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Greetings from the Gouds in PNG!

August has been an eventful month for us and for the Wusuraambya Bible Church.  Seventeen church members walked the two-day hike to a neighbouring tribe where they attended an annual believers’ conference. The conference began on a Friday and finished on the Sunday. Three NTM missionaries from the Wantakia tribe (near us) were the main conference speakers and did a terrific job. Also one Aziana believer taught the last session on Sunday. After returning to Wusuraambya, men who had attended the conference each represented one of the conference speakers and taught the local believers everything they heard during the conference. In this way the whole church was encouraged.  IMG_20160821_131438990

In the picture above we are posed with those who are wanting to accompany us on a walk for ALS in September. Our brother-in-law Dave Godin is a victim of ALS for which there is currently no cure. The “Godin Gang” will be representing Dave this year in a walk to raise support for ALS research and since we are so far away we asked the local church if they would like to walk with us here in PNG on September 24th when others will be walking in London. They were very excited to do this and be a part in this way. You can click on the picture above or go to this link: http://www.alsevents.ca/PNGteam to find out more details.

Our niece, Kira Fondse, has been here most of this month helping out in a lot of ways such as cooking, baking, cutting and trimming flash cards for the new literacy program, formatting literacy books, helping with Sunday School, and during the last week in the tribe, teaching music to 70 students in the local government school. She did a wonderful job! IMG_20160817_131043236

The Wusuraambya people love Kira because she can pronounce their language and even likes the food they eat!

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The Wusuraambya people are getting excited about the new books that we’ve been working on.  Here’s a glimpse:

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We are really looking forward to teaching literacy again with the new books but first we have to re-write the teacher’s manual for the new course.

There’s lots more to talk about but we’ll keep it “short” for now as we know you are all busy and nobody has time for long emails!

We would appreciate your prayer for suitable people to help with Bible translation and also the checking of the last literacy primers. We hear that Jesi is on his way back from Port Moresby. Pray that he can settle peacefully back into his village and church in Wusuraambya.

Thanks for your continued prayer and financial support.

Andrew & Cathy Goud