Papua August 1 2011 earthquake : 2000 people living on Bam volcano island at ...
About a week ago our family flew out of Los Angeles and 5 days later we touched down in our supply town of Wewak, Papua New Guinea. It has been exactly 1 year since we left. Two days after we landed, I jumped on our little 23ft boat along with my co-worker Thomas Depner , and made the 5 hr trip back to Biem Island . What a thrill be back there and see the many faces that God’s allowed us to befriend over the years. They’re comments ranged from “man you sound terrible…your tongue is so ‘heavy’ from speaking just English for a year” to “My word, you’ve become SO fat!”. What a “warm” Biem style welcome.The hardest thing about my return visit was the seeing the clear absence of our co-workers Wayne & Gail Chen. Gail continues to battle cancer at home in Taiwan. Doctors have said that any possible recovery will take 18-24 months and this has been a huge blow to them with the Gospel presentation looming in the future. Please continue to pray for them.
We’ve got some translation workshops to attend on the mainland for several weeks. After that, we’ll return to Biem as a family and set about language recovery. Pray that the information recovery goes swiftly. From there we’ll make preparations for literacy to begin and after that, the Gospel. There’s tons of work to be done between now and then and we pray that God would give us the stamina, wisdom, and health to move quickly as lives do hang in the balance.
Many of you know that months ago we shipped a sea container, with our larger boat inside it, from the States to PNG. About a week ago it was released from PNG Customs and delivered to Wewak where we’ll unpack it. We’ve still got a few papers to get signed but the container is in one piece, the customs charges (which could have been lethal) were reasonable, and hopefully we can extract the boat next week. Thanks so much for praying for the voyage, customs, and finances in this process.
Well, I’ll wrap it up for now. Much more to come as we get settled in here. We sure are thankful for you and the sacrifices you each make so that we can see the Biem reached with the Gospel.
~Brandon The video below gives an impression of how people are living on the Bam (Biem) Island .
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BTW this aint Eyjafjalla Glacier but the new/smaller Volcano that had been erupting for a month before Eyjafjallajokull erupted. yeah 2 volcanos in almost 2 monts, hope Katla aint next, still Third times a charm :S Some footage of recent volcanic activity in Iceland. Some historical info on that greater area taken from wikipedia: 1783 June 8 The volcano Laki, in Iceland, begins an 8-month eruption which kills 9350 people (25% of the population) and starts a 7-year famine. The eruption causes deaths of livestock when they eat contaminated grass and also widespread crop failure. Effects of the Laki volcano were felt all over Europe.. New evidence has been unearthed to conclude that this was one of “the greatest environmental catastrophes in European History”. en.wikipedia.org see more specific current info here www.ruv.is
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hehe well how many volcano’s have you seen up close and personal?
I can tell you this is authentic video from the governments owned TV station RUV, and that tens of thousand ppl went up there to take pictures of that puny new volcanic crack in the ground there, just check out more videos of the same here on youtube, this btw is not the big volcano Eyjafjallajokull that erupted a month later
@Fantazk no and hopefully she wont, then id sell any shares I had in airplane company and invest it in ships and any ash-cleanup-device makers lol
But you should know Katla has erupted regularly every 60-80 years or so since records began and she last erupted in 1918 so she is overdue, also in the other 3 times Eyjafjalla glacier has erupted (not counting this time) Katla has also erupted around the same time
hmm thats like about 22 years past deadline and 75% likelyhood of eruption looks bad.
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