May Papua New Guinea Trip

Lord willing, David Sitton (To Every Tribe president) and I will be making a 3 week trip to Papua New Guinea in May.  The following are our primary goals for this trip:

1. Visit the struggling church in Chambri to encourage the believers.  Bible teaching and discipleship training; explore the feasibility of Appropriate Technology Strategies to provide better water, etc. for their people.
2. Visit the Black Water region (lowland swamps) village of Gavmas where there is no gospel witness; initial evangelism; survey the area for possible base for missionary activity in the near future.
3. Meet with the Bena (highlands) church leaders to pray for and strategize about how to utilize the 10 acres to establish a PNG training and sending base for new To Every Tribe missionaries and for the equipping and supporting of national pastors and missionaries.
4. Exploring with the Bena leaders how to begin businesses (Appropriate Technology Strategies) to generate income for their pastors and missionaries.

Beyond these specific goals, this trip will be an important learning experience for me as a new To Every Tribe staff member.  As To Every Tribe’s Mexico Field Director, one of my primary responsibilities is to help our agency form a Mexico-specific strategy for church planting that reflects our church planting strategy/methodology in Papua New Guinea.  The plan is for this trip in May to provide first-hand exposure the work there to better equip me for that responsibility.

The cost of this trip will be around $3000.  Thanks to a recent gift of $1600 we are well on our way to raising the funds needed for this trip.  Please pray that we will be able to raise the remaining money for the trip.  Who knows, the Lord may even want you to contribute!

More updates and prayer requests for the trip to follow the next couple of months.