Books for Papua New Guinea

We (my husband and I)are attempting to collect books/cds/computers for the use in Markham Valley, PNG at the Ngariawang Primary School. First and foremost your prayers are treasured on our endeavors.

Daddy's home... ☺ from Papua New Guinea

pandora radio=awesome!!

http://www.pandora.com/#/

I wanted to share this awesome radio website that husband showed me...awesome!!

God is the essence of beauty, and He longs to share His beauty with us.

Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." ~ Proverbs 31:30

God is the essence of beauty, and He longs to share His beauty with us. When we accept Jesus, His beauty resides within us. And if we revere Him, we will mirror His beauty from the inside out. This is God's desire.

Consider Esther. Although she was physically beautiful, Esther also glowed with an inner beauty that was established and purposed by God before she ever entered the king's palace (Es. 2:7, 15). She won the king's favor and approval because she was on a mission from God to save His and her people. And God's hand of favor and protection was upon her as she consistently made right choices, yielding to the Father's will.

Esther understood wisdom as is evident by how she followed her uncle Mordecai's counsel to not reveal her identity and the eunich Hegai's suggestion to not ask for anything when she came before the king (Es. 2:10-11, 15). Esther understood the wisdom of 1Peter 3:4, ". . . the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight." And she also understood the power of revering God through fasting (Es. 4:16).

Esther had substance, and her beauty was a power tool used by God to accomplish His will to save a nation.

How is God using your beauty? Likewise, how are you using your beauty?

Contrary to the nobleness of Esther, the once perfect (Ps. 50:2) but fast fleeting beauty of Jerusalem is described in Ezekiel 16 as prostitution. When we "trust in our beauty and use our fame to become a prostitute" (vs. 15), our beauty becomes pillaged by the enemies of destruction and death. Our own disobedience and idolatry to ungodly pleasures opens the door, giving the devil a legal right to "pimp" us out, leaving us depleted, defiled and disgusted.



The beauty of God is everlasting. It doesn't fade. It is perfect. In this, we have hope.

Lamentations 3:22-26 says, "Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. I say to myself, ‘The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.' The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord."

May we choose to honor God by living in the nobility of a yielded heart, mind and body and therefore embrace His full measure of reigning beauty for His glory.




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Margaret D. Mitchell is the Founder of God's Love at Work, a marketplace outreach purposed to share God's greatest power source - the love of Christ. Check out the God's Love at Work 2009 Women's Conference & Expo [http://www.godsloveatwork.com/2009womensexpo] in the Atlanta area on Saturday, November 7.

Snow in Indiana, U.S.A.

PNG Christmas Bung Lotu (Church) 2009

We had over 90 Papua New Guinea in attendance all the way from Hobe Sound, Penn View, God's Bible College, Kentucky Mountain Bible College, and Union Bible College, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Ohio. The Lord really helped us this Christmas during our celebration of Christ's birth.

George with Youan (R) and Bill Oki (L).

Rev. Jack Kipoi (our evangelist studying at Hobe Sound Bible College)

George (husband) leading one of the services.

Bill Oki leading one of the services

The Papua New Guinea mass choir singing for Sunday morning service @ Beech Grove Independent Church of the Nazarene.

Youan Tainapel leading one of the services.

Christmas Bung Lotu

Christmas Greetings from Indiana to all of you!
2009 PNG CHRISTMAS BUNG LOTU
Jesus is the reason for the season. The greatest “PRESENT” mankind ever could receive was given to Mary wrapped in swaddling clothing and they presented Him to this world. We do not deserve this unmerited gift from God, but He loved us while we were yet sinners. It is not what we earned. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to us. We could not go to where He was, so HE came to us. Let us prepare ourselves, come with open heart to celebrate His birthday. Pray much and expect God to do great things in our lives.
Christmas is the season for giving and receiving gifts-what will you give to God this Christmas? The best gift you could give to God is your soul. God requires us to present our bodies to Him as a living sacrifice which is our reasonable service. This is the only time we will give to God. Please come prayerfully. Do not bring any electronics that will take away our time from worshiping God. Let us especially set these three to four days aside for God and let Him come and meet with us. This is a PNG Christmas service that means we will worship the way we normally worship in PNG.
DRESS CODE:
Girls/Women-dresses or skirts and blouses with sleeves.
Boys/Men-slacks or jeans and shirts with sleeves.
Due to many expenses involved in this get together we will collect an offering so please come prepared. Our cost is approximately $2000.00. This includes food, gas, guest speakers, and etc. Beech Grove Independent Nazarene Church has been a great help to us over the past Christmas services, but as of today we do not know whether they will help us or not. Please pray for this need and let God direct you in what you should give. There are no camp fees, however give as God leads you, as there are expenses.
You are all invited, including former missionaries to PNG and our PNG students to the United States.
VENUE:
Guest Speaker: Jack Kipoi – graduate of Hobe Sound Bible College
Directions: You can either find through google map http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl or through http://www.mapquest.com/
The address is:Independent Nazarene Church @ 5152 Hornet Avenue Beech Grove, IN 46107
OR
You can contact Bill Okie @ 317-517-3572, George Gidisa @ 765-393-2381, Ivan or Youan Tainapel @ 317-696-6743

written by Bill Okie

cool place to get free picture Christmas cards...

I already have my order in for Christmas cards. I got this site from friend off of FB. She has already received her order that she placed.

http://freebies4mom.blogspot.com/2009/11/50-free-photocards-shipped-free-too.html

In loving memory of Betty Omi

THE BROKEN CHAIN
We little knew that morning that God was going to all your name,
In life we loved you dearly, in death we do the same.
It broke our hearts to lose you, you did not go alone,
For part of us went with you, the day God called you home.
You left us peaceful memories, your love is still our guide,
And though we cannot see you, you are always at our side.
Our family chain is broken, and nothing seems the same,
But as God calls us one by one, the chain will link again.
--Author Unknown

(Betty is at far right)

10 Christmas Activities for Families

10 Christmas Activities for Families by Whack-E-Doo Mom
For children, Christmas is magic. It’s wonder and excitement. Often times, for grown-ups, it’s mile long shopping lists, mile long lines in department stores and mile long credit card bills piling in after the first of the new year. Don’t allow the hassles and stress of the holidays to diminish your Christmas spirit! Christmas is a time for memories, not migraines! Here are some fun ideas for you and your family to regain the true meaning of Christmas.
1. Ambush your kids with a surprise late night drive around town to see lights and decorations. Get them all set for bed, in nice warm jammies. Then, right when you are about to tuck them in, scoop them up, bundle them in blankets, buckle them in the car and go cruisin’! Be sure to have Christmas tunes ready in the car to sing along to. Older children will especially get a kick out of this special holiday adventure!
2. It’s important to teach your children that Christmas is not just about presents under the tree. Have your children decorate an old shoe box with reds and greens and ribbons and bows. Then talk to your children about gifts that don’t come wrapped, gifts that you can’t touch, such as love. Help your children make a list of all the gifts that they are thankful for that can’t be wrapped and put under the tree. Put the list in the box and place the box in a prominent spot in your home as a reminder of this life lesson. You can pack the box away with your holiday decorations and add a new list each Christmas.
3. Lights, camera, action! Act out your family’s favorite Christmas story, such as Frosty the Snowman or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and record it. Everyone knows how the story goes, only rehearse your skit once, then capture it on film. You are guaranteed tons of laughter and a great memory!
4. Start a Christmas tradition that each year your family will do something new, something that your family has never done before to celebrate the spirit of the season. It can be anything – ice skating, caroling – have each member of the family come up with an idea for a first-time activity and write them down, then throw all the ideas into a hat. Then write each member of the family’s name down and throw them into a separate hat. Mom or Dad can choose the name out of that hat and whoever they pull out gets to pull the activity out of the other hat. Maybe your experience will be a one shot deal (we had a skiing fiasco in our family last year) or maybe it will be something your family wants to add to the Christmas traditions you already celebrate each year.
5. Get out of the house! Check your local newspaper for community Christmas events that you and your family can enjoy together – going to see a high school production of “The Nutcracker”, joining an organized caroling event or attending a live nativity scene.
6. Put together a time capsule to be opened on a future Christmas. Have your child include their Christmas Wish List, holiday crafts that they’ve made in school and whatever else you’d like to add as a Christmas memory. Mark the box with “Christmas” and the current year and then the year you’ll uncover the time capsule – how about five years from now? Your then eight year old will be horrified to learn she wanted a Barney tape when she was three! You don’t have to actually bury your Christmas Time Capsule – unless you want to – it will stay much safer up in the attic or hidden away in the garage.
7. Tell your children the story of the birth of Jesus. Explain to them that the baby Jesus was born poor and homeless and that even though that was many, many years ago there are still babies born today who don’t have what they need. Take your children to the store and have them pick out gifts for babies born like baby Jesus. Take your children with you to a pregnancy center or woman’s shelter to donate the items. Say a special prayer at bedtime that night for the babies who will receive their gifts.
8. Expose your children to Christmas traditions from around the world. Do some research online or check out a book from the library and educate yourself on Christmas customs from different cultures. Then share your new knowledge with your little ones. One of the traditions you learn about may speak to you and you may want to incorporate it into your own family’s holiday traditions.
9. Hear ye’, hear ye’! Create a family newsletter to send out with your Christmas cards or through email this year. Tell about what’s happened in your family in the past year. Each member of the family can have their own message, older children can write their own and younger children can dictate to you what they’d like to share. You can even include photos, recipes, a word search – whatever you’d like.
10. Many families give their children’s school pictures or a family portrait in a frame as a Christmas gift. Why not add a really personal touch to an already personal gift? Help your children decorate the frames in any manner they choose. You knew you’d find a use for those odds and ends craft scraps of yours!
Hope these suggestions have been helpful. Don’t try to do all of the activities or you’ll wind up more stressed than before, just pick those that spoke to you. Christmas can be a magical time full of wonder and excitement, even for busy grown-ups. Don’t lose sight of what matters this time of year and don’t pass up an opportunity to make a special Christmas memory. Even the seemingly simplest activity can create a special Christmas memory for your child. Maybe even one they will share with their own children someday when they’ve turned into a busy grown-up and need to rediscover their Christmas spirit.
Happy Holidays, here’s to the memories…
Revel in the ramblings of The Whack-E-Doo Mom on her blog at http://whack-e-doo-mom.blogspot.com .