Category: Training

Several of you amazing friends and family have been asking us about sending care packages. Let me tell you, we are so incredibly thankful and feel so blessed that you are asking!! We’ve only been here a month, but we are already realizing that it’s a whole lot of little things that you really start […]

On our third day here, I was doing my first load of laundry, hanging it on the line. Jack was in town getting his driver’s license, but I was expecting him back soon. So when a white van pulled up to our house I didn’t think anything of it, until…the Hambrices jumped out! We weren’t […]

Here’s a few initial observations from our first days in country: The humidity is intense and the sun is STRONG here Sun rises around 6:30am and sets around 6:30pm, so we live on an earlier schedule here We feel exhausted a lot of the time No air conditioner. We really love ceiling fans now! The […]

We are here! We made it to Papua New Guinea last friday evening, and it feels a little bit surreal! But it also feels like we are home. Like our family finally has a place to settle in. And in a sense, while we left one family behind with tears, we have been welcomed by […]

    Getting Closer. Wow! Several families and individuals (and a church!) joined our monthly team in May! Thank you all so much for giving sacrificially. Thanks to everyone’s generosity we are now only $900/mo away from being fully funded!! Thanks again for joining us! If you’d like to help us get to 100%, click […]

A few days ago, the father of an eight-year-old boy in AWANA direct messaged me on Twitter to see if his son could ask me a few questions. It’s so awesome how the Lord can use social media outlets like Twitter to make connections for His glory! Here’s how the conversation went: Dear Jack, My […]

It’s hard to believe that our last leg of training, the linguistics practicum in Cookson, OK (near Tahlequah) has brought us back so close to home! It’s one hour west to my parents in Broken Arrow, and one hour east to Jacks’ in Fort Smith! Life has been a whirlwind, since the program began on […]

As this semester sprints to a close, we’re gearing up for a summer of travel and transition. Lael has had in incredibly rewarding semester of intense linguistics classes. Even though the classes have been very time-consuming (they’ve analyzed 140 different languages), she feels they’ve helped prepare her for learning our tribal language and creating an […]