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