It was a Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving, here in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea we had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day together. Since Thanksgiving is not an official Holiday in PNG we celebrate after our days work is done. Our hospitality team did a super job of setting up and decorating for the special day. We all made selections from a list and brought dishes to make up our holiday feast,
we even were able to find turkey. It is always special when we are able to come together as a mission family to celebrate the holidays. After a delicious meal we had a time where we went around and said 5 things we were thankful for, it was a blessed and precious time. When we can't be home with family God enables us to share these special times with our mission family. We were also blessed to have Verne Ward, our Regional Director and his wife, Natalie with us along with our Field Strategy Coordinator, James Johnson. We look forward to the Missionary Christmas Dinner when Mom and Dad Myers will be with us, a treat indeed when our parents are able to visit and be with us! Here are a couple pictures of our mission family.

Pray for National Boards and MNBC Graduation

This coming week is National Boards and the Melanesia Nazarene Bible College Graduation here in PNG (Nov. 19 - 24). Pray that God would be with our DS's and elected leaders as they meet this coming week to discuss the direction of the church here in Papua New Guinea and as each ministry comes and shares what is happening in their area of ministry. Our Regional Director, Verne Ward and his wife, Natalie will be with us for National Boards and Graduation along with James Johnson our Field Strategy Coordinator. Pray for their safety in travel. Also MNBC will be graduating the next class of pastors and leaders, Saturday the 24th. Pray for our Bible College leaders and for this new class of pastors and leaders as they go out to make a difference in PNG. Thank you very much for your prayers!

Games at CLTC

Today all of the M.K.'s went to CLTC (Christian Leadership Training College). When we were almost there we were stopped because of road construction. Everyone except our driver, Sam Bennett went on, walking about a mile. The construction men said it would take an hour, but it really took about three and a half. While Sam was out in the car the rest of us headed up to the school at CLTC.

There we played several games. Our first game was a Cross Country kind of race. You had to run up a hill along a ridge then down the other side which was kind of steep. Then you went along a road up to a field, ran across it then on to the finish line. Ethan finished fourth out of about 25 school kids. We rested for for about 10 minutes while we had some refreshments. After that we played a game that is one of the Nationals favorite game, it is the Tin Can game. The object of the game is that you start with a pyramid of cans and you have 2 teams. One team defends the cans while the other is trying to knock them down with a tennis ball. After the cans have been knocked down the teams switch places and the team that knocked the cans down now has to build them back into a pyramid before the other team gets them out by hitting them with the ball. (if you would like more details on this game feel free to email us and we will send you more details, thanks)

We played several other games then it was time for lunch. Sam had not arrived yet by lunch time, so Aunt Kathy, with an escort drove out to where Sam was sitting with the Land Cruiser to retrieve sack lunches. Ethan and I sat on the porch with some of the students to eat our lunch, a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. After lunch some of us were trying to play Double Dutch a jump rope game. Like the movie from Disney "Jump In'.

By this time Sam had made it to CLTC school with the vehicle and shortly there after we loaded up to return to Kudjip.

Told by Jessica with typing & editing help from Daddy.

Radio Ministry Upgrading

Radio Ministry is currently airing two programs, Krai Bilong Ol Meri (KBOM) and Kirapim Gutpela Sindaun (KGS). Both are written and produced by PNG nationals for the country of Papua New Guinea. KBOM is a 15-minute program reaching out to the women of PNG. Nevertheless, men have responded saying the program has helped them, too and currently is the only program of its kind on the air in PNG. KGS is a 5-minute devotional program geared to the general PNG population. Both KBOM and KGS can be heard on nine different stations across PNG. One station, Radio Light out of Port Moresby, also airs short wave reaching the entire country, including the outer islands and the fringes of Indonesia!

In the works is a program targeting children. This radio program is under the direction of Aisak Wai, Director of Children’s Ministry in PNG. Another program in the concept stage is a program to reach the men of PNG. We thank the Lord for His hand upon Radio Ministry here in PNG. Pastor Daniel a few weeks back went into one of the trade store here at Mt. Hagen to buy radios for the ministry. While he was in the store he got to talking to the owner about the ministry and the owner was asking questions and Daniel was answering and when Daniel left the store, the owner was so excited about Krai Bilong Ol Meri that he promised he would sponsor the program on the local station, NBC (picture insert) here in Mt. Hagen. God is good and we appreciate His hand on His ministry.

We thank the Lord for His blessings these past 6 years but time is catching up with us and there is a need to upgrade our equipment. Our recording computer and software are in need of upgrading. All of our programs are digitally recorded and burned to Cd's then mailed out or delivered to the radio stations we air with. Pastor Daniel has been called to Radio Ministry. He has a vision of going out to churches and conferences with portable recording equipment to record music, sermons, testimonies, and guest speakers and using it in our radio programs to continue to reach out to the lost of Papua New Guinea. Please pray for the ministry because this ministry, belongs to Him! Should the Lord challenge you to partner with us financially in this endeavor, below is a list of equipment needs. We, of course, appreciate and count on your prayer support for this ministry!

Here is the list of the equipment Radio Ministry is looking to purchase.
Laptop computer: The mobility of a laptop will enable us to record events, conferences, services, music, speakers, sermons, and testimonies on location rather than having to rely solely on studio recording. The recordings will then be edited in the studio and aired as radio programs.

8 channel mixer: This will work with the laptop computer in the field to allow us to better mix the sound at the source.
Recording computer: Our current computer used for recording and editing has been experiencing problems over the last several months. Currently it is up and running. We propose a new more substantial computer with a larger RAM and hard drive with Windows XP operating system in order to handle the load that is put on it.
Adobe Audition, audio recording and editing software upgrade: Our current software is 5-6 years old. We would like to upgrade the software in order to take advantage of the technological advances that have been made in the last 5 years.

Digital Camera: This camera will allow us to take pictures that will accompany stories from the field, so that we can better tell the story of what God is doing on the Melanesia Field.

Radio Ministry House Update

The Radio Ministry house continues to progress. As many may be aware, we are in the process of building a house the will be the home of the Director of Radio Ministry and his family. This is the latest picture of the house. We would appreciate your prayers as work continues. We are currently working on finishing the inside of the house. The next step is to install the wiring and fixtures then finish putting up the plywood and finishing off the inside. If the Lord would speak to your heart, we are still short funds to complete the house. Three elements that we could use financial help with are the septic system, a water tank and a pump. To complete these 3 elements would take around $5,000. We thank the Lord for the Alabaster funds and the donors that have helped us with this project, for this we give God the glory and thank Him for His hand of provision.

Just for the Fun of It!

Have you ever wondered what missionaries do for fun? You know, how do they let there hair down so to speak? Well some of us dress up funny, play games and sit around a fire roasting our bread. Sound like fun yet? These are pictures from our latest Harvest Party that takes the place of Halloween for us! We had a lot of fun that night. We all make Hobo dinners and wrap them up good and tight in foil and someone gets a fire going so we have good coals for cooking. After the coals are ready we place our foil wrapped dinners on to cook, it takes probably about 30 mins and then you have hot steaming dinners of possibly chicken and potatoes and various vegetables or whatever you would like to make your Hobo dinner out of. While we wait for them to cook we sit around and talk, love up some of our newest babies and toddlers and play games. We played the game where you spin around in circles with your head on top of a bat handle then try and walk a straight line back to your team for the next silly person to give it a try. This is a good game to do before you eat. There was some sack races and even a large sling shot to shoot water balloons. In the one picture we are sitting around the fire roasting our bread. This was a neat treat that our EBC (Evangelical Brothern Church) friends taught us. You make regular white bread dough, you find fresh, thin, green bamboo poles to wrap your bread on and then find a comfortable place around the fire and when you bread is done it should be a nice golden brown and will very easily slip off the end of your bamboo pole. The bread is very delicious! And to top off our evening there is always plenty of nice and naughty deserts brought and we always seem to have some marshmallows show up (thanks to you folks because we can't buy marshmallows here, they come from church family back home) and we have at time had all the right stuff to make s'mores. Maybe if you come for a visit some time you can join us for a Harvest Party. Anyone recognise the old lady in the picture above?

Hospital Building Project Underway

Well, as you can tell from the pictures, the new hospital building project is under way! This project is expected to take a couple of years to complete and will give us 4 new wards, a new operating room, out patient department and emergency room. The construction the new Nazarene Hospital, supported (K5.9million or roughly $2million) by the Government of Australia through the PNG Incentive Fund, began this year. There have been plenty of challenges, and yet we have witnessed the faithfulness of God in all things. Progress has not always been at the pace we would have chosen, but progress, nevertheless, is being made. We look forward to the arrival of Mike and Diane Chapman in December. Mike will assume the role of Project Manager. The sewage system for the new hospital will cost around K3million, of which K2.5 million is beyond the initial approved APNGIF funding. We are aggressively seeking the remaining funds and have good hope that they will be forthcoming. Some of the work will be done by Work & Witness teams as well!! Perhaps you would consider organizing a team to come and help. Please pray for the Lord's hand on this project as the work continues.

Written by Dr. Bill McCoy & Jeff Myers