Peace and Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful time celebrating Thanksgiving with our team last week.  Our teammates from New Zealand had their first Thanksgiving meal and really seemed to enjoy it.  

Today some of the local people will try raising a Papuan flag to claim independence from Indonesia.  This is illegal under Indo. law so who knows what will transpire.  Please pray that their will be peaceful demonstrations.  If you are interested in reading just a short  history about it you can do a google search for Papuan Independence and read what wikipedia has to say.  I found it very helpful to clear up a few questions that the local people couldn't answer for me.  

We hope to have a snail mail newsletter coming your way soon!

Local church meetings

This is a big week for the local church here. Jon works closely with them to train and disciple believers. They are having their annual business meeting this week. Jon has been to a few of the meetings to have a bit of input. It's also a great time to network and encourage the leaders. This morning he is scheduled to share about the churches role in cross cultural ministry. Please pray that the group would listen attentively and seriously consider what their role should be. I ask that because after a week of all day long meetings people sometimes start to "tune out" speakers.