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March – April 2025

March – April 2025

Family Happenings Now that Travis is flying much more, he is sometimes away overnight.  One of the kids was telling me how they didn’t like this and wished daddy didn’t have to be away.  I explained to them that when daddy is away it’s because he’s helping people, and when we keep everything running smooth […]
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A Few ‘Finally’s’

A Few ‘Finally’s’

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 […]
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Merry Christmas from our new home!

Merry Christmas from our new home!

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. . . ” John 1:14  Or as C. S. Lewis put it in Mere Christianity, “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.”  We are so thankful we get to play a small part in bringing this good news […]
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A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

(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 […]
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July/August 2024

July/August 2024

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 […]
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“No Additives”

“No Additives”

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 […]
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Learning Language is Fun. . .

Learning Language is Fun. . .

 . . . and it’s a lot of work.  Right now our focus is studying the national language of Tok Pisin (Melanesian Pidgin).  Learning the language and culture is important so that we can communicate clearly and develop quality relationships with PNG (Papua New Guinea) citizens.   Language learning is broken down into four levels: […]
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On the ground and running!

On the ground and running!

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 […]
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Merry Christmas from Idaho

Merry Christmas from Idaho

(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 […]
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New Year, New Location

New Year, New Location

Answered Prayers Thank you to all of you for praying for us. Our trip to Pennsylvania and New Jersey in October went really well. We were able to visit with lots of friends and family and were able to speak at two churches. While we were out there we got an e-mail from the Papua […]
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