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Here is a public statement re: the COVID situation in PNG. Please pray for this beautiful country. Thank you, friends!![]()
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"COVID case numbers in PNG have increased significantly since the beginning of 2021. From the beginning of the pandemic to today, 19 March 2021, there have been 2479 confirmed COVID cases in PNG, with 31 deaths.![]()
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An SIL-PNG staff person received a positive COVID test this week. Contact tracing was done, and anyone who had significant contact with the individual was put into isolation. Because the case was caught quickly, this was only a few people. Care processes similar to those used for international arrivals in quarantine are being implemented, including regular wellness checkups.![]()
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The government of PNG has announced stricter measures, set to begin 22 March. These measures severely reduce domestic travel and include stricter gathering size limits. Vaccine rollouts are expected to begin in the coming weeks. International travel rules are unchanged; travel options for SIL-PNG staff remain available but limited in number and route.![]()
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SIL-PNG has managed its COVID response with the guidance of a dedicated COVID Response Team since the start of the pandemic in PNG. This team consists of representatives from the directorate, crisis management, and communications, and consults frequently with others, including medical staff and HR. SIL-PNG continues to monitor the situation closely and prioritizes staff well-being. Please keep PNG in your prayers."
Update! Two hours after I posted the video of the crazy rain, God cleared the skies and brought out the sun. It was a wonderful late afternoon for an outdoor concert. Praise God! ![]()
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Thank you SO much for praying!
We are supposed to have an OUTDOOR band and choir concert in two hours (to comply with gathering limitations on indoor meetings) but this is the current weather. Would you please pray for a miraculous change in weather? These band and choir teachers (and kids) have worked tirelessly and navigated many unexpected schedule and venue changes and could use a break 🙂 ![]()
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Thanks friends!
I just sent out our latest newsletter after 6 months of staying out of your inboxes 🙂 If you didn't receive it and you would like to, would you mind sending me a quick private message with your email? It's full of photos and short captions to keep you updated on life and ministry here in Papua New Guinea.![]()
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Also, sometimes these things get automatically stuck in a Spam or other folder and might actually be in your inbox but hidden so feel free to check or have me re-add your email. ![]()
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We love to share with you about what God is doing here in PNG and we are so thankful for your love, support and prayers! ![]()
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If you're interested in joining our partnership team or if you think your church might want to partner to support Bible translation, please reach out at any time. We are continuously humbled at the way in which we are held up financially and in prayer while on the field and on furlough and we are looking for some new team members to help fill the gaps. Thank you, friends!
Please pray for those who are mourning the passing of PNG's first Prime Minister. Thank you, friends.Papua New Guinea, ![]()
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it is with great sorrow and grief that I announce the passing of the Father of our Nation Grand Chief Sir Micheal T Somare.![]()
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His Doctor texted me that at 12:10 am today the great man was rested. God gives and God rested him from the pain and toils of life. There is a ‘session for every thing, a time to born and a time to die ‘ Ecclesiastes 3:2.![]()
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Our nation honors this Great Leader, the founding and longest serving Prime Minister of our country and I appeal to our citizens and residents for a week of silence, peace and calm as we in somber pay respect to this one person whom our country owes much, he is unmatched by anyone of us who comes after him.![]()
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He deserves our unified respect now too at passing and for ever into our future as a Nation.![]()
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To Lady Veronica, Bertha , Sana, Auther, Dulcie and Junior, all grandchildren and the tribal family and the people of ESP, we thankyou for allowing this Giant of a Man to be our national father too. ![]()
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I thank the family too for allowing me to spend some quite moments with him few days ago in which I now see as a privilege of the highest order. His words linger.![]()
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He is universally loved in our country, may his memory bind our nation still. Long live his memory.![]()
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My cabinet will meet today to announce a formal State funeral programs and our flags all over our country and missions is to be flown lowered until we formally come out of mourning.![]()
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Our Nation enters our mourning period, where ever you are until further announcements. I will personally precede over this period of national mourning.![]()
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With tears I say, Rest In Peace Papa.![]()
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Ps: thankyou to Kalakai photography, I am using your photo of this Great Man.
Would you please pray for the families and individuals trying to make it back to Ukarumpa in PNG today? There have already been many roadblocks popping up and one family has had to cancel due to not receiving their Covid tests in time. ![]()
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Each family/individual represents a department that was excited to receive back a colleague and each family/individual has to navigate the ups and downs of this emotional roller coaster - some of them already on their second try at returning. It is discouraging, to say the least. ![]()
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Both the schools and the clinic (among other departments) were set to receive many new colleagues on this World Food Flight to help alleviate departmental strain but if the families/individuals can't make their connecting flights from the US to Kuala Lumpur in time for the WFP flight then they have to cancel and wait for the next available flights. As far as we know, this is the last monthly WFP flight (the most successful route we've had for receiving back to PNG thus far - only a few families have successfully flown commercially to get back) for the foreseeable future so the potential of re-booking flights becomes more complicated for those families/individuals who have their travel plans fall through on this attempt.![]()
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Would you please pray for everyone involved? We know God has a plan and is not surprised by any of these events but we need help to trust Him in the midst of the uncertainty. Thank you, friends!
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted. Are you an educator? Or an administrator? Do you have a love of adventure and a love for Jesus? We would absolutely LOVE to have you come and teach with us here in PNG. The needs are great and the reason why we are all here in PNG is so much bigger than us. God's word into the hands of people who are hungry for His truth. God's word in languages that more people can understand and relate to. God's word changing hearts and transforming lives - the lives of Papua New Guineans and the lives of the students we have the privilege of teaching here at Ukarumpa International Secondary School - students who will go out into the world after graduating and affect even more lives for the Gospel.![]()
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If you are interested in coming shorter term (1-2 years), there is now a way to do that, which will allow you to get here more quickly and start serving. The school has partnered with Teach Beyond and you can find out more information here at teachbeyond.org/png![]()
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Please feel free to share this with anyone you know who might be interested or feel free to tag your friends who are educators in the comments. You never know who God will call next.
Over the course of a few days, there have been some great arrivals (11 family units returning) and some planned & some unexpected departures from this small community. ![]()
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With ever-changing travel restrictions being imposed in many of our home countries - Canada first and then the US - the ability to get 'home' for medical care or furlough has become increasingly more complicated.![]()
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Negative Covid tests are now required within 72 hours of your scheduled departure time, in addition to the 14 day quarantine. While we completely understand & respect the rationale, meeting these requirements is tricky for Canadians and Americans serving overseas.![]()
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In PNG, we may be able to get a test in the capital city; however, the difficulty for an already stretched medical system will be in providing the results in a timely manner and the added difficulty comes with the financial cost, especially for large families. Plane tickets have to be purchased ahead of time and, if the test results don't come back in time, we are left on the other side of the world and with few options.![]()
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In Canada, this rule is already in effect and we are grateful that we are not needing to travel back at this time (our furlough is scheduled for June 2022). In the US, this rule comes into effect on the 26th of January and we have a number of dear friends who started the 5-plane journey back to the US (the current routes back across the ocean are very limited as transiting through Australia is not an option at this time) in order to arrive back before these restrictions are in place as they are in need of some medical care that they cannot obtain here and their only other option is to make the long journey back to North America. ![]()
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Does this situation add a bit of stress or background worry to our lives? Yes. Is God big enough to handle those things which are unknown to us? Absolutely!![]()
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One of the things that was both frightening and enticing about saying 'yes' to God's call to serve overseas was the forced dependence. Of course we are not actually forced to be here. God called us and we agreed. We are here willingly. We are here joyfully but, what I mean is that the agreement on our parts to walk with God into this journey, for His glory and for the building of His kingdom, produced a vast space for our dependence and trust. A space filled with situations in which dependence would be vital. A space filled with opportunities to trust in the unseen and the unknown. A space filled with circumstances that are bigger than us and our finite minds. A space that could be filled with God when we had nothing, of our own, with which to fill it. ![]()
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So, in this season, we are trying to ask God to fill the space. To fill it for us, to fill it for our colleagues, to fill it for our friends who are currently travelling back home in the middle of an ongoing pandemic and to fill it for our friends and family who are navigating this pandemic in North America. ![]()
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As uncomfortable as the unknown might be, we do know that He is capable. That He is compassionate. That He is competent and that He is in control and so we rest. We wait and we pray in a space that is so clearly stripped of any illusion of control and so thoroughly filled with the awareness of His presence with us. Guiding us. Loving us. Protecting us and reminding us that He is so much bigger than turmoil and travel restrictions. ![]()
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Please join us in praying for our travelling friends and please know that we are praying for all of you and, especially praying, that God would fill the space in your lives with more of His presence and more of His peace today. We know that He will.![]()
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Anita![]()
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When we were here from 2016-2018, I had the chance to put together a slideshow of memories for the Grads of 2018. It was really fun to take a brief look at a portion of their school journey and to reminisce alongside them, while knowing full well that we were only present for a short bit of their school experience. ![]()
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In 2019, we were on furlough or we would have also made one for the awesome Class of 2019 who we were so sad to miss during their Senior Year at UIS.![]()
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This year, we were back in Ukarumpa and I would have done the same for the Class of 2020 but then the whole world turned upside down. ![]()
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A number of unexpected circumstances, both in my life personally and around the world, later and I finally have their video ready for them to enjoy. ![]()
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Have a watch and, while you're at it, would you pray for the Class of 2020? They are spread out all over the world and we love them, along with all the classes we've seen graduate from UIS in our short time here in PNG!![]()
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Some memories for the Class of 2020 of Ukarumpa International School#uissc #classof2020I have purchased all of the songs played in this video but do not own ... Happy New Year from Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬 (and, yes, Lucy is wearing a fake mustache. It just wasn’t a battle I felt like picking and it makes for a much more accurate family photo 😉 ) ! ![]()
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Thank you all so much for your love and support over this past year. ![]()
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We have experienced the power of your prayers so clearly in 2020 and we are thankful for the numerous reminders of how God has carried us through and heaped upon us blessings in the midst of difficult things. ![]()
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He is truly always faithful and always showering us with love if only we have eyes to see His hand and hearts softened to experience His peace and presence even if He doesn’t remove the struggles. ![]()
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He sits with us and we desire, in 2021, to feel His presence more palpably and to let the magnitude of who He is give us hope for the hard days. It is our prayer that we, our kids, the people of PNG and the youth we teach and serve here in PNG and spread out throughout the world, would grow in their understanding of who this amazing God is through the power of His written word and the reality of His presence. ![]()
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Happy New Year dear friends!![]()
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Love Jon and Anita & crew
Merry Christmas from Papua New Guinea! Love and miss our dear family and friends at home but thankful that our immediate family is together and so thankful for dear friends to share the day with here. Living overseas has given us a head start on imagining Christmases without our loved ones and, while I"ll never completely get used to it, I have been thankful for new traditions, surprise gifts in the midst of some of the loneliness and beautifully quiet and slow-paced Christmases in Ukarumpa. ![]()
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Praying that, wherever you are, whoever you're with, that you will find beautiful gifts in the midst of the loneliness this year. I have no doubt that He will meet you in this season and give it a new and special meaning for you and your family.![]()
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Much love to you all and many many thanks for being the people that stand with us and love & support us from afar on a regular basis. We are so thankful for you all.![]()
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Merry Christmas!![]()
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Jon is a great teacher and has really enjoyed teaching Physics, Chemistry and Biology since we returned to PNG. Here's a little snapshot of him teaching overtop of the rain sound. He's got pretty good projection normally but the rain can be SO loud!![]()
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#mccarthysinpng #sendthemccarthys #servingthroughteaching #teachingovertherain #chemistry #uissc #PNG #cometeachhere #cometeachwithus #cometeachatuis #TeachBeyond #Wycliffe
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Jon trying to teach above the noise of the rain 🙂 If you are interested in teaching at Ukarumpa International School, check out teachbeyond.org/png!#uissc #...
