David and Robin Watters minister in a support role in supply buying and teaching in Papua New Guinea. “The Kuyu people have been giving letters to the neighbouring Pal people group asking for missionaries for seven years. The Pal people have had missionaries and now have an established church. Because the Kuyu people have seen the life-changing transformation in the Pal people but … can’t understand their language, they are desperate for missionaries to come. It took the missionaries a 10-hour hike, even after a helicopter ride, to reach this remote location. As the missionaries visited the Kuyu people, they explained that they will come to do four things: Learn the Kuyu language, teach them to read and write in the Kuyu language, translate the Bible into the Kuyu language and teach them God’s message from beginning to end. Pal believers accompanied the missionaries, so that the Kuyu people could ask them questions about what it was like to have missionaries come to live with them. While the Kuyu people are spread out in several different villages, they came together in one location, and representatives from each village said “yes!” they want the missionaries to come.

“The Kuyu language group is only accessible by helicopter. They will use our centre in Madang province as a centre of operations. This coming week the missionaries will be starting to ‘scout’ potential locations where they can shuttle their building supplies from. The shorter the shuttle time, the less it will cost the missionaries to get their building materials into the bush. Pray they will be able to find somewhere that enables them to have a shorter shuttle time.”