(please keep them in your prayer covering .. from the sound of this they really need a "hedge of protection" around them )
We have arrived in Papua New Guinea (Ukarumpa) and we are settling in to our home here. Cynthia and Leah are now in school and enjoying their classes, seeing their friends again, and going barefoot everywhere.
Yesterday we had a reminder that the ‘peace of Christ’ doesn’t reign in all hearts. Our warning siren for our centre went off signalling for us to go into lock-down.
This is an official statement from our directors of what happened and why we heard numerous gunshots. We live on the Ukarumpa Centre and Ukarumpa village is nearby, outside our gated community….
“Early Wednesday morning, 12 August 2009, fighting began near the SIL-PNG Ukarumpa Centre between two villages. There have been reports of village houses being burned, and gunshots were heard in Ukarumpa village. Although some of the fighting spilled into areas of the Centre earlier today, it has now moved off-centre. The violence is not directed at SIL or the SIL expatriate community. Measures are being taken to secure the safety of our community.”
In the next couple of weeks we will be settling in and working out what our involvement in translation work will look like. We will be in contact with some of our Pouye translators via radio tonight.
DEDE UPDATE (Pouye and Family) 8-13-09
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