Marriage and Family

August 23, 2015

Thank you for your faithful prayers. We know we are being prayed for as the Lord continues to give us the strength to continue on. Pray for the Tigak church as we are studying the book of Ephesians together. We are seeing encouraging signs of growth as the believing husbands and wives are learning to […]

Tigak Photo Book

July 26, 2012

This is a link to see a photo book I did on Shutterfly. It shows a lot of pictures of where we live and minister. I hope you enjoy it. Click here to view this photo book larger Create a gorgeous, high quality wedding photo album at Shutterfly.com.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

Ned survived!

March 26, 2010

The training is completed for now. What a blessing to have such a great teacher, Jill Goring, come to train translators and translation consultants! Hopefully Ned can have a few days off now while the kids are on school break after 3 ½ weeks of six days a week meetings and training along with homework […]

Translation Workshop

February 11, 2010

We are currently babysitting the guesthouse in town for the last time. We have new managers coming on March 4th which is very exciting! On Feb. 25th we will be flying to our Island’s region supply center to help with a translation workshop. The workshop will be from March 2 to 13 so we would […]

New Scripture Portions

January 25, 2010

Thank you for praying! The new Bible portions arrived in time for Christmas. It was a blessing to be able to give them out on Christmas morning at the teaching time. The believers are thrilled to have the new Epistles to study.