Oops, there go the plans that all seemed to be lining up. As there will be follow-on appointments it doesn’t make sense for us to fly into Kovol on Monday as we had planned. We’ll need to push things back 3-6 weeks while the wrist heals. It wouldn’t be wise to be a 45-minute helicopter ride away from the doctor if there are complications.
Life in Papua New Guinea is so very different from back in Europe. After a week in PNG we’ve been acclimatising again. We’ve been finding that it feels at the same time familiar and different.
We’re recovering from our 36-hour journey back to PNG this week. The jet-lag is still making us mega tired in the evenings, but otherwise we’re happy to be back in beautiful PNG!
I remembered to get my camera out on the journey and the result is a video that shows you a little bit of what it is like to leave home and travel to the other side of the world.
It is now our last week in the UK before starting our journey back to PNG. We will spend 10 days in the Netherlands to see family before hopping on a long flight for Goroka.
In November it was time to pick two Kovol men who would join us for our translation workshop in town. They were going to fly in the helicopter with us instead of hiking many hours. They were going to sleep on a center and eat food provided by missionaries. They Read more
As our mind goes to our return to PNG next month (Wow! That’s soon!), we’ve been thing about what life in Kovol is going to look like. We’re excited that after years of language learning and preparation our team is looking to start our first literacy class.
What can that look like? Here’s a video showcasing a few other places in PNG where this work has been done.
Our time in the UK has seemed to fly by. We kept ourselves busy with visiting friends and supporters for 2 months, and then we it easier for a few weeks and allowed ourselves to just live in the UK. Now we find ourselves in a planning phase once again for an upcoming journey.
The excitement is rising in our people group. People are waiting as they know we reached the mark of the required language stage and we will move on in teaching them. They have invested hard sweat and time in teaching us. Payback time they think.
With my work on the literacy program finishing (for now), I’ve been able to get into the work I’ve been looking forward to, translating Genesis 1. When I say translating, I only mean the first step, the exegetical draft into the Kovol language. I am incapable of properly translating without Kovol people alongside me.
With last week’s video looking at what heart language in, this week’s video from NTM PNG answers the question: why use heart language?