Category: Prayer Requests

Lesson Evaluation Update

Lesson Evaluation Update

Thank you so much for praying for our team during our recent Bible lesson evaluation.  Here’s a little update about how that time went and how the Lord answered prayer.  And we’ll include some new prayer requests at the end too.    Our consultants Aaron and Brandon (both on their first-time visit to Amdu) arrived safely, […]
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Language Evaluation Update

Language Evaluation Update

Last Friday the new NTM Kodiak airplane once again landed on the grass airstrip a few hundred yards from our house here in Amdu.   Our boys knew that the plane was bringing two of our NTM language consultants who would evaluate us in our understanding of the Amdu language and culture.  What they didn’t know […]
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Team Progress

Team Progress

We may be far away from Amdu at the moment, but we are still vitally connected to what is going on there.  The concerns, joys, successes and trials of our team are ours as well. In our last post, we asked you to be praying for our teammates during their language and culture evaluations.  We […]
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Evaluation Time Again – For our Coworkers

Evaluation Time Again – For our Coworkers

While our family is continuing to adjust to life in America on furlough and getting ready to begin speaking in our supporting churches, our teammates back in Amdu are plugging away at learning language and culture.  Beginning now and through the weekend, two of our consultants will be flying into the tribe to give Dave, […]
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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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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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They Have a Name

They Have a Name

Survey Update From September 25th – October 3rd, Bart, Benjamin and Dave (the men on our team) hiked rugged mountain trails in order to visit many of the villages in the language group that our team is targeting. The goal was to share with the people the work that New Tribes Mission does and gauge […]
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Survey Time

Survey Time

The time is finally here!!!  Wow!  This is a day we have been waiting for and looking forward to for a long time. Bart leaves on Tuesday for a 10 day survey into the tribe our team is targeting! On Tuesday our NTM pilot will fly the guys to this airstrip in the tribe.  And […]
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Reunited!

Reunited!

After several months on different continents, our team is back together again in PNG!!
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