As approach our departure day, May 26, we keep thinking about the things in the Solomons that we will miss – and truthfully a few things that we won’t miss! In that light, this is my initial entry in the list of ‘Things we will Miss’.

Even though we live in the capital city, it really is a small place with a population of about 55,000 people Like any small town, sometimes the ‘big’ news stories are a little funny!

The photo shows a truckload of cartons of peanut butter which overturned on the main road and stopped traffic for an hour. The caption read;’Peanut butter chaos halt traffic for an hour’. I happened upon this scene just minutes after it happened and it wasn’t surprised to see it make the front page of the newspaper today. You can read the article online at:http://solomonstarnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task;=view&id;=7878&change;=71&changeown;=78&Itemid;=26

It really did mess traffic up for a long time because there is only one main road that runs through town. Even though we can read the stories online, we are going to miss reading the Solomon Star!

This afternoon at the National Parliament, we dedicated this special Solomon Islands Bible Display. It contains the Pijin Bible that was presented to the Prime Minister on the 30th Anniversary of Independence in July of last year. On the shelf up above are all (except 1) of the Bibles and New Testaments in vernacular languages that have been published since Independence. Standing in front of the display is our friend Patson who helped make the cover the display.





It was really great to see people walk up to the display and look at all the Bibles in the vernacular languages and try and see if there was a Bible in their own language. Clearly those who didn’t have a Bible in the display were disappointed.

In December, I stopped by the Christian radio station and dropped off a copy of the beautiful new Pijin Bible Story book for kids. I told radio station staff I would leave the book for them if they promised to read the Bible stories on the air. Recently the station has started reading a Bible story each afternoon.

A couple of weeks ago I dropped off a set of cd’s that contain the dramatized Pijin New Testament that was produced by Faith Comes by Hearing. This week the station started playing one chapter a day at three different times during the day! That’s exciting!

Pray that as people hear the Pijin Bible read, they will be motivated to purchase their own copy and read it for themselves.

After a long hiatus I am going to try getting back into blogging. Please forgive my lack of communication!!!

The last few months have been pretty crazy for our family as we have had to make some hard decisions and we feel like the sign above, we have been turned upside down. For more than a year, Emily has been going to school with a internet based curriculum – NorthStar Academy. It’s a great school program, but it has been pretty lonely for Emily at times. So in cooperation with our administration, we have decided to return to the USA in June so that Emily can finish high school in the USA and better prepare to transition into college.

This has not been an easy decision and we are struggling with having to leave the Solomons. We expect to be gone from the Solomons for at least 3 years to allow Emily time to finish high school and get settled into college. In the meantime we will rent out our house here.

In order that we can stay connected with our international offices and the girls can enjoy the fellowship of many other MKs (missionary kids) we will be settling in Dallas, TX. There are many unknowns as we take make this (sometimes frightening) move!

We covet your prayers for this time of transition for our family. We are working hard to sell or give away many of our possesions here and prepare the house for rental. We are in the process of looking for a house to purchase in Dallas with the help of a realtor there.