Prayer Letter - New Guinea News

July 17, 2005

This IS The Way

"This is the way we cover our sores, cover our sores, cover our sores. This is the way we cover our sores so the flies will not put filth in them," nearly 200 children sang with us in the Patpatar language.

As we have gained progress in the Patpatar language we have been able to do small one day schools to help the community. In July, we did a one day school for the children in the villages of Bom and Burau. We (including

Avalon) taught them some games and then taught them a song using the tune, "This is the way we comb our hair." The song contained six verses each with a simple message like listening to their parents, eating their greens, sweeping their village of trash, taking baths with soap, and cleaning their teeth.

As we are now getting to the place where we can communicate simple things like these to the Patpatar people, we are excited for the future. We look forward to not only teaching lessons in health for this life, but more importantly lessons for the life to come.

OUR PARTNERS ARE BACK: The Kunzers arrived back in the tribe on July 11th. Pray for them as they get settled back into the work, and have a year alone in the tribe to look forward to. They will be diving back into language learning right away. Also pray for them as most of their solar panels were stolen just before they got back to the tribe.

Though we are enjoying having our partners back and are enjoying working with them, it is already time for us to start getting things ready for our "home assignment." We will be heading to the States in August for one year. We will give you more information in the next New Guinea News.

ALL for Him,

Aaron, Lori, Avalon, and Sierra