarumpa to complete the second half of the survey trip we were unable to finish in October as our team leader, Bonnie, was medivaced to Australia. We’re heading back out for 10 days to assess how much the Benabena Bible is being used and to try to discover reasons for its use/disuse.

It’s my last survey in Papua New Guinea. On March 2nd I leave, heading back to England. Today it started to hit me...as we were planning the logistics...which villages to visit, the route to take, the supplies to include, I started to feel sad. It’s been a good two years.

But enough of nostalgia.

We’d really appreciate your prayers for:

Health: of us all. Sara Van Cott, a new surveyor is not 100%. Last week she had malaria and now she has undiagnosed abdominal pains. She will still come with us, however. Please pray for God’s protection over our health...the survey team has experienced so much sickness over the past couple of years...

Safety: for the driving, for all of us, generally. We are outsiders in this area...pray we’ll be well received.

Insight: into the spiritual situation and reasons for patterns of Scripture use.

Thank you very much.

Praying for the survey with the linguistics department, yesterday

Some of the Bibles and other stuff we're taking

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