Travel in PNG

July 5, 2016

As with all of us, the simple things that goes on day to day as we live life often gets overlooked. One thing we have often said is we wished so many of you could see the life we lived just so you could experience it for a day. So we wanted to write about […]

Want to change the world?

July 5, 2016

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes…” ‭‭Romans‬ ‭1:16‬a‭ There is so much evil and tragedy in this world that it is easy to fall into asking, “what’s the world coming to?” or even into feeling hopeless about it. However, […]

Answers to prayer

July 5, 2016

Greeting! We trust this finds you doing well and encouraged in the Lord. A week ago today we arrived in Portland and spent our 15 hour layover visiting Lance’s cousin. It had been 10 years since we saw her last. She’s going to be 78 this year but certainly doesn’t look it. We had some […]

Reaching Out Via Summer School

July 5, 2016

Our coworkers Dan and Ginny Bryant and family just arrived in the village from their home in Senegal. They will be with us for several weeks.The focus of the Bryants’ time here will be running the 4-week summer school program for 4th-6th grade kids. And the focus of the summer school will be the daily Bible class, in […]

We won’t ‘fly you to the moon…’

July 4, 2016

The Old Days I recall hearing horror stories of missionaries traveling to destinations by ship. They certainly were not the cruise lines of today. –Some journeys took as long as two months; some of those journeys were taken on vessels that called in question their sea-worthiness; and some of those missionaries who journeyed on questionable […]

Who ya’ gonna’ call???

July 2, 2016

Relational elements of life are a cherished blessing to just about everyone I know although it may interest you to realize that it plays out a little differently in some cultures. Take the case study we encountered among an unreached people group who view life a little differently than we do. In western civilization our first […]

Next Wave

July 1, 2016

What are we doing? We are working to build the next wave of missionaries who will reach tribes of people who know nothing of Jesus! Eternity is a long time to be separated from all that is good! That is especially true when the solution to our sin problem, the Good News about Jesus, is […]

124 videos in process … and counting

July 1, 2016

Video is on a roll, now that Stephen Narwold is developing the website. The projects are rolling in faster than I can count… Youtube Trailer, Mobilizing, Interface, Each Stick Had A Name remake, Colombia videos for NTM@work, six videos for the Global Forum in November, Portraits of NTM. We’ll be filming a Christmas Card video […]

First Few Weeks

July 1, 2016

We’ve discovered that rain on dust turns into steamy mud… to be honest, steamy mud is not quite as refreshing as an afternoon Colorado thunderstorm, but it is much better than drought! We arrived in our new city just in time for a refreshing break in a lengthy stretch of drought. We expected no rain, but instead […]

Learning to Trust

June 30, 2016

A few weeks ago after putting Ethan and Tyler to bed, I got called back into the room by Ethan. He had been up the night before unable to sleep and now he was afraid that tonight would be the same. I told him the best thing he could do was not worry about it […]