PAPUA NEW GUINEA, PART II
Avinun, Greetings, I know, we talked about Papua New Guinea
before, but I decided to do a part II
and introduce you to a couple more books and a CD/tape set.
So, a few more bits and pieces about Papua
New Guinea:
* Papua New Guinea takes up the eastern half
of New Guinea
* New Guinea is the 2nd largest
island in the world.
* Papua New Guinea gained complete
independence in 1975.
* Mount Wilhelm is the highest mountain at
14,793 ft.
* The money in Papua New Guinea is called the
kina.
* Most people raise crops for a living.
* Copper is the most valuable resource
exported from Papua New Guinea.
Now to introduce you to my books:
The Pineapple Story
This is either a book
or a tape or CD set
I’m most familiar with the tape set, which we listen to every
night at bed time. So, we quote Otto
Koning who was a missionary in Dutch New Guinea. He and his wife Carol and their young son
Otto, Jr. moved in with a native tribe and there they ran a clinic and trade
store and tried to learn the language. The
pineapple story series are packed full of interesting stories and practical
wisdom including learning to give up our rights, ways to pray, weapons of
spirtual warfare, and much more. Otto
has an interesting way of speaking and has caused me to think more seriously
about life. The series is all pretty expensive but you can find it on Amazon and various other places.
The book tells about the part of his life where Otto was
learning about giving up his rights, time, reputation, and health.
(Don’t judge a book by it’s cover)
This book is not a storybook, although it does have some
stories in it. In this book Frank C.
Laubach explains to us how we can change the world. Don’t you ever wish you had the power to? For
me, it is a good book to read when I wonder what I can do for God. It has a lot helpful things about prayer and
being filled with the Holy Spirit. Reaching
out to God with one hand saying, “What shall I do next?” and the other hand to
the world saying, “What can I do for you ?” Channels of spiritual power.
If you checked out Ethnos 360 two weeks ago you might have
seen the videos “Ee Taow” and “The Next Chapter”. These are two videos about a missionary, Mark Zook, to
New Guinea. They show how he told the
natives about the Bible and Jesus and then how he encouraged them to go tell
the neighboring villages. And the Gospel
continues to travel. Every time I watch
these videos it fills me anew with the longing to go be a missionary to some
people who have never heard the good news.
but right now what I can do is pray for those people that others could
be missionaries and tell the good news near and far. Pray with me.
And now for the thing you can make… Today I’m going to show
you how to make refills for a Dental Floss holder. This is another thing that can be used as a
gift for someone and may seem rather unusual but I think people like them,
maybe partly because of that. It’s very
simple, but can take some time.
What
you’ll need:
Scissors
Paper
cutter (optional)
1 piece
of typing paper
an empty
dental floss holder
clear
tape
#1. Cut 6
(or more) strips of paper 1/8” wide or maybe narrower depending on how big of a
hole it will need to come out.
#2.
Decide on what you’re going to write on the strips. I chose to copy a psalm. Some of my students chose random Bible verses
for theirs and we also talked about doing Math problems, writing encouraging
notes, etc. It is best to use a fine
point pen 0.5mm would probably be best but you can also use a pencil, or other
size pen. Leave about ½” before you
start writing on every paper but the first so that you can tape the pieces
together without hiding words. Stop about 2” before the end of the last paper
since that part will probably stay inside the dental floss holder.
#3. Once
you have finished writing on all the papers use a small piece of tape to
connect each strip. Overlap the strips
so that they stay together better.
You
should now have a long string which will be your new “dental floss”. Mine is
approximately 5’ 3 ½” long.
Now open
your dental floss holder. Inside should
be a plastic roll. This is what the
dental floss is wrapped around and it spins so that the floss can come
out. Tape the blank end of your “dental
floss” to the roll with the writing side up.
Now you just need to wrap it all into a roll.
Roll it
all up until there is just enough to come out the hole to the place where it
gets cut.
Put the
roll inside the dental floss holder and put the paper strip up through where
the hole will be. Close the holder and
lay the “dental floss” under the “cutter”.
This is
how it should look.
What
you’ll need:
¼ piece
of cardstock
Colored
pencils
Sharpie
pen
Pencil
Tape
Dental
Floss
Design a
card to fasten your finished Dental Floss Holder onto.
This is
what I did with mine and now it is all ready to go brighten someone’s day.
Happy
Day! Good-bye. Gutbai Lukim
yu behain.
Sources: World Book Encyclopedia
Ethnos 360
Channels of Spiritual Power
The Pineapple Story
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