Monthly Archives: April 2016

Hello everyone! Thought we should update you all. We arrived home from our bush trip safely on our Saturday evening, just before dark. After 16 hours in a motor canoe and a 4 hour open-back truck ride we made it home! We were so happy to be home and get washed up. 

It was an amazing trip! What an adventure and many awesome opportunities. However, Seth came down the first night we got back with a cold that has turned into pneumonia. We are thankful to be back where we have the comforts of home, doctors an email away, and medicine. We will update more about the trip when Seth feels better. Pray for him to feel better soon! 

-Nicole, for Seth too

Whew, now that conference is over, we are able to catch our breaths for a moment… For the past 10 days, we have helped ship off 1-3 missionary families a day to go back to their designated bush places. Helping them pack, getting their supplies, helping them plan and work out the logistics of their trips. Nicole even got to make pizza dough for one of the missionaries and got it in their planeload 30 minutes before they left. Saturday morning we took one family to the airport @ 4:30am, helped send off a boat @ 7a, and then load another family after that into a float plane as we hugged their kids good-bye. Conference is over and we are back to our different ministries, but wait! We too are heading to the bush-TODAY!

Pizza Dough For Missionaries

This will be very similar to our last trip back in January. Our main purpose in going is to assist a veteran missionary (Jason) travel to a remote village as he teaches through Galatians and Nicole will look after his two kids. We will be taking two other national believers from another tribe so they can join in the course as well. We leave Monday morning and come back Friday night. We will take two loads via floatplane to a main river junction. Spend the night in a bush house with one of our national friends, and then go the next morning first thing up a small river for 6+ hours and arrive in a different bush location. This place has had missionaries work there but not for over a decade. The goal is to encourage the church, teach Galatians, disciple the 2 national men coming with us and to gauge where the church is at spiritually. We will give more details when we get back.

Please pray: we get there at a good time, that the canoe situation works out, and we can get to the village. Pray for clarity as Jason teaches through Galatians. Pray we can engage the church and encourage them. Pray for safety and good health. Thank you for your partnership!

Here is a thought to consider: “Busy vs. Fruitful”, this was a title of a chapter of a book that I read recently. Please pray we have discernment in how to be fruitful during this trip and not just busy. “For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry…”

Sending Some Missionaries Off

Wow, we cannot believe it is already April!? Where has the time gone? Well, we have been extra busy lately. Check out our Newsletter below to find out what all we have been up to. Thank you for being our team mates as we serve the Lord here in PNG.

Newsletter: February-March

   Your feet to the unreached,

Seth & Nicole Stokes