SEPTEMBER 2012

SU P P O R T I N G B I B L E T R A N S L AT I O N T H R O U G H

Driggers days
heaven, an hands.

AUT OM OT IVE M AIN T AN ENC E IN P APU A N EW GU IN E A

The Bible says that this world is not our country. Our country is heaven. When you live in your own country you start to forget that you think This is my world, where I live, and this is how it has always been. As Christians we have forgotten that our homeland is in heaven. from Kristel Ortizs article the Forgotten Homeland. It is amazing how this statement has become our reality. In fact, just a few days ago, Jade and Sara were walking home in the late afternoon hours looking at the sky and Jade exclaimed when she saw the moon, They have a moon here too?! Throughout the last few weeks there have been times for each of our family members when it has felt as though we have moved to another planet. *smile* The picture at the top of the page is the place that we will call home for almost a year. Our new home is situated on a hillside and rests just along the Ukarumpa center property line, giving us an exceptional view. The view behind our home is of rolling green hills decorated with garden plots separated by small clusters of gloriously green trees (diwai pronounced de-why). Almost daily, small plumes of smoke rise from random garden plots (the main form of agriculture used by Papua New Guineans is the slash and burn technique). Resting just below our home is Jades school (Ukarumpa International Primary School), and throughout the day Sara can hear the bells ring and kids playing outside, very much like our home in York that was located next to an elementary school! God has been so gracious to give us reminders of our old home here. These memories, along with the incredible beauty of His creation here, are beyond what we could have hoped for in our new home. Normal weekdays begin around 5:30 to 6:00 in the morning, and we have no need for an alarm clock! The friendly neighborhood roosters begin waking around 4:00am which helps to begin the orchestra of song birds that sing us all awake in harmony with the six oclock sunrise. On most Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings Sara walks to and from the local produce market with at least one other Driggers in tow some time before 7:00am while the remaining crew finishes prepping for the day to begin their walk to school and auto shop. Work starts at 8:00am for Marty, where he is getting very dirty, while maintaining the vehicles that keep people traveling on the bumpy roads of Ukarumpa and beyond. The best part of Martys job by far is his opportunity to begin building relationships with the national men that are employed in the auto shop. Many things seem foreign to us as we continue to adapt to life in Papua New Guinea, and it is only by Gods provision through you that we have begun to daily impact the work of Bible translation here. Thank you for sending us! As we continue to work, live and love out our lives here in PNG we are reminded just as Kristel Ortiz wrote that we are citizens of heaven, doing the work of the God to whom no one is foreign. For His Glory Alone,

For we know

that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down, we will have a house in eternal body made for us by God Himself and not by human 2 Corinthians 5:1 NLT
Marty and Sara Driggers PO Box 1 (185) Ukarumpa EHP 444 Papua New Guinea (We would LOVE to get mail and candy!) m-s.driggers@sil.org.pg Skype with us: Marty.Driggers Sara.Driggers Follow our blog updates www.driggersdays.blogspot.com

Marty, Sara, Taylor, Tia, Miriam and Jade

Glimpses of Us in PNG
Right: Marty at the auto shop with the guys.

Please join our praise to God for what He has accomplished and provided in our lives:

Safe travels and Gods miraculous provisions for our flights here (please read our blog or ask us more about our experience!).

Left: Sara shopping at our local store for school supplies.

A lovely home that fits our family wonderfully and is available for us to rent until next July. We are unpacked and settling into our normal routines. Each of our girls are forming new friendships and loving all the youth activities available in Ukarumpa.

Right: Taylor enjoying the water slide with her youth group. The homemade water slide is on the hill outside our home.

Please continue to lift up these needs to our Heavenly Father:

Right: Jade on her first day of school.

Health. Our bodies have been weakened by stress and transition and we are battling sickness on a regular basis.

Finances. The exchange rate between the American dollar and the PNG kina combined with the increasing prices here are causing us to face an approximate 10% increase in our monthly support need.

Left: The Driggers girls before morning worship (can you find us?).
How to partner with us in the work of Bible translation:
Giving Online Follow this link: http://www.wycliffe.org/partnership.aspx? mid=6db362 By Mail If you prefer to send a check in the mail, please make your check payable to Wycliffe Bible Translators and send to: Wycliffe Bible Translators P.O. Box 628200 Orlando, FL 32862-8200 Make sure to include a separate note saying it is for the ministry of Marty and Sara Driggers (account # 270928).

New friendships. Please pray that Marty and Sara will begin to build new friendships and the girls will continue to do the same.

Transportation. Marty will have his dirt bike here some time after the first of the year, but until then we are walking up hill both ways (literally!) everywhere we go. Would you please pray that God would provide a way (four wheeler, dirt bike, or car) for our family to get around with more ease?