Our fourth graduate, Flora Tambe, will begin teaching at the beginning of our new school year in February. Please pray for Flora and our teaching staff.
          Our first grade teacher, Jessie
Mwaraksurmes is leaving Vanuatu so we are short a teacher. Please pray for Jessie as she goes to New Zealand with her family. She will be greatly missed both at school and church as she also has been our tiny tots Sunday School teacher.
          Flora will be assuming her position as first grade teacher as well as a Sunday School teacher.
          Being short one staff member means Mr. Welin will be teaching both second and third grade this year. Please be in prayer for Edwin as he has double duty for our school year.
          We also still need a trainee teacher for next year. Please make that a matter of prayer. We know God is in control.
          With over a hundred students this year and a growing church, we are desperate for space. Pray for our building.  We need funds to complete the work.

NEARLY READY TO SHIP
We are packing and organizing all our ministry items for shipping.  Some of you have told us you have books for the school, or tools for the building project. Please send them as soon as possible where we can include them in the container.

Since our last letter we have been as far North as Ohio, East to New Jersey and Virginia.  We have been to Georgia and South Carolina reporting to our supporting churches, and in a total of five new churches. We praise the Lord for renewed fellowship and the opportunity to share God’s blessings in Vanuatu. Pray God will continue to increase our support.

 
Lightening may not strike twice in the same place but thieves do!  A couple of weeks ago you received our SOS telling of a break-in at our building site.  The robbers couldn’t break the locks so cut through hasps on the steel container to get in!
          Some of you have asked if insurance is available for building sites in Vanuatu. There are no insurance companies doing business in Vanuatu that will cover building site burglaries as they are a very common occurrence.
          Because of the first break-in only minimal supplies were being kept in the building container.  However, the thieves stole all the nails, steel wire, hammers and our generator, the only source of electrical power for constructing our building.
          On the field it will take about $1,500 to replace our generator. Please pray for funds to replace it where building can continue. If you can help us with this need, we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you to those who have already responded to our email.
          We also ask you to keep our building project in your prayers.

Praise –  Two teens and two of our school kids recently trusted the Lord as Saviour since our last letter
Prayer – My brother Ernie Spore is having a kidney removed due to a tumor.
Praise–Urgent Prayer – We are out of space for church and school.  Pray for funds to complete our building. On the building site we are almost ready to pour the floor.
Prayer – Lynn will have her cataract surgery Feb 5 and Feb 26

Prayer  – We need two teacher trainees.  One will replace Jessie and one to train for fourth grade.
Praise/Prayer – Our first youth group meeting to kick off the new will be after the kids are back for the school year. Pray we see a bigger harvest than ever before.
Prayer  – Funds for a field vehicle of the $15000 needed we have had $0 designated