Well the last few weeks have been challenging in ways we did not expect. About a month ago Beau started coming down with these around the clock fevers that would spike and drop all day. 4 different medications and 4 weeks later we still are not sure what it is or how to bring it under control. So 4 days ago Nina and Beau flew out of the tribe and yesterday I made it out to join them here at our regional mission base on the coast.
The first indicators pointed to Chloroquine resistant malaria, then to Dengue Fever, and now there are more things pointing to something called Scrub Typhus. If in 72 hours he does not shake the fevers on his current medicine we will be flying to our national base in Goroka to see a doctor, get some blood tests done and hopefully find some answers. Appreciate very much your prayers for Beau during this time.
In another week or so we will write about the progress in Yembiyembi and the growth of the new church and the believers. Some very neat things going on not only in Yembiyembi but in surrounding villages that are starting to hear from the "Crossers" (this is what the believers call themselves "The bridge crossers").
Thanks so much guys,
Brooks
P.S. Because we are out at our base (Internet and fast e-mail connections) I will try and attach a couple pictures to these updates. Nina went on a trip to a waterfall with her mother, and Beau with a tree kangaroo.
P.S.S. This is what Acts 1:7-8 sounds like in Bises: Then Jisas he told them like this "Nope, you ones don't know the period of time when those things will happen, only God Father does, so don't give thoughts to that. But I tell you in a small chunk of time God Spirit will be coming, then He will be living in you, then with strength you will be my mouths to spread my talk to the village of Jerusalem, to the ground of Judia, to the ground of Samaria and to all of the ground, to the edges, to all those places will you spread my talk".
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