Bush Orientation

We are leaving tomorrow to go into a tribal location, called Gegering, for a month. This is part of our orientation here, and Gegering has an established church plant, so it should be a safe experience. We have already learned many ways of preparing for "going bush" that will help us in the future. One thing was planning food for the month. Whatever we bring in is all we'll have besides food from the people which consists mostly of sweet potato and greens and some fruit. Also, we tried to pack wisely because we pay for weight on the flight in. Here is Jonathan weighing a box that has been wrapped in black plastic. We will have a 2 1/2 hr boat ride and then a 3 hour hike into the village, and for the hike we will have people carrying our things. We've wrapped our stuff in this plastic so no one will know what we're taking in... hopefully making things less tempting to steal.

We appreciate your prayers while we are in Gegering

• that we wouldn't get sick,
• that we would jump ahead in our pigin language study
• that we would have an overall good time fellowshipping with these tribal believers.
• that the survey trip on Feb 20 into Siar would go smoothly (though we can't be a part of this survey, our teammates Lane and Chris will be trying to sign a land agreement with the Siar leaders, so it will definitely affect us!)
  

We would love to hear from you through email while we're in there, but it will be received through a radio modem so please don't send any larger than 100kb. We will be back March 8, and I'm sure we'll be excited to post and show you pictures from our bush experience!