The three- to four-week school breaks between terms here are always looked forward to by Luke, but often after a few days the boredom sets in. There’s a saying around here that if you want to do something you have to make it or bake it. And since there’s a fence around our center, you pretty much have to stay in a two-mile radius to make it or bake it. 🙂

Luke has just finished his 3^rd term of grade 10 and is very thankful that instead of being stuck inside the fence over break, he gets to go on a little adventure. Hopefully it will be fun and a time God will use in his life to encourage and grow him.

He was asked by one of his friends if he’d like to join him and his parents tomorrow as they go out to one of the regional centers, Kavieng (map below). They are managing the center so that the regular managers can come here to Ukarumpa to attend the Branch Conference. Kavieng is probably a bit like Honiara, the capital of Solomon Islands, where Luke spent some of his childhood. Out in Kavieng they’ll be able to swim, surf, and go out to eat.

After about a week in Kavieng, the two boys will then fly to Lae (in the map below), where they’ll meet up with some of the teens from Ukarumpa who are taking part in a mission trip. They will be working at the Lae City Mission to help build a boys’ dorm, do some grounds work, and help out in the orphanage.

Would you please pray for Luke that God will keep him safe but also that his heart would be open to what God has to teach him?

Thank you for caring for our kids through prayer. It means a lot.

And the day Luke gets back, John leaves for a two-week checking trip to the coast (Madang). More details in our next update!

Luke just finished the Term 3 basketball season

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Grant Bruner, PO Box 2159, John Brown University, Siloam Springs, AR 72761 – brunerg@jbu.edu

Joey Bruner, ETBU Box 6-331, One Marshall Drive, Marshall, TX 75670 – joseph_bruner@etbu.edu

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