Road to Indonesia----"To the Ends of the Earth"

 https://maf.org/ Pull up the Mission Aviation Fellowship website. It can direct you to the closest theater showing of their video, "To the Ends of the Earth", featuring Indonesia.  I have not seen it but heard some of the stories on it....from the real live people. Go watch it!!

Road to Indonesia---Blood Donation

 I have asked around and may not have this story exactly right, but I will share what little I know. In one of the villages last Sunday, the church was attacked by people from another tribal group with bows and arrows and possibly machetes.  People were killed and at least 8 serious injuries.  MAF flew out 6 of the injured people here to Sentani for medical care.  Two of them were too seriously injured, on oxygen, and could not fly out.  We do not know what their condition is.  An emergency call for blood donations went out. A major need is AB+ blood.  I have AB+ blood and responded that I would gladly donate but I had hepatitis 40+ years ago and thought I could not.  They asked the doctor and he said if it was hep A, I could still donate.  There was also a question if I was too old, but the answer was if I was in good health.  So we went up to school today with a group of missionaries to wait for the Red Cross blood donation workers to arrive. They were delayed and delayed again, but

Road to Indonesia---PON Games

 What a tremendous privilege.  The PON National Sports Week Games are being hosted in Papua, which means things are very, very busy around here for the next 2 weeks. A huge gorgeous new stadium as well as numerous other locations around the area have been built. The games are played every 4 year and were to have been played in 2020, but like so much else was delayed by a year.  That our remote island was chosen to host these activities is really quite something. The airport that must accomodate all this activity is just a few miles down the road from us.  The main stadium is about 20 minutes away.  There has been much speculation about how this might effect we who live here, from internet shut down, to crippling traffic, but so far, so good.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Sports_Week_(Indonesia) https://en.tempo.co/read/1513102/jokowi-3-papuan-boys-play-soccer-at-national-games-opening