Lego, Forts, Campfires, Bena Visit, and Swimming fun

 

For the last few weeks Naomi has been working on rebuilding all her Lego sets to make a little town. And she completed it during our school break!

Naomi and her neighbor friends made a fort at the bottom of this tree in the bushes.

Time for a swim... once during each school break, we get to the pool in town for a fun swim!

Aaron and Jonathan

Campfire every Saturday night with our neighbors... eating waffles and sausages or leftovers, whatever we have on hand... kids play while the adults talk.... and sometimes we have guesthouse guests join us as well!

And sometimes we have friends come join us too!

Speaking of friends... I enjoy having a visit from Piku, a lady who I used to work with at Interface in the Bena, just a 20-30 minute drive away. She named her daughter after me... and so I enjoy being able to support their family, by selling bilums (string bags) for them.

Piku (Beth's mom), me and Beth (now 18 years old!)

Lapilo Day festivites

 

Our second R66 Helicopter was dedicated during our Lapilo Day Festivities. We are thankful for all that Ethnos360 Aviation does here in PNG to help so many missionaries get in and out of their tribal locations!

They also did a sling load demonstration... quite amazing how it is done!

The kids enjoyed a water slide too!

Conference Food Prep!

 

We are gearing up to make snacks and desserts for our NTM Centre... we had a day of encouragement from the Word and fun activities planned for all ages. Here Georgie, Fiona and I are making chocolate chip cookies, 200 of them!

We also made brownies and my grandma's recipe of Peanut Butter bars. We were so thankful to be able to use the old Interface 40 Quart mixer and Commercial convection oven. We finished making snacks and desserts for about 185 in one day!

We have been making sloppy joe meat and BBQ chicken for a few weeks now. And now we have bought our veggies and the fridge is full, ready to go!

The ladies were quite excited to be able to mix 5 times the recipe for hamburger buns in the mixer at the same time!

We all made hamburger buns!

Serving meals in the gym... ready to go!

Transformations

 

Our guest house hallway is being transformed. We have a vision for our guesthouse to be a welcoming place that reminds guests of how God is transforming them day by day. Lea, a short term missionary from Germany, is very talented!

Each room has a theme. Trusting God to complete his work, even when things don't seem so good.

It was a big job but God brought just the right people for just the right time to get the job done! We had professional painters come to paint the hallway!

Room three is faith. Because God will transform us into his image through our faith in Him.

Here is Lea working on room number four. This whole project was really her vision and we are so grateful for her perseverance and work!

It is good to remind ourselves of the promise of Hope and Peace. Transformation from a sinner to a saint is not humanly possible. God takes us through beautiful heights and terrible valleys as he transforms us. But through it all he provides hope and peace through knowledge of him.

And as we are being transformed, the joy of the Lord is our strength. 

It is our prayer that our guests find renewed joy in the Lord as they visit our guesthouse.

We also had a guest who volunteered to transform our chair. From something old and comfortable, to something new nice and even more comfortable! Thank God for such amazing guests.

And this new place that Jacob has to organize his tools used to be a old couch frame. God gave us money to buy a new couch for Christmas! So this 30 year old couch had another use. :)

Our new futon couch! :)