Life as an Interface Student...

 Most mornings, the students are learning in the classroom setting... they have classes about the Motivation for Missions, Evangelism and Discipleship, Church planting, Culture Stress, Literacy, Women in Missions... Here Jason is teaching through the Bible Chronologically.

 And more classes... Cross-Culture Communication, Mission Methods, Support Ministry, Finances in Missions, Singleness in Missions and Critical Issues in Missions. It is a lot to process! But they can see everything that they are learning taking place around them as they interact with nationals that live around us, as well as visit a tribal location.

Most afternoons the students head up to the village to hang out with the nationals who live around us. This is a good time for them to practice their Pidgin English.

 We often have campfires where we worship in song and get to hear what God is doing in the students' lives. It is a wonderful time together!

 This is an amazing time as we hear God's almighty work in people's lives during their time here!

 Some evenings are spent in staff homes. Our home was known for Crokinole, a Canadian board game, now famous among Interface students! :)

Students learning the coffee process...

 The Students had the opportunity to help one of the locals pick his coffee.

 Then Heti showed them how to shell the coffee beans with this machine.

 They got to try it themselves.

And then they laid it out on a tarp to dry in the sun. After this Heti will bag it up and take it to town to sell to the coffee factory. The coffee factory will roast and package it.

The Students loved hanging out with the Bena in the village!

 Pigs are all around the village... walking here and there....

 Walking through a garden.

 Working on bilems.

 The ladies really enjoyed learning how to make bilems from the national ladies.

 Playing games with the kids.

Helping with water...

This summer the students had the opportunity to help the people in each of the villages around us by filling up water containers. This is one of the people's daily tasks. The students and staff were able to gather people's water containers in different villages and fill them up at local springs close by. The nationals were very thankful!!

Our May/June Interface team got to attend a Baptism!

Our Interface students saw a tribal church functioning first hand when they spent a couple days in a local tribe. There were many testimonies of how they were in awe that the believers there considered them their brothers and sisters in Christ! And they are so excited about having the Word of God in their own language! We take that for granted, as we have many many different versions of the Bible.

Kitchen Fun

God sent Ragan, Ope and Elizabeth over to Interface this summer to help in the kitchen! Wow, we certainly cranked out the yummy food... and had fun at the same time! God is good!

 Nice job Ragan!

 Pizza Day!!

 Jess and Madison, missinoary kids, helped out sometimes making jello, cookies and doing food prep.

 It was 25 minutes before lunch... I sangout (asked someone to bring) for kumu (greens) the day before but they didn't come and they didn't come.... finally at 12:05 they arrived! So we all gathered around the sink to wash and pick off the kumu leaves. And we were all excited to be able to eat Kumu in coconut milk that day for lunch. :)

 Ope, Ragan and I, ready for everyone to come eat. :)

 Chicken Enchilada Casserole, salsa, sour cream, guacamole, salad and rolls for lunch! A favorite for many!

Elizabeth's cheese tower...cheese anyone? :)

 Our faithful dish washers... we couldn't do it without them! Sone and Rose

 And our faithful Produce prep ladies! Linet and Loli

 Hey, aren't they supposed to be filling up the sinks with water so that the students can wash their plates? :)

 Kesi and I cutting up some pork for the stroganoff... Kesi is my right hand lady on food prep! We missed her this summer when she went to visit her sister.... she had to stay to work and pay for her daughters schooling in the New Ireland province. Hopefully she'll be back in December!

 Julie... there are always dishes to wash!

 Madison, Ragan and I making a few rolls.

 Time to make the Lemonade... nice boots, Ope!

Jacob helped me a lot this summer whenever he had a chance!

Jacob hard at work!

 Jacob and Pete, replacing a window in one of the staff homes. Jacob and Pete had their hands full this summer with lots going on with the Interface students and the Hospitality, who came to help out around campus.

This is our Hospitality Team for the July/August Interface team. Elizabeth and Ope helped in the kitchen. Steven, Jonas, Richard and Mark helped in the workshop and helped with security. Jacob and Pete had a great time with these guys working on all kinds of maintenance projects! We are especially thankful for Jonas and Richard who covered all of the night security shifts during this program!

We also had some missionary kids come out to help with some projects as well... here they are having fun with the destruction of an old basement room. Jacob and Pete were busy this summer as they gave work to all our volunteers!

 Jacob uses his four-wheeler almost every day as he works around the campus and takes things up to the village. The trailer that attaches to it, is very handy as well!

 One of these days, I will learn how to drive it too. :)

 Jacob also oversees the Security that looks after the campus each day and night as well. Here is one of our security men with his child.

Jacob also has the tough job of catching and killing all the mice in our house. Not sure how many it has been to date, but I know it is a lot!