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Living in the fourth-largest metropolitan area of the US means home assignment has included a lot of sitting in traffic. My errand-running looks completely different than walking around a 30-acre center. As I was inching forward last week on my way downtown, I was reminded of a few truths about the Christian life. When I […]

Another Way Education Is Emphasized Within Church Planting I support church planting with NTM PNG by teaching the children of missionaries. However, the need for quality education for the children from tribal church plants is very real. Below our communications manager describes R* Valley Academy and how it hopes to meet that need. I had […]

Again, from Managing Director Keith Copley We are overwhelmed with the response to the call to pray for our Mibu brothers and sisters! God is working, because of those prayers. The initial confrontation with the criminal gang in Mibu this weekend did not end in violence! We believe this is a direct answer to prayer. […]

From NTM PNG Managing Director Keith Copley Request for URGENT Prayer! The church among the Mibu people group of Papua New Guinea is calling on brothers and sisters around the world to PRAY. Established in 2006, the church in Mibu has grown and matured through many trials and the very passage of life. (This is […]

I recently got to see the movie Ends of the Earth. It is a film produced by and about Mission Aviation Fellowship; it tells their story in the context of assisting Ethnos360 church planters. In the end, the Wano people are able to do outreaches because of the aviation support provided by MAF. It’s a […]

I’m at a child safety training. There is some automatic camaraderie with others at such conferences as we are all in missions and/or education with similar goals. This training is a small group of only twenty, but I wasn’t quite sure who my people were until a fellow attendee declared, “You know what I love […]

There’s a title you haven’t seen from me during a September in the past decade. Most overseas missionaries complete four full years on the field and then complete one full year home assignment. I’ve taken an alternate route, completing ten months on the field and two months on home assignment most years. That means that […]

The Class of 2021 made it to the end. I had my doubts, but the Lord sustained the dozen students and their families and us teachers. The audience at the celebration was only the grads and their families, but otherwise the ceremony was typical. This means that I got to say a few words in […]

We’ve already had four first days of term 4, and I don’t know how many more are coming. We started with all students in remote learning, then we were able to switch to some in remote learning and some receiving off-site tutoring, then we were able to switch to some in remote learning and some […]

As a teacher, I have ideas for getting students interested in and learning just about any content. I was trained in college and I have years of experience in making information accessible. But I cannot fathom how to start learning or teaching an unwritten language! The need to start from scratch is overwhelming to me, […]