7 days…..

It took God 7 days to create everything and enjoy a day of rest. So far in a week we haven’t accomplished much. We do know our way around Madang a little better and understand how things work on the center. We have been seeing some interesting things and taking a lot of pictures. You can enjoy a couple of our recent pictures below. This week we will be spending some time in town, getting used to the stores and market, walking into the villages around the center, eating a meal with one of the village families, and Matt will ride into town on a PMV (which is a public motor vehicle) to get his drivers license.

We received 2 emails from Lapilo (the center where the dorms and school are located), 1 from the dorm parents and 1 from the dorm coordinator. They both said the kids are doing great and everyone is really enjoying having them there. They had a skate night Friday and all the kids had a really good time. This coming Friday is a softball tournament, and since over half the high school is on the team there is no school. The tournament will be held in town so it will be a field trip for the high schoolers.

This sunset reminded us of a scene out of Jurassic park or Land of Lost.

Here is the foliage around one of the center houses, the 3 trees are papaya.

We spent one afternoon down on the beach and went swimming. This is a short walk from our house.

We had church on the center last week, we met for breakfast then a time of studying God’s word and some testimony from the new family (us) and a couple from the Faroe islands.        

                                                                                                             

This is a faroese couple who came to volunteer, they went into a tribe and helped in the building of a house and did some projects on center. They had a great testimony about their time here.

We had to get a picture of the beetle, there are many of these around.

We are so thankful for our God and His provisions, He is the one who sustains us here and He is using many of you as our partners to accomplish His purposes. Thank you for allowing Him to use you in our lives and ministry.