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I can’t even begin to explain how fun it is to receive care packages here. And, yes, I have missed Costco size everything - but particularly Costco sized chocolate chips and nuts! (A bag that size of nuts here would cost about $100 Canadian dollars) So so thankful for my amazing mom who lovingly packs boxes and treks across the border to ship them to me on the other side of the world. I am thankful for sweet, sweet friends who I miss dearly who send fun North American seasonal easy snack treats for us and our kids and for sweet friends here in Ukarumpa who leave me fun surprises in my mailbox. Thankful that we love and are loved in many places even though the ‘missing people’ hurts deeply sometimes.
#mccarthysinpng #sendthemccarthys #sendthechocolate #onlytakesamonthtogethere #thatseemsfastnow
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#highspeedinternetisnottobetakenforgranted #thefirstestimatewas909hours #thankfulforamazingcomputertechs #missingtelus #partnerchurches #mccarthysinpng #sendthemccarthys
An Ukarumpa-esque expression of love from the youth 🙂 Pretty impressed with the quick execution while we were out at dinner on Friday! Well played, youth, well played.
#lovingyouth #lovedbyyouth #vhstape #retropranks #toiletpaperistooexpensive #sendthemccarthys #mccarthysinpng #ukarumpa #png @ Aiyura Valley
Check out our latest newsletter for lots of photos from our first school term here in Papua New Guinea.
Busy Schedule & Full Hearts.... - mailchi.mp/834b86186d3f/mccarthyterm2oct2019
Last term, we put on a formal dinner for the 12th grade class while Anita’s parents were visiting and, from then on, it became something that we offered to the 11th and 10th grade classes.
Fast forward to this term in PNG and we are hoping to offer this dinner to the 12th, 11th, 10th and 9th grade classes over the course of the year.
This year, we had a lot of fun including the amazing community group leaders who pour into the lives of these students week after week and the bonus is that they are all pretty great people to hang around with as well.
It was fun to transform a space into a restaurant for the evening, to allow the students a place to make memories and to spend time with other awesome adults, who love these youth, in the process.
Please join us in continuing to pray for these students. Please pray for unity. Please pray for joy. Please pray for peace as they face a year of big transitions ahead and please pray that, through it all, that they would be listening for the voice of God as He reminds them who they are and as He reassures them that, even if they don’t know what it is - that He has a plan for their lives.
Thank you friends!
#lovingyouth #servingyouth #ukarumpa #formaldinner #threecourses #homemadeeverything #sendthemccarthys #mccarthysinpng
One of the things we love about UIS (Ukarumpa International School) Sports is the emphasis on multiple sports. Because of the practice schedules, students are able to participate in sports and still stay involved in music or choir as well. They are also able to play all of the sports because there is only one sport, for guys and girls, at a time.
Each term highlights different sports and, in Term 1, the sports highlighted are boys volleyball and girls touch rugby. They play in a tournament in Goroka (3 hour drive away) as well as a tournament and multiple different games within the local Ukarumpa community.
Here are a few photos of the tournament that took place this past term in Ukarumpa.
#tournament #ukarumpainternationalschool #rugby #sports #missions #school #uis #sendthemccarthys #mccarthysinpng
I never thought that Jon’s easy-going nature wardrobe-wise would come in handy as much as it did this past term.
For two weeks in Term 1, we had various theme days at the secondary campus, to help encourage school spirit leading up to two weekends of sports tournaments and our favourite day was Twin day.
I learned two things: 1. It’s helpful to bring two sets of at least one outfit for such a time as this and 2. Men’s clothing, when worn a few sizes too big, is super comfortable.
#mccarthysinpng #sendthemccarthys #twinsies #mensclothesarecomfy #ukarumpainternationalschool #uissc #png #papuanewguinea
This year, the student body is trying to work on increasing school spirit. The whole school is split into two ‘houses’ - Alpha and Beta. Alpha is red and Beta is blue and each student is given a ‘house’ when they arrive in 6th grade to the Secondary Campus. Our family was assigned to Beta, much to the dismay of some of our beloved former Ukarumpa youth whose allegiance is to Alpha (sorry @Jeremy Sahl) and now our whole family will be Beta for all of their years at the Secondary Campus.
Each house also has a house captain and their job is to be a leader among the students - in promoting athletics, good sportsmanship and school spirit. This year’s house captains are doing a great job and it has been a lot of fun to watch them rally the students to share in their excitement.
One of their jobs is to plan Pep Rally’s and we had the privilege of acting as adult sponsors for this pep rally in Term 1. They played some epic games of dodge ball and the school spirit was palpable.
Please keep praying for unity within the student body at UIS and also please join us in praying that, in the midst of a busy school year that each of the students would hear the gospel message over and over again. The message that reminds them that they are chosen, forgiven, redeemed and being made holy and that they are loved.
Thank you friends!
#ukarumpainternationalschool #schoolspirit #peprally #mccarthysinpng #sendthemccarthys #dodgeball #youthsponsors #missions #alpha #beta
This year’s school theme is ‘Unity In the Spirit” so, for this year’s All School Photo we made a circle, which we quickly then equated with a donut and thus was born the ‘Unity Donut.’ I was already pretty excited about this theme but joining it together with one of my favourite desserts is a win-win 🙂
We are so thankful to be here serving the youth of Ukarumpa and working with these awesome colleagues!
Please keep praying for both school campuses and that God’s Spirit would be guiding all of our actions and interactions. Thank you friends!
#mccarthysinpng #sendthemccarthys #unitydonut #schooltheme #schoolverse #ukarumpainternationalschool #papuanewguinea
Every year, there is a PNG Independence Day celebration and this year, I got to celebrate with a few of my PNG Yearbook students and some ice cream 🙂 I love the diversity in this country and it is a blessing to be living here and calling PNG my second home. Happy Belated Independence Day PNG!
#mccarthysinpng #missionsmoments #pngindependencday
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at 6am, Papua New Guineans from the neighbouring villages (some of the ladies may walk more than 2 hours with heavy loads of vegetables and fruit hanging in billums carried on their heads) walk to our centre and set up their produce on cement tables with little price tags in Kina and sell these items to those of us living on centre.
Jon goes twice a week and comes back with about 10kg of produce each time and we have been really blessed to have a good friend down the street drive him once a week and the other day he would walk down the hill and then sometimes be able to time it out and get a ride up the hill with all the produce. Now, we are SO thankful to have a car (that was so generously given to us!) that is out of the auto shop so that he can drive himself twice a week.
Having a centre grocery store that is only open during the week until 4pm and having a market for produce that is only open three mornings a week means we have to do a bit of planning meal-wise here so that we don’t run out of something we need. Even though extra planning is required, we have found that it is also kind of refreshing to have a time and place set aside for these activities, which - when you’re not frustrated that you forgot to buy pineapple or some other item for a recipe - is a blessing that leads to more time for relationships and rest.
We are thankful for the men and women who trek long distances to sell their garden produce to us and we love that supporting local is our only option here for produce.
Here are a few pictures so that you can visualize our veggie and fruit market!
(for more photos, you can check out the gallery on our website: sendthemccarthys.com/posts/2019-09-17-market-morning/?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=&utm_term=&...)
Before we got here, I couldn’t visualize this centre. I couldn’t visualize all of the people here doing all of the many things needed in order to run a centre that is here to support Bible translation. I couldn’t visualize the many, many aspects of Bible translation - the steps required, the roles needed, the process followed. I couldn’t visualize the many PNG National Organizations here working in partnership with Wycliffe to support Bible translation. I couldn’t visualize any of it.
Now that we’re here and we’re back for a second term, I”m hoping that we can help you to visualize more of what goes on here in PNG - to help transport you here with posts and information, photos and videos.
One of the things I didn’t realize before we arrived was what a wonderful music program Ukarumpa International School would have. The music teachers here are wonderful - working closely with the students in band - giving private lessons during school and then running practices during the early morning pre-school hours. They work tirelessly to bless the kids at UIS with the sharing of their knowledge and we are so thankful!
As Yearbook teacher, I have the added school-related ’need’ to go to the concerts so that I can capture moments for the Yearbook but I would attend again and again because the calibre of music is outstanding.
A huge thanks to the many talented teacher-musicians who are here in Ukarumpa! Here are just a few photos from the concert.
