Today, we buried a prayer partner…

March 5, 2016

It was more than forty years ago that we met Blanche. And it was about that time that the Lord was putting on her heart to engage in a ministry of intercession. Few people do this; even fewer spend a lifetime doing it. God takes notice. Isaiah 59:16 records how God saw the desperate condition […]

Learning Language is like…

March 5, 2016

by Payton Downing There’s two things I’m new at: language learning and beginning a retirement account. Funny enough, these two things have some striking parallels that are worth musing over for a moment: Amusement One: Both need consistent inflow for anything substantial to happen. I’m sure your somewhat familiar with the retirement graph that shows a line that progressively get’s steeper and steeper as years […]

“GO YE” Will Forever Stand

March 4, 2016

Romans 12:1 and 2, gave us directions to God’s will, and Matthew 28:19 was an opened door to serve on the mission field. New Tribes Mission was willing to be our mission board and by faith and faith alone we sold everything we owned and began training in 1973. Being transformed by the renewing of […]

Turning the Keys

March 3, 2016

It had been days since I put on any make-up. Or pants other than sweat pants. Or shoes. But today was the day! After weeks of sickness, the boys were finally well enough to leave our quarantine and venture out to one of our most favorite places — the library! We all dressed, packed some […]

The Circuit

March 3, 2016

We wanted to let you know where we will be sharing, and when, so if you would like to come hear about what God has been doing in our lives and the work He has done in Papua New Guinea, you can plan accordingly. Also, we want to let you know we are available and […]

T-minus 5 & Counting…

March 2, 2016

We knew it was coming, at least we were pretty sure it was coming, well, 99.9% sure, and you can’t be much more sure than that. It wasn’t super dramatic, not dramatic at all really, I mean if you had in mind there might be a media player of some sort announcing a mission (should […]

Washing hands, washing feet

March 2, 2016

I stood in my living room, pouring the water out of the plastic “tea pot” to allow him to wash his hands before we shared a meal together. I had met him a while ago, but it was only recently that I actually started to get to know him, his family, and his people. As […]

Un/Intentional Discipleship

March 1, 2016

“Randy! It is good to see you!” I had not seen Ken for four years. I had seen him in many places since that day as a child when he first sat in our home and told us about remote tribes who knew nothing of Jesus. I had been to many meetings where he was the featured speaker […]

New Beginnings

February 29, 2016

Can you imagine what it would be like if someone came to your church and started to contest the ownership of the property on which the building is located? That’s right, most of us cannot even imagine what that would be like. In Papua New Guinea, land ownership is never really unquestionable. When our church […]

Update for the First week of March 2016

February 28, 2016

Dear Praying Friends, The main event this past week has been having our language consultant, George Olson, and our friends, Geff and Grace Harada come to spend the week with us. Geff has worked with the Iwaak tribe to the south of us for many years, but this was […]