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Family, Friends & Goals

May 29, 2011

Wow. We have already been home for a month and a half. For sure, it has flown by! Our last few weeks have been met with an endless supply of encouragement from guests visiting our home, mostly missionaries preparing to leave for the field or fresh off the field on home assignment like Beth & […]

>Our Wayumi Adventure

May 22, 2011

Every Year, the juniors and seniors at NTBI are given the option of taking a 1 credit course on Tribal church planting over spring break. We decided to go for it! On our Wayumi adventure, set on an 100-acre campus in central Pennsylvania, we explored what the Bible teaches about reaching every tribe, tongue, people, and […]

Mileage to Missouri

May 11, 2011

About a month ago, we contacted our home church in Adrian, MI with a need to borrow someone’s car for a short trip we were thinking of making down to Missouri, upon our return to America. A few people offered their car’s to us, but one couple in our church really wanted to rent a […]

Cross-Cultural Craziness

May 11, 2011

Things didn’t seem as crazy to us in Papua New Guinea as they seem now that we are back and have been reflecting on our time for the last few weeks. Its amazing how normal the strangest things can become just being in the middle of them for a while. We’ve had the opportunity to […]

Into the Amazon

May 10, 2011

Strange sights, smells, people, surroundings…and especially sounds…languages only spoken by a few hundred people in two different remote villages along the biggest river in South America are the order of the day this week; we are “visiting” the Yanomami and the Hoti tribes. It is my privilege to accompany the NTBI senior class of Spring 2011, 67 […]

Let Us Spur One Another On…

May 1, 2011

“And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” ~Hebrews 10.24 There are so many ways we have been encouraged, challenged, stretched, grown, refined- spurred on- during our time here at NTBI. And we hope that we can look back and see that we ourselves have actively spurred […]

Our First Week Back

April 27, 2011

We have arrived back home in the United States for our maternity leave! We will be home for the next 4-5 months, with most of our time spend in Michigan and some in Oregon. It is strange being home. On the drive from the Detroit airport to our home further south in Michigan we soaked […]

“Welcome Home, Sir.”

April 26, 2011

After nearly fifty hours of travel through eight airports, seven airplanes, three countries, two delays and spanning over eight thousand miles we are safely back home in the United States! We were very thankful that the local airport was opened in time for our departure. If you are on our email update list, you would […]

My PNG Cookbook: Hibiscus Tea

April 12, 2011

Since moving to a village in a different province than the one we started out in, the options of available local food have yet again changed a bit. This has brought on even more of a learning curve to my ever growing PNG Cookbook. Still though, it is amazing what you can do with what […]

Permission Granted

March 25, 2011

So, how does one go about gaining permission to move into a village? Many of you asked us this question before we arrived in Papua New Guinea and now that we have found the place where we believe God wants us long term, I will explain how this interesting process of gaining permission has gone […]