Troozshoes

Dear Friends and Family,

You are such a blessing to us! Thank you for your faithful prayers and
thoughts towards us! We know that God works through your prayers, and we
have some things to ask you to pray about.

Today Sarah talked with Paul, one of the main Sam translators, who
called to tell us that there has been fighting between two Sam speaking
villages. The conflict is over who owns the land that a timber company
wants to log. In the conflict, fighting has broken out between people
from the two villages, and two men were injured and had to go to the
hospital in Madang town. Since then there have been a few more fights,
including a raid in which some guns were found that reportedly belonged
to outsiders hired to fight against the village in which we live. We
fear that violence will continue, because revenge killing and fighting
is a common occurrence in PNG.

Please pray for the five Sam translators, that they would have wisdom as
they try to bring about peace in their respective villages. Praise the
Lord that they are still friends and are not taking sides even though
they come from the two fighting villages! Pray also for God's peace as
wise leaders work to stop the conflict.

As this is going on, Dave is busy taking a practical course on
leadership which ends on Friday. We are looking forward to Christmas, in
this place where there are not many physical cues that Christmas is
approaching. But we know from God's Word that He sent his son into this
world to rescue us from living apart from him here on earth and then for
eternity after we die. This is wonderful news, and we celebrate his love
and provision for us at this wonderful time of the year!

Merry Christmas!
Dave and Sarah Troolin, and Joanna, Samuel, Matthew and Rebekah