Author: Matt and Karissa Long

 We’re home! July 24, 2019 Thank you everyone SO much for praying for us while we were in Australia!  I am sorry I haven’t sent out an update sooner!  It has been a crazy time. Basically, we got GOOD news from the doctors!  As we shared in our last letter, all of Matt’s tests showed that […]

SATURDAY July 6, 2019Our Urgent Trip to Australia The LONG and Short of itSo, guess what?  We are in Australia.About a week and a half ago, on a Wednesday, Matt had symptoms that appeared to be a TIA or mini stroke.  Our clinic checked him out to make sure that all his vitals seemed ok, and […]

TUESDAY June 4, 2019 We moved to another mission center last week The LONG and Short of it Well, we are all settled in to our new house.  I unpacked the last box today- and by unpack, of course I mean I shoved it in a closet because I’m sick of unpacking. In case you […]

If Our Hope Were Only For This Life  TUESDAY May 7, 2019 “And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world. But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead.  He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.” […]

“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.” – Prov.16:9Recently we realized that we have a bit more waiting to do until our team comes together.  So we began to wonder, “what would God have us do during this time?”  We did not have to wonder for long, because we […]

    March 31, 2019We are so thankful that we have a team of people back home praying for us!  We couldn’t do this without you, and we are thankful that God is in control of all things! There is a big prayer request that has come up for the field of PNG.  Here is the […]

       February 27, 2019:Back in PNGWell, we’ve been back in PNG for a month now.  In some ways, the boys were happy to be back.  They were very happy that they can run outside again whenever they want, and don’t have to wear shoes all the time.  They were very happy to see their friends […]

January 25, 2019Our Last-Minute Trip Home  Wow, what a wonderful, whirlwind of a month it has been.  For those of you who may not know, we are just finishing up spending 6 weeks in the U.S.  The reasons for this were many, but the main one is that we had originally planned to take a […]

December 30, 2018  New potential opportunities on the horizon! Hi everyone,So, something exciting is happening.  There are some new folks that we are going to start talking to about the potential of joining our team.  Now, I say “start talking” and “potential” because it is all very preliminary.  In order to decide whether we all would […]