Hello friends!
As we continue to serve here, we are realizing the near end of our 4+ year term. We have begun to reflect on our time here and the future ahead.  We are very thankful to the Lord for you, and send warm greetings. We also look forward to seeing many of you when we return.

Looking back on the last 4 years, there are memories of many accomplishments, joys and those times of strain and loss. 

We can't recount our PNG life without remembering how so many bless us in numerous ways. Yes, you! We want to say thank you! We know that people pray and also give, sacrificially. God is good! And He will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory! Below we'll share some more recent events in our lives.

Seth is part of an important group of people here in Ukarumpa…The Graduating Class! The Lord has uniquely shaped this young man. He's a “gentle giant” with a strong desire to do what is right. We (along with the community) have learned of his musical talent. He sang “How Many Kings” with his friend (written by the Christian band “Downhere”) and everyone was shocked and wowed.
His plan is to become a commercial pilot, so please pray for him. He wants to be smart about this route, which is also quite expensive! He is a bit nervous as well, leaving his familiar life for one that is foreign to him.

Pray also that Seth finds a job. Being that we are not considered residents of Ontario, he cannot apply for OSAP until he's been in Ontario for 6 months. This means he will not be able to go to college right away. He hopes to work, and save for school.

Steven turned 16 just about a month ago. He is looking forward to seeing his brothers in Canada, being with Grandpa an Grandma…and fishing! Steven loves to play sports. We'll have to figure a way for him to play them when we're back in Canada.

Some of you may remember Tanya's trip to North America in January. Our friends Hollie and Hasso Pape were married and Tanya was able to go to support them with that. Hollie is a Bible Translator for the Gibaio people in Gulf Province, Papua New Guinea. She is one of the people on the front lines which we have tried to help and encourage through the years. Now Married, the work will be easier and likely more effective. She and Hasso are a wonderful couple and we are excited for them!

We decided that since Tanya was in North America, she should go and see our boys and possibly help Caleb and Maddy with wedding plans. It also helped to see Caleb and Daniel's context and do some mom things for them! They had a number of adventures and Tanya is encouraged at how they are doing. They are doing well and have a better idea of how to do life on their own. Daniel was struggling without a car, but he recently got his car on the road, though, after a long battle.
Caleb and Maddy are steadily working on wedding plans.

We are working hard to finish up here, cleaning, organizing and paring things down. Jeremy finished a Transmission rebuild last month and plans to drop his role of repair supervisor in April as an early transition for the shop. He will be freed up to do more of the technical repairs, yet be available while others take over his previous duties. We plan to take a few days break in Cairns Australia on the way home. The work to close up in PNG then all the cleaning and moving in Canada looks better with a bit of a break in between. Also Seth will not likely be able to visit Australia like this again. When we land in Canada, we will have no car. We have been praying about this point. We know the Lord provides and we (Jeremy) have been doing our best to leave it in His hands.

The Lord is good! Many today are questioning the reality of a God reigning in the heavens. The complex reality of our being, the deep places within us, even the knowledge and reality of what we recognize as evil or wrong, testifies to one who marks out a standard of goodness and what is true and orderly. The very building blocks of plant life, or even the curl of an ocean wave also show this. But that is only the periphery of His print on our world. Knowing Him; magnet like, aligns that which long had lost meaning, direction or value. It turns out, we were made for much more then we thought! So…what's broken? II Cor 5:17-21

Praise with us: 

• The Lord has kept us and taught us many things through this term.
• Seth is finishing well, having learned much, who pushed himself out of what was comfortable.
• Tanya was able to encourage a friend and see our two boys when she went to North America in January. Also, there have not been any medevacs since December.
• Caleb and Daniel are figuring out life in Canada.

Pray with us:

• Pray for Seth and Steven; they're leaving what's familiar and needing to make a new life and friendships in Canada.
• Pray for wisdom in Seth and Steven's schooling next year.
• Pray for us as we search for a car or two (if Seth works full time) when we return.
• Pray we have a renter in our PNG home during our time in Canada.
• Pray for good adjustment with all the transitions for our entire family, and future family.

Thank you for your prayer, gifts and encouragement,

Jeremy, Tanya, Caleb, Daniel, Seth, and Steven