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NEWGUINEA

NEWS

Forwarding

Agents

Mr.

and Mrs.

Dale

Dunlap

Roule

( > , Hhea Road

Knoxville,

TN }792()

Missionaries:

John and Bonita Pryor

P.O.

Box 997

Madang, apua New

Guinea

Jesse, Bonita,John, oshua

Pryor

Volume

June1985

Number1

GreetingsfromSamban

It

is

hard

for

us

to

believe

that the

first

quarter

of 1985 is

now

history. These f i

rst

three monthshave eally

zoomed

by.

We

ill

have

to back

up

to

December of last year in

order to bring you up to the present.

Christmas 1984)was pent

n

Samban.

We

f inished

the Primer workshop at Ukarumpa

and ust

barely

had enough

time

to getdown

to

Madang,buy

a ew

groceries,

and

make t

out

to

Samban

on

he

24th.

In

nticipation

of

our return, not

a

whole

ot of Christmas ele

bration

planning had been done. So we ot

together with some folks and planned

a

sports' day,

plus some extra worship times.

We had

opened

our

presents

earlier

in

Madang.

The

oys

did

not

seem

to

mind

this

at

all.

We ctually spent

ust

about twoand

a

alf

weeks before

we went

back into

Madang

or

our

Annual Meeting. If

i t

hadn't

been

for

Christmas, we

would

have probably just

stayed

in

Madang

or

that time, but our

folks

out here were r e a l l y wanting

us

to

spend

Christmas

ith

them.

The

week ollowing

th e

Annual

Meeting

we

tayed

in Madang

o

work

with

our

computer

specialist to

get

some

stencils cut for

our

test primer.

We got back to

Samban the

fir s t of

February. While in Madang had set

Balu

and Maso,my anguage

helpers, o

the

task

of

Jesse

and Joshua

waiting

to open their Christmas

i f t s .

John, alu and

Maso

orking on

Botin

language.


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making

a ough

draft

of

the

Easter

story.

Wfe

began

going over

t h e i r work i n hopes

of

preparing a Botin

translation

of the Easter

story. The

ellows ound t

really hard, ince

t

was heir

i r s t

try at n-depth translation. We

spent a lot of time talking about

some

concepts that were new to

them,

specially

in

regard

to

expressingthem

n

Botin. While this

was going on, we

began s i l k

screening

th e

Transition Primer

test

booklets. Silk

screening is the primitive way

to

mimeograph without benefit

of a

achine. t

i s

a rather slow process, but very

e f f e c t i v e .

This was also new to our fellows,

but

we

managed to

get

about thirty booklets

printed

and stapled together.

Also

in

February,we egan anew

ethod of

presenting our memory verses ~ via pocket

charts. These

charts are

made to enable

teachers to display whole sentences

or

parts

depending

on

the task at

hand. I t has

been

good

for

the

i l l i t e r a t e folk who

have

begun

getting

basic concepts of reading

from

e f t

to

r i g h t , as well as learning a ew sight words.

Using this method, we have

seen

improvement

n people, lready i t e r a t e in the

trade language, who beforehand

had been

more r

lessstymied in

their efforts

to read the

vernacular. Also, with this method, we

have

been

more or

less assured th at by he

time

we

f i

nish

a session with a particular verse,

that

just

about

everybody

attending

can

r e c i t e

i t .

March proved to be a

really

busy month.

The

i

rst week we onducted our

test class of

the Transition Primer. We ad elected about

10 people

who

we thought would give

us

a cross-section of trade language literacy

s k i l l s .

We

went

hrough

the

primer teaching

Bonita

in

one

f the teaching

sessions.

them: e t t e r s

they already knewfrom

idgin

that

were the same in Botin, new

combinations of

previously known

l e t t e r s ,

and

new

l e t t e r s . During this process, th e

students

were

able

to

help

us

efine the book

i t s e l f . With

their new

nsightsand nowledge

of Botin,

they

were able to help

us

ind many

small

errors

that would really make a

difference in the

primer.

Also during the irst week fMarch, e ere

able to go over

our

Easter story text

with the

big

men in

the area.

We

earned a

ot about

dialect

differences

ustin

our

immediate

rea.

We ere really encouraged by their interest.

The econd weekfound usmaking he inal

correctionson he primer,

hecking

t

over ust

one more ime before going into

Madang.

We

were

visited

by

Martha

Wade,who had been

assisting

the

Dan Wilcoxes

the

previous two

weeks,and

would

be oing

back o

Madang

on

our

flight. (Martha

will be

PBT's Assistant

Director of Language Affairs as of May,

which

means

she

w i l l

be

overseeing

a l l

th e

village language programs in whichPBT s

involved.) While she

was here,

we

id

some

language awareness exercises with our

language

helpers and rechecked the

Christmas

story which

Martha

had assisted

with

two

ears ago hile she

was

n Samban.

The last

week of March was spent in

Madang etting

our

Transition Primer

ready

for

the

p r i n t e r .

We

pent

a

o t

of

time

in the

computer

room

correcting entry errors,

running printouts to ch eck formating

errors,

and confusing

our

computer s p e c i a l i s t , Jan

Messersmith, with a l l

the

changes along

th e

way. Even though Jan

programmed

th e

computer with a format that we desired on

the printout we t i l l had ospend time cutting

and

pasting drawingson r i a l

pages

to make

sure

they

would

i

t .

With

the

help

of

a

opier,

reducing

and

enlarging pictures

as

needed,

and h e

ability

of he computer o lay t

a l l

out

and print

t

up,we ere able to get

t camera-

ready in about

five working

days. We ere

certainly impressed

by the

whole

procedure.

We are hoping to

have the

books out

in

th e

village

by

the end of April. If possible, we

hope

to

have

a fly-in to celebrate our irst

book

for

the Botin

people.

A

fly-in

consists

of

as many as

possible of

our

fellow

missionaries

flying in to

spend

the day with

us to celebrate. As roven by he

Butler's

fly-

in

or

their new

i r s t r i p , t

really makes

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special day.

Upon eturningtoSamban he ir s t of pril,

we

ere

able to

perform

the

Easter drama

n

Botin.

We

re praying

that

the

double impact

of hearing the Easter story in their own

The

aster Story in Botin.

language, combined

with a

visual

presentation,

w i l l draw

His

people

closer

to

Him, nd also impress upon the non-believers

who

witnessed

i t

the

p r i c e that

was

paid f o r

them

too.

As

f

now

we

are

entering our a s t

s t i n t

in

the

v i l l a g e

t h i s term. Time s rapidly moving

along as we

n t i c i p a t e heading

back

o family

and friends

Stateside.

We t i l l

have

some

goals

that

we

ould l i k e to accomplish

these

nexttwo months. We ope

to

get the

memory

verses

we have

ranslated,

plus a l l the songs

the people

sing in Botin, nto

a

ooklet. Since

the

people

have

been putting some of the

verses

to music,

t

will provide them with an

aid for worship and

or

spiritual growth. This

will be

an

in-village project

in order to

train

our

fellows in

the

production of local literacy

materials.

During

his

time,

ur aim

s

to

further

refine

our language

s k i l l s ,

along

with

developing

some

techniques

of

maintaining

our

fluency

level

during

furlough. This,plus inishing up

school programs

for

Jesse and Joshua,

getting

the

house et or

a ear's

vacancy, nd

getting everything a l l

packed

up,adds up o a

busy time.

At

hesame ime,we ill endeavor to spend

some

uality

time with the folk

here.

Our olk

are not very eager

for us

to leave, yet they

recognize

our desire

to

see our

families

again.

We

re

praying that

what

wehave een able to

accomplish this

term

will aid them in

their

s p i r i t u a l growth during th e next

year, s

well

as

to stimulate

their interest in vernacular

literacy.

Aswe

ook

ahead o the coming ear,we

re

excited with the prospects of

seeing

family,

friends,and supporters,as ell as

urthering

our training in certain areas.

The

boys ar e

looking forward

to attendinga

ig

school

with

other children.

If you

are

interested in

a

i s i tfromus hile

we

are

home on furlough, please contact our

forwarding

agent.

Aswe

ook

back over the past

our years

we

are keenly aware of

your

loving concern and

interest

in our w ork. We re very grateful for

your continuing support. God bless

you

l l

and we

ook

forward

to seeing you

soon.

Jesse's Corner

I'm just

about

finished with grade

.

And

a f t e r I get

back

o

America,

'm gonna be eight

years o l d . In our a s t

t r i p

t o Madang, saw

a

video

of

the

A-Team. They

are my a v o r i t e s ,

and

He-Man

s t o o . I can't wait to

get back

to

America to

see

them a l l the time.

I'm

sure

gonna miss

my

i l l a g e f r i e n d s ,

but

ust think

about l l the neat stuff

l l

be

able

to e l l them

about when

we get back to

Samban.

See

ya soon,

Joshua sCorner

Guess

what??

I can

ide

Jesse's bike

now

ll

by yself. How'bout hat? I'm

really

getting

to be a ig

boy

now. ike

to act

funny

omake

peoplelaugh. I can hink up

l l

sorts

of

funny

stuff to

do.

I

canmake aces,

and

dance

funny

too.

I'm

going

to

miss

my

uinea pigsanddog

while

I'm

gone

to

America,

but

my

riends

here are

going to

take care

of them

for

me.

See ya

soon,

Joshua


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Sharing

n theWord

n

In

II Corinthians the' ifth chapter, aul

shares

with us

w h a t

h e

e e l s o u r a t t i t u d e s h o u l d b e n r e g a r d

t o

o u r

b e i n g

at home.

This

as

elped

us

o

keep n

perspective here

our

home

e a l l y i s .

B^ng

a m i s s i o n a r y

means a

o t of

traveling around, picking up roots

every

so often and

p u t t i n g t h e m down l s e i ^ h e r e a n d t r y i n g

t o

b e s e t t l e d

everal homes,

as

the promise

i t y .

Therefore wehaveas ur

e

or absent,

to

be

pleasing to

us

to

have a stability that is

n e c e s s a r y i n our y p e o f i t u a t i o n . How bout ou? What s

your

ambition?

wherever

we re,having

of Jesus is u l f i l l e d in r e i

ambition,

whether

at

hp

Him. These

words h el

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