Post by Jon--
Even though I have a very specific role in supporting Bible translation here in Papua New Guinea, I never really know what I might be called on to do from one day to the next.
A couple of weeks ago a guy I’d never seen before came into our hanger with a look of concern on his face. He introduced himself as the leader of a rural development program within Papua New Guinea. His company is in the process of installing a hydro-electric system next to a river in the remote location of Marawaka. He had a logistical dilemma and was in desperate need of help.
He had prearranged about two hundred sections of specialized water pipe to be driven by truck from the port city of Lae to our airstrip at Aiyura, where a large Twin Otter aircraft would fly the pipe into Marawaka. The problem was that all the pipe was cut into lengths that would not fit into the aircraft. He asked us if there was any way we could help him get the material to his job sight.
Wanting to help, we organized a system of measuring and cutting the pipes into manageable lengths.
Then we grouped them into loads that the aircraft could handle and loaded each one by hand into the plane. This was no small task since some of those pipes weighed about 200 pounds!
As we visited with the leader of the project (who was an Australian) we learned that he had actually grown up in Papua New Guinea in the 1970s. His parents were missionaries in a location about 40 miles from where we are now.
We just never know who the Lord is going to bring across our path, or who he is going to ask us to help!
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