1. A great big praise goes out for the Skibbas returning home safe and sound. Please pray that they don't wind up with any weird tropical sicknesses- like malaria, or dengue, or any parasites, amoebas etc.
2. Today is Election Day in Indonesia. They will be voting on a new president. Please pray for all to be calm as the results are revealed in the following weeks.
3. Wyatt arrived safely back from Kosarek. He had a fantastic time interacting with the kids, doing AIDS/HIV presentations, work projects etc. This is the village that will be used this next school year as the location for OE. Some of the hiking into other villages, and work projects were in preparation for OE (Outdoor Education is the program here at Hillcrest where the whole High School goes into a village to work and serve for two weeks during the school year - usually around February).
4. One of the pilots here, Brian, was called to fly into a village to pick up a lady that had been in labor for many days without any success. He loaded her into the plane and was joking with the family that maybe they could name the baby after him-Brian or Brianna. Apparently the change in altitude was all this lady needed and she quickly delivered the baby in the back of the plane. It was a little girl that she named Charlie Bravo after the airplane! Haha. Praise for a safe delivery there. Mother and baby were fine.
5. Praise for the Wano people that have been working their land to make an airstrip so that they can have airplanes fly into their village. Tomorrow, Thursday will be the first time that the airstrip is open and MAF will be flying in.
6. There was a lady in Wamena that found out she was pregnant but did not want the baby. However, a wonderful Indonesian lady, Ebara, here in Sentani wanted to adopt the baby. When the woman went into labor, it was discovered that she was pregnant with triplets. Two of the babies died and so did the mother. The baby that survived has hydrocephalus. This causes her head to be 3 times the normal size. Ebara, still wanted to adopt her. It is quite the struggle. There is nothing that can be done for this little one. She can't sleep for more than an hour or so, has great difficulty eating. Her eyes are rolled up in her head, so she can't see. At this time she is 8 months old and no one knows how long she will live. Ebara loves her to pieces and sings to her and takes care of her like an angel. Please pray for strength for her and her husband, and a miracle for young Lyndia.
7. There is an IT family here that is working with a missionary from India. They are developing an app that allows translated languages to be sent through bluetooth to anyone that has handphones. This is incredible! There is a missionary that is trying to learn the language of the Buton people. They are all Muslim. A missionary that went before him that is now in the States working on translations is able to send the chapters of the Bible to the handphones of this people group. The missionary here, Craig, meets with a group of these men every week under a tree on one of our islands and they read through whatever translation has been done. These men are all fishermen that used to spend their money on alcohol and cigarettes and go home drunk and beat their wives. 2 weeks ago they were going through Isaiah 53 and Luke 2 and one of them said, "There is something about God's spirit in these stories. Something different." And they called Him the "Righteous King." They are amazed at the power Jesus has over the raging sea. Please pray for open hearts.
8. The MAF conference will begin on Tuesday. There is a group from New Heights Church from Vancouver, WA here that will be working with us to make this conference happen. There will be about 150 people total. Pray that all goes well with that.
I am so excited to be a part of some of these stories. God is so awesome to have picked our family to be here right now at this time. Thank you for praying for us. Thank you for all of the goodies that you sent us with the Skibbas. That was such a treat!
Love you all
Rachel
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