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Thirty seven years ago we were packing and preparing for our soon departure to serve in Papua New Guinea.  Although we were adequately trained and equipped for this new venture in life –an investment of nearly four years, we felt some apprehensions amid the excitement of taking the gospel to an unreached people group.  Who […]

Everyone talks about numbers.  Whether it’s the number of millionaires in the world; how many fans the largest sports stadium can accommodate;  the growth numbers in our communities, how many birthdays or anniversaries we’ve celebrated; the cases numbers of specific illnesses; or the number of members & attendees of our churches… numbers are a huge […]

I lived eight months at the training center and it never quite felt like home. For the first few months in Wisconsin, I felt even more out of place. Now, God has provided a little townhouse for Ely and I to live in for the first few months of marriage before we move to our […]

The dog, who has a red collar, just tried to bite me! The dog who has a red collar just tried to bite me! Can you tell the difference between those sentences? In each one, how many dogs are on the scene in your mind’s eye? According to “correct” English grammar, I believe that in […]

I remember thinking about missions before we had arrived overseas. I imagined it out, excited, and also scared at times. I knew some of what to expect, from growing up overseas, but being an mk is not the same as being the grown up missionary.  Details were fuzzy in my imagination of the future, but […]