Airport Bounty

Eleven people headed for SITAG arrived in Honiara today.

 



The first airplane arrived from Fiji around 11:30.  I love that the planes still unload onto the tarmac and we can stand on the roof and cheer as some of our favorite people get off.

 



 

We're looking forward to celebrating with this family at the Kwaio New Testament dedication next month.

 

And we're super thankful that a volunteer "computer guy" also arrived on the plane. 

 

We drove back to SITAG, got the first crew settled, and turned around to pick up the next load of wonderful people arriving from Australia.

 

 

This silly friend wore her hot pink "thongs" as flip-flops are called over here and in Australia.  She started quite a conversation about the different uses of the word.  She also didn't know that her SITAG colleagues had stuffed her awaiting car full of balloons to welcome her back to Honiara.

The next two weeks present a very small window of wonderful people living in Honiara for a very short time.  We intend to take advantage of every spare moment to spend time with these funny and intelligent people who love the Lord and are here to serve Him.



 

 

Maybe it's building a sound studio and typing handwritten notes from a language you don't know, like Henk and Margreet, or maybe it's fixing computers like our friend who just arrived on the plane, or maybe it's hosting new families for supper.  All of those things support Bible translation and build up the body of Christ here in the Solomon Islands.

Our SITAG caravan pulled out of the airport led by our colleague (and several SITAG kids) with pink balloons on her car, followed by the truck full of kids and luggage, and my vehicle brought up the rear.  It's like a great big family with the bounty and beauty of people and the unique way God made each one of us!