Derek & Sarah Grant
Serving in Indonesia
Issue 9, December 2009
Prayer & Praise:
• Pray for good health and
endurance as we continue
to study the Dao language
• Praise the Lord for His con-
tinued faithfulness in our
lives and the lives of the
Dao people
• Pray for Sarah’s health and
our baby would grow
healthy and strong
• Praise the Lord for the 4
Dao men who are teaching
the Bible lessons each
Sunday. Pra y for their faith-
fulness, spiritual growth,
and teaching ability
• Pray for the Dao as they
continue to grow in truth
• Pray for Phillips as they are
in the states on furlough,
and preparing to head to
Greece for 6 months to
learn Greek
Upcoming Events:
Jan 1st—The New Year of 2009
begins!
Jan 6th—tentative date to fly
back into Dao
Feb 25th—Our Anniversary
derek_grant@ntm.org
Web: dsgrant.blogspot.com
Mailing:
Mailing: PO Box 369,
Sentani, Papua,
99352, Indonesia
Don’t Close the Door
This is our buddy Yusupi (Daapooi.)
A few weeks ago, he built a house in the
same hamlet as us. He said “I want to build
up here so I can listen to all of the Creator’s
talk, and won’t miss any of it.”
Yusupi is also one of the men who teaches
the Bible lessons every Sunday.
When the Dao build a house, they always Yusup building his new house
cover over the doors at night in order to
keep spirits from entering, even if there is no roof yet.
One night, during the building process, we
Yusup’s wife, Otopina, sitting in front of the went down to look at the house. It was a sur-
almost finished house prise to see that the door was open. I then
went to the hut where he was staying and
asked him about the door. He replied, “I’m
not afraid of the spirits, God is with me. I
know He is strong, so I didn’t close in the
door.”
We praise the Lord for His continued work in
Yusupi’s life, and for Yusupi’s outward testi-
mony of faith.
He is the first one, to not close in the door.
An Announcement to Make
We’re having a baby! July 1st, 2009 is the due date.
We are very thankful to the Lord for providing a little one for us.
We will be heading back to Canada sometime in April 2009 for
a 9 month furlough, as Sarah will need a RhoGam shot at 28 weeks, due to Rh incom-
patibility. We are currently in town while Sarah recovers from a kidney infection,
along with some other viruses going around, but hope to return to Dao in January. De-
spite Sarah having some health problems, the baby is doing well and continues to
grow. We praise the Lord for experienced doctors and nurses here in Indonesia who
have been very helpful in giving Sarah her prenatal checkups, training us to do various
tests on our own out in the tribe, and giving us great advice with our first pregnancy.
Thank you for your prayers and support for us and the Dao people.
Derek and Sarah