Category: Ministry

Everyday Life in Amdu

Everyday Life in Amdu

Most of you will never have the chance to come to PNG to visit us in the Amdu tribe. It’s just about impossible to describe life in the tribe so you adequately understand it if you haven’t been here. But in an effort to help you get a feel for what it’s like to live […]
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3 Weeks without Email

3 Weeks without Email

Tucked away in the mountains of the Amdu tribe, far from “civilization”, our means of communication with the outside world is through HF radio – talking to other missionaries on the radio and also using a modem that enables us to do email over the HF radio. Well, when we moved into the tribe and […]
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Brand New in Amdu

Brand New in Amdu

As we got off the plane and were surrounded by a sea of new faces, Caleb wasn’t quite sure what to make of it all. Since he wasn’t born yet when we made trips into other tribal works, this was his first experience of being in a tribe. But very quickly he has adjusted to […]
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Luke and Titus Meeting Their New Amdu Friends

Luke and Titus Meeting Their New Amdu Friends

The village in which we are living here in the Amdu tribe is a great place for our boys!! After a month here, they are loving it. Friends to play with, interesting bugs and plants to investigate, a big airstrip that often serves as a playground for the Amdu kids and missionary kids alike, and […]
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Emily and the boys arrive in Amdu

Emily and the boys arrive in Amdu

It was a momentous day when Emily and our boys (Luke, Titus, Caleb and Micah) arrived in Amdu for the first time. Our family was reunited after several stints of being separated while our house was being built. And our complete team was finally together in the tribe. Thank you for praying for our family […]
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The Allen’s are in Amdu!

The Allen’s are in Amdu!

Greetings from Amdu! We’re here!! After several stretches of separation during the main phase of building our house, all of our family is now together – living in the Amdu tribe! It is truly amazing to reflect on all the Lord has done to bring us to this point. We are thankful for His faithfulness […]
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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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Needed: More Wood!

Needed: More Wood!

In our last post, we shared that Bart was heading into the tribe to work on getting wood for our house.  The trip didn’t go exactly as we had hoped and planned.  The chainsaw mill the guys were using to slab lumber didn’t want to keep working and not very many Amdu men were interested […]
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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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Our House is Going Up!

Our House is Going Up!

Even while we are still waiting here in Australia for our son Micah’s PNG entry permit to be issued, work on our house in the Amdu tribe is beginning!!  The first two plane loads of our building materials went into the tribe last week.  And we just heard that the first rows of support posts […]
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