Language Evaluation and First Literacy Class

September 23, 2017

Many years ago as we were raising support, in our presentations we confidently and somewhat naively shared various facts, statistics and timelines related to Tribal Church Planting. Having not yet done it ourselves, sharing the stories of others and the averages of how long different stages of church planting might take was the best we […]

Back to Work Again

March 23, 2017

Each year in March all of the NTM missionaries in our region of Papua New Guinea gather for our annual conference. It’s always encouraging and fun, but tiring too! We’re going to need some time to recuperate once we get back to Amdu!! In addition to our annual conference, our to-do list for town is […]

Christmas Visitors

December 14, 2016

Last week we flew away from our jungle home in Amdu and headed to our main NTM center in the Highlands region of PNG. We have enjoyed many blessings this past week! Here are just a few:

Allen Family Ministry Video

August 17, 2016

Would you like to see a little more about our family and our life in Amdu? Then we have just the thing for you!! Click on the picture or follow this link to watch our recent video update. We uploaded the video to Dropbox. You shouldn’t have to sign up for anything or login, but […]

Training for Translation

August 15, 2016

Bart working with one of our Amdu language helpers during our recent translation workshop in town. Years ago as we were contemplating where the Lord wanted us to serve Him overseas, Papua New Guinea stood out to us for several reasons. In addition to the country being completely open for missionaries to serve as missionaries […]

Marathon or Sprint?

July 1, 2016

Neither of us have ever run a marathon. The 50 yard dash, the one mile fitness test in high school, a 2K, several 5K’s – yes. But never a marathon. That kind of sounds like torture to both of us. But running a marathon is exactly what we are doing right now here in Amdu! […]

Returning to Amdu with our Team

March 23, 2016

Most of you know that our teammates have been on furlough in the US for the past 10 months. They recently returned to PNG and we are so glad to have them back again!! We will be flying back to Amdu soon and they will join us in a few days. Please pray for our […]

Our Boys in the Tribe

March 23, 2016

We’ve been in town for our annual conference so we are able to update our blog a little more easily. Many of you ask about our boys and how they are doing living in the tribe. The short answer is they are all doing well and they love living in Amdu!! Here are a few […]

Snow Day

March 15, 2016

We live in the mountains of Amdu, and while it sometimes gets kind of chilly at night, we of course never get snow. Until last week that is – when I defrosted the freezer in preparation for filling it up again with a new load of supplies for the next several months!! So just […]

Language Evaluation Update

January 30, 2016

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 […]