I'm Here: Papua New Guinea
by Boundless Community on 06/30/2009 at 1:43 PM
Hi Boundless!
I'm writing from Papua New Guinea, where I live and work as a missionary doing research on languages that aren't written down yet and don't have the Bible. (Did you know there are over 196,000,000 people from more than 2000 languages without a single verse of God's word in their languages?!)
Even though I spend most of my time working in an office in the Highlands of PNG, I get to travel to different parts of the country to do research. (In the picture, I'm interviewing a local church leader during a recent survey trip, while some kids and young guys look on.) The survey team and I are headed off to the rugged Western part of the country next month and hopefully out to the tropical island of New Britain in the fall.
Using the internet here is really expensive, so while I can still read a no-pictures version of the Boundless Line, I patiently wait for my sister in the US to burn the podcasts onto a DVD and mail them to me. Mail can take a few weeks to get here - I just listened to the Christmas episode in June! But the Boundless podcast is good enough to wait for, and like the saying goes it's "better late than never!" :-)
Thanks for the godly advice and thought-provoking articles!
Sara
1. BDB said the following at 1:45 PM on Jun 30:
Woo-hoo! I'm about to get on a plane and visit friends headed to PNG with what sounds like your organization. They're leaving in August for 5 years! (They will be in member support.)
2. Leah said the following at 5:43 PM on Jun 30:
Hey Sara! How long have you been in PNG? Have you ever come across the Canavan family? (They are translators for Wycliffe). My parents are also friends with a guy who used to be a pilot for MAF in PNG but he left more than ten years ago and now flies for the RFDS in Australia. (Royal Flying Doctor Service).
3. justice said the following at 5:54 PM on Jun 30:
I miss PNG!
4. farmer Tom said the following at 6:17 PM on Jun 30:
I have a friend who is a airplane mechanic in PNG. He's getting married this summer here in the US before he and his new bride return to PNG.
He met her one morning in the middle of nowhere in PNG while out for a morning walk. He had been praying that God would bring a potential mate into his life. She had previously worked for the same mission group, and had stopped by to visit friends.
(His parents are good friends on my family. Farmers who raise beef cattle.)
5. Matthew S. said the following at 7:01 PM on Jun 30:
Awesome! I took a ministry trip to PNG back in 2001, and now I work with a team that does wildlife research there (our field director just got back from New Britain in February). Amazing place and amazing people. Hope your trip out west goes well...I've long dreamed of doing research around Lake Murray, but doubt it will happen any time soon.
6. Courtney said the following at 7:48 PM on Jun 30:
WOW!! It's Sara!! lol. This is so awesome! I went to PNG in 2005 and Sara was my roommate for about 3 weeks. :-) This is so awesome to be reading this on Boundless. I've been a boundless reader for years and never imagined I would know someone writing on the blog. Too cool! :-)
7. Rachael said the following at 6:31 PM on Jul 1:
So cool that you research languages that don't yet have the Bible!
What a neat opportunity...
8. Susan said the following at 5:43 AM on Aug 15:
Does anyone know what an Austalian Citizen has to do to get married to another Australian citizen in Papua New Guinea?