The "Pasar" means market.

 

 

I drove to the pasar one day, took Nanay Angie and my Swiss friend Anja to buy fresh produce. Here in Sentani market you can buy variety of fruits and vegetables.  There are some green leafy veggies that as an Asian don't dare to eat! :-) We also bought fresh fish and chickens.  Behind Nanay are Durians, the king fruit!



Nanay and Meshel's visit in Papua!

It was a blessing to have Glenda's mom and sister visiting us in Papua.  They have been there for a month to enjoy family and see the kind of work Gertjan is doing.

 

They had a chance to fly with MAF to Kiwirok and witness the work our pilots and mechanics are doing daily. It was a beautiful day for them to experience it.

 



 

To them, being there and meeting the people in the village opens their eyes to awareness.  Awareness that the gospel was reached because of Mission Aviation.

Selamat hari Natal.. Merry Christmas... Gezegende kerstdagen ... Maayong Pasko!

 

This was our celebration on Christmas days!  We gave a basket of basic goods to our help girl and few gifts for her and family!  We hope we were able to bless her in a small way.

 

 

 

On Christmas day, we invited Indonesian teachers to come and celebrate with us. We introduce to them the "gourmet" or grill your own food.  It is a Dutch tradition to do such special occassion!

 

 

We also invited the new Mechanic family that just came out from language school... the Chin family!

 

 

In the morning of Christmas day, we picked one gift coming out from MAF- NL!  Eventhough we were just healed from being having a virus and fever in the holidays.  We were glad to celebrate our Saviour LORD JEsus when He came to earth as a baby just to forgive and save us!

TITIP Students !!!

This was our first time to be involved with the Papuan students in TITIP!  They had been inviting us to join their fun night.  At last we did! And we liked it very much!

 

 

TITIP students are young Papuan gentlemen and ladies.  They are coming from the different tribes of Papua.  They had finished their high school and before going on to further education they choose to enroll this vocational school in TITIP.

 

On thanksgiving day, they presented a skit and a dance! The skit portrayed how the highlands and people from the coast came to know each other and Christianity. At first, they thought they were the only people living in the land.  SO when the two tribes met each other-- they fought.  But gladly, a missionary came and shared the gospel to both of them.  Then they reconciled! 

The first photo are: the first photo is the new generation of Papuans; second picture represents the highlanders in Papua.  The third photo is the picture of the people from the coast.

Dedication of MAF new Kodiak in Papua, Indonesia!

 

MAF-Papua team are glad to receive a new Kodiak to be of service to the Papuan people!

We praise and thank the Lord for this provision. And so we had a dedication day with singing and prayers.  Pak Sam was leading it, followed by Ibu Lucy and Miles McClure who lead us to prayer of thanksgiving and offering!

 

PK-MAX is the new name of this Kodiak.  We hope that soon we are given authorization to fly this tool for the Lord service in Papua!  May there'll be showers of blessing to us MAF staff, our supporters, our family and friends!

Yes, we know that this is an old logo! We will wait for the proper time to change it.

"Olah raga" or sports with Ultimate friesbee!

After our MAF half-day of prayer, it's time for MAF-Karyawan ( national workers) to play sports or games at MAF base in Sentani!  This time a new game was introduced by our athletic MAF-expats!

Karin Allrich and Natalie Holsten were the acting trainers on how to play " the Ultimate Friesbee"!

Hang-on a second! Before these ladies gave instruction to our Papuan brothers and sisters.  They were given a chance to do some practice! That was a chaos and lots of fun and laughters because those friesbees would just fly like flying saucers. It would hit on electric wires, almost broke my window glasses and damage my beautiful hibiscus plants! But they had a blast! So I am ok with it! :-)

MAF half-day of prayer & sports!

As I was looking around the office, I saw these plaques that represent our faithful pilots who lost their lives on service with MAF to the Papuan tribes and Indonesians.  In each plaque has its own life verse from the Bible. They are indeed worthy to be honored!

This is the (pendeta), or a minister who imparted God's words to us and encouraged us on his sermon this morning.  His theme was " Sukacita Melayani" or the Joy of Serving! He was mentioning our calling, the reasons why we are here and he used John 3:16 as text!

Didik an MAF Karyawan, Indonesian worker spotted good things that helped MAF Safety Operation.
One time, he spotted a bullet that hits a plane tire following an incident to one of the villages where MAF operates.  Didik has been acknowledged by our Chief of Maintenance! It was a surprise for Didik and he was grateful to receive it!