wonderful hard days

July 27, 2015

I’ve had this post written and ready to go for almost a week now, and I just haven’t had the guts to share it. It sounds like a list of complaints and weakness to me, but you all have stuck with me through the good and the bad. And the good has far outweighed the […]

jet lag journey; part 2

July 18, 2015

This is the first time that I’ve had internet since we got here, so this blog post is a week late. I’ve been writing and saving them on my computer, so there is plenty of stuff to share about. I’ll try not to post them all at once. Last I wrote Josh and I were […]

jet lag journey; part 1

July 8, 2015

I’m sitting in Singapore, in our host family’s house fighting off jet lag by taking some time to write to you about our journey to Papua New Guinea so far. We left our hometown on Saturday, and I think today is Wednesday (jet lag is a real killer, y’all – I’m struggling). We spent Saturday […]

spiritual gift: packing

June 26, 2015

My husband is a packer. No, you don’t understand. He is a packer. It’s his spiritual gift or something. Whenever we move – which has been a lot in our 4 years of marriage – I don’t pack, it’s neither something I enjoy, nor my spiritual gift or super power. I clean and pile things […]

senioritis

June 18, 2015

I’m calling the last week and a half “missionary senioritis.” It’s been ups and downs. Lots of feeling caught in-between two worlds. Home and not home. Almost there, but still here; yet not quite here either, because we’re almost there. It’s enough to make your head spin and your heart ache with confusion. And just […]

lead me

June 2, 2015

We are coming into the last four weeks (ish) before we get on a plane and fly to Papua New Guinea to begin the next phase of our lives. This is the phase that nobody really talks about – maybe because they’re too busy to pause long enough to – but mostly because it’s hard. […]

kodiak #3

May 28, 2015

God’s timing is absolutely amazing and perfect every single time… I don’t know why it’s so hard to remember that. Yesterday we were given the green light to announce that New Tribes Mission Aviation has purchased Kodiak #3 for the flight program in PNG! This is a project that has been in the works for […]

partners

May 21, 2015

Most of you know that since we finished Bible school last year we’ve been doing partnership development as our full-time stateside ministry. This looks like a lot of writing emails, a lot of phone calls to set up meetings, a lot of cups of coffee, a lot of driving, a lot of sharing, and a […]

erin’s essential list of things to bring to a new kitchen

May 12, 2015

Just wanted to drop a quick note saying thank you for your response to my last blog post. Thank you for your emails telling me your stories, your heartache, your joy… for sharing that you “get it” or honestly that you don’t. I actually feel quite tongue-tied and blog-shy now, as I’ve started, finished, and […]

strangers

May 4, 2015

I’ve been toying with the idea of sharing this, as I’m not totally sure it will be received well, but here it goes… Being a missionary means being a stranger at home. What I mean is… there comes a point as a missionary where you become a stranger in your home town, or church, or […]