Praising the Lord for Rain

August 19, 2015

It started raining in the middle of the night and it’s still raining – more than 3 inches so far! We don’t know yet what long term affect this time of drought will have on the Amdu people. They have experienced several weeks of drought and their gardens have been affected significantly.

I Gave What Good News I Had

July 24, 2015

We live in the mountains. While the airstrip in our village is relatively flat, going just about anywhere else requires a hike up or down a hill or mountain. The other villages in the Amdu language group are scattered throughout the surrounding mountains – some at a higher elevation and some lower. I recently took […]

School Garden Progress

July 15, 2015

Everything about life here in Amdu is a learning experience. We learn something new (or most often many things) every day. Sometimes it feels like we can’t fit much more new information into our brains! We feel in over our heads and have to constantly depend on the Lord for strength and wisdom. That’s a […]

Our School Garden

June 17, 2015

When you think of a garden, you most likely picture a rectangular or square plot of ground, nicely plowed and planted with straight rows of various vegetables. Each row might even have a little sign at the end denoting what is growing there. Our Amdu friends have gardens, but they probably don’t look anything like […]

The Goodbye We Hoped To Never Say

May 5, 2015

Because of the enormity of the workload involved in tribal church planting, New Tribes most often recommends that a team be made up of three families. When you factor in furlough schedules, it often ends up that for the majority of the time only two families are working in the tribe together. Back in early […]

HE is Worthy!

April 7, 2015

For the last few weeks our family has been out in a town along the coast where one of our NTM centers is located. Each year all the missionaries from our area of Papua New Guinea (PNG) get together for an annual conference (as well as standardized testing for our kids). Our theme this year […]

Overnight in a Garden House

February 17, 2015

Part of learning about life here in Amdu is doing what the people do. A big part of life for our Amdu friends is their gardens. Depending on where their family ground is located, their gardens are sometimes several hours away from the village – most often on steep mountain slopes. Gardening here is not […]

Back in Amdu Again

February 13, 2015

We’ve been back in Amdu for about 2 weeks now. We tried to update our blog before we left town so you could be praying for us as we transitioned back to life in the tribe, but there was some trouble and it didn’t post. Thanks to those of you who pray regularly for us […]

Back in PNG

January 24, 2015

Our last few weeks in the US, and specifically the last few days, were so busy that we forgot to even put an update on here asking people to pray for our trip! So, we are now back in PNG, but we still need your prayers for our family during this time of transition. Jet […]

Ideas to Help Missionaries

December 17, 2014

With only one month left until we return in Papua New Guinea, we are wrapping up life in the US and getting ready to transition our family once again. As always, we do this with a mix of sadness at leaving, but at the same time with anticipation for what the Lord has in store […]