Meeting the 7000
Mrs. Mary Weisner
While waiting at the gate to fly out of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, Kathy saw a very old lady, in a wheelchair, all alone waiting for the plane. She went and spoke with her. What a lady! Her name was Mary Weisner. She was 92 years old and had flown to PNG alone as she does every year. She had married a marine who had served in New Guinea during WWII. They lived an ungodly life. At 36 years old they got saved and Bro. Weisner felt called back to PNG to be a missionary. When they arrived in 1965, the village they went to was a “refuge” village. That meant it was a stronghold for murderers and criminals where police would never enter. In they went. Over the next four decades they started several churches and adopted seven native children. (One is the pastor of a church they started.) Their village is an eleven hour march through the jungle. When Mr. Weisner died three years ago, Mrs. Weisner had to come back to the States. She now lives in North Carolina and flies alone to PNG every year to visit her old mission field. She's suffered a broken back, but that still doesn't stop her. Kathy asked her if the different environments affected her sleeping and she returned, “Oh, I could sleep on a pile of coconuts!” From PNG she was going Singapore for a week where she said she would see a Muslim taxi driver she has been witnessing to for 20 years.
This dear old sister has been serving Christ most of her life and hasn't yet discovered she's supposed to be too old to keep going.