Do you remember the first time you saw the sea? We are here in town again and this time we have brought two of our Amdu friends with us. This is their first time seeing the sea! Our teammates, Bart and Emily Allen, and us are standing on the edge of a completely different ocean and […]
This picture says it all! Have you ever been shimmied before? I certainly hadn’t! We didn’t get this sort of greeting from everyone, but the affection we did receive from our Amdu friends as we arrived last month was a delight. There were tears of joy and tears of sadness as we greeted friends who […]
Thank you for supporting the AmduStrong campaign. This is a great way for you to show your enthusiasm about what God is doing in Amdu and your support for Benjamin and Missy Hatton and their family as they head back to Papua New Guinea.
“Give us something to cry about!” is a common line we hear from our Amdu friends on the eve of a long separation. It seems to be the customary practice to give some of your belongings to your family and friends as a memory while you are gone.
We are on the March again, making preparations for our return to Papua New Guinea. As we consider our last month in the USA our hearts are filled with gratitude and expectation as well as sadness.
Luke 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.” We have spent the past five holiday seasons away from home and family. But this year we are […]
When we started to talk to our Amdu friends about leaving Amdu for awhile and going back to our home country their main concern, besides the question of our return, was why we needed to leave in the first place. They had no desire to see us go.