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Check it.

Check it.

For the last month or so we had been making frequent jokes with our Tigak friends about the impending “TEST” that was coming up for us in our language study. We were able to make our friends laugh as we jokingly talked up being “terrified” of how we would do when our Culture & Language Acquisition […]
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Coconut Culture

Coconut Culture

Its tempting to look at our time in language and culture study as mainly about getting the Tigak language. Culture study seems less tangible and less impressive than speaking a new language. However, we firmly believe that language should be learned in the context of culture, therefore, our language & culture study among the Tigak […]
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My New Kitchen

My New Kitchen

haus kuk noun |haus kuk| 1 a house like structure constructed from jungle materials.  Usually located right next to your house (where you sleep) or adjoining it. Used for the preparation of food and for eating. A space providing for any amount of social interaction: A type of outdoor living room/den. As I have been learning and continue to […]
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Great(er) Expectations

Great(er) Expectations

Beth and I enjoyed some small talk with our premarital counselors Todd & Ruth Ann. We were still a couple of months away from our wedding, and each session of premarital counseling brought us closer and closer to the big day. We had asked them to do our counseling since we had observed their marriage […]
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“Wearing A Laplap” for Dummies

“Wearing A Laplap” for Dummies

All the women and a lot of men in our village can regularly be seen wearing an article of clothing called a “laplap.” A laplap is a wrap around skirt, roughly five and a half feet long and about three feet wide. Locally, it can be purchased in our provincial capital at the main market […]
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My PNG Cookbook: Crunchy Cabbage Salad

My PNG Cookbook: Crunchy Cabbage Salad

Lettuce is a bit hard to come by here in the islands of PNG. I suppose those lovely crisp green leaves are not too fond of scorching sun and hot sand. When we are able to buy lettuce it is a far cry from what awaits you in a grocery stores fridge. Once I realized […]
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This Little Light of Mine

This Little Light of Mine

“For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing…” (2 Cor. 2:15) We have been in Tigak language & culture study now for nearly three months, and it is tempting to feel like we are still waiting for our “real ministry” to begin. […]
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Normal.

Normal.

I’m sitting at our table clicking away on my laptop and I just watched two of our neighbors walk by carrying huge branches on their shoulders slung with dozens of coconuts. Yes it’s true, life here is “different.” We’ve shared a lot about the differences of our lives now that we live in a village […]
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CONNECTED!

CONNECTED!

This is a FIRST! Yes, it is true -your eyes are scanning over the first blog we have ever posted from our own house in the village! Wow. Technology is absolutely amazing and it is improving at a rapid pace! We have recently experienced the truth of this and are so incredibly thankful for it! […]
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Free… to Live for Him

Free… to Live for Him

Trusting in Jesus Christ isn’t a matter of being perfect, its a matter of being forgiven for being imperfect. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn […]
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