Author: Bart and Emily Allen

To the Tribe and Back Again

To the Tribe and Back Again

Last week our family returned from a 9-day visit into the newest tribal work in the Madang region.  (For more background information on the trip, please read our previous blog post – The Timeline and A Baby.) Thank you very much for praying for us!  Our main prayer request as we made this trip was […]
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The Timeline and A Baby

The Timeline and A Baby

For those of you who have been following our ministry or who heard us share in your church, this timeline hopefully looks familiar!  The Lord faithfully led us through the New Tribes training as well as through our time of partnership development (a.k.a. support raising).  We arrived here in Papua New Guinea in December 2009. […]
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New Swimming Record

New Swimming Record

Before we came to PNG, the boys had been taking swimming lessons at our local YMCA.  Well, their teachers would be proud of how well they are doing!  Just the other day they set a new record for depth of the water they were swimming in.  Here are a few photos of their latest swimming […]
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“Red Lights Shooting Out Of Their Armpits”

“Red Lights Shooting Out Of Their Armpits”

True language learning cannot be done in a vacuum.  In order to sufficiently understand the language a person speaks, one must also understand the culture that they live in.  With that in mind, a major part of our time spent learning Tok Pidgin (the trade language of Papua New Guinea) deals with delving into the […]
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Life in PNG – A Mumu: Simbari Style

Life in PNG – A Mumu: Simbari Style

Before we came to Papua New Guinea, we had heard people talk about this thing called a mumu.  Others had tried to explain it to us and had even showed us pictures.  But it wasn’t until our time in the tribe for bush orientation that we actually got to experience one first hand! We thought […]
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Bush Orientation Update

Bush Orientation Update

For the past 7 years our family has been heading in the direction of church planting among unreached tribal people. We completed 2 years of Bible school, then 2½ more years of specialized missions training. After that we spent almost 2 years sharing this burden with churches and individuals as we saw the Lord raise […]
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