Some of the Mengen Believers
Thanks so much for praying and supporting us over the years. Here is a clip of some of the Mengen believers.
News from Home
Here we are again, 50 days before we leave for our HOME in Papua New Guinea! Are we super busy, excited and a little frazzled? Yes, Yes, Yes! We have throughout the year tried to pace ourselves and make the best of each opportunity, tried to spread out our appointments so that no bottle neck happens […]
Madeleen is doing well!
HI FRIENDS Thanks so much for the way you guys have been praying for Madeleen and thanks to those who have helped financially supporting Madeleen up to now. I thought it would be good to write a quick report for you guys about how she is doing. For those who do not know Madeleen, let […]
FROM SHAMAN TO CHRIST FOLLOWER!
In these days I got the sad news that another Mengen believer has passed away. He and his family are very precious to me. When we moved into the area in 2009, this family was the first to open their hearts and home to me and Marie. It’s very very hard for me, as they have become my family! I would want to be there with them. I would want to spend a few days with them, standing at their backs! But this is God’s plan for me for now.
More links in the chain
As you know we are not working among the Mengen on our own! We are part of a much larger team. It all starts back here at home and stretches all the way to where we are working. And each link is vital. Check out this blog, and see how you can be part of this chain reaching the Mengen.
Surveys
Before we enter any people group, we first conduct different surveys. We thus first visit specific people groups who often invite us to come and live amongst them, to help us evaluate what the need is and to present to them the purpose of what we are wanting to come and do. Last year I […]
Home for the Lauretis
Heres a couple of clips, that gives you bit of an idea of what home is for us. Check out these next clips…
“Hausboi”
The “hausboi” is a Pidgen term, for a men’s house. In Mengen they call it “Giunga.” In our Mengen culture, this is a house only for men. Young boys used to leave their homes and move into the men’s house when they are between 10 – 13 years old and then they get introduces to […]
A Sad Sad Story, but Hopeful!
One of the greatest struggles all of us has is, to be honest. All of us are wanting to hide some aspects of our lives and present ourselves the best we can. This is obviously the same for us as missionaries and maybe even worse at times. We have many people looking at us, and […]
Halfway Home
It is now 6 months since we arrived here in South Africa. And even though we long for our home back in Papua New Guinea, we can thankfully summarize by saying, “The Laureti’s are doing very well”. Those first few weeks here felt like a whirlwind… landing in JHB, some medical appointments, seeing friends and […]
Brus’ story
Many moons ago, a nervous me, landed in our bush village between the Mengen valleys and mountains. It was only for a short visit, to meet our future co-workers and meet the Mengen friends amongst whom we would live for the next roughly 20 years of our lives. During this time I met Brus and […]
Hidden blessings
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 […]
Mengen Church doing well on their own
Hi friends Hope you are doing great! We are aprouching the end of our time in SA and have less than 3 weeks left before we start our journey back to PNG. Amongst the Mengen believers things are going on well. Progress in translation I am especially thrilled about how things are progressing with our […]
Mengen Translation going ahead well!
Hi Friends Hope you’re all doing great. Things here are going well in South Africa! We are again approaching the time to greet and even though it’s still a few months before we leave we are starting to plan and even pack. Together with this comes allot of emotions but I will leave this to Marie to share as she is preparing a bit […]
Introducing Gabby
Hi Friends I hope you guys are doing great! Thanks for partnering with us and especially for praying for the Mengen believers. Today I would like to introduce you to Gabby. He is one of our Bible teacher trainees. When I got to know him he was living in a different village about 3 days […]