Hungry

April 16, 2011

In our first days back in Patpatar this last March I had a lot of questions. What happened while we were gone? How are our brothers and sisters doing here? What is going to happen this time back? There is a certain believer here that always seems to amaze me. I actually find him quite […]

Door Ajar

April 3, 2011

The boys taking a peek into the office. Remember that riddle from elementary school: When is a door not a door? When it is ajar! That riddle comes flooding back to my memory every time I see the little red icon of car with its’ doors open illuminated on the dash board. The built-in vehicle […]

Suitcases and Tsunamis

March 13, 2011

We are located on the 6 hr line. After 2 days of travel, just after sunset, we touched down in a small town on the island on which we live. Despite Sierra making use of the sickness bags on many of the flights we had a great trip and arrived safely with all of our […]

Carry-ons and Co-workers

March 3, 2011

Our last outing in the States…climbing mounting like in Papua New Guinea. As I write this I am sitting on the last row of the airplane surrounded by my wife and girls and all or our “personal bags” with our five carry-ons hovering in the bins above and we hope the suitcases are somewhere beneath […]

Technology

February 27, 2011

Aaron, Lori, Avalon, Sierra, and Kylee captured by pixels. We were aware of cell phones before our arrival in the States before Christmas, but they had changed. I watched in awe as 8 finger typing was replaced by miniature scaled 2 thumbed typing. Telegram length messages in abbreviated codes jumped from screen to screen on […]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

January 1, 2011

The girls welcomed to a cold white Iowa. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all! We are so very thankful as we look at this past year for all of the faithful support God has provided through many of you in prayer, encouragement and financially. As we reflected on Christmas in church last […]

Literacy Graduation

December 5, 2010

The literacy students with their certificates. Kolmau’s speech was similar to Anna’s. He stood before the crowd with a book and a microphone in his hand. It was the day of the literacy graduation and for the first time in his life he was one of the students. Speaking into the microphone he admitted that […]

A growth

November 25, 2010

Towalaka What would your reaction be if someone told you that something was becoming fat inside of you? Would you be offended, scared, happy? If a nutritionist told you that, you may have to start eating less turkey and pumpkin pie. If a doctor told you that, you may be scheduled for surgery. If a […]

I’ll be home for Christmas

October 24, 2010

Singing with some of the believers at sunset. Dear family and friends, We will be home in the States for Christmas this year…and not just in our dreams! Since our Christmas with family in America in 2000 prior to coming to Papua New Guinea, we have only been back home for Christmas once. So, we […]

Halfway Through

October 1, 2010

Lori helping during literacy class “Oh no, September is finished. This isn’t good. It means the school for reading and writing is going to finish quickly. It would be good if we could just keep doing more and more school,” sighed one of the literacy students when he realized two of the four months were […]