The Devine Happenings of Jacob and Beth: August 2008

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Good times before my good friends left...

This is Rich and Chris's last camp fire with us before heading back to Germany. Now my "family" from last year as gone back home. It will be fun to see what God has for them all next! Stay posted so you can meet my new "family". :)

Last visit to the village, eating kaukau and pumkin from a mumu as we (Rich, Andy, me, Chris and Nicky) walk home.

Elissa's last night in PNG... we all went out to the Mandarin for some Chinese food. And we didn't have to cook it!!

Chris, Nate, Rich and Andy

A final Settler's game before Nate headed back to the states.

What A Mess!!

It was very exciting to move back home to Interface but I was not looking forward to dealing with the HUGE mess that the kitchen was becoming as more and more truck loads of stuff went back to Interface. We just recieved a food container just a few days before the Interface team left so there were piles and piles of canned items and dry items plus all the stuff we had brought out to use in our new kitchen at the NTM base. Here are two before pictures and an after picture. I had never seen such a cluttered kitchen in all my life. It is wonderful to have everything put in its places again!

The Tribal fighting is over!

Fred, Rich, Chris, Elissa, Andy and I are ready to go back to Interface!

This is our entire kitchen moved out into the dining hall. We are packed and ready to head back to Interface!!

The July/August Interface team arrived on July 5th...

Little did they know that they were in for a huge change in plans as we had just moved Interface to our NTM Base. It was so amazing to watch God work in the lives of the students as God challenged them for missions and in their walk with Him!

Hospitality team for the July/August Interface team - Back: Fred, Joerg, Nate, Chris, Rich Front: Mary, Becca, Beth, Elissa

Me, Nate and Elissa - I'm so thankful for their expert help in the kitchen! I'm so glad God brought the right people here to help at exactly the right time!

Our new kitchen at our NTM Base - only 4 Fridges, 1 deep freeze and a lot less space in walk around. But God made it work!! We had to move from our Interface Campus to the NTM Base about 1/2 hour drive away because of some tribal unrest nearby. It was a crazy insane move... the tribal fighting started 2 days before the students arrived so we had only 2 days to move the entire Kitchen plus the entire Interface program! We saw God work in amazing ways! God gave us all wisdom step by step as we made the huge adjustments to running a program in a new location.

We moved out our own convection oven so we could cook for 50-60 people.

We also moved out our own brand new commercial mixer which was a HUGE help!

Rich, Joerg and I make double knot dinner rolls.

A very full fridge!! We had four of them, usually, and we learned how to juggle food into and out of fridges. And we learned that we need extra time to hunt for food.