1st survey!

August 18, 2014

Our men are taking their first survey trip. The tribe we are praying about allocating is smack dab in the middle of 3 other tribes who all have a church and portions of the Bible! So why isn’t this tribe reached? Well, the languages are so different and there are huge mountains that separate them. […]

Day 19 of 21: Done with language

August 11, 2014

The day has finally come…we have passed our language tests! And it feels so AWESOME! Our missionary friends who gave us the test said, “They are proficient at everything we throw at them!” We will never be “DONE” learning pidgin; we will always be learners. But after 5 months of learning the national language and […]

Day 18 of 21: HE did it!

August 2, 2014

“TODAY IS A VERY BIG DAY” (as Rapunzel says when she sneaks out of her tower), but I might say “our day is bigger!”…(as Mother Gothel would say!) Today, we are at 100% of our budget!! “The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy!” When we met with many […]

Day 5 of 21: End of the Earth Church

July 11, 2014

Sunday was really fun. The kids and I, Andrew (the missionary who lives here) and Josh (his teenage son) all hiked over to the next village for church. The girls did great. Olivia hiked with Josh the whole way, Sophie held mine and Andrew’s hands and jumped most of the way, and of course Graham […]

Day 3 of 21: Funeral

July 9, 2014

Day 3: I got to go to my first funeral. I didn’t know quite what to expect. I’ve only been to a handful of funerals in America, so that is all I had to compare it to. We hiked a good ways (I left the kids at home with BJ) and got to the location. […]

Day 2 of 21: Food supply

July 8, 2014

Well, remember my list of the whole month’s supply for food? It got here…most of it. The brownies, chocolate chips, and applesauce didn’t make it, but I think we’ll live. Actually, we didn’t get all of our diapers either and pull ups, so we are trying to see how that is going to work! I […]

Day 1 of 21: Welcome to the tribe!

July 7, 2014

All of you either thought we dropped off the face of the planet, or heard that our internet was horrible! Hopefully the second one! But we did journal about everything that we experienced while we were in the tribe. So I hope you stay tuned with us over the next 21 days and read all […]

Up for a challenge?!

May 27, 2014

Who out there is up for a challenge? Side not: the only people who would do this for fun…there is something wrong with you!! In my last post, I briefly talked about supply buying for our bush orientation. It was kind of a big deal, so I thought that it needed a whole post of […]

Hold on tight…here we go!!!

May 25, 2014

In one week, we are about to get on a plane to go to destination #1 of 3 (in a month!) We are moving all of our “stuff” to G oroka and getting settled for a week. #2, After the week, we will be flying into a tribe called Wusuraambya (click here to check out […]

Preparing to move

April 29, 2014

It’s hard to believe that we have ONE MONTH left in M adang. Time has flown quickly. Although we are sad to say goodbye, yet again, we are excited to be moving forward in this awesome plan that the Lord has been leading us in! So now, we’re preparing to move to the jungle! We […]