PNG RETURN & PEOPLE MATTER

Looking ahead to a three month return to Papua New Guinea in July, our days in the meantime are full of people… and they are what matter. From long distance counseling - even overseas via email - to coffee dialogues, to hour long phone calls, to a number of enjoyable visitors in our home, our lives are full of people. God could not have given us our hearts desires more than that. Struggles and challenges abound in the Body of Christ, even in His Servants. By the grace of God, we want to be there for those wounded warriors and hidden heroes.

Sharing in two missions conferences and a number of preaching engagements over these past weeks kept us busy as well…time well spent with some wonderful folks.

We’ve even gotten in a bit of landscaping and yard work. Good for the soul.

Our gratitude to God for all of you, your prayers, support, and concern. Medically, all systems are go. Thank you, Lord.

Getting Ready to Head Out Again!

What's Happening Now...

FAREWELL FELLOWSHIP

WHEN? Sunday night, July 11, 2010 @ 6:00 p.m.
WHERE? Our house: 71 Auburn Road, Pelham, AL 35124
WHAT? Pot Luck... always good!
Along with meaningful fellowship and time to commit ourselves, with you as our partners, to the Lord as we go. We would love to have you all.

RETURNING TO PNG FOR 3 MONTHS.... TRIP NO. ELEVEN!!

Tickets purchased - $6900 Round trip (the Lord willing) for two!

Preparation for classes to be taught is well on the way. Double-checking passports, medicines, limiting the clothes to be taken, packing to begin shortly. House matters, mail, bills to pay while absent - covered. July 14th we begin the 36 hour journey to the other side of the world. All this because some beloved brothers and sisters of another culture, another race, in another land asked us to come over and help them. We are privileged to answer that call.

Mick will lead two classes at the Christian Leaders Training College while Martha interacts with the women, hosts many meal gatherings, and simply graces the place. In Sept. we are scheduled to move to the Wycliffe Center at Ukarumpa to serve as a pastoral couple for those 700 missionaries for a month. Our ticketed return date is Oct. 13th.

This is our ELEVENTH trip to PNG! Those folks hold a special place in our hearts. Thank you all who pray, who support us financially, and who in a true sense are serving our Lord with us in that place because of your partnership.





THESE WEEKS...

Since our last letter home has been full of people. We love it. Mick preached most of March, all of April, some in May, and all of June. Squeezed in between were two trips to Dallas, two to Tenn. one to GA and MS. Before we leave in July there's a two-family 4th of July reunion - the Park and Nelson clans - at Camp Ponderosa and a wedding in Cleveland, TN July 10th. But such is the good stuff of life God pours out on us. Our passion... people.

{A DESIRE} The students, their families and resident faculty of CLT (Mick is designated: Permanent Adjunct Professor) live meagerly, working to pay their way, eating mostly vegetables grown there. We've long wished we could throw a barbecue for the campus. It would cost approximately $1000 to feed the 400 folks. Pork, their favorite meat, is available. If anyone shares our BBQ bent to honor these sacrificing servants, let us know. They would be so grateful and so would we. Their sacrifice is one of the heart tugs we wrestle with.

THE DUNNS: Joe and Joannie left June 16th for Kazakhstan. Pray especially for Joe and his pain problem and for their work with teen orphans there. They are choice servants of our Lord.