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With your help, we have
ministered another year in Papua New Guinea. Loriâs main job is
teaching missionary kids and some local children at Ukarumpa
International School, Secondary Campus (UISSC). She also coaches
soccer. Teachers at this school draw no salary, but live on support
provided by their partners, just like all of the other missionaries
here. Teachers free up Bible translators and other Bible translation
support workers to focus more fully on the task of Bible translation.
Lori also continues to lead a national womenâs Bible study and a girlsâ
Bible study. She also makes us pizza at least once a week. (Pizza isnât
something you can dial a phone and order, here, so that is more
important than you might think.) My main job is writing
software to help Bible translators in their work. My current project is
helping speed the process of Bible typesetting. The first entire New
Testament to use this new process will be the Numanggang New Testament
plus Psalms, but the same software is also being used by other people,
on multiple continents. We give the software away freely to anyone
working on Bible translation. This is one way that your gifts to us
keep giving. I preach and teach from time to time, help Bible
translators with software issues, and manage a department (Publications
and Computer Training) on the SIL Centre at Ukarumpa. Iâm also working
with a group of local people to help them start a Christian radio
station. The boysâ main job, of
course, is to be students and enjoy their teenage years wherever they
are. They are also ambassadors of Jesus Christ. See Nateâs article on
the next page.
My Mission Trip to Simbu Province
This past school break, I went
to show the Jesus video in Simbu province. Simbu is a province next to
where we live (Eastern Highlands) that is farther into the highlands.
The Jesus video had recently been translated into the local language
for about 100,000 people in the province: Kuman. Kuman is one of the
largest local languages in Papua New Guinea, but no one had translated
the Jesus video into Kuman until recently. We showed the video to over
3,000 people in 4 villages and Kundiawa, the provincial capital. For
many people, it was the first time that the good news had been
presented to them in their own language. God really helped us to
overcome many obstacles during the trip. Several times, we had to
drag/push the cars through nearly impassable sections of road. A couple
of times I thought we would fall off of a cliff (the mountains there
are steep, as in seems like 90 degrees steep), but we returned safely.
In one village, a respected businessman had died of AIDS the day before
we arrived, and the generator started cutting out during Jesusâ trial
before Pontius Pilate. Despite these troubles, people were able to see
through to the resurrection and asked to see our Bible story skits
again. I also enjoyed getting muddy, playing volleyball and soccer,
swimming in rivers, enjoying the endless generosity and food giving,
talking with people, and learning the language. There are many strong
Christians in the villages and towns of PNG, that helped us immensely
and greeted and cared for us in every village. I pray that God will
give me more opportunities like this in the future.
Donât Stop Praying!
The last three words
uttered in this world by my friend, neighbor, and brother in Christ,
John Relyea, were âDonât stop praying!â This Scriptural advice is
backed up by abundant fruit of the Holy Spirit in Johnâs life, a
healthy prayer life, and an anointing from God for what he was tasked
to do. John and his wife, Marsha, translated the Aruamu New Testament.
This New Testament is being printed, and will be dedicated 2 July 2005.
Godâs Word will not return void!
Prayer Requests
* Praise
God for answered prayers. * Effectiveness
in ministry * Provision
of at least 100% of our official budget * Protection
from spiritual and physical harm * Godly
wisdom
Our Requests to You
* Please
send us your email address or address changes. * Please
send us a current picture for our prayer wall, either a digital photo
to the email address at right or a paper copy to our address in Papua
New Guinea. Thanks for
your support! We love you! Â Â -- Your Bible translation missionaries, Kahunapule Michael & Lori Johnson http://Kahunapule.org Home telephone 011+675-737-4614; work 011+675-737-4161 Personal mail: SIL BOX 421, UKARUMPA 444, EHP, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Support (mark "for the ministry of Michael & Lori Johnson"): EVANGEL BIBLE TRANSLATORS, PO BOX 16715, IRVINE CA 92623-6715, USA Please let us know if your email address changes. Thanks! -- Kahunapule Michael P. Johnson http://Kahunapule.org |
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