Merry Christmas from green, tropical, darkened “midnight clear,” Just struck me the other day that those shepherds mentioned above in Luke were the first missionaries,” going out to spread the Good News that a Savior is born and they had seen HIM!! Two thousand+ years later and the same Good News go out in a different part of the world in several different languages throughout my flying day. We had a fast and heavy start to the Christmas season flying here in Papua and while the numbers are up (flight-time, passenger load, “frequent flyer miles”), I’m enjoying it. Christ came for these tribes and He has given them a real joy at this time of the year
– they LOVE to celebrate Christmas with all kinds of acara” – programs and feasts. My plane gets filled on the way interior with home-bound students, and Bible school students, and tons of rice for the celebrations; then the outbound leg usually has a few pigs transported to market, and for others to feast on. Live pig “passengers”
at the beginning of this week, and a whole load of already-roasted pig parts yesterday – made the plane smell like a primitive, tribal barbeque: yumm, sabroso, oi-shii; enak!!
Little girl gnawing on a bone
