2022 Overview

January 24, 2023

2022 was a challenging yet rewarding year for our family. As the new year begins, here are just a few highlights from each month of 2022. January – Experienced plenty of NW Pennsylvania snow and cold at the end of our furlough time. Packed up and began saying goodbyes – the hardest one being to […]

A church is born in one language group and another one is asking for missionaries!

April 13, 2021

After 8 years of living among the Amdu people, the church has been born. We continue to praise the Lord for the small group of believers here in our village. And this was the very first Resurrection Day we celebrated together. As we rejoiced in the amazing work that Christ did for us, it was […]

Feeding the Baby Believers

November 12, 2020

Think about someone you know who has a new baby. How do they treat that new baby? Do they expect the baby to make supper for the family? Is the baby given chores to do to earn his keep around the house? Do they ask the baby to give a message to a brother or […]

Testimonies from New Amdu Believers

August 21, 2020

Have you ever looked forward to something for a long time and then when it actually happens, it’s hard to believe? That’s a little of what we’re feeling right now! We are rejoicing and thanking the Lord that some of our Amdu friends are now brothers and sisters in Christ!! For you who have been […]

Halfway to the Cross

June 27, 2020

A delayed start? A slower teaching schedule due to restrictions in group gatherings? Community pressure for people not to attend the Bible teaching? A smaller number coming to the Bible lessons than we hoped? Yes, all those (and more) are things we have experienced over the past few months. But we have full confidence that […]

Lesson Evaluation Update

November 13, 2019

Thank you so much for praying for our team during our recent Bible lesson evaluation. Here’s a little update about how that time went and how the Lord answered prayer. And we’ll include some new prayer requests at the end too. Our consultants Aaron and Brandon (both on their first-time visit to Amdu) arrived safely, […]

Batteries, Translation Check and Bible Lessons

November 11, 2019

***This update was sent out by email back in September, but we are just posting it on our blog now that we are out in town. The benefit is that we can now add pictures!*** We have to play a little catch-up here!! Hopefully none of you have been holding your breath while waiting to […]

Is He Worthy?

June 11, 2019

If you’ve been around missionaries very long, you’ve probably heard words like ‘transition’, ‘flexibility’, ‘adjustment’, ‘goodbyes’ and ‘change’ as part of their vocabulary. Everyone experiences these things, but it does seem that it is a bit more pronounced for missionaries. Living far from home in a culture that is so extremely different from our own […]

Allen Ministry Video

April 15, 2019

Because our Home Assignment was shorter this time, there were many of our supporting churches and individual supporters that we were not able to see! For those we were able to visit, we shared this video that gives some history of our time in PNG up to this point, as well as what we are […]

Family Reunion Photos

August 13, 2018

Our extended family is spread out around the globe – parents in Pennsylvania and siblings in Washington, New York, Pennsylvania, Canada, Belgium and Ecuador. And until a few weeks ago, our family was in Papua New Guinea. The times when we can all be together are quite rare! Since returning to the States, we have […]