A Sad Sad Story, but Hopeful!

January 15, 2019

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

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 […]

5 Important Questions About Finances.

October 31, 2018

Hi friends Through Gods grace, we have reached an amazing milestone and that is being involved in Gods ministry for 25 years. It has been an absolutely amazing journey, from Bible School to youth worker, to support missionary and now church planter amongst the Mengen for the last 12 years. God has used you guys to […]

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 […]

Finally back home – Oct 2015

January 31, 2016

Saying Goodbye… When we got onto the plane that morning of October the 27th, it was bitter sweet…I thought saying goodbye wont be so hard…haven’t we done this soooo many times before? But that’s life for a missionary; some things just don’t get easier. Even though it hurst we also know that it is good […]