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The Bible says that this world is not our country. Our country is heaven. When you live in your owncountry you start to forget that you think This is my world, where I live, and this is how it has alwaysbeen. As Christians we have forgotten that our homeland is in heaven. from Kristel Ortizs article theForgotten Homeland.

It is amazing how this statement has become our reality. In fact, just a few days ago, Jade and Sarawere walking home in the late afternoon hours looking at the sky and Jade exclaimed when she sawthe moon, They have a moon here too?! Throughout the last few weeks there have been times for each of our family members when it has felt as though we have moved to another planet. *smile*

The picture at the top of the page is the place that we will call home for almost a year. Our new homeis situated on a hillside and rests just along the Ukarumpa center property line, giving us an

exceptional view. The view behind our home is of rolling green hills decorated with garden plotsseparated by small clusters of gloriously green trees (diwai pronounced de -why). Almost daily, smallplumes of smoke rise from random garden plots (the main form of agriculture used by Papua NewGuineans is the slash and burn technique). Resting just below our home is Jades school (UkarumpaInternational Primary School), and throughout the day Sara can hear the bells ring and kids playingoutside, very much like our home in York that was located next to an elementary school! God hasbeen so gracious to give us reminders of our old home here. These memories, along with theincredible beauty of His creation here, are beyond what we could have hoped for in our new home.

Normal weekdays begin around 5:30 to 6:00 in the morning, and we have no need for an alarm clock!The friendly neighborhood roosters begin waking around 4:00am which helps to begin the orchestra of song birds that sing us all awake in harmony with the six oclock sunrise. On most Monday,Wednesday and Friday mornings Sara walks to and from the local produce market with at least oneother Driggers in tow some time before 7:00am while the remaining crew finishes prepping for the dayto begin their walk to school and auto shop. Work starts at 8:00am for Marty, where he is getting verydirty, while maintaining the vehicles that keep people traveling on the bumpy roads of Ukarumpa andbeyond. The best part of Martys job by far is his opportunity to begin building relationships with thenational men that are employed in the auto shop.

Many things seem foreign to us as we continue to adapt to life in Papua New Guinea, and it is only byGods provision through you that we have begun to daily impact the work of Bible translation here.Thank you for sending us! As we continue to work, live and love out our lives here in PNG we arereminded just as Kristel Ortiz wrote that we are citizens of heaven, doing the work of the God towhom no one is foreign.

For His Glory Alone,

Marty, Sara, Taylor, Tia, Miriam and Jade

Driggers days S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 2 S U P P O RT I N G B I B L E T R A N S L AT I O N T H R O U G H

A U T O M O T I V E M A I N TA N E N C E I N PA P U A N E W G U I N E A For we know

that when this

earthly tent we

live in is taken

down, we will

have a house in

heaven, an

eternal body

made for us byGod Himself and

not by human

hands.

2 Corinthians 5:1

NLT

Marty and Sara DriggersPO Box 1 (185) Ukarumpa EHP 444 Papua New Guinea(We would LOVE to getmail and candy!)

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Please join our praise to God for what He has

accomplished and provided in our lives:

Safe travels and Gods miraculous provisions

for our flights here (please read our blog or ask

us more about our experience!).

A lovely home that fits our family wonderfully

and is available for us to rent until next July.

We are unpacked and settling into our normal

routines.

Each of our girls are forming new friendships

and loving all the youth activities available in

Ukarumpa.

Please continue to lift up these needs to our

Heavenly Father:

Health. Our bodies have been weakened bystress and transition and we are battling

sickness on a regular basis.

Finances. The exchange rate between the

American dollar and the PNG kina combined

with the increasing prices here are causing us

to face an approximate 10% increase in our

monthly support need.

New friendships. Please pray that Marty and

Sara will begin to build new friendships and the

girls will continue to do the same.

Transportation. Marty will have his dirt bike

here some time after the first of the year, but

until then we are walking up hill both ways

(literally!) everywhere we go. Would you please

pray that God would provide a way (four

wheeler, dirt bike, or car) for our family to get

around with more ease?

Glimpses of Us in PNG

Right: Marty at the auto shopwith the guys.

Left: Sara shopping atour local store for schoolsupplies.

Right: Taylor enjoyingthe water slide withher youth group. Thehomemade water slide is on the hilloutside our home.

Right: Jade on her first day of school.

Left: The Driggers girlsbefore morning worship(can you find us?).

How to partner with us in the work of Bible translation:

Giving Online

Follow this link: http://www.wycliffe.org/partnership.aspx?mid=6db362

By Mail

If you prefer to send a check in the mail, please make your check payable to Wycliffe Bible Translators and send to:

Wycliffe Bible Translators

P.O. Box 628200

Orlando, FL 32862 - 8200

Make sure to include a separate note saying it is for theministry of Marty and Sara Driggers (account # 270928).