To The Nations

MAY 2011! THE FLEMING FAMILY ON MISSION FOR THE GLORY OF GOD!!

Arriving in Vanuatu,
Our new home,
and surroundings

We Are In Vanuatu!!
Church. We have attended church
Joy and Appreciation. We are so
We have been praying here at The International Christian Church.
thankful for each of our partners. We
and preparing for 3 want you to know that you are here in
The services are conducted in English and
the hymns are familiar to us. Many people
years, now the time is Vanuatu with us in a real sense through
who go there are other missionaries. We have
your partnership. Thank you so much for
here. also attended a
your willingness to bring the Word of
We arrived here in Port Vila, God to the Bible-less of Vanuatu. You are
a vital part of this ministry! I thank my God upon ev
Vanuatu on April 12. Our arrival was ery
delayed a week, due to some paperwork
We Are Partners With You As remembrance of you,
issues with immigration, but God is
Sovereign and we arrived in His timing. Well. If possible, would you please send always in every prayer of
us your picture? We are organizing a
prayer book, for our own use, and would mine making request for
Meeting Our you
like to include pictures of all our prayer
New Family .
and financial partners. We want to
all with joy- Phil. 1:3-4
We were met at
the airport by our specifically pray for you! This includes
Director and his pictures of congregations as well. Also,
local church that speaks only Bislama.
wife; and we were please let us know how to be praying.
Surprisingly, we recognized many of the
immediately Please send the pictures to Brad’s email
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They were happy we were finally here. They
adjusting well to our new surroundings,
had been praying for us for a while. After the
and beginning to learn Bislama, one of
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the official languages.
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Mee!ng Wi" Pas#r Aman!
We had the opportunity to meet and speak with Pastor Aman, who is a
pastor on the island of Tanna, but is originally from the island of Malekula.
This was an exciting time for a couple of different reasons. First, Pastor Aman
has expressed great interest in beginning Bible translation among his people
on Malekula. This is a BIG DEAL because not only will he be a tremendous
asset to the project, but he is also willing to take a leave of absence from his
pastoral duties to work on translating the scriptures!
Secondly, we have made new friends in Pastor Aman and his family.
While we only had the opportunity to meet with him, we have sent our
“howdy” to his wife and children, and we have received the same from them.
It is amazing to see how God is working in the ordering of our ministry here
in Vanuatu.
Please be in prayer!! Pastor Aman, our director, and myself will be
traveling to Malekula in the coming weeks to look at the area and further Miana turned 11 on April
determine if this is where we will spend our time translating the Word. We 13th. We had two celebrations
need wisdom and discernment in this process. for her before we left and one
Here are a few facts you may be interested in: here on her actual birthday!
We’re so proud of Miana and
• Malekula is the second largest island in Vanuatu, and is located north of
blessed to have her in our family!
where we are now.
Miana truly has a servant’s
• Malfaxal is the name of the village that we may move to. heart and serves her family well.
• Na’ahai is the name of the language we would be working in. There are She has become quite the bread
approx. 2000 speakers. maker here in Vanuatu. The
• The area in which we would live has no roads, so our main forms of travel only problem is that it doesn’t
will be by boat or by sneakers! last very long! Move over
Martha Stewart!
We love you Miana and Happy
Birthday!

Pastor Aman and his family
If you would like to give (one time or
monthly) to our ministry to help with
expenses please contact us or send your
gift to Wycliffe at the address listed
on the front page. On a separate note
(not on the check) put “For the
ministry of Brad & Sonya Fleming”.
All gifts are tax deductible.
Prayer Requests
Pray for the people group we will be working with. When we get back from
Papua New Guinea we will be ready to move to the village where we will work with the people
group in translating their language into Scripture. A lot of work has to be done before the
translation can be started. There is a strong possibility we will be moving to the island of
Malekula (see above) to a more remote area please pray that God will direct our path and show
us where and what people group he will has us work with.
Pray for financial provisions. We need finances to get us to and from Papua New
Guniea for POC training. This course will teach us how to live and survive in a village type
setting in the Pacific. Also a couple that was here before has solar panels, generator, etc. for sale
that will be very useful to us in our village living. Please pray that we would have the finances
we need in order to get these things. They are selling them for half price of what they paid. If
we are able to get them it will save us on shipping costs too because it is already here in storage.
Pray for smooth transitions. Moving here we have had to get used to the heat and
begin to learn a new language. Continue to pray for us during this time and for the people
teaching us. Our language helper, Serah, has been a blessing and is so patient with us!