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Please pray for this sweet friend of ours, Sue and her family as they grieve the sudden loss of Jerry. Sue and Jerry have been translators here in PNG for many years, working with the Nali people in Manus. They just dedicated the Nali New Testament in March, right before the onset of Covid and are home on furlough. Heaven's gain is absolutely this world's loss. Sue and Jerry were so incredibly welcoming to us 'newbies' when we first arrived in Ukarumpa and that love and friendship was always available. They loved on us and our kids. Sue taught Jacob violin during our first term and was so kind and caring that, even when he just wanted to hang out with her and not play the violin, that she just sat with him and showed him love 🙂 They both spent time with Lucy to help me out various times over our first two years here and we have shared many wonderful meals with them. This picture Sue has shared below just shows a fraction of the Godly love and joy that Jerry exuded on a regular basis. We will miss you Jerry and, Sue, we are praying for you and your whole family regularly. ![]()
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Thank you for joining us in praying for this family and praying for their Nali and Ukarumpa friends and family who will also miss Jerry deeply.
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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. These two have lived more of their years in PNG than in Canada and that could explain why they get the first line of Oh Canada wrong but can sing all verses of the PNG national anthem (probably with a few of their own changes but complete nonetheless) 🙂 ![]()
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Happy 46th Independence Day to this beautiful country that has welcomed us in and given us a second home.
With PNG Independence Day fast approaching, I wanted to share these photos from last year's Primary Campus Sports Day because Lucy's secondhand outfit find from Kainantu reminds me of the PNG flag colours 🙂 On the last day, the students did a Tug O War and Lucy started out very excited and ended a tiny bit terrified but overall had a great time 🙂 Looking forward to celebrating this beautiful country again this September.![]()
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Please pray for more linguists and translators to come to PNG and help in this important work!![]()
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Thank you, friends!
We are thrilled to be here serving in Papua New Guinea. We love teaching, mentoring, discipling and simply spending time with youth and we know and trust that God has called us here for this season. It isn’t always easy but there are beautiful gifts woven into even the hard days that remind us that God is the One in control. ![]()
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Before we came to PNG, we were parents first. We came with a 7, 5, 3 and 1 year old and we now have an almost 13, 10, 8 and 6 year old. ![]()
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My first impressions of moving here (before we left Canadian soil) was that we could come here for two years and be unchanged and return to our normal life in Canada. Anyone who’s uprooted their lives for a few years knows that it’s not quite that easy. We learned our first term that we would be changed, that our kids would be changed. That a part of us would always call this place home even if our hearts fought it at first. ![]()
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We have seen our kids grow and change during our first two years here, our one year back in Canada in 2018 and now over the past 2 years of our second term in PNG. ![]()
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The first two years here have been a challenge for us as a family. In the midst of ministry life, we have had to navigate some really rough waters with our kids and we have had to reach out and ask for help - for their well being and to help them thrive. We have done that and every single person who has been a part of that journey has been a huge blessing to us - from loving us as we are to encouraging us to get help that might be revolutionary in the lives of our kids, God’s hand has been on us all and we’ve felt that. When the attacks felt great, God’s strength was greater and His provisions were never ceasing.![]()
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I guess that’s part of the reason why, during this most recent journey, which started in March of 2021, we felt struck down but not destroyed. Abandoned but not in despair. ![]()
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I share this journey with you so that you can pray - for our kids, for us to have wisdom and for other families overseas who might be experiencing similar roadblocks to continuing to minister on their mission fields. I also share to corporately praise God with you that, even when things felt most hopeless, that He was working out a plan. There were numerous times when we didn’t know if His plan was for us to have to leave the mission field and, if that had been the case, we know He would have been faithful but, in our circumstance, He has allowed us to stay and He has used these lessons to remind us of His goodness and ability to do immeasurably more than we could ask or imagine, even if He walks us through a valley before we see the way out.![]()
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Here is a bit of our recent journey to acquire important medication for our kids.![]()
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- [ ] March 2020 - in the midst of Covid, we started to inquire about seeking some help for a few of our kids - something we had been thinking about and praying about for a long time.![]()
- [ ] July 2020 - some of our kids started on medications and found great benefits. What an answer to prayer!![]()
- [ ] March 2021 - our kids medication was suddenly no longer available in country. ![]()
- [ ] We thought that we might have to go home to Canada.![]()
- [ ] Answer to prayer - found a way to get meds here to PNG. Started the process![]()
- [ ] March 29, 2021 - send prescriptions from PNG with good friends of ours who mailed them for us.![]()
- [ ] May 1, 2021 - scripts still hadn’t arrived in the mail so we spent $50 + USD to DHL Express new scripts to North America.![]()
- [ ] Mid May - found out that the scripts had finally arrived in the mail after all - in a crumpled up envelope that looked like it had been through a war.![]()
- [ ] May 21, 2021 - our medication was finally able to be forwarded to JAARS (a shipping partner that supports us here in PNG and many others around the world). From JAARS, they would ship them to us via DHL Express worldwide (not a cheap option. Think $400 CDN for 3 months worth of medication)![]()
- [ ] May 30, 2021 - medication was sent DHL express to PNG![]()
- [ ] June 2021 - while waiting for our medication to arrive, we began trying to figure out a new process as there were some things that didn’t appear as though they were going to work in the future.![]()
- [ ] Answer to prayer - early June 2021 - finally received the medication that was prescribed in March 2021 - just in time!![]()
- [ ] Late June - found out that our prescriptions we had mailed in May to replace the ones lost in the mail were actually still in some sort of holding centre for DHL mail and hadn’t actually gone to the intended address. Thank goodness the other mailed scripts had been found and had been processed. Praise God! Unfortunately we still paid about $90 CDN to mail them.![]()
- [ ] Continued to search for options to get the next 3-months worth of meds to us in PNG. Each option seemed to fall through.![]()
- [ ] July 8, 2021 - came to the end of our rope and, once again, figured that we might not be able to stay if we couldn’t figure something out. These meds have become really essential for the well-being of our kids and, if we had to, we would leave and come home if we couldn’t ensure that they were taken care of here.![]()
- [ ] A few days later - found out that we had one more potential option![]()
- [ ] A few days after that - our original option was made possible again too.![]()
- [ ] Two answered prayers! Praise God as we were running out of time!![]()
- [ ] July 22, 2021 - sent scripts to North America. ![]()
- [ ] August 6th, 2021 - meds sent to JAARS. Fastest turnaround we’ve experienced and a HUGE blessing.![]()
- [ ] August 20, 2021 - was meeting with my Bible study and praying that the meds arrived soon (we had 15 days worth left only). Later that day, found out that the meds might not have been sent DHL yet making it nearly impossible for them to get here on time.![]()
- [ ] August 23rd - found out the meds were actually in Singapore and finally received them on August 27th, with only 7 pills left.![]()
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Throughout this journey, we have gone through the ups and downs of trusting and doubting. We have cycled between feeling alone and feeling so well cared for. We have been sure that we could stay and certain that we would have to leave. We have waited well and we have waited impatiently. We have known that God is fighting for us and we have recognized that we also need to be proactive in advocating for our kids. We have tried to listen to Godly wisdom and promptings and we have admittedly had times where we’ve been incredibly frustrated by the complicated process involved in providing what our kids need to be emotionally and mentally well. ![]()
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At the end of the day (I”m channeling a little classic Jim Turner here for this phrase), God is God and He has decided that we’re staying. He has provided what our kids need and we will keep fighting for them while trying not to despair when it seems like the fight is just a little bit harder than we wish it would be. In those moments, we will remember that He fights for us. He fights for our kids and He loves us all far more than we could ever imagine. Medication or no medication. Answered prayers or what seems to be unanswered prayers. In PNG or in Canada. We serve a mighty God and, today, we praise Him for taking care of our kids. ![]()
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Thank you for praying with us and for loving us well.![]()
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Anita
A video update for all of our partner churches, financial partners, prayer supporters, dear friends and family (who often fall into at least one of the other categories as well), and anyone who might be interested in what God is doing in Papua New Guinea. It is such a privilege to be here and to be able to do what we love - teaching, mentoring and discipling youth - and to know that our small efforts are a part of God's bigger plan for young missionary kids and people all over Papua New Guinea to know who God is and just how much He loves them. God transforms lives and being a part of translating God's word into the hundreds of languages in PNG still without access to a Bible is humbling and exciting. Watch this video to hear a bit more about the past few months in PNG. ![]()
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Thank you friends and feel free to share this with anyone you think might be interested in serving in PNG, any individuals or churches who might want to join our support team (we are still looking for monthly partners so that we can continue to serve on the mission field) or anyone who just wants to be encouraged that, if God can use our imperfect selves to make His great name known, then He can truly use anyone who comes to Him with willingness and excitement and, boy are there jobs for literally EVERYONE here in PNG!![]()
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Thank you friends!
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An update from the McCarthy family serving as Teachers in Papua New Guinea Few things are more exciting to me than organization and preparing to teach with color-coded, pre-planned booklets filled with incredibly amazing information that points back to the existence of an incredible creator God. Thankful to be back at UISSC for year 5 of teaching here and year 15 of teaching in general! ![]()
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Today is the day!!! Ukarumpa, come and get your Yearbooks!!!!! 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 yearbooks hot off the presses!!!!! ![]()
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Looking back through old photos and came across this gem of the class of 2018 from our first Term in Papua New Guinea from 2016-2018. We didn't get to know the Grads of 2017 too well as we had only been here part of the year and weren't teaching full time yet but we miss and pray for all of the Grads of UISSC long after they've graduated. Excited to start a new school year on July 27th and spend time with the youth of Ukarumpa in a classroom again!![]()
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With less than one year until we head back to Canada, we are excited to continue serving the youth here in Ukarumpa for the 2021-2022 school year and we are also getting excited about seeing everyone back in Canada relatively soon!![]()
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If you'd like to hear more about what we've been up to these past few months, we just sent a newsletter out to our email list. If you'd like to be on the list, just send me a message with your email and I"ll send the letter your way!![]()
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Thank you for continuing to pray for us and support the work of Bible translation in PNG!
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!
