Vol.2; No.11 NOVEMBER 1979

Dear Brethren;

Another month gone! Wow how time flies. What little and sketchy the reports we have received from the states the PNG Workshop in Nashville was profitable for all those who were able to attend.

With me so involved in the printing work things here are pretty uneventful (except when the press decides to eat up paper instead of feeding it through). We have been printing several booklets of teaching aids. Missionary life isn't the get up late, loaf all day life some people have it pictured. It's amazing how much time is spent just trying to live and to keep going.

Let us share with you part of one of the weeks this month: Weds morning I put the grey bus in the workshop where I had to replace the clutch plate; weds afternoon the kids were having a special wingding at school to help celebrate United Nations Day. Various countries were represented with tents full of displays by parents of the students in the school. Kathy was in charge of the American Display tent. (We called the American Embassy here for a flag and were told they didn't have any) She gave out peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and played C.W.McCall and Beach Boys music.
Kathy and the tent.

Thursday I spent printing up Bible Class material. The kids were out of school. Thurs night is our midweek(?) service. We begin running the buses (3) at 6 pm for services at 7 pm. My bus runs to plantation, 5 miles out of town. The Goroka congregation supports Dama who holds services during the week and on Sunday there but on Thurs we bus them into classes. I had made my run out, loaded 70 and was on my way
back to unload when I noticed our blue bus broken down.---stopped and talked with Jab (a local Christian who drives the bus). The truck had just died and he hadn't been able to restart it. I told him to take my bus load in, tell Kathy to bring the Land Cruiser to tow the blue bus and then he should return with my bus and finish his run up. I waited and waited for Jab to return, (It was only 6 blocks to the building). Finally Kathy came; no chain (she thought it was in the car but it wasn't); Jab couldn't get the gray bus in gear. I jumped in the Cruiser; drove back to the building, threw the chain in the grey bus, pumped the clutch enough to engage gears, drove back to blue bus, transferred kids to grey bus, towed the blue bus, restarted the blue bus and ran the council housing area bus run and returned to the building. Jab was just now coming in, in 1ST GEAR. The clutch slave unit was broken and 1st was the only gear he could engage. I gave him back the blue bus so he could finish his other run while I fixed the grey bus. (Fortunately we have a good supply of 2nd hand parts in the workshop.) Paul McAnally came in from his bus run to North Goroka and the Highlands Highway while I was finishing up repairs. By now it was 7:15. Jab had returned. While Paul was pulling his bus into position for the return trip he stalled it and the battery was too low to restart it. Pretty good evening, three for three. After classes return routes went without hitch. Thank the Lord!.

During this week Bro & Sis McGuire from College Station Texas were here visiting with the McAnally's and seeing the work. Oh, they got to see work!!!!!
KAGE CHURCH OF CHRIST

The following Sunday our family loaded in the Land Cruiser and headed out to the village congregations in Chimbu. Due to the work load here in Goroka the past several months we haven't visited with the Christians and felt we needed to, so we went. We went into Kage first, the road was deplorable. This was where Lance and I had walked in June. We should have walked again. The brethren in Kage had just finished building their new building. Ladies from the local Lutheran church had provided the thatch for the roof. Ave attendance is 15 Christians.


Repairs coming out of kage.

Going into Kage I repaired the pictured bridge. While in Kage someone unfixed it and we had to re-re-fix it on the way out. (This is different than the bridge I showed you earlier this year). The river bed was 40' down. Kathy and the kids walked across and they made me drive

After getting back on the 1/4 way decent (not even 1/2 way decent) roads we went on into Bima Piau. The brethren had already worshiped but we sat around and visited with them for sometime before heading back to Goroka.
Time: 8am-7:30pm; Distance:110 miles

This past month the Goroka congregation had to withdraw fellowship from15 men and women who have shown they would rather love the world then to serve the Lord. Our averages were: Sunday: Atten-116 with 34 Christians; Thursday: 189; Cont: $83.

Until next month,

God be with you.

The Huffs