Source: Ethnos360, September 16, 2019<\/p>\n
In the Iski people group of Papua New Guinea, \u201cmarriage is an ill-defined term,\u201d said missionary Aur\u00e9lie Tousch. \u201cPeople go out together, move in together [and] break up, a bit like in the West.\u202fThere is no wedding day but a \u2018trial period\u2019 that often ends in separation even after the birth of a child.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the gospel was presented and Iski believers began growing, the missionaries taught biblical principles of marriage. Though counter-cultural, the Iski believers accepted the teachings and have been waiting since 2017 for an opportunity to demonstrate their obedience.<\/p>\n
One of these Iski believers is Bitris, a young, single lady. Bitris\u2019 friends encouraged her to marry, but she chose to wait because there were few single, believing Iski men.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in a different language group far across Papua New Guinea, Moombi, a young Mibu elder, began looking for a wife. For years, he waited to marry because he \u201cfelt rather strongly that God wanted him to focus on ministry and leave these things in his hands,\u201d said missionary Chris Walker. Then in December 2018, his brothers \u201cinformed him that it was time for him to get married,\u201d and Moombi followed his family\u2019s wishes and began growing his beard in a Mibu cultural practice to \u201cadvertise\u201d that he was looking for a wife\u2026<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a>. Many first-generation believers face with similar issues finding spouses. See also The Iski Church Has Been Born!<\/a> (2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Ethnos360, September 16, 2019 In the Iski people group of Papua New Guinea, \u201cmarriage is an ill-defined term,\u201d said missionary Aur\u00e9lie Tousch. \u201cPeople go out together, move in together [and] break up, a bit like in the West.\u202fThere is no wedding day but a \u2018trial period\u2019 that often ends in separation even after the … Continue reading PAPUA NEW GUINEA: First Iski Wedding of Believers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8800,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8799\/revisions\/8800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}