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 […]

Goodbyes on One Side of the Ocean and Hellos on the Other

August 4, 2018

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.

Amdu Literacy Video

November 27, 2017

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 […]

First Amdu Literacy Class

October 21, 2017

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 […]

Evaluation Results!

October 3, 2017

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 […]

Language Evaluation and First Literacy Class

September 23, 2017

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 […]

Back to Work Again

March 23, 2017

Each year in March all of the NTM missionaries in our region of Papua New Guinea gather for our annual conference. It’s always encouraging and fun, but tiring too! We’re going to need some time to recuperate once we get back to Amdu!! In addition to our annual conference, our to-do list for town is […]

Christmas Visitors

December 14, 2016

Last week we flew away from our jungle home in Amdu and headed to our main NTM center in the Highlands region of PNG. We have enjoyed many blessings this past week! Here are just a few:

Allen Family Ministry Video

August 17, 2016

Would you like to see a little more about our family and our life in Amdu? Then we have just the thing for you!! Click on the picture or follow this link to watch our recent video update. We uploaded the video to Dropbox. You shouldn’t have to sign up for anything or login, but […]

Training for Translation

August 15, 2016

Bart working with one of our Amdu language helpers during our recent translation workshop in town. Years ago as we were contemplating where the Lord wanted us to serve Him overseas, Papua New Guinea stood out to us for several reasons. In addition to the country being completely open for missionaries to serve as missionaries […]