No Empty Stomachs!
Dear family and friends,
I have wondered what it must have been like to have had a ringside seat that day on the Galilean hillside 2,000 years ago, amidst 5,000 men-plus-women-and-children, listening hungrily to God’s message delivered in person by His Son. Then, as the sun was setting, the entire crowd was dizzy with hunger, but gradually realizing there was no food, and dreading the long hike home on empty stomachs. Then I think what it would have been like to have had a ringside seat, watching Jesus as picked up that little lunch-offering of a lad, and lifted it toward heaven and broke it, and broke it, and broke it some more — and kept breaking it until there was enough to go around to feed the entire throng of people.
These last couple of months, I have felt like I have had a ringside seat to observe a miracle which God has done for the Aruamu people in Papua New Guinea. You know that, because of a 9 month long drought severe hunger has affected the entire Aruamu people group. We prayed. God moved his people with hearts of compassion. God has provided food for hungry people once again!
Just this week 6 long trucks carrying mountains of rice journeyed from the town of Madang to the Aruamu area. It was enough to bless 1,970 hungry families – about 10,000 people! It must be a similar amount of people to the number that Jesus fed on the hillside long ago. There are no empty stomachs in the entire Aruamu people group tonight. Praise God.
My heart is so full of gratitude for what God has done! Thank you for praying and helping.
Blessings to you,
Marsha Miles
(for Nathan Miles, Robin Namai, and Pais Asefi, as well)
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Here is a note from Robin Namai, one of our Aruamu translators who is working with me in Dallas on checking Old Testament books:
I am Robin. I would like to say thank you for your helping to the Aruamu people. I am one of the Aruamu translators from Papua new Guinea. My own village is Tongbur village. We have had this famine for 9 months, starting from June 2015 into 2016. My own family in the village has been facing this famine. I came to the U.S. in February to help check our Old Testament translation. So I had to leave my family in PNG in this hunger-time.
Since I have been here in the US, I can see that there are many foods here, and I can eat 3 times a day. I want to say thank you to God’s people here for having compassion toward the Aruamu people and sharing your blessing with them. Because of your helping, now they are having rice to eat, while they are waiting for the new gardens to grow. Your helping is very wonderful and kind. I know that God will bless you.
I thank you for your prayer for our Aruamu people during this difficult time, and also for your prayer for us as we work on translating.
God bless you,
Robin Namai Aruabas
Aruamu Bible Translator
