Volume 5; No. 8                                                              August 1982

Dear Brethren;

Current conditions: clear & 80 degrees F. Previous two days: rain and cold. Thank you Lord

WILLY FRANKLIN RETURNED
During July Willy Franklin returned to Goroka and held a four day meeting for us. He spent several other days out in the village congregations in Chimbu visiting with the churches there. During two of his meetings here in Goroka we translated his talk but the other times he spoke in English. We had scheduled him for July this year because we thought (our fault, we shouldn't think) the Teacher's Collage and the Technical School would both be in session and the students could come hear Willy. But, the week he was here the Teacher's College had send their students out on practice teaching into the various community schools in the area and the Technical School now is closed campus.
GOROKA CONGREGATION

We averaged over 124 per night and we had three baptisms of people who had been taught previously. We were happy to have him back and he helped us with his lessons.

ATTENDANCE DECREASING
In the past year we have been slowly decreasing in numbers in attendance. We have only one bus in operating condition now (2 last year): Thursday night- 157; Sunday AM- 84 (we don't run buses on Sunday). We are trying to encourage the brethren who live within 6 blocks of the building to walk on Thursdays, but so far not many do.

We have brethren who are among those affected. This is a great opportunity for us to influence people toward the Gospel. If you can help in any way send your monies marked "FROST RELIEF". We will buy food which can be distributed by the missionaries in Mt Hagen. THANK YOU!

Brrrrrr IT WERE
For you who think the tropics is all palm trees and white sand, WRONG ! Here in the Highlands we have been experiencing temperatures down in the low 50's and upper 40's for the past several weeks. Now you know why you see fires in the houses all the time.

TERASA LEGS IT AROUND
The tribal fighting which kept the Primary School kids from going to Kundiawa and competing in a track meet has died down. So the schools all got together and met last month for the meet. The Goroka team came in second overall and Terasa won the following ribbons 1st- 8yr old High Jump; 400M team relay; 2nd- Triple Jump, 50M, I000M (bless her legs); 3rd-sack race, multi race(?), team tunnelball. We are real proud of her !

KONKODANS COMPLETED COMPLETER
I finished the month running out of paper. I have some on order which is due to come in August. The Konkodans (Concordance) has been printed for a while but we have been waiting for binders from Dallas which arrived last week. So we are now final binding the rest of the books. Other printing done this month included:
class materials- 31,200 pages
BCC lessons - 28,000 pages
handouts -,16,000 sheets
books:
    20 page - 500 copies
    33p - 200 copies
    79p - 100 copies

OUR SON
For all you you who remember Jab Mesa the national I brought back last time, this is a picture of his son ABRAHAM. He is my son also (I know looks just like me).
ABRAHAM MESA

We appreciate all the letters and prayers. We would appreciate the the letters more if we received them (they must get lost in the mail because we know you are writing us aren't you ?

Your servants in Christ
the Huffs