The PNG ladies who work here at our center often get mentioned in my updates, but the men – not so much. We do have a good crew of PNG citizens who faithfully help us out keeping the buildings in good repair, grounds maintained, and doing security work, etc. More than just employees, these are among our closest friends.
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Kapi is another of our faithful employees. He spends hours and hours each week with the lawn mowers and weed eaters, keeping the grounds on our mission property in respectable shape. You may remember from an earlier letter — some years back one of his children too spent some days in the hospital – with meningitis! Her condition was “iffy” for a time but then too, God brought about a good outcome and that little girl is a very active and healthy child today.
Our security team members are also VITAL to keeping things running here!
Glen, Smith, Carlson, Nick and Mino all endure long overnight shifts, patrolling the grounds with our security dogs. Most of these fellows are near neighbors and we’re privileged to cross paths with their families from time to time, too.
These guys all know they can “get my goat!” by calling me the “boss lady.” We seem to go thru the same dialogue each fortnight when I give them their pay packets and they stick that label on me. “We’re all ‘wanwoks’ – work mates,” I tell them, “just doing whatever work God has put in our hands.”
As God brings these co-workers to mind, won’t you please be praying for them, too? They all come from various different backgrounds, cultures, church lines. Pray that they too might be ones you will meet in eternity.
My sincere and grateful thanks to YOU too for being a “wanwok,” a vital part of the team God has in place for reaching people here in PNG. Our job descriptions may look very different but our “Boss Man” Above knows where we each best fit into His designs for reaching the world with the Good News of Jesus. We all seek to strive together according to Colossians 3:23 – “In all the work you are given, do the best you can. Work as though you are working for the Lord, not any earthly master.” (ERV)
Thank YOU for being a willing and faithful cohort in this His work.
Co-laboring together to bring back Christ as King!
Hope Sharp