Jarretts Ministry

Dear Friends and Family:

We just received word that one of the two long-awaited containers [over 18 months in transit and customs] has arrived at Tenwek. We don't know if our things are on this container or the other one, but please pray that the other container will arrive this week.

We also have an update on the Japan ministry team that should highlight the need for continued prayer. After the team's flight took off from Dallas, one of the young men on our team, Steven Dick, suffered a collapsed lung; as I understand, it is from a condition called pneumothorax. This condition can occur spontaneously in young men, where an air sac in the lung bursts causing air to go out into the negative pressure space between the chest wall and the lung. The accumulating air causes the affected lung to collapse in addition to a fair amount of pain. It is necessary to put a large diameter tube through the skin and chest wall to release the trapped air and observe for cessation of its reaccumulation. Steven is in a hospital in Denver awaiting stabilization of the leak [if indeed, the reports that I'm getting are accurate], and will not be able to go on to Japan after his recovery. Please pray for his complete recovery from this unexpected problem. Steven is a vital member of the music ministry team, so someone else will need to "step up to the plate", so to speak. The plane was

Dear Friends and Family:

I wanted to give you an update on Laura's trip to Japan. Praise God that all of her requested funds have been received, and we have ordered her ticket for August 15, 2006. The support funds raised were to meet her estimated initial travel and living expenses. It is believed that she will earn enough money from teaching the conversational English lessons to cover additional living expenses, according to those who held the position this past year.

This morning, she took two packed bags of winter clothes to the airport to accompany the youth group ministry team from Castleview that is headed to Sapporo, Japan. They are going for nearly three weeks to the same church where Laura will be ministering for the next year. Please pray for safety and successful ministry as the team ministers in the name of Jesus. I'm going to pray that God will double the size of the churches where the teams focus on evangelism. Pray as God leads you.

Updates and specific prayer requests from the team can be obtained from the Castleview Baptist Church website.

The following is a prayer request dated April 29, 2006, from a Japanese pastor in a different area of Japan which highlights some or the spiritual warfare going on there:

From Shigeru Takiura, Pastor of RPCNA Japan Presbytery in Kobe city.

I again want to ask your favor of praying for the Christian freedom in Japan.

Please pray that our Christian primary school kids would not be

Dear Friends: The airline called late last night saying that the bag is located and will be delivered this am. My talk in WVA went well, and I'm driving back the 7 hours this morning. Should arrive early afternoon at home, Lord willing. Thanks for praying. Paul

Dear Family and Friends:

We have recovered all but one of the suitcases. The airline is currently saying that they don't know where the bag is. [At one time they said that it was in London] It contains some favorite devotional materials, Debbye's books for the start of her school year, as well as items like the chargers for my Palm Pilot, toothbrush, laptop fan, all our rechargeable batteries, and some recently purchased gifts. We keep saying where's this or that, and the answer always come back to the missing bag. Please pray that it will be recovered soon.

I drive to West Virginia today for 2 lectures tomorrow [OBGYN in the Tropics and Malaria in pregnancy. I'll return on Saturday. Please pray for safe travel. Jet lag is still a bit of an issue.

Paul, for the Jarretts

Dear Friends and Family:

This is just a quick note to say that we are back home again in Indiana safely. Our flight left Kenya over 3 hours late -- we didn't board until 2 am local time, so we were pretty tired. Our connection in London was therefore pretty tight. This is also where Becki went her separate way to Miami. They were waiting for her as she got off the airplane to take her to a different terminal for her connection. She and her bags made her flight. Our flight was boarding as we got through security, so we didn't have any time at all in the London airport. Five of our bags were too tired to make the connection, but the other 7 did. We had an hour's delay leaving Chicago because of weather in the area, but we are safe at home now, and wondering why it isn't even thinking about getting dark at 7:45PM. It's dark in Kenya by 7 pm, and it used to be time for sunset in Indiana except for the new daylight savings time. I guess that we'll all get used to that together.

Paul, for the Jarretts together again in Indiana

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 7, Number 14

June 29, 2006

Dear Friends and Family:

It’s difficult to believe that this 7th six-month term is over. Although seven is the number of completeness, we plan on returning again in January, 2007. It is always difficult to pack up belongings and memories, say goodbye, and wrap up the ministry for awhile. Thanks for your continuing prayer for the multifaceted ministry here and our travel home.

We will drive to Nairobi tomorrow, spend the night at a guesthouse, and fly out on Saturday night. We depart about 3:45 pm Indy time. We’re scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon about 4pm. Please pray for safety, our passage through security [the girls favorite thing to do], the flight connections, rest on the flight, reentry into the States, and for the final arrival. Seems like the connection in Chicago is often a problem, and we’re hopeful that all the luggage will accompany us.

I wanted to update you on the children’s homes. Last Saturday we went to Bosto Children’s Home. Whatever you might have heard from the girls, the trip out there wasn’t all that exciting. Granted, the brakes mostly quit working when we lost the brake fluid from the master cylinder. But I had some brake fluid with me to add back in, and when that leaked out, I was able to slow down going back down the mountain by using first gear. You don’t really need brakes going up the mountain. The horn

Dear Family and Friends,

This August, I will be leaving to go to Japan. I went to Japan two years ago with my youth group on a trip for two weeks. I completely fell in love with Japan, and God has placed a burden in my heart to go back ever since then. I will be living there for a year in a city called Sapporo. While there, I will teach conversational English. Along with teaching English, my other responsibilities will be to work with the youth ministry, serve in the outreach ministry- planning, performing, tracts distribution, etc., and also to study Japanese.

I will be living at a church with the pastor and his family. Pastor Kamidate and his wife have 4 daughters, and live at the church in an upper apartment. This church is the same that the youth group from my church has been partnering up with in the summer to do short term mission trips and that I visited before.

Japan is a country that needs God. In Japan only one out of every two hundred people is a Christian. The main religion there is Buddhist. Japan needs to hear the truth about God’s love and the relationship that is available to them through Jesus Christ. God has placed a burden in my heart to share this truth with the Japanese people, and I pray that this year in Japan will give me many

Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 7, Number 13

June 23, 2006

Dear Friends and Family;

Thanks so much for your prayers. We are leaving Tenwek a week from today, so I wanted to update some prayer requests and then, perhaps, write a final letter before we depart.

Today we operated on the 8th grader who had an induced abortion near term; I had mentioned her situation in the last letter. She had a stormy course over the past two weeks with persistent pain in the uterus and a fever that initially went away with antibiotics, but then it returned and increased in magnitude making us believe that she might have an abscess developing. We had been following her with ultrasound examinations, and yesterday we were convinced that we were seeing an abscess develop around the top of the uterus near the ovary.

At surgery we found that the top right portion of the uterus was indeed involved with an abscess that had destroyed the corner where the Fallopian Tube enters. There was also an abscess beneath the tube. We cut away the infected, dead tissue after freeing the small intestine from the area where the uterus had been perforated with an instrument, either during the abortion or in a subsequent curettage where retained placental tissue had been removed. We reconstructed the uterus, so it may be capable of childbearing in the future even though a cesarean section would be required for delivery if she is so fortunate as to get pregnant. She has prayed

Dear Friends and Family:

Thanks for your prayers. I wanted to update an important prayer request. Peter Kiplangat, the formerly tongue-tied boy, is doing well at Mosop school, as far as schooling and relationships. However, at night he is having terrible nightmares that cause him to scream and cry out, which is very frightening to the other boys in the dormitory. They involve visions of the dead mother and other frightening things. Other Kenyans are fearful of evil spirits -- these beliefs are not far below the surface here. In medical terms, he is having some form of post-traumatic stress syndrome. But spiritual warfare is also a possibility. Would you pray for complete deliverance from this problem?

Our patient who had kidney failure, Lucy, has finished dialysis at Eldoret, but is still having some infection in her body, perhaps in the pericardium, the sack around the heart. Please pray for complete healing for her.

The young men from our home church have returned safely from the expedition in search of Noah's Ark. I have no report on their success or failure as of yet, but they are home safely for which their families are very greatful.

We've had great visits to the orphan's homes, but that's a story for another day. Pray for us as we minister in Sunday services tomorrow. The girls will do music and children's church at Tenwek. I am preaching at a local church.

Paul, for the Jarretts in Kenya for two more weeks.

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Jarrett’s Prayer Letter

Volume 7, Number 12

June 10, 2006

Dear Friends and Family:

We have had an exciting two weeks and are continuing to enjoy having more family with us. The girls helped lead music for the worship service at Tenwek and will probably do so for the reminder of the time here. I’m in charge of the worship service tomorrow as a favor for Mike Chupp who took his family to Nairobi this weekend. Thanks for praying for him; his HIV test has remained negative after a hand injury in surgery on an HIV+ patient several months ago. There is a final test at six months, but it is usually negative if the other tests have remained negative.

We’ve had some exciting developments with the orphanages that I’d like to report. In the last letter, I mentioned that a ministry called World Orphans had agreed to help finance the building of dormitories at Bosto and Kenduiwa. This week I got a report from them that they are partnering with PrayerSong Ministries who will hold a series of concerts in California to benefit these two children’s homes. Then PrayerSong plans a visit at some time in the future to see the homes. I also helped World Orphans to move further along in the process of sponsoring a dormitory for Mosop School and the Laura Children’s home there. [Laura is pronounced Lah OO’ rah here.] Please pray that World Orphans will finance a much needed dormitory there as they have 90