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 […]

Sitting Where They Sat, Astonished

July 10, 2015

I have heard it said that the eyes are the gateway to the soul, but is it true? I do not know. One thing I know for sure looking into this man’s eyes today I see something that he did not have over thirty five years ago as he played with our younger son Darren […]