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**WARNING! This story is medical in nature and as such is written to those in the medical profession. Should others choose to read it, continue at your own risk!** A call came in from one of our bush areas…a missionary had cut off his thumb! This man and his family were in the process of […]

Did you ever notice that the little things are what you take for granted until you don’t have them anymore? That the little things you complain about doing are what you long for when you can’t do them anymore? For instance, housework. Honestly, who really enjoys cleaning your house from top to bottom every week […]

Sometimes in support work, as you and I are in, we get busy and forget the impact the work that we do has. This past Sunday, one of our bush missionaries and his family came and shared with us an update on the work in their tribal areas. A village has had the Gospel and […]

Okay so the walk we took last Monday could hardly be classified as “mountain climbing”…not even really as “hiking”. More like…a meandering walk along the equivalent of a logging road that runs along the ridge of a mountain. But it was amazingly beautiful! The steep sides of the mountains moved the trees quickly out of […]

“Inap mi bai toktok wantaim yu?” (Can I talk with you?) Again this past Wednesday, I had my friend over for lunch—the woman of faith I’ve told you about before. She had been sick off-and-on this past week so I asked her if she had still wokim bung long ol meri (“had the meeting for […]

Yesterday, I was talking with a national friend of mine who had joined me for lunch. Her story has many “heavies” in it and yet she is one of the most joyful, peace-filled, faithful women I know. She came back from a conference a few weeks ago very excited at how God had used her […]

Romans 13:1-7 says, “Let every soul be subject to the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whoever therefore resists the power, resists the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good […]

That’s a question that comes up often in my life. Am I just surviving each day or am I enjoying it? Am I just “making it through another one” or am I engrossed in the happenings of today? Am I drowning every day in mindless pursuits meant to “fill time” until I get to …what?… […]

It started with a general air of excitement about the day. We were having our center-wide Field Day. Games going on everywhere you turn, friends sitting around chatting, proud parents cheering, kids running from one event to another, the younger ones just running (as is their usual). However, as the games began, the doctor came […]

Does the world revolve around me? Absolutely not! Should it? Quite possibly…but not that I would ever admit it! Self is a frequent acquaintance of mine (as you can see!). The problem is, Self is quite opposed to God because God will never leave Self as he is. Many days I’m quite thankful for this! […]