A concert, a mumu and a bush trip.

Hello Friends.

Here are some snaps of our week. Sunday, our girls joined the other MAF kids in a musical production called ‘The Story of the Three Trees’. Alison, a music teacher and the wife of the MAF finance guy has been working with the home school kids on this project, and we got to see it on Sunday. They all did an excellent job, and had a wonderful time performing for us.

One Wednesday, we celebrated our last class of language with a ‘mumu’. A mumu is a traditional festive PNG meal, where the meat and vegetables are wrapped in banana leaves and cooked with coconut milk. Usually it is done in a pit with hot rocks, but we chucked it in the oven….and it works just the same. Not pretty to look at, but good to eat.

Tomorrow we fly in the 206 plane out to our village where we will spend the next week doing our bush orientation at a village called Sanghapi. We will be staying at a Nazarene clinic, and will be hosted by a pastor and his family. We really have no idea what it will be like, so look out for our next blog to read all about it.

Please pray that we would have a safe and healthy week. And pray that we would be brave and thick skinned enough to use our limited pidgin. Pray also for our girls as they cope with culture shock, the creepy crawlies in the bush, and the fact that they won’t be able to communicate much with the other kids.

Thanks!