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Finally Flying  Greetings from warm and sunny/rainy Papua New Guinea.  Thank you all for praying for Travis’s flight permit to arrive.  He finally received it on January 13th and has been flying with a training pilot since then. He’s been flying missionaries and supplies in and out of the remote locations where they work and […]

(That’s actually the title of a good book by Eugene Peterson, but it also describes this newsletter well.) “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up.  And […]

What do those missionaries teach anyway? Recently I was reminded that there are a lot of misconceptions about foreign missions.  It reminded me of something I heard a speaker say to some high school students attending a diversity day event many years ago.  Talking about the middle eastern religion she followed, she said, ‘It is […]

That’s how Becky’s language helper describes salvation.  We trust that Jesus’s death on the cross paid the penalty for our sins and “no additives.”  It’s not we trust Jesus. . . and we do a certain amount of good deeds or only worship on a certain day of the week or quit smoking (or in […]

After much planning and anticipation we arrived in Papua New Guinea on January 3rd.  We got in too late to make our connecting flight to Goroka, so we spent the night in Port Moresby courtesy of the airline, who thankfully booked us a hotel near the airport.  The next morning we got on the first […]

(Next newsletter from Papua New Guinea!) And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. John 1:14 It’s the season of the year where we remember and celebrate Jesus coming to live among us, as the Word of God, to bring us the good news that he would pay the punishment for our […]