It has been awhile although some I know keep up
with us on Face Book where I post from time to time and invite you to join us
if you can. Janie and I find ourselves busy these days working on the school
base doing Member Care somewhat and looking after Bill and Kelly’s two girls,
Maddie and Sabra our granddaughters.
I have been working with our ITF crew but we had
to move that program to Madang due to the high cost of operations and the lack
of folk coming into the program in these hard days our world is facing
financially. We said good bye to the last three German Interns last week with a
morning breakfast and devotional time. This has been a delight for me the last
two years and I will miss my time with them.
As Janie and I wrap it up here in PNG this coming
school year we ask that you pray for us as we look for directions for our
coming years as we leave here in June 2014. We have places we need to visit for
the last time, tribes where we have worked over the years and people we have
come to love. We are praying the four boys could all come over one last time
before we leave this beautiful country and at least visit with Maile and his
family. Maile is a young PNG man that grew up with our boys in the early days
in PNG.
As we retire from PNG and head home we will be
looking for direction as to where God would have us to finish out what years we
have left to serve Him, as of now we both are in good health and good spirits
and ready to keep plugging away in the ministry, wherever and whatever He has
for us. We both just want to finish well.
We feel our time in PNG has been profitable and
sure pleasing to us even if there where hard days and lonely dark nights those
kind that pulls your soul nearer to the God we serve. It is so exciting to see
what God is doing with all the new missionaries coming this way. God truly is
working in mighty ways here in this far away country so far from home.
Janie and I have the ministry of encouraging our
folk on the field here and we ask that you pray we would do it well and in a
way that God can be felt in all we do. We want our lives to be who we are and
not just a ministry something we work at. The love of God is the base of all
encouragement and from all of you we pull much. Thank you for all of your
prayer and financial support.
As we come back into the States we will come in
through the North West and work our way into Tennessee visiting friends and
churches on the way. Please pray that all these details will come together for
us as we try to put it all together on paper and make plans as we go from one
place to the other. We are so thankful for you all and everyone that is such a
part of our ministry here and in the States and we would love to catch up and
share our hearts with you once again about all God is doing in missions.
By God’s
Grace and for His Glory,
Jack and
Janie Housley
E-mail: jack_housley@ntm.org
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