8,000 Miles, Pt.1: Flying Domestic

August 17, 2010

I am sitting on our veranda in the Islands of Papua New Guinea and I confess it is still not real to me that we are here! We are mostly unpacked and doing our best to settle in but our emotions are still hesitant to look at our new living situation as “home”. Allow me […]

Farewell

August 8, 2010

With eight hours left until we leave for the airport, we are emotional. I think in the last ten minutes I personally have experienced excitement, nervousness and sadness all present at the same time, but at varying degrees. I keep telling myself its just another country; people travel to new places all the time. There’s […]

The Final Talk

August 3, 2010

On Sunday evening we had the opportunity to share at New Life church on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. It was great to be able to speak to over a hundred incredible student leaders about what we are doing and the way God has worked in our lives and brought us to point […]

Commissioned!

August 2, 2010

Yesterday was our official commissioning during the service at our sending church, Grace Point in Adrian, Michigan! Our pastors and elders stood us before the congregation and made it official, Grace Point Church is sending Tom & Beth Carlton to Papua New Guinea. On their behalf, and with their support, we will be messengers of […]

Tickets Purchased

July 28, 2010

It is done. The tickets are bought…We will be moving to Papua New Guinea on 8.9.10! PHEW! It is shocking how complicated buying tickets to get you to the other side of the world can be! Add the fact that we are trying to pinch pennies & traveling with a one year old and it […]

Decision Made.

July 22, 2010

[The following text is a letter we sent out last night to everyone on our email update list. We send out these email updates about every other week, usually with pictures & prayer requests. This is the best way to stay informed about our ministry. Please contact us if you would like to receive these […]

Selling & Sharing

July 12, 2010

With our departure right around the corner we have been continually encouraged by the way God has been our Provider! The mission team of our sending church recently came up with a way to generate some funds to contribute towards our start up costs. They decided to have a church “garage” sale! The garage sale […]

All the Answers

July 10, 2010

God has repeatedly blessed us with the opportunity to spend time with people who are serving in the same region in Papua New Guinea as we are going! It is amazing how the timing of everything has lined up just how it should to enable these visits (wonderful how God works, eh?). Several weeks ago […]

??? Days to Departure

July 1, 2010

According to the official countdown, we have only eighteen days to go until our estimated departure date for Papua New Guinea. Wow. Even though we are scheduled to depart in a little over two weeks, there are still two hurdles that we are facing to reach our goals for departure. Waiting on Visas– One of the […]

Wonderful Weekend Wedding

June 30, 2010

This past weekend was one of the most wonderful and the most exhausting ones I can remember. It was my sister Chrissy’s wedding to Donald Lamar Chubb III. Whether you like it or not-here is the “blow by blow” of it all. 🙂 Enjoy! In the middle of the week, wedding people began arriving at our house […]