Reflections and Resolutions

January 12, 2022

Happy New Year! I love celebrating the start of a new year because it reminds me that God upheld us through the past year, and we can count on that faithfulness as we enter a new one. It can be tempting to put our hope in our own goals, resolutions, or plans for the year. But […]

A Good Beginning

April 21, 2018

Last Sunday we met with the new Nahuatl believers to study the Word of God. Stop and let that sink in. That could be the end of my blog and it would still be a pretty good entry. For those of you who have been praying with our team since the beginning, I know you […]

Now is the Chance

January 30, 2018

Queen is worried about the people in her village. We were sitting on short stumps in her warm kitchen, checking the lesson about Nicodemus. She was telling the story back by paragraphs, tracking well with what Jesus had said about being born again. A little later in that story, Jesus makes the point that the […]

The Dog Ate My Homework!

January 27, 2017

Our applications for entry into PNG were approved, but as you may have heard, we’re still waiting for the official stamps to be entered into our passports. The process is taking longer than expected for several reasons. Someone important in the immigration office of PNG died this week, some offices have been moving, and computers […]

Counting the Cost

September 15, 2016

by Pete Hypki Andrew is one of the good guys. At least, out here, he is. Andrew is our neighbor to the south, and a father of 11 kids. He’s short, like most of the men out here, maybe 5’5,” and stout, with a thin graying moustache. Two weeks after we moved into the […]

Ostman Update…

January 15, 2016

Hebrews 4:12(NKJV) For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. OUR (UN) CHRISTMAS Since Christmas has come and gone and we’re […]