This is not without its challenges: distance from loved ones, a new language, a new culture, and, in our case, getting financial support.
I am going to be working with a group called City Mission PNG, in the city of Lae. Lae, like the larger city of Port Moresby, has a great deal of poverty, a great deal of homelessness, a great deal of crime, a great deal of unemployment, and a great deal of suffering. Lae City Mission aims to help the people of Lae, by giving them a hand up: the boys coming in off the streets are trained and taught skills which they will be able to use once they leave; skills which enable them to provide for themselves, to be in a better position than when they first came in. All this, and connected with the Gospel!
My role will be to work alongside the boys, as they become young men - and future elders, deacons, preachers, and teachers - teaching, guiding (and probably learning a whole bunch myself).
But, to be able to do this, we need to get there.
While we will be provided with a house to call home, transport to make use of, and an amount towards our day-to-day living expenses, we need to raise funds for flights, for vaccines, for the remainder of living costs, for insurances; costs which easily run into the tens of thousands per year. Costs which we cannot afford without a whole lot of help.
And that is where I must swallow my pride, and humbly ask: will you help us?
Any donation - from a couple of cents, to the largest number you can think up - will help us get to Lae, help us to stay in Lae, and help us to work with Lae City Mission, help us spread the Word of Christ.
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