Mud

"Kenny, did you go off-roading?"
"No, honestly. I only went to town."
"Kenny, go out there and look at your truck and then look me in the face and tell me you didn't go off-roading!"
"Seriously, I only went to town!

Jumping for Joy

They wanted to PROVE they could hover in mid air. This picture proves it.

Village check of the Thessalonians

I checked 1 and 2 Thessalonians today with two savvy men who live in Vila. Even though they are both readers, and both worked for the government for 30 years before retiring, they found checking the scripture to be unfamiliar territory, and were hesitant. However, after a few chapters, they got the hang of it. By the end, I didn't even need to ask comprehension questions-- I just read a verse, and they'd tell me what it means. I was pleased that the bit about the "hidden power of sinfulness" wasn't totally confusing to them. However, "Big House of God" just doesn't seem to work as an equivalent for "temple."

You can see a little video of our village check by clicking here.

Kate can ride a bike

Kate can ride a bike now-- right before her fifth birthday. The video is on our youtube channel.

Rascals

We awoke last night to a man in our bedroom, stealing our laptops. We screamed, he ran and went through the kitchen window. He got two laptops that are oldish and don't have much info. Thankfully, he didn't get a chance to get our good laptops with all our work on them. We didn't get a picture of him to post on the blog, but here's a picture of our new center manager Robert Harmon installing new security bars.

Trip across the island

I drove in the mud across to the Southwest side of Tanna. Needed the winch to pull me up in five different places, and I came to the conclusion that if you need the winch five times, you probably shouldn't be driving. At one point, I was going up a steady incline that was too muddy, so the truck slipped. I slammed on the brakes, and the truck began slipping backwards despite me standing on the brakes. That's a terrible feeling! Jakob grabbed his girl and jumped out of the truck. I had him rip out the winch cable and wrap it around a tree so the truck wouldn't slip any further. At one point, the truck was bogged down in a river, the water was about as high as the tailgate in the back left wheel. Wish I had pictures, but, those times are so stressful, I'm not in the mood for taking pictures!

On the drive, I also so the first Digicel Cell phone tower to be knocked over and destroyed by the inhabitants of Yenfitana-- that is, the very people that the tower was benefiting destroyed it, after just one year of cell phone service. Actually, I'm surprised it took a year for one of those towers to get destroyed. Tried to take a pic of that-- very sad to see this huge tower laying on its side; but my camera battery was dead. Vanuatu's Mobile Force and police were coming up the track behind me to see if they could arrest someone for destroying the tower; but their truck couldn't make it up the hill.

Webcam Online

Back by popular demand, our live webcam will do video feed during daylight hours Sunday January 25 (Vanuatu time) which means from about noon on Saturday Jan 24 till about midnight, in America. See what you can see! It'll show people coming and going to church in the morning, and will show the volcano if the weather is clear. The link is at nehrbass.info/wc.html