NOT ABOUT MY NAME, BUT HIS!

September 11, 2015

Hi, my name is Saline….like the nose spray! Our people group that we are working among cannot say the letter “J”. Let me also say that they can’t say final “L’s”. I tried many things to get my name to come out somewhat the same. I ended up trying to get them to say “Jilly” […]

BIG welcome party!

May 17, 2015

“I can’t imagine a more welcoming place!” I said to Jill when we got home yesterday. It was our official “house opening” and welcome into the village, celebrating the completion of our 3 houses. They decorated our homes, prepared “sing sings,” dressed in traditional “tumbuna” dress, then decorated us too! There were people from many […]

Third Week in Wantakia

May 3, 2015

Tomorrow marks the 3rd week that we will be in Wantakia. We have pretty much finished our houses and are out in the community making new friends! The language is crazy, but the he Lord will help us learn it. Here’s an example: puruganaechido! That means it’s raining hard! Sadly, Our internet is really bad, […]

Last trip!!

March 17, 2015

In October, our team decided to start surveying Wantakia and ask the Lord if this was the place for us. So October started the “trips”. Our men would fly into one village and hike all over the 10 villages of Wantakia. This meant for us, wives, our men were gone a lot. The Lord showed […]

One Year Anniversary

February 3, 2015

Exactly one year ago, we made one of the hardest decision…to leave America, our family, and everything we know and move to Papua New Guinea to be church planters. This year has been full of tears, joy, hard work to learn a language, lots of prayer, homesick, new friends, lots of moving, more tears, and […]

FiNaLlY!

November 17, 2014

Friday, I finally got to go to the people group that I’ve been praying for for the past 6 years! I didn’t exactly know it was them, but I prayed for the people God would one day send me. I finally got to meet them. As we got out of the helicopter, these people were […]

Plenti sumting

November 9, 2014

I know the title is talk pidgin, but I’m sure you figured it out…”plenty something!” This is basically what we’ve been up to! We have been finalizing our house plans, which has been so much fun! This morning, BJ started learning how to make cabinets. Friday, I finally get to step foot on Wanatikia soil! […]

What are we doing?!

September 30, 2014

“So what are you guys doing as you wait for the Crabtrees?” Our 3rd family on our team, Jack and Lael Crabtree, got to the country in August and are dominating learning the language (so glad to have brainys on the team!) They will finish up by the New Year and we will Lord willing […]

Surveying the Wantakian People

September 12, 2014

Last Tuesday, Jeremy and I finally got our feet on the ground in the Wantakia tribe! As most of you know, we have been praying and looking forward to this day for many years. Our goals for this first contact trip were (1) to find out if we missionaries have an invitation to come live amongst […]

The moment we’ve all been waiting for…

September 1, 2014

10 years ago, our eyes were open to what God was doing in the Bible and it had to do with missions. 5 years ago, we put it all on the line and started training with New Tribes to be church planters. 1 year ago, we started selling all of our “stuff” and saying goodbye […]