After ten long months, we are finally breaking the silence with a new post to our blog!
We praise God for
his strength and protection during our home assignment in the USA from April through
June. We traveled to 7 different states
and spoke in over 40 churches during those 3 months. We are thankful for the genuine interest and
loving, supportive folks we met in all those churches.
At the end of June, we were so glad
for the privilege of attending the quadrennial assembly of the Church of the
Nazarene in Indianapolis, Indiana, where we joined in worship with thousands of
Nazarenes from around the world. It was
a special privilege to join in fellowship one afternoon with many of the Papua
New Guinea friends who had made the long trip to attend the General
Assembly.
Along with the
many other friends that we had the joy of sharing a meal with or meeting in the
AP exhibit, it was a special delight to re-connect with several of the teachers
who had spent a year or two in PNG serving in the MK school and helping to
shape our three sons.
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| First MK School teachers - Bill and Connie Patrick |
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| MK School teachers - Ruth Kinnersley and Tami Hardesty-Jaynes |
After the
assembly, we took two of the PNG delegates with us to Sylvia’s parents’ farm in
Michigan. Mr. Wallace White Kintak is
our dear friend from the College of Nursing.
White has been faithfully and wisely leading the college for over ten
years now. Rev. Peter Kui has been
serving as the Officer in Charge at Melanesia Nazarene Bible College, and this
was his first trip to the USA. Both White and Peter have experienced God’s protection through some difficult periods of persecution as they have served the Lord in PNG. They re-told their stories for Sylvia’s family and some friends who had gathered at the farm one day. What an honor to know these godly men of faith and to know them as our brothers!
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| David, Peter and White picking cherries |
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| Peter and White "story-ing" with Sylvia's father and David |
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