Category: Family

Moving to Amdu

Moving to Amdu

After so many years of preparing and planning, it’s really happening!  Tomorrow, our family will be moving into a village in the Amdu tribe to begin our ministry among this still unreached group of people!!  Even though it sometimes seems unreal that this actually is happening, the stress and busyness from the preparation reminds us […]
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House Progress

House Progress

Bart leaves this morning for two weeks in the tribe.  The goal of this time is for him to finish gathering poles from the jungle that will be used for our rafters and wall studs.  He may also be using a chainsaw mill to slab more wood for some of these things.  While it’s not […]
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Back to PNG

Back to PNG

Thank you for praying for our family as we have been waiting for our baby Micah’s PNG entry permit/visa. It arrived a few days ago and now we are on our way back to PNG!!!! We are thankful for our time in Australia, but we are very excited to get back “home” to PNG and […]
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Almost an American!

Almost an American!

At the moment, our son Micah is a boy without a country!  But that will change soon.  We came here to Australia from PNG for his birth instead of going all the way back to the US.  Even though he was born in Australia, he’s not an Australian and he will not officially be a […]
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Our Thanksgiving Baby

Our Thanksgiving Baby

Our fourth son Micah Jared Allen was born in Australia on Thanksgiving Day, November 22. Micah Jared Allen
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Reunited!

Reunited!

After several months on different continents, our team is back together again in PNG!!
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They Don’t Do These Things in America – Part 2

They Don’t Do These Things in America – Part 2

Besides climbing tall papaya trees (click here to read Part 1), Luke and Titus have done a few other things here in Papua New Guinea that they wouldn’t have learned to do in Pennsylvania. Since coming to PNG, we’ve learned a lot more about banana trees.  Banana trees are everywhere here and while they all […]
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They Don’t Do These Things in America – Part 1

They Don’t Do These Things in America – Part 1

Living here in Papua New Guinea gives our boys the chance to do some things that they’ve never done in America! Luke and Titus, like lots of other boys the world around, like to climb trees.  Normally when you think of a good climbing tree, you think of one with lots of branches, right?  Well, […]
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Moving Ahead

Moving Ahead

We have been without reliable internet for the past 6 weeks.  Now that we are back in internet-land, we wanted to share our latest newsletter with those of you who are not on our email update list. Exciting things are happening for our team!  We have gotten the green light from our leadership to move […]
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!!

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!!

Right now we are in the thick of making tons of decisions with our team about our future tribal church planting ministry!  Will you please pray for our team as we discuss a myriad of different topics that are vital to the goal of seeing a church planted among an unreached tribal group? We made […]
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