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Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Mike Talks About Papua New Guinea
This weekend the kids and I started out on an adventure to Denver, Colorado. A friend of mine, Norman Reese was getting hitched. We headed out on Thursday and first picked up a co-friend of ours, Mike. Mike has been a missionary for a number of years in both Niger, Africa and now most recently, Papua New Guinea. At our first night stop he gave a talk about what it was like living in PNG. I especially enjoyed his story of crossing the river. The tribes men he was with were concerned that Mike might drop his bag in the water and so took the bags himself. He first started into the river and the water continued to rise up until he could just breath while on his tippy toes. Then to Mike's amazement the tribes man continued under water, all the while still holding the dry bag over his head! Every 20-40 seconds or so the man would jump up out of the water to get another breath and continue all the way to the other side of the river. Mike does survey for the Summer Institute of Linguistics. He has always followed the calling of Christ and gave up a NASA job and an American life to reach the many peoples around the world that do not yet have the new testament scriptures in their language.
The girls liked putting on some of the clothes and jewelry that Mike brought back from PNG. The second picture is of the river Ruaba where Mike crossed in the story.
This weekend the kids and I started out on an adventure to Denver, Colorado. A friend of mine, Norman Reese was getting hitched. We headed out on Thursday and first picked up a co-friend of ours, Mike. Mike has been a missionary for a number of years in both Niger, Africa and now most recently, Papua New Guinea. At our first night stop he gave a talk about what it was like living in PNG. I especially enjoyed his story of crossing the river. The tribes men he was with were concerned that Mike might drop his bag in the water and so took the bags himself. He first started into the river and the water continued to rise up until he could just breath while on his tippy toes. Then to Mike's amazement the tribes man continued under water, all the while still holding the dry bag over his head! Every 20-40 seconds or so the man would jump up out of the water to get another breath and continue all the way to the other side of the river. Mike does survey for the Summer Institute of Linguistics. He has always followed the calling of Christ and gave up a NASA job and an American life to reach the many peoples around the world that do not yet have the new testament scriptures in their language.
The girls liked putting on some of the clothes and jewelry that Mike brought back from PNG. The second picture is of the river Ruaba where Mike crossed in the story.
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