1: Heidi receives a warm greeting from her village grandma
2: Traditional dancing and singing
3: Our village Papa & Grandma with their copies of the Kein NewTestament
4: Paul & Heidi with the village kids
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Kein New Testament Dedication
On the weekend of April 15 we had the priviledge and joy of celebrating with the people from Kein (pronounced "cane"), the village where we did village living, as they dedicated the New Testament in their language. We hiked out to the village the day before the dedication and spent the day visiting with our village family. The next day was a day of celebration, singing, dancing, and speeches. It was special for us to see people that we have grown to love here in Papua New Guinea receive God's Word in their heart language. 
1: Heidi receives a warm greeting from her village grandma
2: Traditional dancing and singing
3: Our village Papa & Grandma with their copies of the Kein NewTestament
4: Paul & Heidi with the village kids
1: Heidi receives a warm greeting from her village grandma
2: Traditional dancing and singing
3: Our village Papa & Grandma with their copies of the Kein NewTestament
4: Paul & Heidi with the village kids
Friday, April 14, 2006
Getting down to business
All hiking and scenery and coffee aside, what was the purpose?
In every village we went to we did various types of survey to understand the sociolinguistic situation.
Esther took word lists (170 plus 20 sentences) that usually lasted about three hours.
Bonnie did interviews with church and school leaders and also recorded a few stories that we used to test peoples understanding of different speech varieties.
I did interviews asking what language they speak and who speaks like them. As well as questions about their culture and where they travel to and what the marriage patterns are (who goes where and comes from where).
Right now we are back in the office (yeah!) trying to sort out all the information we gathered and determine the need for Bible translation in the three languages we surveyed.
In every village we went to we did various types of survey to understand the sociolinguistic situation.
Esther took word lists (170 plus 20 sentences) that usually lasted about three hours.
Bonnie did interviews with church and school leaders and also recorded a few stories that we used to test peoples understanding of different speech varieties.
I did interviews asking what language they speak and who speaks like them. As well as questions about their culture and where they travel to and what the marriage patterns are (who goes where and comes from where).
Right now we are back in the office (yeah!) trying to sort out all the information we gathered and determine the need for Bible translation in the three languages we surveyed.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Bridges
Build your own bridge! Grab some bamboo, a few sticks and some vines, bundle them together and viola. I thought these bridges were awesome. People cross these carrying bags of coffee,
cement and sheets of tin roofing and we felt a little wobbly with just backpacks.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Cash Crop
Coffee is the cash crop in this area of PNG.
The red berries are harvested, husked and then set out to dry.
Ever morning the people lay the berries out and then take them in at night and whenever it rains. This is done for a month. Then they carry them down to the mill in big sacks, some people will hike 6 hrs through the mountains! One garden will yield about 6 bags of dried beans. They will get 60 Kina ($20 CAD) per bag, if the price is good.
Survey
My two teammates and I got dropped by helicopter in the Saruwaget mountains in Morobe province on March 8. It was a kind of funny feeling watching the chopper fly away. 
We spent the next 18 days hiking through the most amazing mountains. We could usually see where the next village was, just across the valley maybe 3 or 4 kms. But the trail went straight down to the bottom of the valley and then straight up the other side! We probably gained and lost more than 1000ft a day. We were able to finish the survey 2 days early, I was very excited to see Heidi sooner than planned!
On our way out we took a PMV (public transportation) as you can see the road had seen better days.The corner was a litte too tight and the river was washing the road away, so they just threw a few branches down and drove across! We made it but I was holding my breath.
The survey went really well and we are now back in Ukarumpa. I'll try to post a few pictures at a time and some brief explanations. Thank you for your prayers, none of us were injured apart from a few scratches and many flea bites...
We spent the next 18 days hiking through the most amazing mountains. We could usually see where the next village was, just across the valley maybe 3 or 4 kms. But the trail went straight down to the bottom of the valley and then straight up the other side! We probably gained and lost more than 1000ft a day. We were able to finish the survey 2 days early, I was very excited to see Heidi sooner than planned!
On our way out we took a PMV (public transportation) as you can see the road had seen better days.The corner was a litte too tight and the river was washing the road away, so they just threw a few branches down and drove across! We made it but I was holding my breath.
The survey went really well and we are now back in Ukarumpa. I'll try to post a few pictures at a time and some brief explanations. Thank you for your prayers, none of us were injured apart from a few scratches and many flea bites...
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