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The daily life of the Land of the Unexpected

February 21, 2015

I remember one morning when I woke to a huge bang. It was the battery blowing up on the generator! My first thought was, “Really God?? With all the other things that are going on this week, couldn’t you have made the battery blow up next week instead?” 🙂 When you live in the “land […]

God’s New Year for the Devines

January 6, 2015

We enjoyed an amazing fireworks show here in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea on New Year’s Eve. Almost everyone buys their own fireworks and sets them off at all hours, with the pinnacle of the fireworks occurring at midnight. It is just amazing to watch, and to think of each firework as a […]

Gratitude

November 14, 2014

Last month was Beth’s birthday and I really wanted to do something nice for her. I decided that since we hardly ever go out to eat, dinner at one of our local restaurants would be a great birthday present. We were both tired, so I hoped this would be just what we needed to encourage […]

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all!

October 16, 2014

We are privileged to be able to celebrate two Thanksgivings every year! Lots of thankfulness and yummy food! So we just wanted to share a list of things we are thankful for today: Great find in town: lettuce and apples Apples turned into an all-natural apple pie for Thanksgiving Friends to celebrate with on Thanksgiving […]

Thankful for strawberries, lettuce, tomatoes and rest!

September 13, 2014

Strawberries, sweatshirts, jeans, friends, roller hockey, lettuce and tomatoes are just a few of the things we are enjoying as we take a much needed rest here in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Thank you for praying over the last months as we continued on serving in the busyness of life. Now we are […]

The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21

July 31, 2014

Today is a very sad day and also a very happy day in our lives…. We heard the news that Jonathan has a new cousin, the first on the Devine side of the family, Marshall Douglas Devine! But we also heard the news that Beth’s grandmother, Louise Wheeler, has passed away at age 94. She […]

God’s Goodness!

May 2, 2014

This week Elissa, a friend from Interface, came to visit us! It is always so good to enjoy the fellowship of good friends and be reminded of God’s goodness. We are reminded of how privileged we are to serve here in Papua New Guinea and to know that God is in control of everything! Elissa […]

Wisdom!

February 24, 2014

God brought to mind a few questions for us the other day… do we just ask for wisdom to get through hard times implying that we don’t need God’s wisdom after that? Do we look forward to the end of our problem implying that life will be easier and we won’t need to look to […]

Resting in God

November 11, 2013

Resting in God…do we believe that God only gives us what we can handle? Do we complain when it seems we have too much work, too much to do? Yet God has put us in these situations and has given us these responsibilities. And He knows that when we rest in Him we will have […]

Saying Goodbye to Interface

August 22, 2013

“Heaven, once attained, will work backwards.” –C.S. Lewis Sometimes I tend to think that when God says that all things work together for good, in Romans 8, He just means that He takes the bad things in our lives and makes them result in good. This is because I think that I will never, ever […]