Faithfulness

September 21, 2018

Hi Friends As you know, we are back in South Africa after a 3year+ stint in PNG. Our main purpose is to have Madeleen settled in a special home for her called Camphill village. Check it out at – Camphill Village. Marie will soon write more about how she’s doing and also the rest of […]

Harvest is great but workers are few!

January 16, 2018

…….We have a strong call for help coming from the village closest to us, called Muela. For many years we have been praying for them, and now God has been stirring up a hunger amongst them. They have been traveling down to our village regularly with requests for teachers to come and teach them. […]

Translation nearly completed!

November 29, 2017

Hi Friends I have been spending allot of time lately with the Mengen leaders and will send some news about this soon. The really good news is that our translation is coming to its end! Wow so many years of hard work starting to come together. I have not done much on this and most of the […]

It is so worth it all

November 25, 2017

Thursday night late, we were woken up by this message; it is from one of the missionaries of one of the tribal churches here on our Island… “Guys – Our hearts are breaking. Gelio died tonight. We don’t know what happened. He wasn’t sick that we know of, it’s possible he had some […]

The Job is not done

July 1, 2017

Hi friends Check out our latest update about the leadership meetings across New Britain. June tribal news (Click on the link) Cheers Lourens

Quick update April 2017 – Kaupas’ story

April 27, 2017

To be honest, I do not know where this year has gone? I think I am becoming more like PNG people that are just not time orientated. In a way it’s been crazy as I have been running around in PNG and also coming back home for a short stint after my dad passed away. […]

New Believers

January 11, 2017

In October, Edward and Francesca became the 4th Mengen missionary family to leave their home and travel to a distant location. Their story is special in so many ways. Two years ago, Edward went to visit a village some distance away. One of the men from there had heard some Bible teaching from the first […]

Clips of recent trips

December 30, 2016

Hi friends Here is a few clips of our recent rips into other locations to visit missionaries. This one show’s my most recent trip to visit Josiah and Rachel Van Der Decker working in Mouk. They are learning the Mouk language and will then work with the Mouk church into the Anem language, where they […]

a small change in direction.

October 16, 2016

Dear everyone, near and far This side of the world it is going well with the Laureti clan. For once we are all healthy, no feet funguses and we are even able to get rid of some ancient furlough fat. Can’t believe how time flies… Here, some people are starting to plan Thanksgiving meals, not […]

Choosing Unity

May 30, 2016

Hi Friends Hope you are doing great! I have been out of “town” lately and when I came back I hit the ground running and so I am thankful for an early morning Saturday, while everyone else is sleeping, so I can quickly give some feedback on what has been happening lately. Choosing Unity As I […]

Mengen Outreaches growing

May 7, 2016

Hi friends Just a quick bit of news on the Mengen church. Bologo Church Plant doing Well I Just came back from an encouraging visit at our North Coast Outreach. I met up with the Mengen teachers and trainees from both our village and Bologo as well as their wife’s. And we studied through the […]

Hidden blessings

April 22, 2016

Its only good that I write again today, saying that life here is not all hard and bad. Truth is that there is much good too to missionary life…and sometimes missionaries have the funnest times! We don’t always write this because you don’t want your supporters to see that you sometimes buy a cuppachino with […]

ZAR VS USD

February 22, 2016

Hi friends Let me give you a little peak into on of our greatest battles as missionaries. A friend of mine recently reminded me of the change in our economy – Just take a look at this: Rand against the $ 5 year depreciation 20/01/11 R7,04 22/01/16 R16,44 Depreciation: R9,40 % Depreciation: 134% Yes thats […]

a letter from my heart…..

February 20, 2016

These last 4 months back here in Papua New Guinea, has been some of the hardest for me, maybe because we just had a too long furlough in South Africa, maybe I just forgot what life in PNG is like and that in years past we also  went through  struggles and  sickness. Whatever the case may […]

Progress with translation

January 31, 2016

Hi friends Quick update on the work – Amongst the Mengen believers things are going on well. Progress in translation I am especially thrilled about how things are progressing with our translation. Recently we had some helpers hiked out of our village to our support centre to meet up with our co werker, Rebecca Preheim. They […]