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August 2005 Fish Tales

August 27, 2005

Fish Tales After our Sunday meeting some of the believers started to tell us very excitedly about how people have been catching fish in the rivers lately. Occasionally we have heard talk of some little tiny fish being caught down the valley in the big river but in all the years we’ve been here […]

Ogg Family Photo 2005

June 18, 2005

May 2005 – Go Away Ghost

May 28, 2005

Go Away Ghost! We woke up at 5:30 this morning to a loud noise at a nearby house. Just behind our house at a village hut the “yumbunja” was starting for an old lady who died last week. Not too long after a death the Simbaris believe they need to scare away the ghost of […]

April 2005 Easter Service

April 22, 2005

It has been almost a year since we returned to PNG and one of the big changes for us has been having Esther and Simon living in a boarding home and attending the mission school called Numonohi Christian Academy (NCA) located near Goroka. Esther is in 10th grade and Simon is in 7th grade. They […]

December 2004 Home for Christmas

December 16, 2004

Home for Christmas Simon and Esther just came home on the airplane today for their Christmas break. Rachel and Jason have been soooo excited that Jason banged on our door REALLY early this morning to tell us they were coming home today, just in case we forgot. 🙂 It’s wonderful to have them home and catch up with everything that has been going […]

November 2004 Hume Team Visit

November 16, 2004

We have made good progress with the Bible lessons and tomorrow I will be working on Nicodemas (John 3) and really looking forward to that. One person, Raymond’s wife, has already come to know the Lord through the new lessons so all the work is already worth it. And we are looking forward to more […]

October 2004 “We Are Like The Thief”

October 12, 2004

“We are like the thief on the cross” Sunday was an almost cloudless day for which we were very thankful because that was the day we had planned to have a Simbari-style potluck with the believers before Esther and Simon went back out to school. While the meal was cooking on the hot stones, we […]

September 2004 Teaching Through Mark

September 21, 2004

The Flesh Is Weak We continue to study the book of Mark on Sundays with the believers. Currently we are in Mark 14 and just finished looking at Peter’s insistance that he would not deny Christ. Peter and the disciples were not really depending on God but on their own strength and they were convinced that their own […]

August 29, 2004 – Pig Sacrifice

August 29, 2004

Abomination In a nearby Simbari village several young men from a particular clan have died recently and so according to their animistic traditions they planned to bring in a live pig, sacrifice it and use it’s blood to purify the ground where the clan lives. We have been continuing our study through the book of […]

August 2, 2004 Mission School

August 2, 2004

“Dorm Raid!” We took Esther and Simon out to school last week and they are all settled into the dorm. School started on Wednesday last week and they have been doing great. Here is part of an e-mail we just got from Esther. “Today we raided the Ryder dorm. Uncle Stu yelled out, “dorm raid!!!” […]