Becky Noble has now been back in Papua New Guinea for about fifteen months and has been involved in various ministries. With increased involvement in the orientation and training programme for new support missionaries (known as E2), she has unexpectedly “landed” for the next eight months. New arrivals generally need to achieve a certain level of language fluency and cultural understanding before they can start their support ministries in PNG. There are currently eight missionaries working towards this level. Between them they are connected with about thirteen different citizen helpers and regularly spend time in several different villages around the Lapilo centre. Please pray for wisdom to know how best to help and advise these missionaries in a whole range of situations they face. Please pray that they would navigate building relationships cross-culturally well and be a good testimony to those in the surrounding community, whilst also making progress in language learning.
At the school, Becky continues to teach Tok Pisin, the national language spoken by the majority of the citizens, to a group of eight teenagers. Her citizen teaching assistant has been rising to the challenge of taking on more responsibility. There is less than two months left of this school year. Pray they would finish well.
A home assignment after about two years back in PNG is not unexpected. Becky plans to be back in the UK for about six months around the beginning of next year. However, on her return to PNG, after home assignment, she will most likely be completing a training programme in a more remote tribal location, where a church has already been planted. This course is relatively new and is expected to take about a year. The Lapilo citizen community is still very much on her heart, and she hopes to be able to return to the centre at Lapilo after the training. Pray that she would increasingly trust the Lord’s leading and timing.