Hi all. We are currently in California.
Some have heard of the large earthquake in PNG.
The earthquake was in Rabaul which is detached from where we live. We live a mile high in the Eastern Highlands, so we wouldn't have felt the quake.
(Rabaul is the place that recently had the footage of a volcano erupting that was all over facebook.) I've been there, it's a really cool place, rich with all kinds of history and war memorabilia. As well as recently dubbed a Luke video for and mastered a 3 dvd set, and then got to show the video, to some of the people who live nearby there.
The quake triggered a Tsunami warning (as quakes that size often do in the South Pacific). So right now we're praying for protection for our friends on the coastal areas of risk. When I said 'friends' I usually mean a combination of ex-pats living in an area, but mostly the nationals living with and around them. When these things happen, ex-pats while they suffer they often have a way to recover or evacuate (though many choose not to for solidarity reasons). It's the people who live there who suffer the most.
There is a book called Sleeping Coconuts written by the man who formerly owned the house I live in, and a friend. It talks about a Tsunami wiping out the village he works in. It's a horribly tragic story, and one very close to our hearts because we know the families who lost children in that area.
Thank you for your concern, and continued prayers are appreciated. We have had Tsunami warnings before and have been relatively unaffected by them, but as usual, we're a large body doing an important work, and we are spread all over the world. Whenever there is some large natural disaster it often affects us in some way or another. Thankfully this one, so far, hasn't had reports of any harm done.
