If I go, what is in it for me?

February 9, 2018

After many years of following Jesus to the unreached people groups in and around Papua New Guinea today we find ourselves asking the question, what motivated us to leave it all and follow Jesus to the ends of the earth? I believe what move us many years ago can move men and women today. So, […]

Facing my future

February 2, 2018

How an old missionary faces the future. As I look back over some of the things I have written in the past, remembering days gone by comes front and center. One of my fears as I write is that you might become bored of days gone by; and some of the things I write about […]

What do you do with Missions

January 23, 2018

Over the years I have been asked several times, “What do you do in missions?” Now, I understand why most would ask a question of that nature because on the surface I do not have a lot going for me and you could compare me with the uneducated and common men talked about in the […]

Got Any Rivers

January 7, 2018

An old song we do not sing much these days but was embedded in my heart some 44 years ago as Janie and I was being discipled for missions in an old restored barn in upper PA goes something like this. “Got any rivers you think are uncrossable? Got any mountains you cannot tunnel through? […]

Give me this mountain

December 28, 2017

In the book of Joshua 14: 6- 12, we break in on a conversation that Joshua and Caleb are having in Gilgal about what had taken place over a period of the last 45 years. Read with me what Caleb was telling Joshua. “You know the word which the Lord said to Moses the […]

STRANGER

June 14, 2017

STRANGER When a man or woman clearly understands the gospel message, Romans 10:11-15 comes alive in their hearts and they see the mission call in a different way. “How shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how […]

It was was not Yesterday

April 26, 2016

It was not yesterday, it was 1977, but at times facts from the past stimulate my mind until it seems it was just yesterday. We were living in our little bush house located in the upper Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. This was a place Janie and I will never forget in our life […]

Really, I can not read the translation

April 22, 2016

Lisa, Janie and I had a good laugh as the self-timer on my camera clicked. The photo was taken in the little church on a river winding through the jungle in the Northern Regions of Papua New Guinea two years ago. “You cannot read a word of that translation,” Lisa said with a twinkle in […]

Translation At Its Best

April 17, 2016

A translation must stand on two legs to make it good as far as church planting is concerned. Those two legs are literacy and discipleship without which the translation, no matter how well done, will not have the desired effect needed for a good church plant. I have had the privilege to watch a church […]

My Deep Concern For The Churches

February 15, 2012

In 2 Corinthians 11:22-28, the missionary life lived out by the apostle Paul comes front stage. The spot light shines on this man’s battered body showing all the battle scars from a life on the mission field. Verse 28 shows us where his mind was at daily, the deep concern for the churches.