20090820 Our August Newsletter

Dear Family and Friends:

Good morning. It is Thursday August 20th 2009 and Victor, Alex and I are currently here in Cairns Australia preparing to leave for the PNG island region, specifically Kokopo Town East New Britain, in the morning. All three of us have been quite ill with the cold and flu and it has been a difficult “welcome back” to this part of the world. In addition to spending some time in prayer, we had hoped to readjust here and take care of some odds and ends before diving back into the PNG culture - but we can not control the circumstances of our lives. God has watched over us and we are on medications and slowly improving.

During our return to the United States a few months ago, there were a lot of things that happened. Victor graduated from school and received his Master of Divinity degree from the King’s Seminary in California. He graduated with honors and was awarded “Top Scholar” which always makes us smile because we know it was the grace of God that he was able to complete the last year of school via the the very sketchy and unpredictable internet in Papua New Guinea. Yet God used what we had - even after being disconnected from the internet multiple times we would pray and ask God to send His angels to keep the connection open – and each time God faithfully helped us. While in the U.S., Victor was also able to take his medical board Ob-Gyn recertification exam and renew his Washington State medical license to keep him medically up to date. Last but not least, while in the U.S. on break Victor studied and sat-in for his Foursquare International Pastor’s license which he acquired on August 7, 2009.

While on break in the U.S., God opened up several opportunities to share how faithful He has been to us. We had many opportunities, both in group and individual settings, to share and it was wonderful to see people drawn to God’s heart for the people of PNG. We saw old friends and met new ones. We visited family when we could and enjoyed Mexican food whenever possible.

We are not sure if we will have internet access when we return to Papua New Guinea, so we wanted to give just a brief update on our progress so far. We have heard that there have been several distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks in PNG that has halted internet service nation-wide and so we wanted to give you all a report just in case we did not have e-mail access for a while.

Thank you to all of you that have encouraged us, prayed for and supported us in numerable ways. Our hearts are touched and we thank you for your care. We will continue to keep in touch with you on a regular basis.

Prayer Needs:

• Complete healing and strength.
• For our re-entry back into PNG, into home-schooling, into the tropical heat, and to be ready and to deal with what we need too.
• Prayer for our travel – especially that all the luggage will make it to our Kokopo Town East New Britain home base.
• Working planes.
• Grace to reconnect with the people at even a deeper level.
• Wisdom to make Godly decisions – to hear and obey what the Holy Spirit is speaking to us.
• Pray for Nathaniel, our son back in the U.S.

Blessings,

Victor and Lori and Alexander Obregon

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