Category: Family

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 […]

     After being in Amdu for 3 1/2 years, we recently said goodbye to our Amdu friends and began the journey back to America to begin an abbreviated Home Assignment.

The past two months since our final language evaluation have flown by!!  We are currently in town so our boys could attend spiritual emphasis retreats with their fellow missionary kids from all over PNG.  Before we head back to Amdu in a few days, we wanted to share with you a video that our teammate […]

October 2, 2017 was a historic day in our Amdu village. The first ever Amdu Literacy Class began!! Class one is made up of a wide range of students – some who know how to read and write in the trade language of Melanesian Pidgin, some who have had a little bit of schooling, and finally […]

It is with much excitement and thankfulness that we share with you the results of our recent language evaluation. Each of us on the team – Benjamin, Missy, Bart and Emily – is officially finished with formal language and culture study!!!! We are praising the Lord for His enabling to get to this point that […]

Many years ago as we were raising support, in our presentations we confidently and somewhat naively shared various facts, statistics and timelines related to Tribal Church Planting. Having not yet done it ourselves, sharing the stories of others and the averages of how long different stages of church planting might take was the best we […]