We’re Packing

October 25, 2016

In just over a month (it makes me want to scream just typing that) we will be leaving Papua New Guinea and heading back to the US for our year of home assignment. After praying and talking with our leadership, it became clear that a slightly early home assignment was necessary. We originally decided […]

October 25, 2016

Michael recently had the opportunity to travel to Southeast Asia. He soon came to see it as the land of rice. Rice isn’t something new, he grew up in Colombia with plenty of rice. In other parts of South America, Mozambique and Tanzania (where he and his family currently serve) there were plenty of opportunities […]

Will this paper get me to heaven?

October 23, 2016

Last month our two most recent literacy school graduates received their graduation certificate and a copy of the New Testament books we’ve gotten printed so far. After receiving their certificates, Siwi was asked to say something. He got up and held up his graduation certificate and asked, “Will this paper get me to heaven?” Then […]

busy work

October 22, 2016

What an interesting couple of months it has been! I can’t even believe it’s been that long since I blogged, because it has been so busy that time has seriously just flown by! Let me try and summarize: August It seems like we all had medevac on the brain; there was something like 1 a […]

Answered Prayer!

October 20, 2016

It’s been two weeks since Hurricane Matthew threatened to bring hurricane-strength winds inland. And it was really looking like it could happen. Thankfully, Hurricane Matthew changed course slightly as the night progressed with the eye of the storm traveling off the coast. That meant that rather than hurricane-strength winds, we only experienced high winds. There […]

Why would we be sad?

October 18, 2016

Why would we be sad…. The other day I was jogging on the airstrip, and three little girls joined me. As I was huffing and puffing to keep up, Adopo (far left) says, “Keoi (Moi language doesn’t have r’s or l’s so my name sounds a bit different here), do you realize all three of […]

Thank you for stopping by

October 18, 2016

Thanks for stopping by, Our blog is a work in progress. In the coming weeks, there should be some posts, our latest newsletter and maybe even some photos. Thanks you for taking the time to stop by and look. There will be more coming in the future. Duane and Joy Lauver

Bologna and Sardines

October 17, 2016

Plans often change, don’t they? For example, maybe you were planning on having a bologna sandwich with a pickle on it for dinner or maybe you were planning on having a nice meal of sardines and rice. Whatever the case your plans might change suddenly. Our plans changed suddenly last week and instead of eating […]

Summer is over, back to school and more ahead

October 16, 2016

Our summer this year seemed much more full than previous ones. Maybe it is because we celebrated 25 years married! So many of you kept abreast of our “retirement-funded” anniversary weekend in Paris. We are so grateful for God providing the funds (before we knew we would need them!), now THAT is AWESOME!!! We had a […]

Let the Children Come!

October 13, 2016

Our church tried something new this year and had a service completely run by our children. The goal was to show our kids that church is about them too and also to help remind the adults that our kids are growing in their walk with the Lord as well. As part of the Sunday School […]