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AUTHOR: JILL   This is mine and BJ’s 10th New Year to celebrate together! 2015 has been one of the most exciting, hardest, scary, thrilling, faith-building, uncomfortable, and special year so far! And yet, we see the Lord’s faithfulness at every single step.   Here is the year at a glimpse:   -BJ was gone a ton so that he could mill lumber and build […]

AUTHOR: JILL Some things you might not expect about our tribe: We freeze here! Every morning we get up, we snuggle with blankets and wear house shoes! At night, we make a fire in our wood burning stove! It’s even cold enough to have a poinsettia tree right outside my window. This area is full […]

Our friend, Doug Schaible, used to show us pictures of his tribal house on an island and say, “It’s a shame wehave to live here!”  We feel the same way!  Mountains everywhere and perfect weather…couldn’t ask for more.  This picture of our houses is kind of cool because the perimeter almost seems “dark” and it’s like […]

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Are you guys sick of us getting new addresses?!  Most of you can’t even keep track of where we are, because we move so much!  The next house we move to, Lord willing, will be into the tribe! So several people have asked for our new address, so here it is…with an update list of […]

FYI: There will be pictures at the end of this post that will show a pig being killed!! Today was our first PIG mumu!  Remember a mumu is when they bury food in the ground and cook it over very hot stones?!  People usually do mumu celebrations because someone got married, someone died, the mourning […]

Wow, we have gotten to do so much here in just these few days.  Today, I got to be a part of working a mumu.  In this case, a mumu is not an old lady’s nightgown!  It is a big feast where you cook the food under the ground.  Yesterday, BJ helped Enoch, a man […]

It’s that time again…transition time. Always a lovely time. Last week, our family and the Hambrices took an airplane to G oroka, which is where the main NTM location is. We wanted to talk face to face with all of the leaders before most of them go on a year home assignment. Now G oroka […]

Last Saturday, Mandy (one of our co-workers) and I became women of Papua New Guinea.  Okay, that sounds kind of weird…but we got to experience what it’s like to be women in Papua New Guinea!  Our day started out normal, we started a load of laundry (in the rain), and then when the rain stopped, […]