What an adventure! After 6 flights, 5 cities, and various types of planes we made it to Dinanget.
The first few days of travel have been exciting, tiresome, and at some points – weird. The flight from the USA to Australia had amazing inflight entertainment, dinner and breakfast, and snacks. My mind was unable to shut off in anticipation, so I slept for only 1.5 hours. With the time change we lost 1 day in flight and arrived in Australia early in the morning.
We flew from Sydney to Brisbane and had a night at a hotel so we could catch a flight to PNG early the next day. Brisbane is an amazing city! The skyline is beautiful and the majority of the city has a massive river that moves through it. There is a public transportation system that uses massive catamarans to fake people to different points in the city.
After leaving Australia we arrived in Port Moresby and everything slowed down. We had only 1 hour from our landing to get to a connecting flight for Goroka. After waiting in line for our temp visas, then waiting to pass through customs we had already missed our flight. We had to catch a shuttle to a hotel for the evening.
The next morning we went back to the airport for our flight to Goroka. The plane was a twin engine turbo prop (loud and fast). We arrived in Goroka and walked out if the plan onto the Tarmac. The baggage claim was a metal table by the chain link fenced exit. We were picked up by New Tribes staff and taken to Lapilo for the evening – we had an early flight the following day.
The team was up at 4:30 am in preparation for the Cessna flight into the tribe. We took two flights into Dinanget due to the weight of passengers and cargo. The flight was incredible – I felt As though I could touch the clouds. The landing was bumpy but the bush pilot proved his skill landing in these remote runways.
We enjoyed hearing the testimony of a tribal man named Falex. He explained how God had changed his heart at the hearing of the gospel. Seeing his sin in light of Gods word and desiring to serve as a result. He pleaded that we would continue in our training so that Gods word could continue to come to other tribes in PNG.
There is yet another week to go and the former week was so packed. I am excited to see what The Lord has prepared for us.
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