From Barry and Bonnie Moeckel, SIL workers in Buka:
Today has so clearly had God’s fingerprints all over it! First, the speaker for our morning Bible sharing and prayer time finished early. Then Tom Puaria, the Takuu man who is the assistant principal for the Translators’ Training Course (TTC), stood up and began to share how he had felt at the completion of the typesetting of the Takuu New Testament last year. “I just wanted to see all those people overseas who helped make it possible, and thank them! These people have never seen us, but have given money and prayed so that we could have God’s Word! Just look at the love of God shown through them, and through these white people here who have left their homes and families to help us bring God home through the New Testament in our language. Let’s thank God!” And he proceeded to do just that, naming each one of us expatriates here right now, as well as Sue Andersen, who worked for many years with Abraham Vaelani and later Tom as well, to facilitate the translation of this New Testament.
Later in the day, unbeknownst to Tom, the first 6 copies of the Takuu New Testament arrived in the mail. Our regional directors and the president of the Bougainville Bible Translators’ Fellowship were able to surprise him, along with his wife, Sharon, and also Rev. Abraham and his wife, Gracelyn, by presenting them each with a copy! Tom was again overcome, and with tears of gratitude he marveled at how the Lord had prompted him just this morning to thank Him for those who have helped to make it possible for the Takuu people to have God’s Word in their heart language.
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