Outreach
With Gods' help, and yours Jenspen sends 'love packages' to Nyirripi, a remote Aboriginal community in the middle of the Northern Territory Tanami Desert.
Please send your package to
"The Elders", PMB 16 Nyirripi Community. NT 0872.
Please see below for further information and instructions.
THANKYOU
Nyirripi. NT. Australia
Nyirripi community is situated about 5 hrs west of Alice Springs in the middle of the Tanami desert. I spent some years working, living and ministering in Nyirripi, an experience that has changed my life.
The weather is harsh and the people are as tough as nails on the outside. Yet on the inside, the Warlpari people are as soft as a marshmallow and just as sweet!
These people loved me like Jesus does.
When I first arrived in Nyirripi I was accepted right away by the Warlpiri people. They took me into their hearts and accepted me in their home. If the situation were reversed I would not have been so accomodating! I am the opposite in that I have to get to know people first before allowing them into my life! But the Warlpiri people simply loved me, allowed me to support their children and laughed at my mistakes and attempts to speak their language. It was such an amazing time in my life that changed me forever.
That Red Dirt gets under your skin!
Since leaving Nyirripi I have returned twice. And I do want to get out there again sometime soon and visit my Warlpiri families.
Its a long way! Travelling to Alice Springs is an adventure in itself, known as the Red Centre of Australia. You then travel along the rough and rugged Tanami Rd until reaching Yuendumu turnoff. Just beyond there is the turn off to Nyirripi Rd, a long dirt corrigated rough track that you travel along for about 2 hrs before arriving at the community. The population is about 200.
Services there include:
One store (like an IGA)
Council building
Clinic with a nurse
Primary school, youth hall, and kindy centre.
Aged care building, and homes.
A truck with grocery supplies for the store comes every 2 weeks, weather permitting.
The bush bus transports people to and from Nyirripi & other bush communities once a week.
The mail plane delivers the mail bag.
When I lived there, there was no mobile phone service but this has since been connected.
It gets cold in the desert!
Nyirripi is a place of extreme temperatures and one thing that used to break my heart at times when living there was watching people battling the cold! One memory that has always stayed with me is the time I gave a young man an old tracksuit jacket I was wearing. He was walking around in a thin tshirt and he was freezing. I had other jackets at home so gave him this one. In the days following I saw this same jacket on many different bodies as it was passed around to help another. That is the simple (yet profound) love that I saw demonstrated every single day I lived in Nyirripi.
So each year I try and send out as many love packages as I can. There are no other transport services, so the only way to send them is through Australia Post.
With your help we can help keep these people a bit warmer over winter.
I accept local donations when I can and money donations for postage. You can also post out packages yourself if you like.
Send to: The Elders, PMB 16 Nyirripi Community. NT 0872. (Please include a small note saying that Jenny Napurulla said you needed warm things and this is my gift to you), or something similar. And please let me know / send a photo of your parcel. I will upload it on the website and onto the Facebook Page (Nyirripi Outreach) where many of the Warlipiri families will see that the parcel is coming.
Long Term Vision
I've envisioned visiting Nyirrpi every 2 years at Easter time. I've envisioned having some sort of rally to bring love and encouragement. I've envisioned visiting with a mobile op shop full of donated winter clothing, shoes and blankets to help them through the winter.
There is not currently an op shop in Nyirripi and it has been on my heart for years to see that change. It is also something the people want and would value.
Please join me in prayer for the resources to see this come to pass.
It will take a team of people with the right hearts to go. People who would go with respect for Warlpiri culture, to share ministry, worship, support and love.
It will take a high clearance 4WD and a trailer suitable to carry out the donated goods. It would need to be waterproof and dustproof.
And it will take finances for the trip -fuel - accommodation - food etc - its a long way and fuel is even more expensive out there.
I'm not sure whether expenses would eventually be recovered through the op shop sales.
But God knows and He has a way of providing for His people.