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Happy New Year!  Within two weeks, we will be moving, Lord willing, to a new home in a new state and beginning a new ministry as newly empty nesters.    After months of traveling and sharing with supporters in the Midwest, the time to move to Florida is just days away!  We have totes packed […]

Supporting Tribal Church Planting in Papua New Guinea We made it safely back to PNG! I’ll send more details soon. This was supposed to be last month’s update. I didn’t get it sent out because, well, we were a little busy. “We’re not making gingerbread houses this year.” That’s something I decided as I shuffled […]

Happy New Years 2026 Greetings from sunny Sentani! We were thrilled to get back to Papua the beginnning of December, after a wonderful month teaching at the Canadian missions training center for Ethnos and then a dream-come-true family time in N. Africe.

The time had come – hot season was at its peak, oppressive clouds in the sky teased with the coming rainy season, everything was covered in several layers of dust, the mangoes were growing ripe on the trees – yes! Definitely time to decorate for Christmas! Celebrating Christmas in tropical, rural Africa means a lot […]

The other night we took time as a family to walk through a Live Nativity that was presented by the Episcopal Church in our part of Jacksonville. Their presentation began with God revealing Himself to Moses at the burning bush. A God who speaks through a burning bush is eye catching, even powerful but it […]

FOR THERE IS ONE GOD AND ONE MEDIATOR ALSO BETWEEN GOD AND MEN, THE MAN CHRIST JUSES, WHO GAVE HIMSELF AS A RANSOM FOR ALL, THE TESTIMONY GIVEN AT THE PROPER TIME. Christmas greetings! The school semester is over and the students have all gone home. Meanwhile, we who live on school grounds, continue to […]

God With Us We attended the Christmas concert at our church this weekend called “God With Us” and it was wonderful. “God With Us” is the translation of the name Immanuel, the one who was prophesied about in the Old Testament. Jesus left heaven and came as a man fulfilling that promise and becoming our […]

Several years ago our airplane flight program closed in a region in Asia Pacific. This left many people groups, who we hoped to reach with the Gospel, waiting until we could reopen with a helicopter program. Missionaries continue, as they are able, to make long and treacherous trips into villages where they are learning language […]

Dear Praying friends and family, What a privilege it is to serve alongside you!!! Psalm 145:3 “Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of praise! No one can measure his greatness.” Every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before! What a gift it is to know HIM and get to walk alongside […]

It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything on our blog…if you want to receive our regular email updates, just email us and let us know at paul_swenson@ntm.org. Back in June we the Tanguat church Bible teachers and Derek and myself began our Creation to Christ teaching to two different villages who had never heard […]