Also, the funding from ADRA for Nina's Laity Mobile Health Service is a real answer to prayer.

Glossary of terms and abbreviations:

AAS - Adventist Aviation Services
DD - District Director
Omaura - Bible College in the Highlands
ADRA - Adventist Development and Relief Agency
MSA - Mission Support Aviation  - That is us!

November 1, 2006

Hi Jack,
Its hard to believe how fast the time has flown this month. I got to
Australia to hold my beautiful new grand daughter briefly. Hope things are
continuing to go well for you guys.

Things are progressing well with the missionary work. My friend Greg is here
at the moment and we are focusing on getting the radio installations at the
Kapi clinic and the Wia Wia clinic going while he is here over the next couple
of weeks. I am delighted with how things are going in the Kapi area. We are
paying for 3 lay missionaries over that side of the river now and this year
they have built and started a a 4th hand church. Pr Tom the DD is going over
there late November to run some programs and help these laymen with this boost
to their witness. I got a megaphone for one of them on my last trip to
Australia. Nina has picked someone to go to the Kapi clinic next year. The
husband has just finished lay missionary training at Homu. I am available to
take Pr Tom over to that side any time he wants. It is really close to where a
lot of our commercial work is so it costs very little to get him there and
back. I am really excited to see God blessing this work.

We are going up to the mountains on the western side of Goroka on Sabbath to a
church where another of our laymen is working. I helped with some roofing
iron for the church recently. It is being dedicated this week and there is a
baptism on Sabbath. Pr Jessly the mission president is coming too. This is
the area where the guy was cut asunder three times with a bush knife but did
not bleed and lived to tell the tale.

Both the missionaries up in there are being sponsored through MSN to go to
Omaura for ministry training next year. I have found sponsorship for 6 guys.
You will see costs and all in my report attached.

Still have not been able to get hold of a vehicle. Missed a couple of good
ones by hearing of them too late.

It looks like Roger will get his large aircraft before the end of the year.
World 13th Sabbath offerings were way up this last quarter. Camp meeting
offerings in Australia have reached unheard of sums. The money is almost
there and the plane is already under construction. He is trying to get a few
more pilots and is securing another hired aircraft. While that is good in a
way it is going to boost his capacity by about 500 percent overall and that is
going to have an effect on the market place around here. I am hoping that one
of the new pilots he gets will have a heart to foster and nurture the
missionary work I have been involved in so that I can go be useful somewhere
else in the country.

The challenge I face is that Roger still wants me to become his employee. He
keeps trying to tell me that I am not achieving all I want to do and that I
should just give in and work for him and make his dreams come true. He is
doing a good job and what he is doing is important and God is calling him to
do that I am sure. But It is quite different to what I am trying to do and he
does not seem to have an appreciation of what the conditions needed to make
the project I am working on work. So I will keep praying that God will open
the way for further advancement of the work.

Roger is not keen for me to start another base in Hagen or anywhere. His idea
is that if there is not much work around here, I can do spasmodic forays into
other areas and try to find work. That is not what I need. I need to be able
to put roots down in an area, really get to know the DDs and the ministers and
laymen and work closely with them to help them get the resources they need and
facilitate their movement around the field to get missionary work of various
kinds working effectively. This means regular services - not just isolated
stab in the dark stuff.

I may have to try and make other arrangements for Air operator certificate
coverage if he does not budge on this. I cant afford to be caught sitting
around here with no work to facilitate the missionary outreach in this part
of the country. If AAS has the capacity to care for the missionary work here,
I need to move on. But if I am restricted from moving to where there is work
and mission need, and have no work here, I am cornered.

My scope for moving on is also limited by the type of aircraft I have. It
does not have a turbo charger and is almost useless up Hagen way. The
president up there has asked me already to come and provide a similar service
there to what we have around here. I am talking to Simon about some options
for improving this aircrafts performance. I hope we can work something out. If
not I may need to consider going to Vanimo or somewhere down low. But even
there, a lot of the work is up into the mountains inland.

So I am saving as much as I can at the moment and trying to put a bit a way
for hard times if they come next year.

Nina has received ADRA funding at last and the nurses are out circulating
again. It is fantastic to be able to carry them around on their life saving
work. I picked up a dying mother yesterday who was having major problems in
child birth. I feel privileged to be able to help these kind of people.


God bless
Regards
Trevor

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