“We preached wherever we found people,” reminisced Elsie Thew, who served in Papua New Guinea with her husband, Bill, from 1958 to 1966. “We spoke to people in their villages, in their homes, in their gardens, in the markets, and along bush tracks. We spoke to fishermen on beaches and riverbanks. In the early days, we also carried a map of the world so that we could show people in the more isolated areas where we came from. This was important because sometimes we arrived by air, and the villagers, unaware of the outside world, thought we’d dropped in from heaven! So we showed them that we simply came from another part of the same world as theirs.”

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Elsie and Bill Thew