This is certainly our first blog partially written while airborne, at around 10,000 feet over the central highlands. We are in transit back to Australia, having to overnight in Port Moresby as we were unable to coordinate our internal mission flight with a commercial flight to Brisbane.
In this inconvenience and additional expense, God is still working out His purposes. On arrival in Port Moresby, Keith will have meetings with two of our mission’s corporate suppliers – a global freight company and a local fuel supplier.
There are financial and administrative matters which have generated an ongoing exchange of emails between our respective staff, but have yet to be resolved. When Keith suggested taking advantage of our extra day in the capital to meet up, managers from both companies were keen to make time.
That is the way of corporate life in PNG, where the base principle of finding agreement is handled with a warm handshake and a face-to-face exchange. Yes, we have phone and email communications, but the personal touch still achieves what other methods cannot.
On the ground late in the day, and meeting with the four senior personnel was so worth it. They were all encouraged by putting a face to the many emails, and we parted with a better understanding of the issues and the next steps to be taken.
This beats online chat any day!
Prayer points
- Pray that our mission organisation maintains a positive Christian witness as we wrestle with difficulties on a daily basis.
- Pray that Keith can maintain the momentum of improvement to our systems during the next two months working remotely, and sporadically.
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