This is our final Fuel Nozzle spray tester station. We made a few modifications like adding a better regulator with a moisture separator and guage. We also redisigned an existing dolly and modified it to hold our testing aparatus and provide a working space. We cleaned everything up with a fresh coat of paint and added some easy to follow instructions. Hopefully it will last for years to come.

The guys were so proud of their medals that they all wore them to Church on Sunday to show their friends.

My assistant Coach Roy and I had a great time cheering our team on to victory. Between all the yelling and laughing I lost my voice by the end of the day.

This scene gives you a better feel for the scope of the competition, filling the gym at Whitworth with hundreds of kids and their cheering parents for a full Saturday of games.

Our fans from our chuch Fouth Memorial were amazing.

It was a high speed competition with a variety of games from running with noodles, throwing beanbags, passing baloons and running for pins.

Leslie coached the girls team and they came in third. All the kids had a wonderful time and are already talking about coming back next year for a shot at the title.

It was a triumphant Saturday for the T&T boys of Fourth Memorial Church at the Awana Games. It was a nail-biter all the way to the final event. But my boys pulled through to victory as the 2006 Awana Games Champions (at least for our circle, there were three other cricles with champions as well). The guys had a great time.

Well, it may not look like much, but this is the future of fuel injector nozzle spray testing�at least as far as my school is concerned. It is a device to test the spray pattern of fuel injector nozzles at various constant pressures. I have been working on it for the past few days with two other guys from school. We needed a way to test fuel nozzles in our small jet engine we were overhauling. The school had no way of doing it so they gave us a $100 budget and sent us shopping. We are pleased to announce we came in under budget (Which is quite a bargain considering the other options on the market for fuel nozzle testing apparatus) and best of all, it Works!

Winter is just not quite ready to give us up here in Spokane. The snow has not been sticking long, but it continues to fall. (This is just outside our hangar with the runway a little beyond us.)

The terrain is extremely rough in Papua and can be seen clearly here as bumps in the earth. It makes me think the land has goosebumps. These bumps are actually sharp limestone hills that are covered by the dense jungle. This area, now high in the mountains was once covered by the ocean, as sea fosils can still be found in very high elevations in Papua. This type of terrain is why aviation is so important, allowing transportation in minutes to places that would otherwise take weeks of trecking. (Photo Neil and Carol Anderson)

These are some of the Fotoba people and their rather dilapidated windsock. The windsocks belong to the government and are supposed to be maintained by the same. (Photo Neil and Carol Anderson)

This is a picture looking towards the runway from the village as a plane takes off. (Photo Neil and Carol Anderson)

The other night Leslie and I had dinner with Neil and Carol Anderson. They have been translators with Wycliffe for over 30 years in Papua New Guinea living with the Fotoba people. This is a picture of their village. The village stretches along the peak of the ridge and the runway is at the far end. (Photo Neil and Carol Anderson)

Awana games training is in full swing and a bit of a blur. We will keep you posted with more pictures as we move our teams from practice to the main Awana Games at Whitworth on the 18th. Tons of kids will gather to throw beanbags, run in circles and gather pins. It should be very exciting.