Driggers

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J16 March 2013
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It never needs a furlough, and is never considered a foreigner. Cameron Townsend

Praises
We have moved to a larger and more centrally located hostel. God is building beautiful new relationships between our family and our hostel kids. Marty is leading a daily Bible study group at 6:30am, and we are watching God work in the lives of our boys through it!

Can it really almost be springtime at home in the Carolinas? Our memories serve us well as we vividly remember those first warm days of spring and all the beautiful new foliage that comes to life with the change of season. In many ways each day in Ukarumpa feels like springtime. God has gifted our lives here with flowers and plants that blow your mind, crisp mornings that require slippers or socks to keep your feet comfy, and warm and breezy afternoons that whisk away any thoughts of the once cool morning. Though we are not experiencing a change of season from winter to springtime we are living out our greatest life changing season ever as childrens home parents. We never could have imagined we would have eleven children in our care. And to boot, a son who speaks with a Jersey accent, one German son, one Canadian son, and two Papua New Guinean sons! We are a blended household for sure. But we are also a united household. Just as we give of our time and efforts to

serve these kids so that their parents can further Bible translation throughout PNG, these kids give sacrificially as well as they adapt to what life is like with the Driggers while being separated from their families.

On the front steps before church.

Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are His. He changes times and seasons Daniel 2:20-21a NIV

We praise God for in His infinite wisdom He brought our family to serve here in PNG at this exact time. We also praise God for uniting your family with ours to further Bible translation in Papua New Guinea, and allowing us to impact the lives of such fantastic kids along the way. He is forever good!

Until all have heard, Marty, Sara and those girls

Marty and Sara Driggers
Childrens Home Parents Papua New Guinea

PO Box 1 (185) | Ukarumpa EHP 444 | Papua New Guinea | m-s.driggers@sil.org.pg Wycliffe Bible Translators | PO Box 628200 | Orlando, Florida 32862 | 1-800-WYCLIFFE Any gifts should be made payable to Wycliffe, with a separate note saying, For the ministry of Marty and Sara Driggers, Account # 270928. Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) is simple! Go to: http://www.wycliffe.org/partnership.aspx?mid=6db362

Prayer
Our ministry budget has been updated for 2013 and we are in need of an additional $500 in monthly partnerships. Please pray for our monthly expenses to be provided for through new or increased support. We remain in debt to our branch for our shipping fees in excess of $4000. Please pray for one-time gifts to meet this need. Marty has been battling almost continual illness. Please pray for his complete recovery and good health for our entire family. Please pray for God to give endurance and strength! We are working eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. Parenting so many children requires wisdom beyond our measure. Please pray that God would speak directly to us and we would have ears to listen to His direction.

We praise God for Martys dirt bike making it to Ukarumpa! This was a Daddy-Jade date ride to the member store for a soda after school.

Sara proudly holding her PNG drivers license papers after five previously failed attempts!

Roadside view from the Highlands Highway (the only highway in the highlands!).

We took the hostel family to a local village church to worship.

Martys hand next to a moth on the front screen door.

Jade outside the screen door.

Miriam and Jade having fun in the mud.