Author: Matt and Karissa Long

July 18, 2018 Hanging lights, singing carols, going to neighbors’ houses with armfuls of food, feeling that early morning chill… What?  It’s July?  Maybe I better explain.  Last week our power was out for almost a week.  The early morning chill was the cold showers I had from the water heater booster not working, and the […]

June 12, 2018 “Why have I come all this way just to deal with the ordinary?” Recently I was watching a TV show, a reality show in which women from England go and spend about a month in a tribal location somewhere in the world to see what it is like.  In one episode, the […]

May 29, 2018 Special Edition: Home Building Fund Don’t like talking about money?  Me neither!  But God has given us the blessing of supporters to enable us to do ministry here, and we have to continually rely on Him working through His people to provide for our ministry.  It actually is a blessing because we […]

April 2018 Ty and Wyck made some signs and decorations because they were so happy Daddy was home after an 8 day trip.  Earlier this month, Matt got the opportunity to go along on a “mature church evaluation” trip.  That is where leadership goes and helps evaluate where a church plant is at spiritually.  It […]

Wyck learning how to garden Learning Dependence on God “Thank you, Mrs. Long,” said a student as she left my class.  It was my first day teaching at Numonohi Christian Academy (NCA), the New Tribes school at the mission center near us.  “What was she thanking me for?” I wondered as I gathered up my things […]

We went to go see an old WWII plane in the jungle. You might be a missionary kid if… Your parents pack a suitcase for vacation and you assume that you’re moving. You see fish in a pond at a restaurant and ask if that’s what we’re eating. You are baffled as to why your mom […]

Our team!!!  Praising the Lord for the Hernandez family, and waiting on Him for one more family to join us. A Year in Papua New Guinea Currently I’m looking out my window and Wyck is running around in the rain, with his arms outstretched to the side, pretending that he’s flying, yelling, “Rain!  Rain!”  A […]

“The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel (which means ‘God with us’).” — Matt. 1:23 (Ty and our Christmas tree) Lately any time we see a Christmas movie or Christmas commercial, we feel a little sad.  So,  we’ve started analyzing the messages portrayed to us about Christmas. […]

“Give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; his love endures forever.” -Ps. 118:1 (Wyck working with Daddy) “Mom, can you make me an alligator costume?”  “Can you make me a sword?”  “Can you make me some robot arms?”  “Can you make me some grasshopper wings?” Pretty much every day, I (Karissa) get requests […]