Category: Family

The year 2013 held many exciting developments and changes for our family. (Seems like maybe we said that for 2012 too!) As we returned to PNG after the birth of our fourth son, built our house in the Amdu tribe, moved into the tribe as a family and started learning the Amdu language and culture, […]

As we celebrate our first Christmas living in the Amdu tribe, we rejoice in the gift of our Savior Jesus Christ. At the same time, we look forward to when our Amdu friends will also be able to hear and read God’s Word and learn of God’s amazing plan of salvation! Last week an old […]

This will post many days after our American Thanksgiving holiday, but we still wanted to share some things for which we are thankful. It wouldn’t take us much time to come up with a pretty long list. If you are reading this post and you pray for us, give financially to our ministry or encourage […]

At this point in our language learning, we imagine that to our Amdu friends we must sound like little toddlers just starting to talk. There are times when we can put together phrases and even sentences correctly. We can greet our friends and ask simple questions. As each day goes by, we are understanding more […]

After several postponements, our first CLA (Culture/Language Acquisition) evaluation finally happened this past weekend! We are thankful that the weather was good on Friday, the flight didn’t get cancelled and our consultant was able to come into Amdu. There are so many factors that have to line up in order to see a successful flight […]

We apologize for the delay in getting this update posted. Thank you very much for those of you who read our last post and were praying for our language and culture evaluation. Please keep praying! In the past we have shared with you about the shortage of pilots with NTM right now in PNG. Because […]

Beginning Friday October 4 (which happens to be Bart’s birthday) through Monday October 7, one of our New Tribes consultants will be here in Amdu to do our first language and culture evaluation for us and our teammates. Please pray for us – that we will remember what we have learned, that we will be […]

Thank you for praying for the requests we shared in our last post! We appreciate knowing that there continue to be those who are a part of our ministry here through prayer. Here are a few updates and answers to prayer: EVALUATION Our consultants did come in and were with our team for a few […]

Just before we left for PNG in 2009, our home church had a commissioning service for us. As part of that service, everyone present grabbed hold of a long thick rope to symbolize that they would be “holding the ropes” for us in prayer. It is encouraging to us that people still occasionally comment to […]

A few weeks ago we celebrated my (Emily’s) birthday – the first of our family to have a birthday in Amdu. Celebrating special days here takes some creativity and advanced planning since we are in a pretty remote place. So, I thought I’d share a little about a few of my more unique presents. – […]