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Conference & Supply

Conference & Supply

Sepik ConferenceIn March we had the opportunity to attend our first Sepik Conference. (For clarification: The Sepik is the name of the region we are living and serving in.) Every year, missionaries set aside a time to come out from their bush locations, gather on their support center, invite a speaker, organize childcare for the […]
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Icky Corn in an Easter Egg

Icky Corn in an Easter Egg

“But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus– the work of telling others the Good News about the wonderful grace of God.” – Acts 20:24 My Grandpa had a great Easter plan.While my grandma was getting the eggs ready for the […]
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What would you pack?

What would you pack?

With plane tickets now in hand, we are busy with packing . . . packing things to put into storage . . . and packing things to ship to the Philippines. If you were leaving the USA, what would you leave here, and what would you want to take with you?  If you knew what […]
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Meet Crystal …

Meet Crystal …

Not long ago, Crystal, a senior, reached out to me in hopes of being able to spend time together before she graduates.  We decided to make it happen but with a two-fold purpose … to get to know each other better and to incorporate a study on becoming more mature in Christ. What has made […]
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Of mattress shopping and leftover donuts

Of mattress shopping and leftover donuts

Mattress shopping and leftover donuts don’t have much in common but hang on, here are one of those happenings in life that you just can’t plan. Mattress shopping:  We have had a few visitors to our home since moving here, and it just so happens that one of them who came a few years ago […]
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What’s Coming Up

What’s Coming Up

Dear Minnesota, You are a pretty nice state. Lots of trees, great people, the right amount of lakes… And I’m not complaining about the white Christmases. I love those! But don’t you think it’s time? Just let go of the wind. And the cold. And the sleet. Just let it all go and give us […]
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Happy Easter from Papua New Guinea!

Happy Easter from Papua New Guinea!

This Easter is a bit chaotic for us as we are on the other side of the world in Papua New Guinea with a house full of suitcases and totes and the disorder and confusion of unpacking our house. It is so good to be back here and use Easter as a time to reflect […]
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Why are those verses in the Bible?

Why are those verses in the Bible?

Have you ever read certain verses of the Bible and wondered why God thought it was important to include them in His Word? There are several passages that I’ve thought over the years could have been left out to leave room for other things that, to me, seemed more important. It’s not something we’d say […]
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How well do you know English?

How well do you know English?

When I was at the orthography (alphabet) conference in Kenya last month, one of the presenters (thanks, Helen Eaton!) showed us the slide that you see in the picture above.  She asked us to take two minutes to note down whether these were written as one word, two words, or with a hyphen in English.  […]
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Resuming Travel

Resuming Travel

Over the past year, Bob has consulted for six different translation projects, totaling over 6,000 verses of Scripture, has drafted nearly 1,500 more Old Testament verses for the Tugutil translation, and has learned much about Scripture typesetting. Amazingly, all of that could be done without leaving home thanks to modern technology. Here in the Midwest […]
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