Aerial Drone footage of the highlands of PNG

November 17, 2015

My heart is still there

November 17, 2015

My heart is deeply embedded in the mountains and steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea where many men and women still roam without the gospel message. At times it is hard for me to believe that a place no bigger than California would have over 800 languages and after all these years so many still […]

Indecision, Timing, Trust, Action…Trust Each step of the way He has led us.

November 17, 2015

We are so pleased to share that on October 22, Hector (Our son-in-law) had his Green Card interview at the US Consulate. The interview went well. You have prayed and God has answered. Thank you so much. We left home to pick them up in Texas at about 5 pm on Saturday, stopping with friends […]

New Ireland Province Church Conference

November 16, 2015

Thank you for praying for our church conference this past week! It was a great time of reunions and encouragement for the believers from five different tribes/language groups. Just getting everyone to our island was quite a challenge. Two of the tribes had their transportation fall through at the last minute due to persecution within […]

Great Expectations

November 14, 2015

Bedtime. I lay down next to Judah to cuddle. “Mama,” he said,”kann ich dir ein Lied singen?” Can I sing you a song? His sweet little voice reached my ear: “Maaaaaama, ich liiiiiiebe dich so sehr; Maaaaaaaama, du bist eine schoene Prinzessin; Maaaaaaaama, du bist die Beste…” Mama, I love you. Mama, you’re a beautiful […]

Team…we are not alone!

November 14, 2015

There are very few things that any of us do in life that are done alone. God wired us to work together. From the beginning, Genesis 2:18 “It’s not good that the man should be alone” One of my favorite is in 1 Corinthians 12 Where Paul elaborates on how we all have different gifts […]

Servanthood and Our Next Steps

November 11, 2015

What does it mean to truly be a servant? What does it take for me to effectively serve others? Those are questions that Ellen and I have been challenged with as we have been going through our Culture and Language Acquisition Practicum and particularly while reading Duane Elmer’s Cross-Cultural Servanthood: Serving the World in Christlike Humility. This […]

Servanthood and Our Next Steps

November 10, 2015

It takes a team

November 10, 2015

Over the last 40 years, Janie and I have worked among the unreached people groups of Papua New Guinea with several different teams. Although one of the hardest things a man or woman might face would be working with a team that did not fit; working without a team is much worse in the long […]

Autumn Blessings

November 10, 2015

We’re currently enjoying south Texas fall weather—40s or 50s at night and 70s in the day. The pecan trees on the back half of my (Jennifer’s) dad’s property have produced a bumper crop this year, so we’ve been picking pecans every chance we get. I realized a while back that this is the first time […]