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Merry Christmas to all of you, supporters, friends, and family! As you know, we’re in the States for our Home Assignment/Furlough this year. It has been a busy but good 6 months already. Here is a quick recap: Reconnecting with good friends after several years! We arrived in June and immediately set out to get […]

(MK = Missionary Kid)  We spoke about the Tigak ministry at a church 3 weeks ago, and we moved on and spoke at a different one the following week, but in between the two Sundays, we had thought,”What are we going to do during the week? Just sit around??” Seems like such a waste of […]

Has anyone ever told you that in their parting words? “We won’t forget you!” When we depart from loved ones, it’s such a strong desire to stay close and as humans we genuinely want to remember them, think of them, and pray for them. But as we all know, it is harder than it sounds. […]

Some of you may wonder why we invest so much time in learning the culture, and not just the language.  Culture is essentially the outward expression of inner belief. Interestingly, language is intimately intertwined with culture. When words are spoken, there are expected behaviors/actions that accompany them. And not only that, but there are deeply-rooted […]

The end of 2016 flew by, but not without much progress and growth, both for the Tigak believers and for our family. In early November, over a dozen Tigak believers and ourselves traveled to another tribal location for the (5th) annual tribal church conference. This involved a 30-minute boat ride, followed by a 5-hour truck […]

Last month a woman brought her sick child to me to ask my opinion. I know some of you are doctors/nurses, so here’s your “PNGWebMD” symptom list for you to try and guess: the whites of his eyes were yellow nausea, vomiting fever fatigue loss of appetite she said his urine was a strange color […]

2 years ago today, July 24th, we first landed in Papua New Guinea! Take this short QUIZ about our first 2 years in PNG! Let’s see how you do:   As you know, it’s been a very full two years ~ full of learning, full of change, and full of travel. Here is a whirlcap**** […]

It’s been 6 months since our last CLA Evaluation. We just had our second one this week! (Hopefully by the time we’re finished with CLA, we will have reminded you so many times what “CLA” stands for that you will be saying “Culture and Language Acquisition” in your sleep!) So what is a CLA Evaluation […]

In late January, Lisa’s parents were able to come out to Tigak for a one-week visit.  We asked them to share with you about their experience. So without further ado, enjoy this guest blog from Steve & Ellyn! ~the Martinez family v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} Normal 0 false false false false […]

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