This week is different than all the others. While technically still a lecture week, we aren't really having lectures. This week is fucused on preparing for outreach. Lectures are full of questions on packing and culture orientation, risk analysis and prayer times. Bags are being packed, supplies purchased, money converted... There is so much to do.
Today is Tuesday, we leave for Cairns on Saturday. We will drive up there and spend a week with an Aboriginal community in Mariba. Then on the 15th we will head to the airport and fly out to PNG.
Details from there are loosely planned... They include spending nights in churches or huts in Central Province as we make our way around. Travel will be done by foot or PMV. We will eat what the islanders eat and live where they live. Bathe and do laundry where they do, and as it seems pit toilets are all the rage, we know what to expect there as well.
As far as expectations go, we don't know much more than that. We hope to visit Port Moresby, Gaba Gaba, Kupiano, Gadaguina, Gebea, and some villages along the way. Flooding is inevitable. Mosquitoes are rampant.
I would love to tell you all about it, but that's basically all I know! It will be an adventure. I will take pictures and keep a good journal so that I can tell all the stories once I am home (48 days! So hard to believe...).
Keep me in your prayers for health and safety, and the rest of my team as well. Praise Jesus, three of our staff have their finances and visas!
See you soon(: I'm about to disappear.
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