Hello friends,

We haven’t updated since being back in the states as its been so much going and the business of life and we apologize for that. We will be sending an update out this week with pictures and info about some plans but we are writing to ask you all to pray for the situation in Papua.

If you haven’t seen it on the news there is a lot of unrest in Papua these past 2 weeks. Without going into a really long letter here, the Papuans have been rioting as they are fighting for independence from Indonesia. This has been the case for many years but recently there was an incident that occurred and has sparked the worse span of riots to date on our island. I will attach a couple articles about what’s going on and Ill preface it with this;  because of social media and the internet we will not publicly discuss our views or more details on the topic on a public platform. If you’d like to discuss things in more detail we will gladly do so over email or phone but for now please pray for Papua.

At the moment many of our co-workers who live in town are headed off island until the unrest subsides. As far as our partners that are interior in the Dem they are not currently affected by this except for the fact that the people who buy supplies and the mission aviation orgs that make living interior possible are all in towns where these riots are taking place and thus could have affect our teammates interior if they continue.

Please pray for the riots to stop and for some sort of peace to take place. Please pray for the many missionaries that are in these towns that are needing to move off island until the violence subsides. We know nothing happens outside of God allowing it and we can rest knowing He is in control but these are certainly stressful times for many on the island we now call “home.”

Thx so much!

J

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/papua-protests-5-things-know-indonesia-unrest-11858328?fbclid=IwAR2RcKpxE0QCQ9C0Ng4497mjohLt1oGNQF3CYOAEh_5HnkO73jiZ3f3cgLU

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/indonesia-papua-riot-torch-government-building-11854306?fbclid=IwAR0Et4GlPLXh-WS6FRWvy7yndoOzOuL9nw5D5k2WqQM04jh2-U0ZfG6fRPE

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-29/papua-unrest-turns-violent-as-at-least-three-killed/11459994?fbclid=IwAR2AEtyw0WFEx5ytxAKp0VNdmtg7MtzyuPKb3nH2kK4yvEE8lc3fepZ76eI