Surveys

January 25, 2019

Before we enter any people group, we first conduct different surveys. We thus first visit specific people groups who often invite us to come and live amongst them, to help us evaluate what the need is and to present to them the purpose of what we are wanting to come and do. Last year I […]

Home for the Lauretis

January 22, 2019

Heres a couple of clips, that gives you bit of an idea of what home is for us. Check out these next clips…

“Hausboi”

January 21, 2019

The “hausboi” is a Pidgen term, for a men’s house. In Mengen they call it “Giunga.” In our Mengen culture, this is a house only for men. Young boys used to leave their homes and move into the men’s house when they are between 10 – 13 years old and then they get introduces to […]

A Sad Sad Story, but Hopeful!

January 15, 2019

One of the greatest struggles all of us has is, to be honest. All of us are wanting to hide some aspects of our lives and present ourselves the best we can. This is obviously the same for us as missionaries and maybe even worse at times. We have many people looking at us, and […]

Halfway Home

January 15, 2019

It is now 6 months since we arrived here in South Africa. And even though we long for our home back in Papua New Guinea, we can thankfully summarize by saying, “The Laureti’s are doing very well”. Those first few weeks here felt like a whirlwind… landing in JHB, some medical appointments, seeing friends and […]

Brus’ story

January 3, 2019

Many moons ago, a nervous me, landed in our bush village between the Mengen valleys and mountains. It was only for a short visit, to meet our future co-workers and meet the Mengen friends amongst whom we would live for the next roughly 20 years of our lives. During this time I met Brus and […]

5 Important Questions About Finances.

October 31, 2018

Hi friends Through Gods grace, we have reached an amazing milestone and that is being involved in Gods ministry for 25 years. It has been an absolutely amazing journey, from Bible School to youth worker, to support missionary and now church planter amongst the Mengen for the last 12 years. God has used you guys to […]

Why Oshkosh

May 14, 2018

Is the goal of missions to glorify God by establishing thriving churches where there are none? What good things are NOT happening where the Church has not been planted and where there are no Christians? Our objective as mission mobilizers is to find people who will join us in reaching the people of unreached language […]

¿Realmente podemos estar confiados? (Video)

May 5, 2018

Den gracias al Señor, porque él es bueno; su gran amor perdura para siempre. Den gracias al Dios de dioses… Den gracias al Señor omnipotente… Al único que hace grandes maravillas… Al que con inteligencia hizo los cielos… Al que expandió la tierra sobre las aguas… ¡Den gracias al Dios de los cielos! ¡Su gran amor […]

The Language of the Philippines: Basketball

April 26, 2018

Highlights of Sports Bible Camp 2018 So much to be thankful about! About 70 teenagers registered and enjoyed Sports Bible Camp! We praise the Lord for safety among the players, good weather even with the scorching heat, and endurance for full-scheduled days! The Agutaynen believers did a great job teaching the Bible Lessons clearly. […]