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A PNG K10 (ten Kina) note - what we asked each member to give.

Amazing results from Thanksgiving Day!!!

October 2009

Uploaded: 02 November 2009

Total Raised To Date: K77,000

Story by Richard Carver (Jnr)

For those of you who received our previous newsletters, you would remember that Papua New Guinea held a "National Thanksgiving Day" on June 28th. We asked every church member around the country to give at least K10 (10 Kina - about US$4) - a small, achievable amount per person, which would be used to fund the projects and operations of the church in PNG. More detail about the concept behind National Thanksgiving Day can be found here.

We are so happy to report that National Thanksgiving Day was a huge success, beyond expectations. On 28th June 2009, churches from all over Papua New Guinea gave their offering. It took a while for all the money to come in from the far reaches of PNG (many parts of PNG have no banks or financial facilities, so have to be walked to the nearest bank, sometimes a few day's journey.

To date (29th October), the total amount given within PNG for Thanksgiving Day is over K62,000 (almost US$25,000). As far as we are aware, this is the largest offering ever raised in PNG, and the first time that the church here has worked so hard to contribute toward to their own development. And this, in a country where 95% of the population has no paid employment, and 85% earn less than US$2 per day from their best entrepreneurial efforts.

We also took this appeal internationally, to all soul-loving and PNG-loving people around the globe. From this international appeal, we received another K15,000 (almost US$6000), mainly from individual saints in Australia and the United States. It was so encouraging to see how many of our overseas neighbours have such a heart for Papua New Guinea, and are willing to put behind them financial hardships, personal projects, and the machinations of inter-nation politics, in order to give a little to help God's work in PNG. I can truly say that God has placed a love in peoples' hearts for PNG, for such a time as this.

This puts the total raised (locally and internationally) for Thanksgiving Day near K77,000 (US$31,000)! Amazing!!!

The Thanksgiving Money will be directed toward our Bible School Development project: we plan to build classrooms, dormitories, a Missionary House, and teacher's residences so we can recruit teachers from overseas as well as locally to teach in the Bible School. Bible School is the need of the hour in PNG, and should you ever come here, you would see exactly what an important need this is.

I would like to thank all those who contributed toward PNG's Thanksgiving Day offering. May God bless all of you who love Papua New Guinea and have a desire to see the work of God go ahead in this needy land.

If you have not yet given, but would like to contribute toward this project, it's not too late! We hope to start construction early in 2010, and will need every dollar we can get to realise this project. If you would like to give, and want to know how, please contact me.

Of course the amount raised this year will not be sufficient to cover the costs of the project, so next year we will have another Thanksgiving Day - bigger and better, in Jesus' Name!

Please continue to pray for Papua New Guinea... it needs and appreciates every one of you!

- Richard Carver Jnr

- 12 July 2010

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June-July 2010 - Strength and wisdom to all those doing the construction on the building complex at the Bible School

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November 2009 - The Peter Gration family have completed their fundraising in the USA and are on their return journey to PNG. We thank the Lord and those that have supported them. It will be wonderful for PNG to have another missionary family again.

October 2009 - The Richard Carver jnr. family have also returned to PNG after the birth of our grandaughter, Hannah born in July 2009.