Thursday, December 17, 2009

Papua New Guinea Week 1

Hey everyone!
I am now safely back home with my family preparing for Christmas. Thanks you for all of your prayers and support while I was in Australia and Papua New Guinea. I spent a total of 5 and 1/2 weeks in Papua New Guinea with my team from my Discipleship Training School. The first week we did several different things in a city called Kerema. We split up into 3 different groups and did house visits where we went around to different families houses and prayed for them. One of the woman we prayed for is named Maggie and she was home alone with her baby boy Shalom. We prayed for her husband who is a Christian but has been backsliding lately. She was so grateful and appreciative that we came to pray for her that she anointed our feet with oil. She wanted to give us something and that was all she had so she went around individually to each one of us and anointed our feet with the little oil she had. This is just one example of the extreme hospitality and generosity of the people in Papua New Guinea. 
That week we also did several children programs in a beach village called Karieta. We did games, dramas, songs, and short messages. I got the opportunity to speak on identity in Christ to a large group of kids. We played the biggest game of duck duck goose i have ever played. There were probably about 50 or more kids playing plus my mission team. The kids absolutely loved the songs and games and asked us to come back the next day to do another program.  We did probably about 2 or 3 programs in Karieta. The last day we were there the kids organized a volleyball game and the girls prepared refreshments for us. They had gone to the market earlier that morning and bought fruit and refreshments with their own money just for us! This is yet another example of the loving generosity of the people of PNG. 

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