A Time to Heal

August 30, 2010

Our family saying good-bye. Dear friends and family, We want to thank you all for your love and prayers. We received so many emails from so many of you expressing sympathy and compassion. Thank you for helping us through the difficult time of our loss. In retrospect we see so many things that God worked […]

And the Lord has taken away

August 25, 2010

Working on the literacy building. Dear friends and family, Many of you have been wondering how the first literacy class has been going. We are happy to say that the 16 students continue to be excited and are doing great in the class. The small school house that we began to build however, has had […]

All Better

August 13, 2010

Blais “I want the Christians in America to know how I came to understand the Gospel so more of them will be missionaries and I want my family to know my testimony so that they will also believe that Jesus died to pay for their sins so that they can be in His family like […]

Something to be rained out

August 1, 2010

Something to be rained out Last week the meeting was set up, but at that time there was nothing to meet about. Since our last update there still had been no resolution to a location for the Patpatar literacy class. With the class set to start on Monday, August 2nd we went ahead and spread […]

Ungrounded

July 14, 2010

Typically “ungrounded” and free to fly, the girls seize the opportunity to meet a bird. August 2nd is the start of the first Patpatar literacy course. The curriculum, primers, readers, flashcards, posters, teacher’s manual, and other Patpatar materials are in their final stages of production. The construction materials for the simple village classroom, desks, and […]

The 4th

July 4, 2010

Gathering on the 4th of July It is the 4th of July here in Papua New Guinea. It is a beautiful, warm, sunny day, but it doesn’t feel like the 4th. There are no flags waving, no picnics planned, no red, white and blue (except for a banner my girls put up in the house […]

Fixing Broken Stuff

May 23, 2010

Lori assisting Sierra on a recent hike to a village. You ever had one of those weeks? You know, the kind where nothing seems to go right. The kind of week that by the end you are not surprised by another breakdown. That has been the kind of week we have had. Lightning played with […]

Resurrection

April 2, 2010

Our first believers’ baptism. Today, Good Friday, we celebrated the death, burial, and resurrection of our Savior. It was extra exciting because we had our first believers’ baptism. We met together at about 9:00 this morning and most stayed until about 4:00 in the afternoon. The first hour we sang, prayed, and I taught about […]

Parrots

March 21, 2010

Parrots! You know the colorful, mimicking birds, that everyone who sees it in the pet store asks if it wants a cracker. The intelligent pet, the picture of paradise, the parrot. Well, opinions do differ.

Madonna

March 3, 2010

[singlepic id=1 w=320 h=240 float=none] Madonna being adopted into the clan by Tika with a traditional necklace. Many of you are familiar with our teammates directly involved in the Patpatar work: Butch and Tammy Kunzer and their family (who are currently in the States) and Madonna Yates. We had met Madonna, an Australia lady, during […]