Food, Fear, and Faith

March 29, 2019

In case you were wondering, a landslide sounds like thunder; it starts out as a distant rumble that builds and builds and then slowly fades away. The difference is that a landslide leaves behind more than an echo. Up here in the mountains, water flows through almost every valley, and there are a lot of […]

An awesome sad Sunday

March 19, 2019

There has been so much going on in our neck of the woods in the past few weeks that we thought it was time to show you what we’ve been up to. First of all, when we flew back to the tribe in February, Jason and Tami Hughes and their three kids came with us! […]

Tanguat Trip

February 8, 2019

A couple weeks ago I took my first trip ever as a CLA consultant in training. I spent a couple days with the Swensons and Chens among the Tanguat people group of Papua New Guinea. CLA stands for culture and language acquisition, and I had the privilege of accompanying Aaron Weatherl as he kicked-off the […]

Phase 1 ends with a bang

November 21, 2018

A few weeks ago we finished up teaching Phase 1 (Creation to Christ) in our local outreach. When I say “we”, I really mean 20 Pal men who handled all the teaching in this outreach. Anyways, we ended Phase 1 by talking about end times – when Christ will come back, judge the world, and […]

Scrumptious Scripture

August 23, 2018

As the idiom goes here, “Their stomachs are not small.” Translation – They have a large appetite. Now, that does certainly include greasy pork, delicately smoked rat, and the white mans’ noodles and rice. However, it also includes their hunger for Scripture. From the early days and our first printed Scripture portions, the local body […]

Every Sunday Morning

August 4, 2018

Every Sunday morning, the Pal believers gather to worship together and listen to the missionaries teach God’s Word. Then, after a short break, Pal unbelievers gather to hear the Pal believers teach God’s Word. It’s an amazing sight: men who, a few short years ago, didn’t understand that God’s grace is free and lived in […]

Night of the Killer Snakes

July 16, 2018

Seeing snakes is not a common occurrence around here. All the snakes I have seen since moving here in 2012 could probably be counted using only my fingers and toes, so we are talking about only a few snake sightings per year. Often, those sightings come on a sunny afternoon when the snakes are laying […]

Praising God in the mud and rain

May 15, 2018

Sludgin’ through the mud up and down treacherous mountain trails, dreary rain dripping from my brow, my cheap mobile phone barely lighting my path. It was miserable. And it was wonderful. Had you peeked in on me an hour earlier, you would have seen me sitting amidst a sea of men, women, and children cramming […]

Peace

April 26, 2018

As you probably well know, it was no small decision for us to return to PNG. I am not saying that choosing to stay stateside would have been any easier or any less of a decision – any choice would have been a big decision – and God led us to make the big decision […]

Back to PNG

April 12, 2018

We fled from the bleary dreary Minnesota winter weather the day after Easter, and our plane ride wonderfully took us to the radiant sunshine and beautiful beaches of Honolulu, Hawaii. And it just so happens that my parents live there, and so we enjoyed a fabulous week eating Grandma’s delicious cooking and playing in the […]