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11/7/2013

October 20. It was very warm all night, and Daddy did not start a fire this morning. I was glad he didn’t. The stove has been smoking a lot lately, and that makes it hard to breathe sometimes. It was warm all day today too. The Lord gave us blue skies again and lots of sunshine. It was a perfect day for the baptism. It is still warm this evening - 8:00 p.m.

            The lotu bell ran at 5:40 again, but we didn’t get up until 6:00. After getting dressed, I got the pancakes made. Had breakfast and quiet time. Started making up a final exam for math.

            The church folks were already down at Wanyapeq starting the outreach meeting when we got up. We could hear the young people singing and hear the men preaching. Some people came early for lotu, but the women were busy preparing food for the fellowship today. However, we still started fairly early. Mike led the singing. Then Matthew took over announcements. There were three specials - the school choir sang John 3:16; the young men sang “At Calvary”; and the youth choir sang “Jisas I Gutpela” (“Isn’t He Wonderful?”, which has five verses in Pidgin). Matthew really seemed to have his heart in the work and in the preaching today. His joy and enthusiasm was contagious. He preached today on II Corinthians 4:3-6. Afterward they had their fellowship dinner, and then went down to the creek for the baptism. They must have been down there about two hours – had a service down there. The youth choir sang a couple specials again. I sent the camera down with Phinehas so he could get some pictures.

            I took a couple videos and several pictures during the meeting this morning and took a picture of the three baptism candidates after the meeting. Then Daddy and I had our dinner and nap. While we were eating, we talked about the need for getting a youth program started. They are hungry to learn, and now is the time to teach them. We just don’t know where to start, and neither of us have much time right now. But it is a great need so we are asking the Lord to show us just what we can do and to give us the strength to do it. David really has a heart for the youth and would probably make a good youth pastor. We also talked about putting David and Matthew before the church soon to be considered for ordination as pastors.

            This afternoon, I finished up the math exam preparations and then worked on getting the monthly updates ready to send out. After that, I spent a little time until supper time seeing what we have on hand and what needs to be done yet for the drama for the school closing. This evening, Daddy sent out the e-mails while I did dishes. Then I got a couple more e-mails ready to go and did some printing that I need for math class this week. People are here this evening for soul-winning class.

            “Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.” II Corinthians 7:1

October 21. Another very warm night, and no fire again this morning. I am always happy to have no fire. It was nice and sunny and warm again this morning, but the Lord sent clouds and rain this afternoon, with thunder and lightning too.

            After breakfast and quiet time this morning, I had to get the classroom set up for school. I didn’t get a chance to do that last night because Daniel was here with his video machine trying out the “Jesus” film video he had bought. The copy he has is in several languages, including Pidgin. After getting the classroom ready, I had a few minutes to put the pictures Phinehas and I took yesterday into Kodak Easy Share. Got part of them edited and need to do the rest this evening.

            In Bible class, we prayed and then sang Romans 10:9,10,13. Then we started memorizing I Corinthians 10:31 and sang that to the tune of “Everything’s All Right.” Did the first lesson on the practical applications from Daniel 1-3. Then we started talking about how these youth – Daniel, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael – were able to stand strong in a heathen land without their parents, a church, and many other privileges that we take for granted.

            We finished school early today - a little before 12:00. I thought about going through part of the drama again since we had a little time, but I was tired for some reason so told them they could go home early. Phinehas and Dallas stayed and practiced keyboard, and Daddy and I had lunch. Then the two boys left and we had our nap.

            I was enjoying a nice nap, but was suddenly awakened by a loud clap of thunder. I needed to get up anyway and get things done. Finished grading papers and recording grades. That didn’t take long. Got things ready for school tomorrow. Then got things together for the students to work on props after classes tomorrow. Daddy also got the back put on the king’s throne today so now I need to find some material to cover it with.

            After that, I went to the kitchen to make some cookies for Daddy. It was only 4:15 but was already dark because of the storm so I had to turn on the solar powered light. Decided on chocolate peanut butter brownies. Got those mixed up and put into the oven, and then it was time to fix supper. There were quite a few dishes tonight, but I was still able to get out of the kitchen by 6:30 so I was glad for that. Enjoyed listening to the Bible reading from Isaiah while I was working.

            MAF twin otter came today and took out a load of Waisara’s coffee.

            It is quite chilly this evening.

            “1Moreover, brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia; 2How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. 3For to their power, I bear record, yea, and beyond their power they were willing of themselves; 4Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. 5And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.” II Corinthians 8:1-5

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God Helping Those Who Cannot Help Themselves

11/1/2013

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October 18. The Lord gave us intermittent sunshine this morning. Clouds came and went, but the sunshine was sufficient to warm up the house and put some more charge into the solar battery. He did send us a little rain late this afternoon.

            I had each of the students play their two pieces in music class this morning and count as they played. I told them if they played and counted well, they could play again and we would sing the little songs. Everyone did really well, and we all had fun singing.

            I guess I must have been pretty tired this afternoon because I slept over an hour and a half. I probably would have slept longer if Daddy hadn’t come in. I did need to get up and wash my hair, finish today’s grading and recording, sort out the laundry to be washed this evening, sort and wash greens. By then it was time to get supper.

            Did the dishes right away after supper. Got the greens cut up, and some onions too, and put them on to cook. Daddy turned on the generator around 6:00 and I started the wash. Just finished a little while ago hanging up the shirts, blouses, dresses, and a few other things in the house. The rest is in the basket ready to be hung outside in the morning.

            Daddy is teaching Bible school this evening, continuing with teaching on the family. A number of the young people have been coming Thursday and Friday evenings as Daddy has been teaching on “Ready for Marriage.”

            “4….in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; 6By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, 7By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, 8By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers, and yet true; 9As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; 10As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.” II Corinthians 6:4b-10

October 19. It is going on 7:00 p.m. It has been a busy day, and I am happy to sit down now. Monika and two of her children were just here with bananas, and Kristina and some of her children were here with avocadoes. Wan also came to get a few things. I had just finished doing dishes. While I was waiting for the dishwater to heat, I wiped off the chalkboard, covered the books, and locked the school cupboard. We didn’t remember to put the water on to heat until I started cleaning up the kitchen and getting dishes ready to wash. Now Daddy is starting the fire to heat water for our baths.

            The Lord gave us a lovely sunshiney day today with lots of blue sky. It got very warm this afternoon, however. After nap, I felt really hot all afternoon until the sun went down.

            Heard the lotu bell ring at 5:40 this morning. Never heard it that early before. I did not get up, however, until about 6:00 when Daddy came in to tell me to get up. After I got dressed and took my first morning supplement, Daddy took the basket of clothes outside for me, and I hung them up. Then I came in and had my breakfast.

            Tomas’s message this morning was on “God Helping Those Who Cannot Help Themselves.” He reviewed the Old Testament stories of God’s provision for saving Adam and Eve, Isaac, and Jonah. Then he went to the New Testament and read Romans 5:6 and 8, and John 3:16 and showed how God has provided salvation for us sinners also. He did a good job.

            Lawrence came and sat on my lap for quite a while - from the middle of taking prayer requests through the prayer time. His mother was not here today.

            After lotu, the school choir practiced. Tomas took a video with his phone. We tried to transfer it to the computer, but it would not work. I would really like to have a video of them singing.

            Then several folks cleaned the meeting room, Bonita redid her math worksheet from yesterday, and Sosthenes finished cleaning around the yard. He had cleaned out the ditches yesterday, but there was lots of rubbish sitting around the yard so we asked him to clean that up too. After everyone had gone, we went for a little walk. The rest of the morning (about an hour), I worked on lesson plans for next week. Then we had lunch and nap.

            Finished up lesson plans this afternoon. Washed, cut up, and cooked the rest of the carrots. Husked the corn that Erovi had brought the other day and cooked it. Made a chicken pot pie for supper with the leftover chicken gravy and rice, after adding some corn and carrots. Am tired this evening.

            “14Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? 15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” II Corinthians 6:14-18

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We Are On The Victory Side!

11/1/2013

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October 16. Going on 8:30 p.m. Wrote some e-mails and had a bath before getting down to journal writing. Just got the e-mails sent and received an e-mail from Christy with a picture of the cross stitch she made and her car which had been badly damaged by a run-in with a deer. I am thankful that Christy and Connie were not hurt.

            When the day started, it looked like we were going to have a lovely day. The sun was shining nicely when we were in lotu this morning. But it wasn’t long before it was gone, and the day was cloudy. It did warm up later in the morning, and Daddy let the fire out. But this afternoon, the rains came, and Daddy got the fire going again after nap.

            Amos did a good job in teaching this morning. There were a lot of prayer requests. Satan does not easily give up ground. We are so thankful to be on the victory side.

            It was almost 9:00 before we started school so did not have extra time this morning to work on phonics. It looks like we may be able to finish this unit of phonics by the end of next week, however, so we will be able to concentrate on practicing for the drama. We did finish classes by 12:00 today so took about a half hour to work with the kids on singing John 3:16. It seems like they are getting their parts okay. We should have time to practice more in the morning after they have their Bible test.

            I had most of the math books and all the math worksheets still left to be graded this afternoon. After recording all of today’s grades, I got things together for school tomorrow and then put the new lessons in the students’ Bible folders. I had written a note to send to Kelly or Janeth with one of the students to get our other piece of chicken out of the haus sik freezer, but forgot to send it. (They run that freezer more than we run ours so they said we could keep our meat down there.) So instead of chicken ’n’ rice for supper, I had Daddy cut up a little pumpkin, and I made pumpkin soup for supper. It was a good evening for soup.

            “(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)” II Corinthians 6:2

October 17. A cold morning, but the Lord gave us sunshine a good part of the day and some rain this evening.

            After breakfast and quiet time this morning, I practiced keyboard a while and then threw together the dry ingredients for biscuits so it wouldn’t take too long to get them ready for my lunch later. Steve came early for school so I sent him down to Kelly’s house to get the piece of chicken to cook for our supper this evening. None of the others were even here on time. We didn’t start school until almost ten past eight. I let them have ten minutes to study for their Bible test and then they had the test. All of them did very well. Nobobdy missed more than one. After that, we practiced singing John 3:16 until the end of class.

            After math class, we went through the drama, seeing how it should be acted out, singing the songs, and having each one read his part. It took about an hour and a half to get through it, but I think it should only take about half that long once we get the kinks worked out. Consequently, it was close to 1:00 before I started getting lunch, but it didn’t take long to finish getting the biscuits ready and on the griddle to cook. While they were cooking, I warmed up the rest of the pumpkin soup.

            We had our lunch around 1:15, cleaned up the kitchen, and then went for nap somewhere close to 2:00. I was quite tired, and it was after 3:00 before I woke up. Did the rest of the grading and the recording of grades, got things together for school tomorrow, put a pot of rice on to cook for supper, and chicken on to cook so I could make chicken gravy. After supper, I got the kitchen all cleaned up, put the plug and soap in the sink, and was all ready to wash dishes before I realized that we hadn’t even put the dish water on to heat. Oops! Had to wait about fifteen minutes for the water to get hot before I could do the dishes.

            “3Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed: 4But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God….” II Corinthians 6:3,4a

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Cool, Windy Days

11/1/2013

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October 14. A nice sunny morning. Quite warm by mid-morning so that we opened the door in the schoolroom again. This afternoon while we were having our nap, however, the weather changed abruptly to strong cold winds. Later in the afternoon, the winds died down, and the sunshine came back.

            We finished school a little before 12:00 today. We were able to go for nap early, but our sleep was interrupted when the strong winds came up. This afternoon, I made some orange paint and found a little red paint so the students can hopefully finish painting the fires tomorrow. I also started drawing some men bowed down so we can have them kneel before Nebyukatnesa’s god. I just didn’t feel at peace about having living men do it. Maybe tomorrow Phinehas and/or Steve will finish what I started. Then I finished proofreading the Bible lessons on application of Daniel 1-3 so I can make corrections and get the students’ copies printed out.

            “14For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.” II Corinthians 5:14,15

October 15. Some sunshine this morning, and got really warm again around mid-morning. I opened the schoolroom door after we finished math class and the students were working on painting fire. (Maybe the fire made it warm. :-))

            This afternoon, while we were napping, the rains came, and the air cooled down considerably. I graded the math worksheets and recorded grades. Only had two grades to record today - math textbooks and math worksheets. Then I got things ready for school tomorrow, had a snack, washed and cut up carrots to cook for supper, worked on the booklet for 1 Thessalonians through Philemon, and then made a pizza for supper so I could use up the leftover spaghetti sauce.

            We forgot to put dish water on to heat so I played the keyboard a little while until the water was hot. Then I did dishes. That didn’t take long as there were only a few.

            “ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” II Corinthians 5:17

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Sunshiney Days!

11/1/2013

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October 12. The Lord gave us a beautiful, sunshiney day. Lots of wind, white puffy clouds, blue sky, and warmth in the air. Daddy didn’t have to keep the fire going long today.

            I got up this morning when I heard the lotu bell ring down below - about 5:50. After getting dressed and having my first morning supplement, I went out and hung up the clothes that were washed yesterday evening. That didn’t take long as there weren’t very many since we had just washed on Monday. The shirts were already dry after hanging in the house over night.

            Came in and had my breakfast and quiet time, and made the bed. Then it was time for lotu. There were 36 here this morning. Mike continued his series on loving one another. After lotu, the youth went to dig a garden and plant peanuts for David’s mother. I finished this coming week’s lesson plans, and then Daddy and I decided to go for a little walk since it was such a nice day. However, the wind was really strong, and it was making my eyes hurt. So we did not go very far. When we got back to the house, I had a drink of Emergen-C and then sat in the recliner and closed my eyes for a while. After that I husked corn and peeled carrots to cook for dinner and then started water heating for spaghetti.

            This afternoon, I washed my hair and then started an e-mail to Christy and Connie. Then it was time to make myself some biscuits and get supper on the table. After supper, I cleaned the bathroom (it was too hot to do that in the afternoon), burned the trash, and then did the dishes before sitting down to send and receive e-mails.

            Phinehas is here this evening practicing the keyboard.

            “15For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.   16For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. 17For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; 18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” II Corinthians 4:15-18

October 13. The Lord gave us a mostly sunny day today. It tried to rain a couple times; but after a few sprinkles, the sun came back out again.

            Made a couple big batches of pancakes this morning so we both have extras to eat during the week. After breakfast and quiet time, I got the Pidgin words for “A New Name in Glory” put to the music so I can help the students learn that this week. Last night, I had finished getting the students’ Bible lessons ready that they’ll be doing after we finish Daniel chapter 3. These are lessons with practical applications from the first three chapters of Daniel. My, those three chapters are rich in practical lessons! After getting the song ready this morning, I started making up their Bible test on Daniel 3 and finished that this afternoon.

            It was good to see Mak here for lotu this morning. People brought quite a few items of clothing to give to Maro’s mother to replace what she lost in the fire. She was very grateful for the kindness of God’s people. Lotu was a blessing too as three of the young people (Bonita, Bethuel, and Esau) shared their testimonies. Luke was not ready yet to give a testimony. Little Lawrence came and sat on my lap for a while, and we looked at a children’s book together. He was also fascinated with the camera as I took pictures of the ones giving their testimonies. When we stood up to sing before the preaching, he went back to his mother. Then Matthew preached on the first few verses of II Corinthians 4. He did an excellent job, even having found extra verses on his own to support the teaching. It was obvious that he had spent a good amount of time studying. II Corinthians has been a good book for him to teach on as he is seeing how Paul and others who worked with him went through many similar trials to what the church has gone through here.

            David continued teaching the soul-winning lessons, starting this week on teaching about God and what He is like.

            I had taken a nap right after dinner, between meetings, so could get right to the computer and finish the Bible test after lotu. Then I tried to find the invoice for the new school books we had ordered but haven’t been able to find it yet. I didn’t make a photo copy of the order, and I wanted to see exactly what I had ordered in case we have to order again.

            I thought I had already printed out the new soul-winning lessons for the students too, but couldn’t find any sign of them. So had to do that first thing this evening. Daddy is finishing up lesson 25 so not sure if he’ll be ready to start 26 this evening or not, but we wanted to make sure it was ready.

            “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” II Corinthians 5:1

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