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Dear Friends,
We awoke Wednesday morning to a phone call from our teammates, telling us of the devastation that had happened in the United States during our night. We, like many of you, cancelled our normal Wednesday appointments with people from the village of Mutuyuwa in order to watch the news. Of course, none of them have televisions, and few can ever afford a newspaper, so we broke the news of the tragedy to our Papua New Guinean friends in explanation for why we would not be meeting with them that day--we wanted to go to Leslie's and watch President Bush address the nation on television. I wish I could express to you the sorrow with which the village people and our Christian brothers and sisters in town received the news. We have been told many times of the prayers they are now praying. People stop by our house to ask us about the latest and tell us that they pray several times a day for the situation. The attached picture shows Pauline, one of the Christian sisters here, reading the newspaper.
Marcus ended up hauling people from the village to the hospital before he was able to join us at Leslie's house. The hospital was doing chest x-rays in an attempt to keep an outbreak of tuberculosis contained. As I thought about the outbreak and the many things people here struggle with, I understood why they are able to empathize with the pain Americans are going through right now. In a country that battles poverty, sickness, and sometimes even starvation, people who suffer become sensitive to others who suffer.
We wanted you to know that people of another nation, of a different race from many of you, of another language group and a completely different way of life--without electricity, cars, or running water--love you and pray for you and our country.
With love and prayers,
Diane Reese (with Marcus and Hannah)
Pauline, one of
the Christian sisters here, reading the newspaper
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