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Missionary acts out

“How do you know you’re not in the jungle?” asks Elise Long. “As you pull on your shoes for a morning run, you remember you don’t have to check them for scorpions or centipedes hiding inside.”

Elise left her home in the jungle to attend the NTM Youth Conference in the UK this week. Elise writes that 260 young people arrived by bus, plane and car for a weekend of exposure to tribal missions. 

“The place is packed with Germans, Dutch, Italians and even one or two from Albania and Chile,” Elise shares. With the visitors to the conference and the students who are in training, a total of 360 people were in the meetings, counting residents and visitors.

Elise will be sharing about her ministry with the Brooke’s Point Palawano people and what it’s like live in a tribal village. “We acted out a drama to give the visitors a taste of what it’s like to be a tribal person living in spiritual darkness and waiting for the Gospel.” 

The drama, which Elise says was based on the culture of tribes in Papua New Guinea, is “so realistic; right down to the recorded jungle crickets, the smoky fire and people grating coconuts and peeling sweet potatoes. We acted out an initiation ceremony, which was interrupted by the arrival of a sick man on a stretcher, and the shaman … who has put a curse on the patient.” It had a profound impact on those who witnessed it.

Be in prayer for the young people attending this conference as they see and hear the impact that God’s Word is having in unreached people groups all over the world.

Elise recalls the parting words of her Palawano friend, Ludi, as she left for the conference, “Our ancestor’s legends are like ‘apa’ (rice husk/chaff) compared to God’s Word. It’s the ‘uned’ (the rice grain) that fills us up!” 

Pray for the Word of God to be powerful and to “fill up” these students’ lives as they leave the conference and seek God’s leading for their futures. Elise feels hopeful that in the audience were some future NTM coworkers. Pray also for Elise as she returns to take part in sharing God’s Word with the Palawano people. Pray for God’s powerful Word to work in Palawano hearts toward the building of His Kingdom.

Tags: Asia-Pacific, Brooke's Point Palawano People, Mission News, Prayer Papua New Guinea, Philippines, United Kingdom,
POSTED ON Mar 28, 2012 by Cathy Drobnick