Wednesday, July 02, 2014
Troolin email update, 2 July 2014
Dear Friends and Family,
We have been up at Ukarumpa for about two weeks now, and are getting ready to drive down to the village next week. It seems that we've barely unpacked and finished filling out and submitting "official" forms: Dave's Major Performance Review (for the University of Adelaide), our ministry budget for the next year (for SIL), Joanna's US passport application, and the forms necessary to print the Sam Trilingual Picture Dictionary. Along with forms, we have been preparing for going back to the village, such as communicating with the clinic, buying supplies for our next village stay of three weeks, getting various equipment repaired, and setting dates and buying tickets for our air travel starting in January, from PNG to the USA (for a mini-furlough) and then six weeks later, to Australia.
On July 8 we plan to drive down to Madang, get our truck serviced and a snorkel installed (for air intake while going through deep rivers (!) ), and buy supplies for our next village stay. It turns out we'll be in the village for about three weeks before we need to drive back up to Ukarumpa for a few weeks for the children to take part in standardized testing at the international school here.
Throughout this stay up at Ukarumpa we have really enjoyed seeing our friends here! It's been refreshing and restful. This time of year is also when many people go on furlough, so our happy times have been bittersweet, as we've said goodbye to some of our good friends. The Lord is so good to give us deep and meaningful relationships! We've been feeling so blessed!
We have been excited to see the progress that two of the Sam translators have made as they have been up here also! Jack has finished rough drafting about eight chapters of Matthew and Paul has rough drafted the end of Luke (he had about six chapters to go), Galatians, and Jude! Praise the Lord! They saw a presentation about a New Testament dedicated in an area in Madang Province in June, and Paul said "We can do this! Now I see why we are doing all of this, and I want to hurry! I think we can finish in one year!" Although we will probably take longer than a year to finish, what a great picture for us of how God's Word speaks and reaches out to people's hearts!
God bless you, our fellow co-translators!
Dave and Sarah
We have been up at Ukarumpa for about two weeks now, and are getting ready to drive down to the village next week. It seems that we've barely unpacked and finished filling out and submitting "official" forms: Dave's Major Performance Review (for the University of Adelaide), our ministry budget for the next year (for SIL), Joanna's US passport application, and the forms necessary to print the Sam Trilingual Picture Dictionary. Along with forms, we have been preparing for going back to the village, such as communicating with the clinic, buying supplies for our next village stay of three weeks, getting various equipment repaired, and setting dates and buying tickets for our air travel starting in January, from PNG to the USA (for a mini-furlough) and then six weeks later, to Australia.
On July 8 we plan to drive down to Madang, get our truck serviced and a snorkel installed (for air intake while going through deep rivers (!) ), and buy supplies for our next village stay. It turns out we'll be in the village for about three weeks before we need to drive back up to Ukarumpa for a few weeks for the children to take part in standardized testing at the international school here.
Throughout this stay up at Ukarumpa we have really enjoyed seeing our friends here! It's been refreshing and restful. This time of year is also when many people go on furlough, so our happy times have been bittersweet, as we've said goodbye to some of our good friends. The Lord is so good to give us deep and meaningful relationships! We've been feeling so blessed!
We have been excited to see the progress that two of the Sam translators have made as they have been up here also! Jack has finished rough drafting about eight chapters of Matthew and Paul has rough drafted the end of Luke (he had about six chapters to go), Galatians, and Jude! Praise the Lord! They saw a presentation about a New Testament dedicated in an area in Madang Province in June, and Paul said "We can do this! Now I see why we are doing all of this, and I want to hurry! I think we can finish in one year!" Although we will probably take longer than a year to finish, what a great picture for us of how God's Word speaks and reaches out to people's hearts!
God bless you, our fellow co-translators!
Dave and Sarah
