April - May 1994

Dear Brethren & Friends;

Here it is a couple of days before I fly off to Papua New Guinea. I thought I had better get this newsletter in the mail to let you know what happened in Vanuatu. I will be away for over 6 weeks and will send you another report after I return. I will be traveling through the Solomon Islands where I will spend two days in Honiara. I will be visiting some of the World Bible School students. Then I will travel on the PNG and teach in the Melanesian Bible School for 4 weeks. Kathy will be coming to PNG June 2nd, travelling through Australia. She will leave PNG the 26th of June back thru Australia to NZ. She will then be coming back to the States on July 6th. When I leave PNG on June 26th I will be travelling back thru the Solomon Islands and will go out to the Santa Cruz Islands and spend a week with the Christians. I hope to set out a program for helping them develop leadership along the same line we are working in Vanuatu. I arrive back in NZ a few hours after Kathy leaves for the States. I will be coming back to Joplin on the 26th of July.

Now that I have told you what we are doing over the next few weeks I return to what happened in Vanuatu.

Kathy and I arrived in Port Vila on the 16th of April. Our primary reasons for going were to talk with the brethren about future schooling and see how Steven was settling in after returning from the Bible College. We stayed out in the village and discussed their needs. Morris Felix opened up his house to us. The brethren have asked us to come and teach for 3 months on evangelism and leadership. With this in mind we are looking at shipping a trailer up to Vanuatu with a generator, shower and toilet to use in various locations while we are there teaching. We hope to tie this teaching in when we go to PNG and teach there. Steven is working with the court system and serves as the deputy sheriff. He has taught several courses to the congregation at Eton village.

While shopping in Port Vila we happened in a store which had just gotten a shipment of American food, crisco, cake mixes, frosting mixes and lots more. We couldn't believe the variety. We bought some stuff and brought it back to NZ. We bought some muffin mixes which made us remember that we were back in the tropic South Pacific. Weavels fell out of our bags in New Zealand. There was also a new restaurant in Port Vila run by an American woman. She had a jar of tootsie rolls on her counter. There were not as many in the jar when we left.

We are looking forward to this trip to PNG and the Solomons to enable us to set plans in place for the teaching program we are involved with in Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. Here in NZ the temperatures are now down in the thirties at night.

Thank you for your prayers and support.

the Huffs