SPECIAL REPORT                                         MAY 1980

DEAR BRETHREN;

GREETINGS IN THE NAME OF JESUS BY NOW YOU WILL HAVE ALL READ THAT

WE ARE RETURNING TO THE STATES IN JUNE DUE TO MEDICAL REASONS. SOME OF YOU HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERN AS TO WHETHER WE WOULD BE RETURNING TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA OR NOT AFTER THE SURGERY. WE ARE PLANNING TO RETURN TO PAPUA NEW GUINEA IN JAN 81, GOD'S WILL BE DONE.

KATHY'S MEDICAL PROBLEM IS ENDOMETRIOSIS. THE DOCTORS HERE HAVE HAD HER ON MEDICATION BUT HAVE SAID THAT THE MEDICATION CAN ONLY CONTROL THIS ILLNESS NOT CURE IT. SURGERY could BE PERFORMED HERE BUT THE POST OPERATIVE CARE IS NON-EXISTENT. SO WE HAVE DECIDED THAT BEFORE THE ILLNESS GETS WORSE OR THE PAINS INCREASE FURTHER THAT WE WOULD COME BACK THERE FOR CORRECTIVE SURGERY. SHE DOESN'T HAVE CONTINUOUS UNBEARABLE PAIN SHE JUST PAINS DURING HER CYCLES. WE HOPE TO SCHEDULE HER FOR A "SIMPLE" HYSTERECTOMY IN JULY OR EARLY AUGUST. HOPEFULLY BY SEPT WE CAN BEGIN OUR TRAVELS AROUND TO VISIT WITH ALL YOU AND SHARE WITH YOU WHAT FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE HAS BEEN GOING ON HERE IN PNG.

THOSE OF YOU WHO CONTRIBUTE MONTHLY TO OUR LABORS HERE WE ASK THAT YOU PLEASE CONTINUE THIS HELP DURING OUR SOJOURN THERE IN THE STATES. EVEN THOUGH WE ARE LEAVING PNG FOR SEVERAL MONTHS WE STILL HAVE MONTHLY COMMITMENTS TO THE WORK: PRINTING WORK, PREACHER/TEACHER TRAINING SCHOOL HERE IN GOROKA TO BEGIN JUNE 5. WHILE THERE IN THE STATES WE WILL HAVE VARIOUS EXPENSES INCURRED DURING OUR TRAVELS TO REPORT TO YOU IN ADDITION TO BUYING THINGS TO SHIP BACK TO HELP THE WORK. CRAYONS, FOLDING MACHINE FOR PRINT WORK, BOOK BINDING TAPE, ETC.

ONCE WE HAD IT WORKED OUT THAT JUNE 24 WAS OUR DEPARTURE DATE WE THEN CHECKED THE COOKIE JAR FOR THE MONIES TO BUY THE TICKETS. WE LACK $1800 ENOUGH TO BUY THE TICKETS. WE ARE MINDFUL OF THE TALK WE RECEIVE THAT THERE ARE "HARD TIMES" THERE NOW IN THE STATES. BUT WE ARE ALSO MINDFUL OF WHO OWNS ALL THERE IS. ALSO YOU BRETHREN HAVE BEEN SHOWN AS THE MOST GENEROUS PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHEN IT COMES TO THE LORDS WORK. THANK YOU !!! WE WOULD LIKE TO PAY OFF THESE TICKETS BEFORE WE LEAVE HERE AND PRAY THAT YOU WILL FEEL THIS REQUEST IS WORTHY OF YOUR PRAYERFUL CONSIDERATION. IF ONLY 6 CONGREGATIONS GAVE $300 EACH WE WILL RETIRE THIS DEBT. PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT ANY OVERPAYMENT WOULD BE APPLIED TO OUR RETURN AIRFARES IN JAN 81. THEREFORE THAT WOULD BE LESS MONEY FOR US TO HAVE TO RAISE IN OUR TRAVELS TOWARDS OUR RETURN AIRFARES. ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE ALSO TAX DEDUCIBLE.

PLEASE SEND ALL CONTRIBUTIONS TO:
HUFF NEW GUINEA TRAVEL FUND
% NORTHSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST
2510 HIGHWAY 62
JEFFERSONVILLE INDIANA 47130

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD ONCE AGAIN WITH GREAT EXPECTATIONS TO RENEWING OUR CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP WITH YOU BRETHREN. WERE IT NOT FOR YOUR PRAYERS AND CONTINUED FINANCIAL BACKING FOR OUR LABORS HERE IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD THE JOY OF SEEING SO MANY PEOPLE BE BORN AGAIN INTO THE KINGDOM. WE HOPE THAT AS WE ARE BACK THIS TIME WE CAN SOMEHOW THROUGH OUR EYES SHOW YOU THE WORKING OF THE POWER OF GOD IN THE LIVES OF THESE PEOPLE. PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR US AND OUR SAFE TRAVEL THERE. ALSO PLEASE HELP FINANCIALLY IF YOU CAN. THE LORD WILL BLESS YOU.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL FOR YOUR LOVE FOR THE LOST.

YOUR SERVANT IN CHRIST BECAUSE OF HIS CROSS

Love
the huffs