VOLUME 7; NO.11                                                              NOVEMBER 1984

Dear Brethren;

Greetings in the name of the Lord

Brethren, we could want nothing greater for you than that which Paul desired for the Ephesians when he said,
"I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and in his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead..". Eph.1:18-20a

Brethren how exilerating it is to think that Christ's victory was our victory, that God has raised us up to sit together with Christ in heavenly places. As we then contemplate our position in Christ we are filled with joy.

Among the many things for which we have to be thankful and the greatest is the faithfulness of you brethren who are having fellowship with us in this work. Fellowship is a real work with a real meaning. It means simply, "joint participation", which means ' that we are all sharing in this work. It is God's work and to Him be all the glory and praise. You and my family and I are sharing in this work of spreading the Gospel to the world. I hope this means as much to you as it does to us to know that we are engaged in God's work in Papua New Guinea.

Remember Exodus 17 where Israel was fighting the Amalekites:
"As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites where winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning."
When Moses became tired others helped to hold his hands up. Thank you for holding our hands up in this the work of the Lord.

PRINTDATE: OCTOBER 84
I have told you for several months that I would be printing the song book soon and I did. This last month saw the final sheet come through the press. That just (just, ha, ha) leaves the collating and binding left to do. 323,940 sheets were impressed this month. With that amount of printing there wasn't a whole lot of time left over for other things. (That's what I thought and I was wrong.)

CAR TROUBLES
Well it was bound to happen some day. The little car has really been through a rough 4 years 10 months and 18 days. Kathy and I were returning from a weekend trip to Lae when the engine decided enough was enough. As we were navigating over the pass, (Daulo Pass) from the Lowlands to the Highlands it declared "enough". That was at 1:30 in the afternoon. By 4:30pm we had sent two letters of help on to Goroka, 90 miles up the road. At 4:30pm Kathy left with friends who were on their way to Goroka from Lae and headed home while I stayed with the car. By 5:30pm a tow truck had arrived and I rode into Kainantu, 30 miles toward Goroka. I waited in Kainantu while Jab came down with Andy's truck and carried me and all the boxes I had in the car back to Goroka. It wasn't until Monday afternoon that the car was towed on into Goroka. (It cost me 15 chickens for the tow job, as I didn't have $160.) All day Monday I searched for a suitable donor transplant thinking that the motor had finally kicked the bucket. I did finally locate a secondhand motor for $800. and had it prepared ready for changeover. I took out time from the song book printing on Tuesday and began what I thought was going to be a gruesome job. After examination it was determined that the engine had only (?) blown a head gasket on the right side of the engine. So I replaced the head gasket and took the spare engine back to the salvage yard. Then had to replace the recirculating H20 device (water pump) which decided it wasn't getting enough attention.

The morning after this I had to go back toward Kainantu and rescue Jab who had gone to Lae on Monday in the big truck for a load of feed for my chickens and quail. He had blown a top radiator hose the night before while navigating, Daulo Pass. Someone had given him a replacement hose but that blew 30 miles down the road. After this week I won't THINK that I won't have much to say in my monthly report. The Lord still does more than we can ask or THINK!

TIDBITS
Our raining season doesn't usually begin until December and lasts until May. The last week of October saw us receiving over 13 inches of rain. I mean everything was wet. My chickens were thinking of growing webs in their feet. I mean every afternoon you could set your clock on the time for a downpour. I hated to think what we were going to receive when the 'real' rainy season began. We are ending the month with some beautiful days and cool nights.

When we returned from Port Moresby in September Terasa informed us that she was having a hard time seeing things. Of course, Moresby bad a resident eye doctor. We did take her to the eye doctor here (one of the best in PNG we found out) and she is almost as blind as a bat. When she was asked to read the eye chart she read the top line and stopped. She then ask where the rest of the chart was. I remember in the second grade not even knowing where the eye chart was. Lead on, oh seeing eye dog! So, Terasa will be getting her glasses sometime this month. They only cost $125. (This is the cheapee models.)

We still solicit your prayers and support for our labors here.

In Christ,

the Huffs