VOLUME 3; No.4 APRIL 1980

DEAR BRETHREN,

GREETINGS IN THE NAME OF THE LORD! MARCH HAS BEEN A REAL EXCITING MONTH HERE. MANY THINGS HAVE HAPPENED. DURING THE LAST WEEK (23-27) WE HAD OUR SPRING GOODNEWS MEETING. OUR AIM WAS TO HAVE MORE ADULTS IN ATTENDANCE THAN WE USUALLY HAVE. WE TOLD THE KIDS THAT THEY WOULDN'T BE ALLOWED ON THE BUSSES UNLESS THEY BROUGHT THEIR PARENTS WITH THEM. OUR NIGHTLY AVERAGE WAS 260. SCORES OF NEW ADULTS WERE REACHED FOR FURTHER STUDY. IN JULY WE ARE PLANNING A VBS FOR JUST THE KIDS. OUR PREACHER FOR THE MEETING WAS A LOCAL FELLOW FROM THE WARIA VALLEY WHERE REG COLES WORKS, GAROA SUMAGAU. WE HAD 1 BAPTISM.
MARCH AVERAGES: SUNDAY AM 191; THURS 401: 1 Bapt; 1 restored.

SUNDAY THE 30th SAW THE WALLACES RETURN BACK TO PNG AFTER BEING BACK THERE IN THE STATES. ON THE PLANE WHICH BROUGHT THE WALLACES HOME LAMOINE HARRISON RETURNED TO THE STATES. HER FATHER HAD BEEN KILLED IN AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT ON SATURDAY. PRAY WITH US FOR HER AND THE FAMILY

SOME GOODNEWS & SOME BAD NEWS !!!!!!!   THE AMERICAN ! DOLLAR HAS GAINED SOME STRENGTH ON THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET, WE NOW GET 71¢ per $1.

OUR MEAT PRICES WENT UP 30% THIS MONTH. OUR GASOLINE PRICES WENT UP 17 1/2%. WE ARE NOW PAYING OVER $2.10 PER GALLON.(Are you sure there isn't any way you can mail us a few gallons each month ?????)
ALSO DURING MARCH WE HAD A CHANGE IN THE LEADERSHIP OF OUR GOVERNMENT. OUR NEW LEADERS SEEM TO REALLY CARE. PRAY WITH US THAT THEY WILL RULE WELL !!

THE LAST DAY OF MARCH I TOOK OFF UP THE HIGHLANDS WITH TIM TITIPU AND HIS WIFE ROSE. WE WENT TO TIM'S VILLAGE WHERE THEY WERE HAVING A PIC KILL. AS WE BEGAN THE TRIP WE WERE ALMOST FORCED TO TURN BACK JUST OUTSIDE OF TOWN WHERE HEAVY RAINS HAD INUNDATED THE MAIN HIGHWAY. WE SLIPPED INTO 4 WHEEL DRIVE AND SLID THROUGH. WE TRAVELED 200 MILES ON REASONABLE ROAD IN 5 HRS AND THEN ON BUSH ROADS FOR 12 MILES IN 1.5 HRS. THIS TYPE OF PIG KILL ONLY HAPPENS EVERY 3 or 4 YEARS. THEY KILL SEVERAL HUNDRED PIGS AND THEN "PAY BACK ALL THE DEBTS THEY OWE" WITHIN THE TRIBE AS WELL AS TO OTHER NEIGHBORING TRIBES. IT WAS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD. I TOOK FOUR ROLLS OF MOVIE FILM WHICH I HOPE TO SHOW TO SOME OF YOU LATER THIS YEAR. (BOY, DID I GET SOME SHOTS!) THEY KILLED FOR TWO DAYS, DRESSED THE MEAT OUT AND THEN IT HUNG ON POLES OUTSIDE THE HOUSE FOR 24-48 HRS. SOME WAS THEN COOKED AND THEN GIVEN AWAY OR SOME WAS JUST GIVEN AWAY RAW. QUITE A SIGHT SEEING SCORES OF PEOPLE RUNNING HITHER AND YON WITH PIG CARCASSES DRAPED OVER THEIR SHOULDERS. TIM GOT REAL SICK WHILE UP THERE AND IT HAS TAKEN HIM SEVERAL DAYS TO GET OVER IT. (HE DIDN'T GET SICK ON THEIR FOOD AS HE DIDN'T EAT ANY.)

DURING MARCH WE FOUND OUT THAT IT IS GOING TO BE NECESSARY FOR US TO RETURN TO THE US THIS YEAR FOR MEDICAL REASONS. KATHY HAS BEEN HAVING PROBLEMS FOR SOME TIME NOW AND THE DOCTORS HERE CAN'T PUT A BANDAID ON IT SO WE'LL HAVE TO GO BACK FOR SURGERY. WE ARE SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE IN LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY JUNE 25 via HONOLULU. WE ARE ABLE TO BUY THE CHEAPER 45 DAY in ADVANCE PLANE TICKETS. WE HAVE TO PAY FOR THEM BY MAY 10th. THE FARES ARE CHEAPER THAN WHEN WE FIRST CAME OVER BUT THEY STILL COST MONEY. COULD WE ASK FOR YOUR HELP IN DEFRAYING THE EXPENSE: $3400: PLEASE SEND MONIES TO:
NORTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST
NEW GUINEA TRAVEL FUND
2610 HIGHWAY 62
JEFFERSONVILLE INDIANA 47130

LAST MONTH WE MENTIONED TRIBAL FIGHTING IN CHIMBU WAS HINDERING THE WORK. THIS MONTH THE FIGHTING RENEWED, HERE WERE THE HEADLINES.

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THE HUFFS