Thank you so much for praying! We are safely back in the Philippines as of last night! God undertook for us in every way on our trip!!
Funny but it sort of feels like we were never away – we stepped out of the airport into a familiar world of oppressive heat, smog, children playing in the busy streets, horns blaring and traffic absolutely crazy, garbage piled up along the sides of the streets. Quite a contrast to the very cold weather we had in Warragul the day we left Aussie soil, the pristine country-side, the neat brick houses and the hot roast dinner and raspberry cheesecake that we ate with our friends there before we left.
Jubab would say, “It’s like we were teleported into a different world!” And it DOES seem like a different world but a familiar one and although Jubab had a couple of sad moments at lunch time because he wanted to eat a pizza rather than rice and snails (yes! we really did eat snails..... ) he soon recovered and enjoyed it. (He was happy though that there was chicken too.)
An exciting event happens tomorrow evening! Jubab’s teacher Barbara Bjerking arrives with her sister Heather on the flight from Melbourne and we are thrilled for the answer to prayer that they are to us!! We’ll introduce you more to them when we get down to Lapoc.
We talked on the phone today to our daughter Jen and are very excited about seeing them in a few more days!
This is just a short email as we are very travel-weary tonight but we want you to know that we are back safe, that we are resting in God’s grace and goodness to us and that it is a huge privilege to be able to serve Him in this way.
Much Love....
Paul, Deb and Jubab XXXXX
