Home Assignment

May 11, 2012

We hope you are encouraged in your walk with the Lord. We are excited to see how the Lord is continuing to work among the Tigak tribe. Land issues and disputes are a constant battle for many missionaries in Papua New Guinea. We have had our share of issues with one of our land owners.

Rain, Wind and Good-Byes

April 4, 2012

We just returned yesterday from a trip to the other end of New Ireland. We have never made the trip before so it was fun to be able to see another bush location. It is a long trip by truck down the length of the island. I was missing the interstates in the USA as […]

Answered Prayers!!

February 8, 2012

Boy am I thankful for the prayer partners we have! The Lord has surely been answering your prayers. Every one of Ned’s flights into the tribes to do translation checking went off without a problem. Every day before and after the days of his flights were filled with typhoon winds and rains with no chance […]

Team Translation Workshop

January 21, 2012

Whew!!! It has been a busy two weeks. We just completed the Team Translation Workshop (TTW 2012). The TTW is for the missionaries who have recently completed learning a tribal language and are ready to begin translating the Bible into their tribal language. It is required for the whole missionary team to attend the workshop […]

Kara Linn’s Graduation

December 25, 2011

We wanted to let y’all know that our oldest daughter, Kara Linn, graduated (summa cum laude) from college! She has been attending East Texas Baptist University in Marshall, Texas. Her degree is a B.S. in Chemistry and a minor in math along with a teacher’s certificate for Physical Science and Math. She has really been […]

Merry Christmas 2011!!

December 12, 2011

“May the celebration of Christmas cause us to rejoice like the angels… hear like the shepherds… follow like the wise men!” Roy Lessin We are excited to celebrate Christmas once again! It is such a fun time of year – to relax with family, enjoy good food and celebrate the birth of our Savior! We […]

Full Team again…

October 31, 2011

We are thankful to have Tom and Beth Carlton back in the tribe. We were able to meet their beautiful new daughter, Iris! As you can imagine the Tigak ladies are in love with her and can’t wait for their turn to hold her. Iris is 3 ½ months old. The Carlton’s firstborn, Jude, is […]

Ned’s return and the workshops

October 31, 2011

We are thankful to have Ned at home again. He had four long weeks of intensive training. The first two weeks was an Advanced Language Workshop where they were working on learning how to decode the tribal languages on a deeper discourse level. When you understand how languages are put together – how they make […]

Moving into the dorm…

August 3, 2011

School started today for Bethany and Savannah. Savannah is in 10th grade and is joining Bethany for her senior year at our New Tribes Mission school in PNG. They are both very excited to be here. I have hardly seen them since we got here since they are thrilled to be surrounded by friends. I […]

Back to the Tribe…

June 23, 2011

Thank you for praying! It has been an encouraging month. Ned has finished his marathon month of checking translation for several different tribes and having his own translation checked by a consultant from the USA. The final totals were – almost 2700 verses checked for Akolet, Siar, Lusi and Maleu tribes combined and over 500 […]