Papua New Guinea
Avinun,
Greetings, today we are going to take a look at Papua New Guinea.
Here are a few quick facts about Papua New Guinea.
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There are over 800 languages in Papua New Guinea one of which is English.
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The capital of Papua New Guinea is Port Moresby.
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Air travel is one of the most common modes of transportation.
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Over 8.6 million people live in Papua New Guinea.
*Queen Alexandra's Birdwing, the worlds largest butterfly, is native to Papua New Guinea, Its wingspan is 9.8 inches (25 centimeters).
*Papua New Guinea is one of the least explored countries.
*The Sepik River is the longest river in Papua New Guinea. It is 699 miles long
Today
I’m going to introduce you to two books about missionaries to New Guinea. Peace Child is a book about missionaries to
the Sawi people. In this book Don
Richardson shares about when he and his family lived with the Sawi people and
he tells some of the joys and hardships of living with the Sawi.
Don, his wife Carol, and their young son Stephen moved into their jungle home in 1962 and were there 15 years learning a new culture and language so they would be able to share the gospel. Trouble is met when Culture seems to conflict with the Gospel. Will the Sawi be able to understand God’s message to them?
An amazing story of how God is preparing people to hear His word years before anyone even knows about them. You will want to read this book and find out all that God had in store for the Richardson’s and the Sawi people.
In
Mission Possible you will go with Marilyn Lazlo on her journey to
finding God’s will for her life and end up in New Guinea. Travel the Sepik River with Marilyn and her
co-missionary Judy Rehburg as they are taken to the Sepik Iwam people and left
on their own to live in a strange new land.
Go with Marilyn as she learns the language and teaches the natives to
read and then works to translate the Bible with her native helpers and see the
way this transformed an entire people group.
Check out this book out by clicking the link above.
There
are still missionaries to the people in Papua New Guinea today. Ethnos36o is one mission who has missionaries
in Papua New Guinea as well as many other countries. They work to go to new places where no
missionary has ever been before. Let’s
pray for the missionaries in Papua New Guinea that they would be able to
overcome all obstacles and tell the new of Jesus more clearly. If you would like to give to help these
missionaries or just want to learn more about what God is doing in Papua New
Guinea CLICK HERE.
Since I
started teaching school several weeks ago I’ve decided to share some other
artsy projects and maybe some that I also teach my students. For this first one
we are going to make a leather bound tablet.
What
you’ll need:
Leather
(example: old
boot)
4
pieces of Graph paper
4
pieces of Copy paper
4
pieces of Construction paper
1
piece of Card stock
Black Cord Elastic (You can order this online or get it off of sandals when your sisters buy new ones 😉)
Copper
pipe or beads
Stapler
Wire
for decoration (not pictured)
Hole punch or
ice pick (not pictured)
Tubing cutter
(not pictured)
This is the tablet I am looking off of to make my tablet.
I used an old
boot for my leather, but you can use any piece or size of leather to make your
tablet.
If you’re
using a boot like I did, cut off the biggest rectangle of leather you can get.
I was able to get one about7” x 4 ½”, but the tablet I’m making today is only
6” x 4 ½”.
Once you’ve
gotten the size of your tablet cover figured out you can cut your papers. Figure out the measurements before you cut
the paper. Do the width about an inch
less than the cover width and the height ½ inch less. So for my tablet I should’ve done about 5” x
4”.
Cut the
cardstock piece into 4 pieces that are 5” x 4”. Fold each piece in half.
Cut the copy
paper so that each piece makes four pieces 5” x 4”. You should have a total of 16 pieces. Fold
each individual piece in half and stack them together.
Do the same
with the construction paper. This paper is a little thicker so it will be
bulkier.
Cut the graph paper into 16 pieces 5” x 4” Try to line it up so that the blue lines are the same for every page. Fold each piece in half.
Once you’ve
folded all the pages in half slide them inside a card stock piece. Open up the stack and staple it right in the
middle.
You should
now have three little booklets which will be the pages in your tablet.
Now we’ll
work on the cover. I used this kind of
hole punch to make the holes about ½ inch from the edge and then that far to
the next one and then one right in the middle.
You can also use an ice pick to make pretty good holes.
This is how
the cover should look once the holes are in it.
Next we will
make the pieces to put along the back and at the ends of the string. You can
either use beads or some kind of tube or pipe like I did. I used a tubing cutter to cut my copper pipe
and cut 4 pieces about 3/8” long.
I washed the
pieces very good to make them shiny. You
can see the difference in the picture.
Now you can
make any decoration you want for the front of your tablet. I decided to make a star with a little piece
of wire. I used pliers to bend it into
shape.
Make a small
loop of wire to attach the star or other decoration to the tablet. Or find a loop from something else that you
already have like this.
Use a piece
of black elastic cord to tie the two sections of white paper together. Thread
one of the beads/copper sections onto both ends and then knot it to hold it in
place.
Make a piece
of leather to go around the opening of the tablet. An oval with two holes poked
into it on both ends will work.
Then get all
your next pieces ready. The cover, black elastic cord, remaining beads, cover
decoration, construction paper pages, and leather oval.
Thread the
elastic cord through the top hole and then through a “bead” and back in. Come out of the middle hole and lay the pages
inside the cover so you can see how much elastic cord you need to let out. Add
cover decorations and the leather oval then thread the cord back thru the
middle hole. Come out the next to last
hole and put on a “bead” then take the cord back inside thru the last hole.
Lay the pages
that you have tied together in the cover .
Put the last
pages in the middle and open them up.
Bring the elastic cord from the top and thread on the last “bead” onto
both cords. Tie the ends together in a knot and trim off extra cord.
Close the
tablet and put the elastic band around it. Your tablet is done.
Here is a picture of the two I’ve done so far. You can use these as gifts or for yourself
for a journal. Or just make one to say you did it. They’re really easy to make.
Here are a couple that my students made.
Good-bye. Gutbai Lukim yu behain.
Sources: World Book Encyclopedia, Papua New Guinea
Wikepedia
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