TLIG in Papua New Guinea
30 October 2000 22:30
Guy Joris is an engineer who went out to help in an underdeveloped country and decided to stay permanently. The country is Papua New Guinea and he has promoted the True Life in God messages there for many years.
You can read a report from Guy in 1999 at the end of this message. He is currently out of contact with the outside world but he he emerged a couple of weeks ago to visit a priest who helps him promoting TLIG in Papua New Guinea. While there, he sent a few emails appealing for help from the TLIG family.
The following is a compilation from his emails. He is hoping Vassula is going to be able to visit Papua New Guinea early next year.
I am in Port Moresby for one week and I am able to use Father Jack Tul’s computer, so I can send you this e-mail. You know my situation in the village life on Bougainville. It seems Our Lord totally disabled me to continue to do His work. I am now more or less a subsistence farmer, able to cater for my family needs only. There is no progress at all in the development of our area, so that even the schoolbuilding project cannot start because of lack of funds, materials, transport etc.
Only the sharing on TLIG and Marian Devotion with our people is in good shape.
Would it be possible to use the internet to ask for help for us from the TLIG family members? We need funding as well as materials such as books, videotapes, medals etc. The funding is mainly needed for Vassula’s travel in the country and accommodation costs. I know it seems unreasonable and maybe we have to reconsider Vasula’s coming, but it is really all I can do. If we can get no help for the other things it will be hard to bring her to Mount Hagen and Buka.
In case some money could be sent, they can use the following details. All transactions in US$ will be accepted and converted into the local currency.
ANZ-bank
PO Box 1152
Port Moresby.
Phone 675 3223333 Fax: 675 3212050
Branch: Boroko Account #: 1007595
Name: Guy Joris-Denise Loos
This account is the one we use for Vassula’s visit.
The exact arriving date for Vassula is not set yet, but she will fly out from here on 27 February 2001 to make it to Australia on 1 March.
Books, magazines and videos can be sent to the following address under Father Jack’s name.
Father Jack Tul
P.O. Box 366
BOROKO NCD
PAPUA NEW GUINEA.
In regards of timing, it depends on how materials are shipped. If they are sent by surface mail it will take from 3 months to sometimes 6 months depending if they are shipped from Europe or USA. If they are sent by airmail they can be here within a few weeks. We all know the difference is in the price.
I will still continue to use all my time and love to spread the Hymn of God with the little means I have, simply because I can not do otherwise. His will be done.
Love from far,
Guy.
The work of the Holy Spirit in Papua New Guinea.
After Vassula’s visit in March 1998 the demand for books of the TLIG messages was overwhelming. The Filipino Sisters, Daughters of St. Paul, helped me to distribute the books through their bookshop. So in no time we ran out of the books. Lack of finance to buy new sets and work commitment in the charismatic centre as volunteer builder slowed down the spreading of the messages. But every week the Lord sent people in to ask for videotapes or books. We helped them out as well as we could with copies. Apart from the starting of a TLIG prayer group in Port Moresby nobody seemed to take any further action.
In November the Lord sent me and a Bougainville friend to his village to deliver a brickmaking machine and to train the village people in brickmaking. This was so that they could rebuild their classrooms, hospital and church which were destroyed in a 10 year war. We took a set of videos and TLIG books with us. What seemed to be an easy trip became an exercise in patience and faith.
Due partly to ‘post war’ problems on the one hand, and on the other to someone seemingly wanting to prevent us from reaching Mierua village. Instead of a three day trip it took us two weeks to reach Mierua. We were forced to stop in three different villages and stay overnight for lack of fuel. After sharing the TLIG video and books, the villagers insisted that we return on our way back and stay a further day to share some more.
So we did and it was wonderful to see how these people, after ten years of total isolation, no priests, no media, no food, kept their faith and welcomed and accepted and confirmed the messages. How were they kept informed about Medjugorje, Naju, Akita, TLIG ? It is still a mystery.
Bougainville Island is 99% Catholic but during the war all the priests and the bishop had to leave. Holy Mass was reduced to a prayer meeting, no Holy Communion. But the ‘rebels’ had their own catechists and parish leaders who kept the services going.
Joe King was one of those. When we met he was in doubt and had run away from his village. We shared a full day on TLIG and Fr. Gobbi’s Marian Movement and I left him my videos and my last set of TLIG books. A week later we met again at Father’s place and he told me he was back in his village. He apologised to his people for running away and asked for forgiveness. He was so happy to have TLIG make him turn back that he now assists Father in his ministry.
Back in Port Moresby two people, one from the highlands and one from the islands, came to see us. They met each other after Sunday Mass and one shared his copy of volume one of the TLIG messages with the other. They decided to form a TLIG committee to spread the messages in their regions. In what a wonderful way the Holy Spirit works! At the same time, again through a Bougainville, our finance problem got a boost.
I should have been back in Europe in August last year because my government no longer supports volunteer work in Papua New Guinea. We are still here. The Lord is good to us, He sends the right people to assist; finances improve. So we are ordering books and tapes again to spread TLIG through the whole of PNG. We assist the Bougainville restoration and continue to build our centre. We hope that the Lord will bless us with Vassula’s second visit next year.
Guy Joris
