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Prayer and Praise points

March 12, 2013

Hi friends, Furlough is going well and we are having a great time with family here in N.I. at the moment. Thank-you for all your prayers and partnership in the gospel. Below there are some praise and prayer points to add to your list. Praise Thanks to God that He has been helping us as […]

Sunday service, a new literacy class and a baby on the way.

October 7, 2012

Hi friends, here are some pictures from our service this Sunday. Our church service and setting will be a little different from yours but the same components of worship are all there. We have a fire, dogs and even sometimes pigs disturbing us. You will see what Noah normally get’s up to at a Sunday […]

Discipleship – it’s a call to me, but a journey of “we.”

August 25, 2012

Discipleship is often limited to it’s formal forms in the western church, but discipleship can happen at any time, it has many forms; but always we should meet people where they are at in order to share what we have in common so we can grow together to be more like our Savior. Michael Spencer […]

Furlough plans

August 13, 2012

Hi friends, We wanted to update on our current plans. We have been in PNG now for 6 years in total; more than two of those years has been spent with the Mengen people and we are amazed at how the Lord is working. Simon has now finished language and is involved in teaching, […]

Anton, exercising his gift from God.

August 5, 2012

We have another story that shows Gods grace and work amongst the Mengen people. You have heard Antons name before, He is a constant presence in Lourens’s office and mine also. He helps us check that our lessons are communicating well, and apart from that just sits and listens to Gods word. Anton is really […]

Olden – speaking the truth! Praise God.

August 2, 2012

One of our youngest believers, Olden is soaking up the truths of the word of God. Olden is around 6 years old. Just the other day Olden was coming back from school with some of his friends. He asked them all, if they worshiped statues? They all said yes. Olden proceeded to tell them how […]

Baptism service today – God is building His church.

July 15, 2012

Dear Friends and Family, We had the privilege today of watching 13 brothers and sisters in Christ be baptized. 10 of these were under age 18 and one was about 9 years old! We were thrilled to see the Lord is reaching young and old alike here. Simon, along with 3 of our believers […]

Flanagan’s bush house makover.

June 24, 2012

Answered prayer is a wonderful thing. For a long time now Annika and I have been praying that Annika particularly could get some more storage space in her kitchen, for cups, plates and normal things like that. With moving into the tribe and building a house we didn’t have the time or money to complete […]

N. Ireland work team – Fantastic

June 23, 2012

Hi friends, For those of you who don’t know, Simon’s parents along with a team made up of friends from churches that pray and support us, joined with Summit N.I.; came out and took our Islands regional conference and worked on our house. We had some time with Simon’s parents before conference and then the […]

Merenge a wandering child of God.

May 1, 2012

This is baby Cletus, Merenges first born child. Just a new believer and Merenge stood against his family for God. He chose to trust in God and not the local shaman. CLICK HERE to listen to his story. Unfortunately baby Cletus died in the weeks to come. Since the death of his first born son […]