Lynne and Josh's family all set up in Gimi and Good progress being made on

Gerolf and Mailis' house in Dom

Bill returned safely on Thursday but sad to say with an intestinal wog which is causing diarrhoea, fogginess in the head and general discomfort.  He actually had it all the time he was in Gimi also.  I also am experiencing the same symptoms having started them about 24 hours after Bill did.

We received a request from one member of our prayer team for photos of the work Bill and the other two men did in Gimi with the help of some of the believing men there.  Unfortunately, I did not send our camera in  with Bill .  Erwin flew by fixed wing plane up to Kundiawa so that he can work in the Dom for several weeks on the construction of Gerolf and Mailis' house, immediately after arriving back in Goroka by helicopter.  I have emailed him to try to get pictures from him sent as email attachments from Dom and  also asked Josh if he can send me some as email attachments from Gimi.   When I have received them I will post them also.

The work on Gerolf and Mailis' house is going ahead by leaps and bounds.  You will remember that I told you in our New Year letter that the work would be starting as soon as possible.  Tim who used to be our builder and Kevin actually went up and started on the posts for the house on Friday 27th January.   Kevin has been sending photos using his smart phone of the progress on the work there.  

 

 This photo shows the work done by Tim and Kevin done before a larger team came and joined them at the beginning of this week. 

This photo was taken on day 3 and shows all the busy bees working away -- both missionary and Dom men.
 

 The house on the left is the Burdetts.  Praise the Lord, Gerolf and Mailis were able to get the piece of land right beside it.

A point of interest in this photo is that you can see garden beds belonging to one of the local villagers on the hillside behind the houses, on the opposite side of the valley.

This shows the progress by the end of day 4.
 

On the fifth day of construction [Thursday] it rained and so the team were unable to make further progress.
 

Gerolf has made several trips up in a large truck carrying building supplies and their personal belongings.  The most recent was on Friday and when we received word of their safe arrival after travelling over muddy, slick mountain roads, Mailis wrote, "The men worked without a lunchbreak until 3pm and got the corrugated roofing iron on! They are amazing! After they were done it started to rain, but now the rain won't stop them working since they can work under the roof."

Here is a picture showing the progress after the work which was done on Saturday.

 

Thank you all so much for your prayerful interest in what God is doing among the Highland people groups of PNG.