Rabu, 27 Juli 2016

First Contact With a Remote Village

First Contact With a Remote Village
Have you ever walked into a place you didn’t belong? Maybe it was someone’s house when you weren’t sure if they were home. Maybe you stumbled into the back room of a restaurant or business. Or maybe you found yourself in an abandoned building, coated in dust and covered in cobwebs. It’s an eerie feeling. You carefully step inside, not quite sure where to stand or if someone is about to jump out from the shadows and shout, “What are you doing here?”
This is the feeling an EHC pioneer missionary named Sylvester had when he walked into the remote village of Utam in Papua New Guinea. This was a place where he was uninvited, and things felt completely foreign. It wasn’t easy for him to get there in the first place.
Brother Sylvester had been working with an EHC team to reach remote locations in the southern part of Papua New Guinea. The team traveled to many villages that were only accessible by sailing across the choppy waters of the coast. Then they walked for days in jungles where the pounding sun made the heat unbearable. These areas were remote, but they were charted. These villages had hosted visitors before, even though visits were infrequent.
The village of Utam, however, had never had an outside visitor.
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