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New Guinea
News
21 September 2008
We Can’t Hold Firefles
“Aaron teaching the Patpatar people the Word of God”
“So what do we do
the next time one of us dies and gets buried up on the mountain?”
One of the men addressed the audience. “Do we scare our kids and
tell them the dead spirit is now hovering around? We can’t now! We
can’t hold fireflies anymore and ask them which dead spirit has sent
them. God’s Word has shown us that death is final and our spirit
will go away forever at that point. Now we know the truth. Now we
can’t tell lies to our kids.”
Another man began
to talk a little while later, “Another thing is that we have always
thought that the clan spirits have always existed and were here from
the beginning. But the teaching of God’s Word has shown us that God
created everything that exists and He is the only one that has
always existed. We have to throw out our old basket (our way of
thinking) and get a new basket (God’s way of thinking).”
It is so
encouraging to see God’s Word take root in the lives of those
hearing God’s Word. We have heard so many people tell us that this
is good teaching, that they have never heard the Bible this clear
before, and that some of the things they have always wondered about
are now clear. The amazing part is, we have only taught through
Cain and Abel.
Thank you so much
to those of you who are praying and sending the emails of
encouragement (You all have no idea how huge those things are to
us!). Some of you have asked some details about the teaching. We
are teaching under a temporary shelter made of bamboo poles,
corrugated tin, and a tarp in the middle of one of the Patpatar
villages. We teach every weekday morning from 8:00 to 9:00 or 9:30
(that is 5:00pm the day before central US time (4:00pm when daylight
savings is over) so you can pray for us as you are getting off of
work every night). The people can come hear “God’s Talk” and then
go to their gardens or work in the village. We are teaching
chronologically from Genesis 1:1 up through the Gospels to bring the
Patpatar to a clear understanding of God’s plan to redeem condemned
man to Himself. This process will take us to about the first week
of December to complete.
So that God will
be glorified among the Patpatar,
Aaron, Lori,
Avalon, Sierra, and Kylee
Missionaries with
New Tribes Mission
To the Patpatar in
Papua New Guinea
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