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An informational blog from our Communications Department: On the field of Papua New Guinea we have around 350 active missionary members.  Those missionaries come from fourteen different passport countries to work together to plant thriving churches in the unreached people groups of Papua New Guinea. Seventy-four percent of the team here comes from the US, […]

1 Peter 2:9 has always served as such an encouragement to me. This verse tells us who we are and what we are to do as believers: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous […]

My usual rotation of genres to read doesn’t include horror stories, but it does include classics. And so a couple weeks ago, I decided it was time to read Frankenstein again. The back of the edition I checked out says: Mary Shelley’s gothic tale is the world’s most famous work of horror fiction. I have […]

Yesterday’s temperatures were supposed to be record-breaking. They ended up being very hot but not quite what was predicted. That’s how I feel about June this year; it just isn’t quite living up to my expectations. I expect it to be a tolerable hot, but we’ve already had days of heat indices over 115. The […]

I don’t know what algorithm has given me social media ads for almost-private jets, but there’s definitely been a mismatch of some sort. It made me laugh aloud to think that I’d ever been traveling on anything other than a full-to-the-brim international flight or a tiny unpressurized mission plane. But, really, I haven’t been traveling […]

Translation is one (big) step toward a mature church. And as a support missionary, I serve in missionary kid education as their parents work toward seeing those mature churches established. Here is a brief update from NTM PNG Communications about translation in PNG. According to Jason Stuart, our Translation Consultant Coordinator, we have been involved in Scripture […]

March is a month of straddling two school years. I need to stay fully engaged and excited about this school year. Since I teach grade 11 and 12 students, they need my extra enthusiasm in the last few months. I’m looking at lesson planning for the last term knowing that I need to make the […]

The new year is the middle of the school year and a lot feels the same, but January still seems like a good time to look back and look forward. Looking back on the year for the field is such an encouragement. Check out this graphic that highlights the way God is working in tribal […]

I was waiting to post a November update until next week when the Maliyali people had finished hearing the Gospel in their own language, but I was convicted about instead giving you the opportunity to pray for them in this final stretch of the teaching. The Maliyali people will hear about the crucifixion of Jesus […]

When God gets through mixing a Christian’s experiences together, life comes out good. My friend and co-worker sent me a story illustration from the grade 2 Bible book this week, which was especially well-timed because I was having a hard time determining what to write about this week for an update. The story was similar […]