Presenting the Church to Christ

February 20, 2020

I start by saying a BIG THANK YOU to you guys for your help and supporting the Mengen Work in New Britain! Through God’s Grace He has planted His church and He is growing His church! Why are we still here? During one of our recent trips I was reminded of our calling by the following words […]

Mengen Literacy and Curriculem Project

April 27, 2019

The Mengen church was born in 2009; ten years later, the translation of Scripture is nearly complete, and the three churches are reaching out. But they lack resources for literacy kits, Bible lessons and Bibles. The Mengen believers do want to take advantage of opportunities to take God’s Word to more distant villages, some of […]

Surveys

January 25, 2019

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 […]

“Hausboi”

January 21, 2019

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 […]

Halfway Home

January 15, 2019

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

January 3, 2019

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 […]

How to support Madeleen

December 19, 2018

Hi Friends Marie and I have been sharing this morning about our joys and tribulations as missionaries in Papua New Guinea, and it was interesting to note, that our joys are actually our tribulations when handled correctly. One of these challenges for us was to have to raise a special needs child in our family. […]

Mengen Church doing well on their own

October 9, 2015

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 […]

Please pray for Alex and Mande.

June 25, 2015

Hi Friends Hope you are all doing great today! Another friend I would like to introduce to you guys and ask that you would pray for him is, Alex. He is the older brother of Brus, maybe you can remember him? Any way Alex is also a very special friend of mine and someone I dearly […]

MENGEN CHURCH CONFERENCE…

June 25, 2015

Hi Friends Its always amazing to see how God is planting His church worldwide but also in Papua New Guinea amongst the Mengen people. Not many years ago they were in darkness, but many have placed their trust in Christ and now they are goring into a self-sufficient church! Just this morning, I received the […]

Please pray for Joe Waimo, Katie and Sande.

June 17, 2015

Hi Friends Thanks for standing in prayer with us for the Mengen believers. Things are going well in the church although there is always room for growth. Here is another family that I would like to introduce to you guys. Please pray with us for them. I would like to introduce Joe Waimo and Sande […]

Introducing Eddie and Franseska

June 8, 2015

Please pray for Eddie and Franseska Another Mengen family I would like to introduce to you guys is Eddie and Franseska. Eddie was one of the first Mengen believers many years ago, and have surely been one of our most faithfull language helpers, carriculem developers and translation helpers. But he has also developed into an […]

Introducing Kamalus and Sepin

May 27, 2015

Hi Friends Kamilus and Sepin are a very special married couple, with 7 beautiful children. They became believers a couple of years ago and have had a radiant testimony ever since. Although they are a young, quiet couple, they have taken a stand for Christ in the midst of persecution. We are so thrilled to […]

Introducing Brus and Apite

May 13, 2015

Bruce and Apite (ah-pe-tay) Before he was saved, Bruce was a real trouble-maker. We got to know him as a drunkard and thief, who gave us missionaries a real hard time. but through Gods grace he attended the teaching many years ago and both he and his wife became believers. Now he is a changed […]

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