Prayer Letter - New Guinea News
(from America)

January 24, 2006

Surgery

Sierra's 3rd Birthday on January 18

In this update I wanted to pass on a prayer request we received from our partners Butch and Tammy Kunzer and their four girls. On a recommendation from the mission doctor they left the tribe and went to Australia to get more tests done a week ago. Here is the information that Tammy wrote to us:

"We saw the doctor today again and he said that I have some precancerous cells growing again on my cervix (a problem that we thought was taken care of less than a year ago) and with all the abnormal stuff going on he has recommended that I get a hysterectomy...tomorrow.

Please be praying. I am scheduled to have the surgery at 3:30 p.m. I will check into the hospital at 11:00 a.m. It looks like I could be in there for about five days.

Pray for Butch...he will be playing Mr. Mom in this tiny living space"

The surgery will take place at 11:00pm central US time today. Please pray for this surgery and Tammy's recovery. Pray also for the family through this time.

On our side of the world we have been doing more traveling. We recently had the opportunity to share about our ministry in churches in Adrian, Missouri (Pastored by my friend from childhood Ben Chapman) and Oakland, Nebraska. I also had the chance to speak at a Youth Discipleship Workshop night about missions in Kansas. Here is a portion of an email we received from that

night:

"Wonderful news from the DW last night...God was definitely there with us! Pastor Rick had told us his sanctuary would hold 125....we had 125 (90 were

teens!) Of those one was saved for the kingdom of Christ PRAISE THE LORD! Another committed to missions!! Still 3 others wanted to get plugged into a church...and 4 others prayed for various reasons. Many hands went up during the quiet time showing their commitment to their peers, to missions, to their community, to the Gospel. It was definitely a successful evening."

Thank you for your prayers,

Aaron (and the family)

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