Many of you may remember our visit from the Faulkners last summer, nearly a year ago now. Last summer the Faulkners visited just a month before they moved to Papua New Guinea to be missionaries. At that time the family consisted of Mark, Belinda, Erin, Bradley, and one on the way. Since then the family has grown to include a new baby girl named Piper. They are currently living in PNG and working with people in the area they live to share Christ with them. Belinda has reported that the girls have adjusted very well and are enjoying their new life overseas. The two older girls are young enough that they have not had trouble adapting at all and the youngest has never lived in the US. Many church members met the Faulkners and spent time with them during Vacation Bible School last summer, and I think we all found the Faulkners a precious family and true workers in the gospel.
I have had the opportunity to interact with Belinda via email. They have been in my thoughts since the time that I met them. I grew to love this family in just a short time and wanted to continue helping them in their mission in PNG. This is the family for whom the youth held the spaghetti dinner last Sunday. Before the spaghetti dinner was planned, I asked Belinda to send a list of needs their family has that we could fill. In coordination with several other church members, we sent off a care package for the Faulkners which they received last Thursday. We were able to send simple things like seasoning for cooking and Scotch tape as well as some special treats like M&Ms and bubble gum. We also sent marshmallows because the marshmallows available in PNG do not melt and some activity books and craft supplies for the girls. Belinda also requested some tools for teaching that will be used in their work with people in the village.
Belinda was so kind to send the two pictures of the girls that she did. I want to share with you a little of what Belinda wrote me before as she was telling me of how their family and the Sissons, who also traveled to PNG to be missionaries, are doing now.
We still miss our family and friends and Chick-fil-A and Texas Roadhouse, but we have Skype that we can use on occasion to see our loved ones and we do our best to recreate good American meals with the ingredients that are available here. The other night we did our best to recreate Chick-fil-A at the Sissons’ house and it was pretty good!
The kids were excited (and so were the adults!), so it was worth the trouble.
If you want to stay updated on the Faulkner family, you can read their blog, ‘Til All Have Heard. If anyone would be interested in helping to put together another package for the Faulkner family, feel free to contact them or me to get things started. I’d love for us to stay in contact with them and use our relationship with them to be more active in missions.
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