Tag: Papua New Guinea

currently

currently

I’ve been a bit gunshy since my last post. I shared all about my trip into the bush to help put on a little preventative clinic for a village; since most of you who read here regularly know I work in the medical clinic this shouldn’t surprise you. However, the rest of the world is […]
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Travel in PNG

Travel in PNG

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 […]
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We won’t ‘fly you to the moon…’

We won’t ‘fly you to the moon…’

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 […]
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tribal trip

tribal trip

Last week I mentioned that I was heading into a tribal location to help our medical staff run a vaccine clinic, but due to some inclement weather on both ends, it was delayed until the next day. Since we knew that the weather in this location can get real bad real fast, we opted for […]
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What if our pastors didn’t have support workers?

What if our pastors didn’t have support workers?

Imagine that you arrive at your church on Sunday morning. There is your pastor, greeting you at the door. You and the other church members and visitors go and find seats in the sanctuary, and in a little while, it’s time for the service to begin. But where is your pastor? Oh, there he is […]
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the quest for kodiaks

the quest for kodiaks

Three years ago, New Tribes Mission Aviation’s quest for a Kodiak for Papua New Guinea began. It was one based on the need to replace our older, less efficient 206 program with the newer, more efficient (and let’s face it, much cooler) aircraft, the Quest Kodiak. This is an airplane designed by bush pilots with […]
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They lost everything

They lost everything

The malarial fever seized the old and mentally failing woman Sunday afternoon, May 15, sending shock waves of a freezing sensation over her frail body. Every joint ached. Her eye sockets felt as if they were going to burst. Her teeth were chattering uncontrollably and her only thought was to warm herself to stop the […]
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Ancestors in my house

Ancestors in my house

Kolumbi’s Mirror (From April of 2008) “Mother, mother,” the old woman said over and over, motioning with her hand into the mirror that was hanging on the wall of our little house. “Mother, I can see you,” the voice of the matriarch trailed off as she gazed at herself with a nearly toothless smile, not […]
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overdue america blog

overdue america blog

This blog has been a long time coming… You know by now that I process life through words (and coffee!), but for some reason or another, sometimes the words aren’t there. Blogging became a burden, so I decided to take a break. I think I can officially declare this the end of that blogging break. […]
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New Outreach

New Outreach

Yesterday Jim drove our four Dom teachers to a new outreach village many miles away. This village is actually another language group whose mother tongue is close enough to Dom for everyone to communicate (compare Spanish and Portuguese). A first for our Dom believers to go outside their tribal borders and take the Gospel to […]
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