We wish you God's Richest Blessings for 2012
and trust you had a Blessed Christmas
and trust you had a Blessed Christmas
We had a very quiet
Christmas ourselves. After experiencing dizziness for a week, on Monday
morning 19th December Bill felt decidedly weird and so decided to go and see
our mission doctor. After observing him for a couple of hours to rule out heart
problems they took x-rays. The doctor said that the C - 5 vertebra was
3.4mm out of alignment and this was making the hole where the nerves go through
much smaller than normal. He thinks the nerves may be compressed
there. He also thinks there may be problems up at the top of the spine in
the skull but couldn't get a view of that. The doctor put him on a week's
bed rest with Ibuprofen 400mg 3 times a day. So Bill spent much of Christmas
Day lying down. Nevertheless it was a joyful day. Bill had started
to feel a little better on Saturday, Christmas Eve, and this continued into
Christmas Day. We spoke on the phone with David and then Philip rang us
next morning on the afternoon of their Christmas Day in America. Catching
up on news from our sons and their families is always special.
Monday and Tuesday were public holidays here for Christmas and Boxing Day. So Bill continued to rest. I had a special day on Tuesday. I was given a birthday cake as a gift. I shared that by giving a morning tea for the folks on our end of the property. Then my friend Lynne gave me a birthday afternoon tea with another cake! To top off my day David rang in the evening and our three little grandsons Lucas, Will and Jayden wished me a happy birthday and we had a little chat.
On Wednesday Bill started back at work on light duties. A young man has now joined us from Germany for three months. After finishing his apprenticeship in a type of electrical work, he spent 10 weeks on the OM ship in Hong Kong and then came out to PNG on December 20th. You'll hear Erwin's name in our updates over the next months.
The biggest upcoming task is the construction of a house for Gerolf and Mailis in the Dom. For years we have asked you to pray for partners for Jim and Judy and those prayers have now been answered. Praise the Lord. Bill has been asked to head up the project. Teams of men from here together with a couple of volunteers from ITF and Lapilo will go up just as they did to rebuild Jim and Judy's house in 2010. The plan is to prefabricate as much of the house as possible at Sobega and then take the sections up and erect them. Please support Bill in this. He is finding the thought of it rather daunting. Gerolf and Mailis thought that land had been given for their house but the go-ahead has not yet been given. Please pray that this land or other of the Lord's choosing would be provided.
Praise the Lord – Bill
just told me since I wrote this two days ago Tim who used to be our builder and
now works in our Tribal Resource Centre printing lessons and literacy materials
for the tribal church planters has drawn up the plans for the house and started
compiling the materials list. He will
also help on the building to the extent he can without injuring his bad back.
Lynette
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