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l^rYor
THE
Newsle t ter of th e
Pioneer
Bible Transla tors
1;^
VOL 3
Bluffton, Indiana
Church
Responds
to
Ne e d
The
First
Christian Church o f B lu ff to n,
Indiana (G .
Edward
Geans,
minister)
designated its
February
mission offering
to th e Pioneer
Bible
Translators to help
defray
indebtedness
on
the purchase
of a
house trailer for office space.
The
Bluffton
congregation responded
to
this
need with
an offer ing of
700.
L ast N ov em be r, PBT was ab le to
purchase, on con tr ac t,
a
year-old
house
t r a ile r f rom Mr.
and Mrs.
Rober t
Adams of
Lincoln, Illinois The
trailer
was
appraised
fo r
7500, but t he
Adams
offered to sell
it
for 5,000 and a
receipt
for th e difference.
PBT paid 1,000 down and signed a co n
tract to pay
the
balance, at simple
interest,
ove r t he next
three years.
The house
trailer
is
12
x
65 feet,
with
two
b e d r ooms which a re n ow o f fi ce s
a nd a
2
X 20 foot
tip-out
area which serves
as
a
reception
area and
secretarial office. Th e
t rai ler
is
loca ted on
th e Lincoln
Chris t ian
College campus.
PBT is thankful to th e First Chris t ian
Church of B lu ff ton, Indiana,
as
well
as to
Mr.
and Mrs.
Rober t Adams,
fo r
thei r
generous help in obtaining office space.
PBT is
growingwe now have eigh t mis
sionaries in Papua New Guinea plus some
15 recruits in trainingand we
need
this
office space to
perform
th ose ta sks
necessary to a cc ompl is h o ur
goal
of
translating God's Word into th e minority
languages of th e world.
We
are likewise
thankful to Lincoln
Christian
College for
allowing
ou r
office
to be located on he r
c ampus
If you
are
in th e vic in ity of Lincoln,
Illinois
please
feel free
to s to p a nd
visit
the
PBT offi ce .
In the meantime,
there
is
still indebtedness amounting to 4000, on
th e trailer. We
a sk th at
you contribute
to
help us
liquidate
this
remaining debt.
JAN.-FEB.-MAR., 1978
NO. 1
Air New
Guinea Complex
up for
sale
in
Madang,
Papua
New
Guinea
Temporary
Headquarters
in Papua
David
Pryor,
PBT
missionary
in Papua
New Guinea, reports that
a
complex
of
house s has
been
rented in
Madang city to
serve as PBT's headquarters until more
p erm an en t a rra ng em en ts c an b e m ad e.
There are six houses plus warehouses
in
th e
complex.
David writes that with th e
coming
of
so
many
PBT
missionar ies to
Papua, finding this complex came none
to o s o o n
However, this is only a rental,
and
tem
porary, arrangement.
Th e
owner, which
happens to
be Air
New
Guinea, th e
national
airlines,
may
decide
to
at
any t ime
no t
r en t ou t this
complex
any
longer. At
which
time
PBT
would
be headquar ter less
again.
There
is
one bright spot
in this,
though.
The
complex is up fo r sale PBT is
negotiating
with Air
New
Guinea to
purchase t he complex ,
but th is
has just
begun, so
we have nothing
def in it e t o
report
at
this writing on t he progress
of the
negotiation
except
for
th e price. The
complex ha s a
selling
price of U S
165,000.
David Pryor
also
writes that, should PBT
b e able
to
buy this property,
it will
be
a
good
base from
which to
reach
into th e
minority language groups of
th e
surroun
ding
area
with the translatedWord of God.
And,
because it is close to these
language
groups,
th e complex will provide a con
venient location
in
which to
do linguistic
analysi s, t ransla tion
an d
production
of
literary material.
Will PBT be
able
to
buy
th e complex? It
is
to o early to say. But, we
are
praying
that
God will open up th e
opportunity
to do so .
Please, p ray
with
us concerning this
op
portunity also.
We
will soon let you know
whether
PBT
can
bu y
th e
property.
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P ionee r
Linguistic
Institute
The 1978 Pioneer Linguistic Institute will
be held at Milligan College {near Johnson
City Tennessee), May21-27. Registration
will
be on Sunday afternoon. May 21.
Classes begin Monday morning and will
carry through
to Friday.
The schedule
of
classes,
including instructors:
8:00 a.m.Cultural Anthropology
{Dr.
Charles
Taber)
9:00 a.m.Chapel
9:45Coffee Break
10:00
a.m.Semantics and Translation
Theory
(Dr. Rondal
Smith)
11:00 a.m.Syntax {Dr.
Susan
Higgins)
NOON
T:00 ~p.m.Phonology (Dr. David
Filbeck)
2:00
p.m.Phonetic
Lab (Staff)
3:00 p.m.Reading
4:00
p.m.Sports
This
year the chapel speaker
will be Dr.
Barton
McElroy,
Academic
Dean
of
Manhattan Christian College, former mis
sionary to
the
Philippines and
member
of
the Board o f D i rec to rs o f
th e
Pioneer Bible
Translators.
Professor Wallace Wartick
of
Ozark Bible College will
serve
on t he staff
teaching Phonetics.
PLI will end Saturday noon. One of the
more interesting features
of PLI is
that
s tuden t s have a c h a n c e to
elicite
and
write, in
phonetic
script,
words
from native
foreign language speakers as part of their
final test.
One hour
of
college credit
for
the
Are you
moving?
P le as e s end u s
your
new
address
along v^ith
your
old address.
PIONEER
BIBLE
TRANSLATORS
B o x
828
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Illinois
62656
ADDRESS
CORRECTION
REQUESTED
f
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Avillage of the Giri
Tribe
submitted by avid Pryor
week's
study
will be granted
through
Milligan College.
Cost
for th e week is
75 ,
which includes
room,
meals, and
tuition.
Fo r more
infor-
CORRECTION
In th e last
issue
of t he P ioneer , th e
editor wrongly
edited Al Hamilton's
article
on hi s trip to Papua New Guinea
of
last
October. We made th e article to say that
th e Austral ian Churches of
Chr is t m i s si on
in
Papua had
no
missionaries
working in
Bible translation, which
is
not t ru e. There
ar e Australian missionaries engaged
in
Bible t ran sl at ion work. In fact, Mr .
and
Mrs.
Rodney Fel dman ,
whose
picture
appeared
in
t he l as t
issue of the P ioneer
are so
engaged.
We ar e grateful
to Mr.
Rex
Ellis, Prin
cipal of Woo lw ich B ib le College in
Austr al ia , for drawing thi s
error
of
state
ment
to
ou r attention. The edi to r regrets
the
error
and
apologizes
to those directly
affected.
i
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H elen S chau b
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Kempton , IN
46049
mation and application forms, write to:
Dr.
Susan
Higgins
B ox 6 43
Milligan College, Tennessee 37682
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PIONEER
BIBLE TR NSL TORS
AMinistry Bible Translation and Literacy Instruction
DAVID W. SHARRAN O'BRIEN PRYOR, MISSIONARIE
I l i a I s sue
1
SURVEY EXPERIENCES
Ity
brother
John
and
I
have been
involved
n the most physical ly taxing
aspect
of our
the l inguis t ic and al locat ion surveys.
involved
going
in to moiintainous
re
jungles , and swamps
to e sta bl is h con
vdth di f fe ren t language groups . We
over the vil lages
and
surrounding
to determine th e
f e a s i b i l i t y o f
l o c a t
ng a t r ans la t ion team t h e r e . The main con
i s the d i f f i cu l ty
involved
in
the team and t he i r supplies to the
During
Ihe s urv ey s we
encountered
our
opposit ion
from
Satan,
but also
o f our most exc i t ing exper iences . I
like to s h a r e a f ew .
The day we
were
to
leave
fo r
the
f i r s t
I
came
down with malar ia l Although
he hospi t a l
t e s t
was nega tive , veteran
t o l d u s t h o s e tests a r e n o t al
va l id because t he re are many
d i f f e r en t
o f ma la ri a. The t e s t s can only
de
a
few.
They say you must
r e ly
on the
ymptoms, and mine were
de f in i t e ly
those of
The
morning we ac tua l ly l e f t I awoke
d i z z i n e s s
and
n a u s e a .
I c o u l d n t
be
it Surely God wanted
these
surveys
so our work could
progress . So I pray
d fo r s t rength
to make
the t r i p , VJh en I
get worse I decided to go anyway, and
he
diz^iiness subsided a f te r we
got
into the
and
s ta r ted up r ive r .
(cont. on
p. 3)
Kevin L. Donna J . O 'B r ie n
Route 2, Box 19
Oakland
City, Indiana
47660
Forwarding Agents
February, 197
HMMM...PRAISE THE LORDl
During
our
second
survey
in
a
vi l l ag
where
t h e A us t r a l ia n Church o f Ch r i s t ha
establ ished a con grega tion by using
Pidgin
70
people came to
see t h e i r
language
wr i t
ten down. I had a grea t
t imel
Af te
f in ish ing the word list
and
soc io logica
quest ionai re , the host
missionary and I sa
fo r
a while longer to v i s i t
with
the
men
b
conversing in
Pidgin .
I understood
most
o
the
con versation, b ut
th i s
one
I
had
t
check
o u t to
make
s u r e I unde r s t ood c o r r e c t
ly . After it was over
I
to ld the
missionar
t ha t
from
the
b i t s and
pieces I
understoo
it
sounded
l ike
they were
t a lk ing
about
n
b i t s and
pieces
1
Sure enough, they wer
t a lk ing abou t f orme r
days
when white
men
o
s t rangers
from other
vi l l ages would
com
and they
were
a f r a i d .
They wou ld assure the
of
t h e i r
f r iendship and proclaim a f ea s t an
c e l e b r a t i on in hono r
o f
their
visit
Mean
while , a message o f a
di f ferent
kind o
fe^t
was
spread
throughout the v i l l age . A
soon as the
v i s i t o r could
be c a u ^ t
o f
guard, he was ki l led and became
the
mai
course
The
missionary asked them if the
would
need
to
fa t ten
me
up
before they
a t
me. They
said
I would be f a t enough
j u s
l ike I was. There was a lo t of
laughing
an
joking , but one of the Chris t ians remarke
how
good
it
was t h a t
we could all
sit an
v i s i t
without
f ear
of
each
o the r . Everyon
agreed^
especia l ly meI
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SHiBRAN S
SHARING
From December 16 through January 30 John
Ainy and I have been on
hol iday.
This i s
one teacher who i s r e a l l y enjoying school
break This i s our only b ig b reak fo r the
year as John
and
my go to school 38 more
days tham c h ild r e n i n
the
s t a t e s .
Christmas was a wonderfu l e xp er ie nc e
away
from home, thanks t o
T
of you. Your
letters
a n d C h r i s t m a s
c a r d s
made
u s
realize
we are not
here
by ourselves j we are here
representing you; and you
love
and support
us i n many ways. We had an a r t i f i c i a l
t r e e
but
no
snow.
e s ang Chr is tmas c a r o l s
i n
summer
clothes
and sweat,
and
it
sure
seemed
strange I made
Christmas
cookies ,
but d i f
f e r e n t
o n e s t h a n i n t h e
states a s we can t
get a l l t he i ng re di en ts here .
I
did get t o
make snickerdoodles f o r Dave, though. That*s
h i s f a v o r i t e .
The
Augsburgers
had Christmas dinner
with us, and
a l l
the
Australian
Church of
C h r i s t
m i s s i o n a r i e s
came f o r
r e f r e s h m e n t s
Christmas
Sunday
evening. That r e a l l y
help
ed make
it
a happier Christmas. This year
for the f i r s t time ever,
Madang
had
a
few
t o y s . They were nothing l i k e U.S.A. toys ,
except we did find Matchbox cars which
John
c o l l e c t s .
We got John some
Matchbox cars
and
my
a doll that
wets
her nappy ( that s
Australian for diaper) .
We
were happy to
be
able
to do t h a t
but we a l l
real ized
i n a
wonderful way
t h a t
Christmas
was r e a l l y
C h r i s t s bir thday alone, and we
have
come t o
soaeday be able t o t e l l t h a t Christmas s t o r y
i n a
new language.
We are beginning to get
some
packages
now. t a l k about excitement
Something
from
home
i s r e a l l y something
We have received
s e v e r a l of the boxes of
tupperware
you have
t o l d us
were
coming.
By
the time it
a l l
a r
r ives
I w i l l have plenty
of tupperware
f o r
our house here and our bush house, t o o .
So,
thank you
everyone
who provided fo r our
needs in t h i s
way.
With the weather here it
i s
the
only way
to
keep things
n i c e . We
w i l l
even be p u t t i n g
some
c lo th in g
i n tupperware
to
slow
the
mildewing
process.
The
middle of January , Dave, th e kids ,
and I are going to rmepagi ( the Austra lian
Chiirch of Christ
Mission Base)
for
an
anthropology workshop on
Pspua
New
Guinea.
While there we w i l l be hiking to severa l of
the vi l lages
t h a t
are
of the GIRI
language
group, which may poss ibly be
our
lan^,\iage
group. There are s e v e r a l little v i l l a g e s of
the
GIRI
group
in Madang and we are
already
v i s i t i n g with
them and l e a r n i n g
some
of
PRAISE
PRAIER
Pray
t h a t . . .
. . .God s choice
of oxir language gro
. . . t h e
money
for
the
housing comp
. . . o u r h e a l t h w i l l
remain
good.
P r a i s e God for
. . . t h e Augsburgers quick a r r i v a l
. . . H i s
s t rengthening and care
f o r Dav
. . . t h e
Power
i n
us t h a t
i s
g r e a t e r th
He t h a t is i n
t h e
w o r l d .
SHARRAN AMI SOPPING AT THE
M RKET
t h e i r
language. We are
praying t h a t i f
i s
God s
wil l we w i l l receive our leadi
from the Lord
to
go
to the GIRI group wh
v i s i t i n g with them. We know you a re p ra y
for us
in
this t t^^iggest decision
of
l i v e s and it gives us peace t o know we
not
alone
i n making
it
\Je are
so
close, b
c a n t
afford
t o
decide
prematurely now.
m u s t
w a i t
o n
t h e
L o r d .
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(cont. from
front
page)
After
t r ave l ing
up
r i ve r fo r for ty- f ive
minutes ,
we
got out
of
the boat and began
hiking through the jungle, I began
perspi r
i ng p ro fu s el y, and with in
ha l f an hour
my
clothes were soaked, and
the perspi rat ion
was
s t i l l
pouring
down my face, arms, and
legs . Within
an hour and a half , lass of
body f l u id had me
exhausted.
I was
humi l i
ated
and
disgusted. I knew I was
in shape,
but
when I
sa t
down
to
r es t ,
I knew I
had
to
stay
there
a while. I took
o ff
my pack and
j u s t sa t there ,
using
what
l i t t l e
energy I
had l e f t to brush away
the mosquitoes.
I
kept thinking I
only
needed a l i t t l e
res t ,
but
res t wasn*t making
any
difference. y
strength was
gone,
so I prayed fo r enough
strength
to
make
it to the next vi l lage .
As
it turned out, that was how it was to be fo r
the entire survey.
Xir pac e slowed considerable, and
it
be
came
i^^)erative
to
stop
more frequently to
r e s t . Though
exhausted,
I f e l t very close
to God. I was to ta l ly dependent on Him fo r
strength.
We
were behind schedule, but a t
least
I made it to each
vil lage.
The follo f^
ing df^
brought
an even
greater t r ia l
A man from one
of
the villages volunteer
ed to guide us to the
next village
which was
supposedly only minutes
away.
He
took us
on a t r a i l tha t went up
and
down and a l l
around.
After an
hour and US minutes of
hiking, I knew I was in t rouble .
We came
t o
a little s h e l t e r someone had
bui l t for
shade aid
cooking, so I sa t down.
I was
feeling
fa int ,
nauseous,
and iny arms
were
going
numb and beginning
to
t i ng le . I
layed down
and
elevated
vy
feet which helped
some. I had again lost a
lo t
of body f luid,
and it seemed ugr whole body was
crying
for
scmething to drink. I told t he f el lows , and
they decided tha t my brother John should
s tay with me and oxir guide and the Austrar-
l ian missionary would go on to
the
village
and send
some coconuts
back fo r
me
to
ea t
and drink. While
they
were
gone I there
thinking tha t
i f I was going to
get out
of
that
jungle,
it would have
to
be by helicop
t e r But
a f t e r
some
coconut
meat
and
milk
and some res t I was able to go on -
but
not
to the next vi l lage . They
decided
to
s t a r t
back home instead of going deeper into the
jungle. At
that
point, I didn t
feel
l ike
arguing 1
I can*t begin
to t e l l
you how exasper
ated U was shen
our
guide led us back to his
village by another
path
through a sago swamp
that had no
hills
except the one we walked
own
to
get to
i t
I thank God though for
PICTURES
Above; The
family ready for hiking.
Below: Opening
packages from home .
His s t rength
and
tha t
I?m back.
3very
time
things
start going wrong
wonder what i s
so
important that
Satan
woul
want to hinder.
In
this
case, we knowl H
doesn*t
want
these t r ib e s to
have
the Wor
of
God in their language. But God does.
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BOARD APPROVES PURCHASE
The Board o f P i one e r Bib l e Tran s l a t o r s
voted to piirchase
the
A ir N iug in i
Complex in
Madang,
providing
t ha t
no indebtedness wouDd
be
incurred
by the organizat ion . This means
t ha t the money
must be
raised by
f a i th :
fa i th praying and
fa i th giving .
As far as ic^al
facili t ies are
ctn-
cemed,
we
couldn ' t
ask fo r
anything be t t e r .
I t
a l ready
bu i l t ,
^ i c h
wi l l
save
one
or
two
years
by
no t having to go
through
the
long, slow
process of buying
land and then
b ui ld in g t he
houses .
t has
a sma l l
ware
-
house and workshop which i s
idea l fo r b uild
ing
and stor ing
goods
to be
taken
to the
Ti l l age s . t has Xour
domestic
quar t e r s
which
can be used fo r housing language
help
e r s
when
t r a n s l a t o r s come i n f rom th e vil
lage for
work. There are^s^. houses
in
the
conplex; two
3-bedroom
and four J^-bedroom.
All of
th i s
gives
us a head s t a r t
in
begin
ning
our
t r ans la t ion
m in is try . T ransla to rs
ca n have
l iving
quarters
when
they
f i r s t
ar
r i ve , while
the i r
vi l l age
homes are
being
bui l t , when
they
need
to
come out
fo r
exten
sive work, or 'tiien they need a rest.
By purchasing something
l ik e th is
now we
wi l l also be saving money. Real es ta te i s
already
expensive in Madang, and
the
costs
cont inue to increase .
I f we
don t piurchase
th is
now, there i s
no place
to l ive
here in
the c i ty un t i l our vi l lage
homes
are
bu i l t .
/
In
f a i th we
have already cleaned them,
mo'^b in7
and
made some iirprovements on
the
houses and proper ty.
In
fa i th we look to God
to
supply OUT need
and
ask
t h a t
you jo in us
in
prayer
fo r the money to be supplied.
I f
you a re
in te res ted
in
more inform
t ion ,
contact
A1 Hamilton,
President
of
PB
a t this add re s s
o r
phone niunber :
1.-. i
P.O. Box 811
Bedford, Texas
76021
,
Phone:
817
267-U131 or 267 796 4 ^
Our
House*'
a t
the
Madang
complex
^
Excitement
i s
growingI
Many good
thing
are
happening.
God
continues to remove th
many hindrances tha t Satan puts in our wa
and we are victorious through His
powerI
How
thankful
we are fo r those of you ^r
pray fervent ly and fa i th fu l ly
fo r u
Through
the
events of the l a s t month and
half
we know
tha t
your
p ray ers are
making
difference here. Partnership
with
the
Almighty
and loving brethren who s uppo rt u
f inancial ly
and
prayerful ly
i s
both magnif
cent and humbling in i t s scope and
power.
PIONEER
BIBLE
TRANSLATORS
David &
Sha rr an (O'Bri en ) P ryor ,
Missionaries
c/o Kevin L. & Dorma J . O'Brien, Forwarding Agents
2, Box 19
Oakland
City,
Indiana U7660
U.S . Pos ta ge Pa
Non-Profi t Org.
Permit 7
Oakland Ci t y ,
In
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C H RIS TIA N C H U RC H
NEVvS
Ivyland Pa
VOLUME IX^^j^mber 4 Charles E.
Fordyce
Mari^
17 ~ 978^ Minister
MISSION corn k
Excerpts
from
a letter
from
the^^TORSjfa
New
Guinea
r-
a r
Chris t ian Fr iends
a t
Bux Mont
We had a
big
surprise
in the
mail this morning. V/e
re
ceived your two huge
packages
of Tupperware. Thank you
all
veiy
much. The
large
containers were
really what I
needed as
we
have to
buy
large quantities
of food
at
a time
and
only Tupperware will keep it fre sh
and free
from bugs
un t i l we
u se i t
We now have
our language group
-
Giri. There are
about
seven
different
villages in the bush
and about
seven village
that have moved
in
near
town.
We have
begun gathering
al
the
building supplies
We
will
need
for our bush
house. Mea
while
we
have
already
been
learning the
language.
We
hav
an
excellent
language helper. We try
to
learn a
new
phras
every day. That might
hot sound
like much but to be able
to
do
that for an unwrit ten language
is much
more
difficult
than
having
a book
to
study
the language from.
Dave works
from 9 to 12
am. illic iting words and culture.
I work on
the dictionary
and
card catalog in the afternoon after
I
finish
teaching
John
and
Amy
in school. Needless
to
say
w
are thrilled and exc ited to
know
our language group and be
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t r a n s l a t o r s
to live
in
when we
c o m e
out of
th e
b u s h
four
language
helper
houses
and
a big shed. It is all PBT
will.
need
In
Papua
New
Guinea
for
many
y e a r s
2
Wisdom
for
all four of us to lear n
and
rem em b er the language 3 That
we would always
have
a good
language
helper 4
That
Da
vid would have the help of th e v illa ge
men
to
get
ou r bush
house done quicker and 5 that
ou r
health
will be
good.
This is the mildew wet season and fungus grows ev er j ^ h er e
even in
any
little
cut
WeWe had bad sores that require us
to
take
anti-biotics
and
I ve
also
had
p a r a s i t e s s o
we
need
pr ayer s for o ur h ea lt h c on st an tl y.
We
thank
you for your loVe support the Tupperware
and
mostly your prayers. They make such a
big
difference.
Let
us hear from
you.
Our address isi Box 178 Madang
P a p u a New
Guinea
Love^
. Sh a r r a n
Dave John and Amy
X Q . u t h _ _ n e _ w s
The grou^shave adopted Jose Ortega
who
iS/froiii the home
at Ninos
de ^w4co Jose
is attending
Ccjlgio Biblico in
Texas and travtlihg^ack into
Mexico
tc/attend college
there in
the
afternoon>s^e collected^28 00 for him in
February to
help
with
hisfc^rned her
Navy
Medal and
Airba^n
badge
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PIONEER I LE
TR NSL TORS
A
Ministry
ible
Translation and Literacy Instruction
DAVID W. SHARRAN O'BRIEN PRYOR, MISSIONARIES
I I I j I s sue
2
REJOICE
WITH US I
Since
God irst c a l l e d
u s
i n t o th e
ministry
^
years
ago, we have
for His
guidance
and wondered
v^ere
would
lead and to what language group He
lead . us Can you imagine our exc i t -
nov tha t we
f i na l ly know?
The
language group
i s named
Gi r i . I t
s specia l
not
only because it i s \^h^re God
us,
but
it
has
a special
significance
t he A u s t r al i an
Church o f C h r is t Miss ion
whom we are working.
The
Gir i language
was the
group
who f i r s t invited the
mission to work among the i r
ople ab ou t
twenty
years
ago. So
it
i s of
s ign if icance to many
o f the ve te ran
tha t the Gir i
people
be among
he
f i r s t
groups they are working with to
the
scr ip tures
in
t h e i r
own
lan^iuage.
Though there
has
been
a lo t of
evangel i -
and
teaching done
among
the C-iri, it
as a l l
been
done
in Pidgin.
As
one of the
missionaries
sa id , l\o one has
h e a r d until he h a s h e a r d
in
is
own
Many
still cl ing to the old ways
f t he i r
people,
but there
i s a
tremendous
among the young people i^o are be
ng educated in th e A ustra l ian mission
There i s a l so hope
t h a t many
o f
th e
ones
vd l l tu rn to Chr i s t i they can
ear the mensage in th ei r ovtj Jrnguage.
(cor t . rifixt colmm)
Kevin L. Donn a J . O 'B rie n
Route 2,
Box
19
Oakland City,
Indiana 47660
Forwarding Agents
Apri l .
1978
FHAL AfiBiNQEHEHTS FOR VHUUS
I j u s t re turned from an exci t ing v i s i t
J n Which pe i^ s s ion was given
us
to l i ve a t
Qarat i^dth the Giri people* Final arrange^
inen ts were
made
f o r
th e
l o c a t i o n
o f ou r
house
in
the
vil lage* Though
they
still
had
some quest ions
about
om* work and our c on in g
they understand
our
iu in purpose
fo r
wanting
to l ive aaong them^
l eam t he i r
langaage^
and
are
very
exci ted
about having
the Bible
in
the i r own
language* There
also seens to
be a g re at d ea l of in te r e s t in l i t e r acy
and
having o the r m ate r ia ls such as heal th and
agr i cu l t u r a l booklets t r an s l a t ed fo r
thoM.We
praise God fo r the
recept iveness
of the
people , and t ha t we have progressed one s tep
c lose r to
our
goal l
(cont* froM le f t
colxai)
The area
we l l
be working
in
I s about
150 niles froai the
city
of
Madang up
the
no rt he rn coa st
of
Pepua
Hew
Guinea, and then
about twenty
miles in land .
Our vi l l age
o f
r a ra t i
can be reached by r oa d w ith o ur
4-irtieel drive vehic le i the weather i s good*
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SHAERAN'S SHAKINGS
Prayers For Learning
Giri
& Pidgin
We have been here nine months and each
month brings more joy, peace, and happiness;
in the
work God
has called us here to
do
Because
of
Daranpul
we
have been
given
a
bi
head start in the language, but there are n
short
cuts to learning a
language. I t
take^
many hours of listening, mimicking, tracking,
analyzing, and most inpor tant ly , talk ing
Again
we
need your prayers. \ie
are s t i l l
learning Pidgin,
too. We
can
carry
on a
conversation with
anyone in
Pidgin, but i t
is
s t i l l
at
a simple
level ,
and
we
need a
major grasp of the
language. That vjill give
us a bilingual opportunity to learn Giri
once
we
are in the vil lage.
School
Days
Just
a note
about John
and Amy. They are
both growing
every
day as a l l children have
a way of doing. They
both
s t i l l enjoy
cor
respondence school
even though
the work load
seems quite hard a t
times, but
they
really
miss going to s choo l wit h other children.
Since
we told
our
people we would be
learn
ing their
language children and adults are
here quite
often
to visi t us,
so at least
they
have a few children to
play
with.
John had an
art icle
he
had
written
pub
lished in the
Outpost ,
his
sishool magazine
and was
very pleased
about
that .
He stays
busy reading everything in
sight,
drying
dishes, taking
care of
the trash,
and raking
and helping around the complex. Amy is a l
ways
busy plsgringdalls
and having tea pai>
t i es . I t i s
rare
to see
her
without
her
most
delightful
and entertaining kit ten. The
second one is a
Dusty ,
too.
A NOTE OF EXPLANATION
Once
in
a
while
we
get
a
le t ter from
someone
asking
us
i f
Jcdin and
Bonita
Pryor,
Dave'a brother and his wife idio are
also
here to do translation work, will be working
with us on
the Giri
language.
O
I They
will
be working in a separate place on an entire-
ly ifferent language ur f nily will
be
the only family working x^ith
the
Giri*s, and
Bonita
the only
ones working
with
the
^amban people.
Mora P r a i s e s
We
praise
the
Lord and thank you that
already have a l l the money we need to
bu
our bush house.
We
have our
refrigera
and
stove
here
and
paid
for.
All the
ot
things
we need
are
on
order,
and we have
money to
pay
for them idien
they
arri
Thank you so
much
for being
a
part in
God provides for
our every need.
Devaluation
of
the
Dollar
Hits
PHGl
When we came
to
Papua New Guinea
n
months ago
we realised 77i
of
every
Ame
dollar.
ow we
realize
of every
doll
Some have asked for a
financial stateme
We thought
those
i^iould be
interested
to
k
that out of
5000 American
dollars
we
sent
to
pay
for
our
bush
house,
we realiz
K36U6. GULP I That' s qui te a
loss
befor
even s e e
t
TBS Mater ia l s
Avai lable
If we know
ahead of time
we
can send
plenty of
materials, slides,
displays,
souveniers . But please l e t us
know as
so
as
you know vdien you need the
material
so
can get them to you on t ime. You've he
of the
saying,
It 's
coming on a slow b
fran China ? If 'll, that's not just a
sayi
h e r e
PRATKR REQUESTS
...Guidance
of
His
Holy Spir i t
in
His
wisd
in
all
our
relationships
with our peop
...Guidance
in
stewardship as we constru
our vi l lage hoii.
...Guidance
in
stewardship
of
our time as
work on language
learning
and
try to f
f i l l
all other responsibilities, too.
...Guidance so that
our l ives give eviden
of
Chris t
and His love within.
. . .Remaining
good
heal th.
...God will help us meet John and An
needs, too .
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IRE lOUR
PRATERS REALLY
EFFECTIVE?
As
most
of you ^ 1 1
r e c a l l
we always
l e f t
a prayer
request
when we
presented
our
t o your congregations. After explaining
t h a t much of
our
success depends upon a
good
language
helper,
we asked t h a t
you
begin
t h a t
God
would
prepare
a
language
helper for us* Let m share the
results
of
od s answer to your
prayers
in the l i f e of
our language h e l p e r Daranpul,
About three
years
ago a young man from
th e G ara ti
v i l l a g e had come t o the c i t y
of
Madang
to
find a
Job.
He
had
been
educated
i n t h e A u s t r a l i a n C h u r c h o f
C h r i s t
M i s s i o n
school through
grade
s i x ; had a
year
of
t r a i n i n g
and a yea r*s exper ience i n an agr i
culture
programj but was not content
i n
t h e rural a r e a s at t h a t t i m e . He
f o u n d
w o r k
i n the c i t y learning the e l e c t r i c ia n s t rade
and
h is fu ture looked
good.
But he had a
problem
t h a t
was threatening h i s future
and
causing
problems
f o r
him:
a l c o h o l . His r e
p u t a t i o n
had got ten
t o
h i s people ,
and
they
w e r e ashamed o f h i m .
Then about
two
and one- h al f y ea rs ago
he
arr ied
and changed
j o b s . These
two
events
weren*t s i g n i f i c a n t a t t h a t t ime, because he
still had a drinking problem. However, they
proved
t o
be s i g n i f i c a n t i n
b r i n g i n g
our
l i v e s
t o g e t h e r about
two
months ago.
A
l i t t l e over
a
y e a r and
a
h a l f ago,
an
o t h e r
key
event took
p l a c e .
A
missionary
f a m i l y with th e A us t r a l ia n Church o f C h r i s t
Mission moved
t o t h e
c i t y o f
Madang t o e s
t a b l i s h a
congregation
among
the
d i f f e r e n t
peoples
they
had
worked
with
along
the Raimi
iver who had moved t o Madang t o find
work.
At f i r s t Daranpul would not a t t e n d the s e r
vices
or even v i s i t
the
missionar ies , though
he knew them well , because he had too much
s h a i ^ . ; Then
one.
deft -he
wen b
t o
: t h e i r
hotee
and
asked f o r a
Pidgin
New Testament. He
began
a tte nd in g th e s e r v i c e s and on E a s t e r
Sunday, 1977 he and h is wife were baptized
i n to C h ri s t.
His
changed
l i f e
has
been
and
i s a
tremendous
witness
to h is people and
t h o s e who
know
h i m .
About
four
months
ago, Daranpul l o s t
t h e
house
in whiih he
was
l i v i n g .
Subsequently
he had to take
his
wife and baby daughter
back
t o
l i v e with her parents on Karkar
Is land.
The
compai^
he was working for could
find
no housing for him, and he could not
keep up with the s t r a i n and
f i n a n c i a l
burden
of having h i s
family
separated, so he asked
f o r
a
t h r e e month l e a v e o f
a b s e n c e
until h e
could find
a place i n Madang
f o r
he and h is
family
t o l i v e .
I
11
Knowing by
t h i s
t ime
t h a t God wanted us
t o
work
with
the
G i r l
language group, we
asked the A ustra lian m iss ionaries if they
knew o f anyone i n t h e Church a t Madang who
spoke
the
p r i n c i p a l
d i a l e c t of the G i r l
language who
could help u s .
As it
turned
out
we.
w e r e
o f m u t u a l b e n e f i t
to
e a c h
o t h e r .
We
are required
to
p
our
language helpers
minimum
wage,
and
we
had f a c i l i t i e s f o r
language
h e l p e r s
here
a t t h e
con^Jlex. He i s
helping
us
l e a r n
G i r i
and we provide him an
income
and
a
^^Ace
f o r h i s
famlily
t o
l i v e .
Now th e
r e a l l y
e x c i t i n g t h i n g i s t h i s .
As a
r e s u l t
o f
h i s
convers ion t o C h r i s t he
i s
planning
t o
a t t e n d the
C h r i s t i a n
Leader
ship and Training College here i n Papua
New
Guinea
next year. After graduation (in 3
years)
he
plans
to
continue helping
us
t r a n s l a t e
t h e
New
T e s t a m e n t
i n t o h i s l a n
guage
With h i s knowledge of h i s
own
lait-
guage
and
an increased knowledge of th e
s c r i p t u r e s
t h i s
should g r e a t l y decrease the
t ime it w i l l t a k e
t o c c n ^ l e t e
th e t r a n s l a ^
tion
Because
he can speak
some
English,
Daranpul
has already
been a tremendous
help
i n our
learning his
language,
and he has
been
able t o give
us
some valuable ins ights
in to
h is
culture .
d e f i n i t e l y have
a head
s t a r t
in our language learning program and
v e r y
encouraging p r o s p e c t s f o r
a q u i c k e r
con^jletion and g r ea te r q u a li ty
t r a n s l a t i o n
o f God s Word i n t o another language.
Your prayers d e f i n i t e l y are
e f f e c t i v e
and
we
thank you s incerely
fo r
your f a i t h
fulness i n praying f o r
us
and
our
work. You
are v i t a l
t o our
m i n i s t r y i We c o u l d n t
be
here
without
you
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DAIHATSU: U WHEEL DRIVE
To t r a v e l th e
roads from Madang
to our
vi l lage
four
hours away on rough, muddy
roads,
we needed a
four-wheel drive
vehicle .
We t r aded our blue s t a t i on
wagon
fo r a new
Daihatsu
and
hope
t
wi l l serve
us as
long
as
we are here i n PNG, We a re i n th e r a i ny
season now,
so
we got
t j u s t
in time fo r
Dave's t r i p s back and for th to our v i l lage
while
he
i s
building our buch house.
FORWARDING
AGENTS'
UPDATE
Sincf='
r ec ei vi ng t he infori ' iation o r th is
newsle t ter we have learned
of
news concern
ing the
complex
mentioned in our l o s t
i ssue
Because
of
a lack
of
funds from the s t s t e s
the
coiT5)lex
where the
Pryors were l iving and
had hoped
PBT'
would buy
has
been
an
other .par ly They had been
there
since Dec
ember paying no ren t so
as
soon
as th e
com
plex s old , PBT owed $6000
back
rent by Hay 1
Funds have been coming fo r th is emergency,
t
looks
l ike there wi l l
be
su f f i c i en t
by
th
d e a d l i n e .
Becau s e
t h e r e a r e no o t h e r
hou s e s
v l
able fo r
ren t in Kadanjj, Sharran
and Tavid
family
wi l l move d ir ec tl y to the i r vi l lage
from
the complex. Their people have cleared
the land lo r
t he i r house, and
four of
the
Aus t r a l i a n Church o f Ch r i s t mis s i on a r i e s a r
helping
David build
t so they
can move in
by May
16, Please
be
in
prayer
for
them as
they
work
t ha t
things
wi l l go wel l and
also
t ha t a l l the
r en t
money
wi l l
be ava i lab le .
THANKS FOR
TUPPERWARE
Many thanks again to
a l l
of you who have
sent
tupperware. Li t t le
by
l i t t l e box
by
box we wi l l have more
than
what we need,
but
none
of
t
wil l
go
xinused
as
we
keep
every
-
t i l ing
in
tupperware from shoes to c lo thes to
f ood
PIONliiER
BJBUl TRAi^JSLATORS
David
Sharran Pryor, Missionar ies
c/o
Kevin L.
t Donna J . O'Brien,
forwarding
Agejrits
R.R. 2, Box 19
Oakland
City, Indiana
I4.766O
U vS Postage Paid
Non-Profi t Org.
Permit
7
Oakland
C i t y I n .
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PIONEER
BIBLE TRANSLATORS
AMinistry in Bible Translation and Literacy Instruction
DAVID W. &
S HA RR AN O B R IE N P RY O R, MISSIONARIE
Volume
I I I
I s s ue 4
HOUSE BUILDING PROGRESS - SLOW
Here s th e news on the progress
we ve
made on
the
house as of
July
3. Housebuild
ing week is
over.
One man was sick an d
never
make
to G arati; on e c o u l d n t
come
until Tuesday; and two could only work two-
t hi rds o f the
day.
I t rained half the week,
so ,
s o r r y
to say a ll tha t
was done was
th e
posts,
braces,
and floor. Progress
is
even
s low
have only
the
week
of July
3
to
work
on th e house this month as we ar e anticipat
ing
th e
vis i t
o f
the P reside nt and
Vice
P r e s id e n t
o f
PBT fo r
th e
remainder
o f th e
month. need
to get the roof
up
this
week
so
th e ra ins
w on t r u in
th e f loor .
House
building will resume the
f irs t
of August.
have
r e a l l y been
amazed
a t a ll
the
extra
expense
we ve
had
in building the
house. thought
we
had plenty
of
money to
pa y
for
i t
when we had $3200 se n t
fo r
house
building. By the time the
d o l l a r
finished
devaluing we only received $2500.
That
d i d n t
go
fa r
when buying $3200
of
timber,
a
1600
water tank, and roofing tin, plumbing,
sinks
and shower
tub,
and piping,
etc. cost
ing over $2500
also
payed $500
to truck
ou r
materials to
the Ramu and about $80 a
week
to Garati
men
for
a ll
their
help.
By
law
we
must pay them each 65
toya
an hour
fo r
anything they
do
fo r us.
GULP Al l we
can do
is
take out a loan because everyone
w ant s paye d
as
soon as possible.
Kevin L. & Donna J. O Brien
Route
2,
Box 19
Oakland City, Indiana
47660
Forwarding
Agents
A u g u s t ,
197
MAP
FROM MADANG
TO GARATI
Hounso.
^
I f
NFcrtK
c.oas1 roa*l
lOwvoJ
O u , r K o c
Se A-
[60310.
We
send
yo u
ou r lov e
an d
thanks
fo r
continuing to remember us
with cards,
le t -
t e r s support and pr ayer s. To be here with
out
your
support
and
encouragement an d love
would be impossible.
IN HIM,
Sha r ran
fo r D a v i d
John and
Amy
Pryo
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SHARRAN'S SHARING
a^^oAd a pZat^oAm upon
ivfUch God can 4^iom; H-anA^Z^. WMiout
thm
w
could
mvc/i know
how
tcndcA,
^cuth^uZ,
and
almighty
oo/l
God
Xa. A kouse.
too tWt t t to
clean; oven
too Ut t t z
to cook; broken sew
ing machine; to
do than cvcK. lUhy?
God ha^
btm tot ting
me,
{^e.a&t
on
me.
ieX
zveJiythtng cli>c go.
Lean
on
me,
Ica/in
my
my6 now Bej^o^e
you can
go
on
to what I've
caZlcd you
to
do. LeaAn
to
tn.u&t
me
tn
eveAything, even my time
table
Time to
p/iay; time to Aead
my
BtbZe;
time to q^ow
How I've ^ea/Lched my^eC^
and
{^oand i t
necz^^iOAy
to
Kecommit
my
t l^e
to the
one
who
ha&
ted me heh.e. We aZJi
have
ouA own
idea
0)i what would be be6t, but only when we ^it-
back and
le t God'6 timetable
woAk,
no matter
how -ilow i t 4eem4, can He teach tM HXa peA-
iect
way4
I'm Xea/ining, and I can only
pKatiie
God
loK
Hij>
love and constant
pat ience with
me
Hi^ weoJiy ckitd. I t ii> 60
much ea6ieA
to
lay youA head on Hi^ ^houldeA
and Ae^t and
le t
Him
woAk things out than
to
woAAy about why? .
youA pAayefU aAe helping God to mold me
in to
what He needi> me to be in oAdeA to
allow
the
GiAt'6 to
-iee
ChAZ&t in me. Wo-
thing in
theAJi
t i le
ij> ina
huAAy . All 0^
that hoi to be gone in me
be^oAe
I can tAuty
love and undeJUtand theMe people that
God
love6
moAe than we
eveA can. Keep pAaying
oa oujl &pijvitual ieaAck
{^oa
God.
NeveA
can
we
know
enough
about
Him
whom
we
a l l
AeAve.
A6 long 06
ouA
^eoAch ^OA Him neveA ends we
can become moAe tike Him evoJiyday.
I 'v e to ld
you tki6 60
maybe
you can do
a6 we've leoAned
to
do. Rejoice and
pAaii>e
God anyhow In 6pite 0^ a ll
that appeoAA
to
06 (Aom a
human
4>tand
point, to be going any
way but how we planned, i t i6 God'^ plan.
John and Amy have iini^hed one
yeaA
o
coAAe^pondence school. OuA
tM) week&*
-iem-
e6^e^ bAeak came ju&t
at
the night time ^oa
05 to pack and
move
^Aom
the
complex. John
Aeceived ^ive
awaAd6
duAtng
the
yeaA, and
Amy and John both
did
extAmely well. I'm
glad we made it thAough a yeoA: i t givei me
hope ^oA getting thAough anotheA one
I t i6
di^^icult
to teach
you own childAen, ayid
hoAd loA them not to
have otkeA childAen
to
go to school with. Tape6 and letteA6 to
John and
Amy
peAionally Aeally help them to
at
least have pen
pat& tkzJji own
age.
John wants you
a l l to
know he has a
puppy
again, and
Amy
s t i l l hm, heA
cat.
PRAY FOR US
pa t i ence and endurance .
s a f e t y a s David
works on
th e house .
continued
good hea l th .
(any sore
or
sc ra tch ge ts /nfec ted a d taKes
weeks
to
heal
progress
on our
house .
ra in
to fill
our
5000
ga l lon
water
tank
when
the
water
system
i s
hooked up so we l l
h a v e
wa t e r a n d c a n
move
in We
n e e d
to
move as soon a s poss ib le so we can ge t to
our
work and
s top pay ing h igh r en t .
. . .
our growing re la t ionship
between
PBT/USA
and PBT/PNG.
funds to pay th e loan fo r
ou r hou se.
if r
. 5 *
DAVE
& BEGINNING STAGES OF HOUSE BUILDING
NEW
SLIDE
PROGRAM
For
tho se s o f
you
who
migh t
be
i n t e r e s t ed
we
now
have an updated s l i de p rogr am showing
progress
being made as well
as the
people
and v i l l a ge
o f
Gara t i .
f
you
des i r e
to use
an y
o f t he se
s l i de s
f or p re se nt at io n to
your
congrega t ion , send your r eques t s to :
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BIBLE
TRANSLATORS
c /o Kevin
L. O Br i en
R.R. 2 ,
Box
19
Oakland City ,
Indiana A7660
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HOUSE MOVING?
Have
you
ever
moved a
house?
Tha t s what
David
did
fo r th ree week. The process
was
preceded by painstaking hours of hunt ing
in
ho t ,
d i r t y
hardware s to res fo r one smal l
piece
for
a faucet or standing in l in e to be
waited on and f ind ing everyt hi ng
you
want
i s
s t i l l coming
on
a
slow
boat
from China or
IS en the boat a t
the
dock and not yet
un
loaded. After f inishing the
l a s t
b i t of
shopping
fo r
house mater i a l s
to
d iscover we
didn t
leave
enough room
for
roof overhang
sb,iV48 pieces
of 8 fo ot ro of in g i ron had
to
be exchanged for 48 pieces
of
9 foot roofing
i ron
and
the pr ice
adjusted accordingly;
thinking we were done only to discover we
needed one
more
r idge cap
and
two more
f ee t
of
copper tubing.
The
day
f ina l ly came when we
had put -
chased a l l the house mater ia ls Madang had
avai l ab le
a t
tha t
t ime.
That
was
Apri l .
were exci ted th inking we would move r i gh t
out of the complex into the vi l lage
and
s t a r t bui ld ing , bu t . . .
the two t r ucks t ha t
were
ava ilab le to ca rry
our
mate r ia l s
were
broken down
and the
roads
to
the vi l lage
were sO bad from the r a ins
tha t they
were
impassable except
fo r smal l
4-wheel
dr ive
v e h i c l e s . A ll
we cou l d do
was
w a i t ; w a i t on
the
roads ;
wai t
on
the
t rucks;
wai t
on
th e
Lo r d .
Meanwhile, David
and
our John went ha l f
way to the Ramu
River
almost to Bogia
along
the
Bismarck
Sea and bagged
30
bags
of sand
t o t a k e to
G a r a t i
to be mixed w i th th e
cement. John got a sunburn tha t day
and
got
a fungus
i n
it and it
had
to be t r ea ted
with a
an t ib io t i c
powder.
Fina l ly we le arn ed o f a t r uck t ha t would
take a
load
of our things
to the
Ramu,
so a t
4:30
a .m. David left i n
our
c a r so a t 9:00
he
could
be
a t
Bunepac, the vi l lage a t the
edge of the Ramu, to unload it Moving the
house
had
begun.
The s tove , 96 pieces of roofing
i ron
,
boxes
of
na i l s ,
r idge
capping a
shower
tub
base, and much
more
a l l
had to
be careful ly
carr ied
from
the
t ruck
down a muddy 18
foot
bank drop to a nar row canoe to
be
carr ied up
the
Ramu
to Bunepas, the Aust r a l i an
Church
of Chr is t
Mission s t a t i on ,
which
i s within
walking
distance of Garat i . Many shut t le
t r i p s
were
made up and down th e Ramu. All
of which
took hours
of
hard
work, slipping
in
the
mud, balanc ing
square and
round ob
j ec t s in a narrow
canoe,
while working in
the ra in . That was the easy load.
(cont . next
column)
(cont.
from
r i gh t
colvrain
Then
the day came when
th e
f i r s t
load
o f
qu i la wood a r r ived . Altoge ther the re were
11 tons
to
be t ranspor ted
from truck to
canoe and
f i na l l y
to Gara t i .
One 4
by
4 , 12
fee t long
weighed
80
pounds
The days
were
ho t
and
muggy,
and
th e
r a in s were
still
com
i ng .
The
he igh t
of th e r i v e r
had
dropped 18
f e e t
from the bank
where they would
load th e
timber pn
the
canoes.
had hoped
to
be
able to
ge t bush t imber bu t
learned t ha t the
only
t imber ava i l ab l e
a t
Gara t i would be
ea ten
by
whi te an t s ,
and
we would
have
to
rebui ld
our
house every f ive years .
So
we
spent K2000 above what we had planned fo r
some qu i l a .
It
wi l l l a s t
longer
t han it
wou l d
t a k e
u s to do o u r
wor k
here So
f o u r men s t o o d on t h e bank and han ded
l umbe r
down
the 18
foot
drop
to four men in the
wa t e r who h a n d e d t h e
t i m b e r to tw o
men
in
the
canoe
s tacking
it in
p lace .
The 65
foo t
c a n o e w as l o a d ed to t h e b r i m . Whi l e float^
ing down the
r i v e r
the top of the
canoe
was
a b o u t 4 i n c h e s
above th e wa t e r .
The
canoe
rocked
back
and f o r t h , and a t
t imes
the
wate r
came
within
an
inch of the top of the
canoe Quila wi l l not f loa t Eight t r i p s
were
made
t h a t day , a l l f u l l to th e brim
with
qu i l a . A sneeze could
have
over- turned
the canoe. The
next
day the second load of
q u ila a rr i ve d , and the whole hard process
s ta r t ed aga in . Dave
had some c lose c a l l s
and some
sc ra tches , bu t nothing f e l l over
b o a r d . The t im b e r was s t a c k e d
at
t h e ba i ik
of the
r i ve r
a t
Bunepas
to
be
picked up and
pul led
by
4-wheel dr ive
up
the r i ve r bank
,
around the miss ion,
through
grass , through
a
dr ied up
creek , up
the
h i l l ,
and
unloaded
a t
t h e
hou s e site
After f in i sh ing with th e t imber there
were bar re ls ,
30
bur lap sacks of
sand,
15
bags of cement, our
beds
(ours broke) , and a
r e f r idgera tor (which
we
almost
l o s t ) . When
the r e f r idgera tor was being lowered down the
bank
to
the
canoe
it
was
ra in ing
and doubly
s l i ck ,
s l imy,
and
gooey. They f ina l ly
got
it
in
th e canoe, bu t sideways. As they were
pushing
o f f
shore Dave
looked and the canoe
was
l ean ing to one s i d e
ready
to t ip our
$800 kerosene re frid ge ra to r in to the Ramu
He dove on top of
it
l ea ni ng w it h a l l h is
weight to
th e
o the r
s ide
and
leveled it
of f .
Then
they
carefu l ly got back to shore and
turned
it
l engthwise
in
th e
canoe.They
made
it but only because so
many o f you
have
been praying. A ll th e
mate r ia l s
a re
now
s af ely th ere .
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FORWARDING AGENTS UPDATE
As
yo u
c a n s e e
t h i n g s
have
n o t
gone
a s
expected o r shared i n th e l a s t n e w s l e t t e r ,
be c a use th e s up pl ie s
c o u l d
n o t b e t r a n s p o r t
ed
an d
the
house done as
hoped,
th e
Pryor s
a re
r e n t i n g a s m a l l two-bedroom a p a r t m e n t i n
Madang
u n t i l t h e i r v i l l a g e
house i s
complet
e d.
They
hope
t o
b e
a b l e
t o move to
t h e i r
v i l l a g e o f G ar a ti
i n
September. D uring th e
month
o f August Sharran an d
th e c h ild r e n
w i l l be s ta y in g a t Bunepas so t he y can b e
w i t h
David
and ev en h elp w ith
t h e
house
>after. a c e r t a i n p o i n t i n i t s c o n s t r u c t i o n .
P l e a se pr a y
t h a t b u ild in g
w i l l
go smoothly
an d q u i c k l y .
With
p a c k i n g ,
c l e a n i n g ,
s h o p p i n g ,
and
moving, language work w i t h D ar an pu l h ad to
c e a s e .
A f t e r moving
from
th e
complex
t h e r e
wa s no
p l a c e
f o r Da ra npul
and
h i s f a m i l y to
l i v e
s o h e
w ent
ba c k
to th e v i l l a g e
and
h ad
to f in d a no th er j o b . P l e a s e
p r a y t h a t
h e ,
o r
someone
a s good,
w i l l be
a b l e t o he l p
t h e
P r y o r s le a rn G ir i once they g e t to th e
v i l l a g e .
A s p e c i a l t h a n k you from u s f o r a l l y o u r
p r a y e r s and s u p p o r t .
I f
you
have any
q u e s
t i o n s o r
any
way we c an h e l p
you, p l e a s e
feel
free t o
c o n ta c t u s .
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