A week in the Life

As most of you know now I have recently started my job as CMA Manager here on centre, there is much to keep me busy here with grass to be constantly cut, leaves raked, hedges cut, trees pruned and felled even footpaths washed.

So to give u a wee idea of what I do and who I work with I have some photos below to help give You all some perspective on my work.

Joshua Trimming hedges, this gets done usually once every 2 months or so not for vanity but necessity as plants here never really stop growing!
How do you dispose of all Your rubbish? You put it in your bin and the nice friendly binmen take it away to a land fill somewhere. We don't have any binmen here no do we have a landfill site so we have to deal with it ourselves by digging a large pit and burning and burying the rubbish, you may ask why not recycle? Well the simple answer is that there are no or very few facilities here for that.
Power washing footpaths twice a year done for safety reasons, as we live in the tropics we have lots of rain at times and also lots of heat which combines nicely on cement to make a nice slime which is very slippy. above is Joshua (not the same as the first pic) who also work with me.
This is how to load a wheel barrow!!! this is James who helps in cleaning up once a week when this was taken we were cleaning banana trees (they aren't trees but a herb).
We have Lots of trees on center therefore lots of pruning and felling. trees here are amazing they grow so fast, trees planted 7-8 years ago are now 30 - 40 ft in height. We have palm trees coconut trees, Mango trees, avocado trees, frangapnai and many other types all in desperate need of maintenance.
Daryl is our base mechanic, he helps me with a lot of my mower maintenance he also looks after the center generators and vehicles. this is Seth his son.
Again we are cutting hedges, this is Micheal cutting here who has worked on center for about 12 years and just recently lost his wife.

Finally cutting grass done once a week, takes about a day to do with 2 ride-on mowers a push mower and a brush cutter.

I hope this gives u a bit of an idea of what i'm doing here, i was recently asked to take a class for the home schooled kids teaching them the New Testament taking a full school year to cover the whole New Testament, its a lot of work but its a real privilege to do it.

Please pray for me as i interact with the guys who work with me Michael, James, Joshua y., and Joshua T, pray my life would be an example to them of Christ.

pray for my new job in the school and for the students i will be teaching.

in September i have been asked to go to the NTM HQ for a few weeks to prune some trees for them, pray for safety and wisdom with this job.

thoughts

I read this a few days ago and it really made me think about how we look at the sin in our lives and how we look at the law.” As 4 Mwinika men helped translate bible stories from creation to exodus, they began to see Gods holiness.
One man said ‘We are worried about Gods standards. Just show us the Law. We want to know the list of rules we need to do!’

But when they translated the Ten Commandments into their language, they realised how desperately they fell short of Gods standards. They said ‘we are all at zero! We have no chance!’ they covered there face and began to cry. The missionary cried too, assuring them that he came to tell them they are in trouble but there is hope.

The Law was doing what God meant it to do: showing them there sin and preparing them to hear about Jesus!”

When you see the law how do you react does it break you, do you realise like these men that without Christ we are helpless we can never reach Gods standard of holiness. Its only through Christ and his grace that we can ever hope to reach Gods standard of holiness. Does Gods holiness every break us do we every look at our lives and realise without Christ we are without hope. Praise God we have Hope in Christ, in him our future is assured, as will these men’s future as someone gave their lives so that other might hear of the hope that is in us.

We have the privilege of hearing about and reading about Gods standard and also his grace we can Worship him freely but what about those who have never heard or those who want to hear and cant because there are not enough people to bring the news.

Read more about how many tribal people are hearing the gospel for the first time by going too http://usa.ntm.org/field-news/ntm-at-work/

Prayer:

we have recently had some Maleu Believers on center helping translate the New Testament into there language we have just heard that one of these guys (Gibson) has not been heard from in a few days, he was last seen heading out to sea in a small boat with some others. please pray for these guys that they would be found as there been no sign at all not even wreckage.