please pray

We would like to ask you to pray for us in these next several weeks…

Chad has been in a lot of pain, took antibiotics for a month, and still nothing has helped. After seeing our mission doctor again, he recommended that we need to get more help, leaving us with 2 options, going to Cairns Australia or back to the States. If we were to go to Cairns, we have to apply for a medical visa which would take up to 6 weeks to obtain. At this point in time, with the amount of pain that Chad is in, we feel that waiting 6 weeks to get help is not the best decision. We can leave next week and have a doctor’s appointment as soon as we get back. So that is the route we feel we need to take. We as a family will head back to the States on June 3rd and seek some medical attention.

Please pray for all the details of travel to get worked out.
Pray for travelling, especially for Chad to be able to sit in the plane for 25 plus hours.
Pray for the doctors to find the problem and for Chad to heal quickly.
And pray for a safe and quick return to PNG. Lord willing, we will return sometime in July.

This is not the ideal timing for us. We are just getting into the real “meat” of Romans, teaching about the Christian walk. But God knows all this, as well as what the young Tobo church needs for these coming weeks. We will choose to rest in God’s wisdom and timing in all this.

Thanks for all your prayers,

Chad, Janeene, Elijah & Zekey

PS- Please also be in prayer for our partners the Williamsons who will be holding down the fort by themselves while we are gone. Praise God—Jason has recently finished his formal Tobo culture and language study and is excited to jump into more in-depth discipleship ministry.