DeLoach Family Photo Blog

Fall Carnival

2009-11-11T00:44:00.001+10:00

Every year around October our community here in Ukarumpa celebrates “carnival”. It is kind of like a fall festival or state fair, except that there are no falling leaves or cool days. It is simply our attempt to create some great fun with the resources we have! It is also a fundraiser for local ministries. Anna and Joshua loved carnival this year. Here are some of their favorite moments.

Joshua enjoyed the pony ride.

Anna was a brave girl and went on the “Ferris Wheel” with Daddy.

Our cute little butterfly/poodle and our ferocious tiger!

Water gun fight!

Slip-sliding on the water slide

Sharing a milkshake at the end of the day

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Anna on the waterslide at Carnival

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Joshua on the waterslide at Carnival

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Anna and Joshua enjoying a milkshake at the end of Carnival

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Scenes from Malaysia

2009-11-11T00:35:00.001+10:00

In October Danny attended the World Wide Scripture Engagement Consultation (WWSEC) in Melacca, Malaysia. Over 250 participants from more than 100 organizations were there to discuss how to encourage deeper engagement with God’s Word.

One of the greatest benefits of the conference was discussing with colleagues about strategies and methods that are working well in their part of the world. It will be exciting to share these ideas with co-workers back in Papua New Guinea and implement some of them here!

A “bonus” feature of the conference was the opportunity to see Becca’s brother, David Federwitz. He is involved with Scripture Engagement in Ghana. We took a rickshaw ride around the historical downtown of Melacca.

After the conference was over, David and Danny took a day to see the sights in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia.

It was intriguing to see the contrast of soaring skyscrapers huddled right next to older buildings.

It was also interesting to see the contrast of road-side fruit stands.

And then a few blocks away there was a “mega digital mall”, with six stories of nothing but electronics gear.

These are the Petronas Towers at night. They are currently considered the second highest buildings in the world.

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Sports Day

2009-09-28T11:12:00.003+10:00

Anna is loving Kindergarten! A big event for her recently was Sports Day, where all the kids participate in different sporting events. The students are divided into two teams: red and yellow.

On the way to school with friends Jasmine and Tangi

Waiting with Tia… braids seem to be the style for Sports Day.

“I’m a little confused about this stretching thing.”

Off and running…

“My first ribbon ever. Can you tell how proud I am?!”

The whole kindergarten class

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Training future pastors

2009-09-28T11:12:00.001+10:00

Danny led a team to one of the largest Bible schools in Papua New Guinea, where they taught about the value of mother-tongue Scriptures and how to use them in church ministry.

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Happy Birthday Cedar and Brent

2009-09-28T11:10:00.001+10:00

Some of our good friends recently had birthdays in their family. You may remember prayer requests we sent out earlier this year about our friend Steven Ttopoqogo, who was in a serious car accident. He has recovered amazingly well. Two of his boys, Cedar and Brent, had birthdays recently. It was fun to have them over for a party.

“Brent and I are both three years old now!”

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Our big school girl!

2009-07-31T15:03:00.001+10:00

On July 22nd Anna started her first day of Kindergarten.

"Ready for my first day of school!"

All excited

A supportive brother

Getting right to work

Kindergarten is a busy place.

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Happy 3rd birthday Joshua!!!

2009-07-31T14:58:00.001+10:00

On July 10th Joshua turned three! He enjoyed celebrating with his cousins and other friends here at Ukarumpa.

A little fun in the water

Happy Birthday Joshua!!!

"I love Thomas the Tank Engine!"

Miles and miles of fun

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Playtime

2009-06-10T22:12:00.001+10:00

A few snapshots of Anna and Joshua at play

They love the climbing tree in our back yard, especially when their cousins come over to climb in it with them!

An aspiring carpenter! Is this work or play? When our porch was being built, Joshua wanted to get in on the action too.

As the porch was about finished the kids gave it a test run

Horsing around

Watching our new family favorite… The Jungle Book. After only a couple of times seeing it, they have many scenes memorized!

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Bedtime

2009-06-10T22:11:00.001+10:00

These are some fun pictures of the kids bedtime

Joshua loves to sleep with his “friends” huddled around him

Sometimes he comes into our bedroom in the morning, announcing, “Here I am with all my friends!”

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Mother's Day pictures

2009-05-14T00:13:00.001+10:00

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Pastor Nickson's family comes to visit

2009-05-13T23:51:00.001+10:00

Pastor Nickson serves with Gospel Recordings of Papua New Guinea. He has been heavily involved in recording Wantoat Scripture portions into oral format (mostly cassettes up to this point). Last weekend (May 8 to 11) Pastor Nickson and his wife, Grace, and their two girls, Joann and Hadassah came to stay with us in our home. It was a rich time of fellowship and planning for future ministry in Wantoat.

We gave dolls to Joann and Hadassah. Anna loved showing how to dress the dolls in play clothes.

One of the most exciting parts of the visit was when Pastor Nickson showed us the new Sabre MP3 player. This is a new technology that we will use for distributing Wantoat Scriptures. One advantage it has over older cassette technology is that it can hold the entire New Testament plus more!

One of the most fun parts of the weekend was sharing skills. Grace wanted to learn as many recipes from Becca as she could. Here Becca is teaching how to make pizza from scratch.

Grace was also excited to learn how to make peanut butter cookies...

... and bread rolls.

I shared the best food I knew...

... Georgia sweet tea!

The kids shared a whole lot of fun too!

It was neat that Grace was able to reciprocate the sharing of skills by teaching Becca how to plant greens.

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Easter photo shoot

2009-05-02T22:42:00.001+10:00

These are some candid pictures from our “photo shoot” on Easter Sunday.

The pictures at the end show the final results of the effort.

“What's happening over there?”

"I'm a little bored."

"Hey! What's this... a piece of grass?"

What a beautiful bunch of kids!

The whole gang

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Easter egg hunt

2009-05-02T22:24:00.001+10:00

These are some pictures from the Easter egg hunt we had at Easter. Jonathan and Carrie’s family came over, and we all had a great time!

The race is on!

It is fun to watch Joshua in this series of pictures. It is almost like a movie of him.

It was hard to keep Joshua looking for eggs. He kept wanting to eat the candy inside!

This is a little patch of banana trees in the backyard. The kids call it a "jungle". I don't think they found any eggs in there.

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A message from Anna and Joshua

2009-05-01T22:15:00.000+10:00

Here’s a message just for you from Anna and Joshua!