This is a quick post to share our updated prayer card. If you want to print it as a photo, it should print as a 4×6 print quite easily. We’d be happy to mail you one as well, just drop us a line!
This Christmas, the North Wahgi believers of Jiwaka Province will celebrate God’s faithfulness to bring them His Word in their heart language. Five hundred North Wahgi New Testaments are on their way! Praise the Lord with us for the completion of this thirteen-year translation project and pray for the impact He will have through it. […]
If you’re reading this, you probably know that we’re heading back to the midwest US in January (yeah, question our sanity now). Because we’re coming from a perpetually tropical climate, our kids will be arriving to freezing Chicago in sandals and shorts. We’re hoping to collect some hand-me-down clothing that could be waiting at our […]
I started writing this post a while ago*, I’ve been reflecting on barriers Jesus had to work out in me before I’d budge and come to the foreign mission field. Right now, Papua New Guinea has quite a few roles that need to be filled. Teachers for when the school can open again, skilled tech […]
We now have 2 full days left in Papua New Guinea before we head for a short home assignment back “home” in the U.S. And it’s exciting!* Wait, is that home? For 37 years, I called the Great Lakes area home. That’s changed now, not just across town or to a neighboring state, but to […]
It’s that time of year again, when the school year ends and many of the support workers who serve at the school go back to their home countries for a well-deserved rest. Some families are returning to their home countries to get their graduating senior settled into their new school, while some of us remain […]
We recently received an update from the team in Wantakia. They’ve done an excellent job in telling the 5 reasons they’re here, why we’re all here, and it’s well worth sharing. You can read more about this team working with the Wantakia on their blog: http://www.reachwantakia.com/team-blog/
“We’re suffering here,” Bill joked over the phone to the pastor from our home church, as he described the late December* weather here in Papua New Guinea. We were having another 85 degree day, while our home state of Wisconsin was getting snow again. Bill was sharing about our life and work here, and highlighted […]
Coming to the field, we expected to be working cross-culturally. After all, we’d be living in a country not our own, with the PNG people who live and think differently from us. Living among them, learning the PNG language, and discovering cultural differences came as no surprise to us. What is catching me off guard […]
I move my feet, I go through the motions But who’ll give purpose to chance I am the dancer I need the Lord of the dance Steven Curtis Chapman “Lord of the Dance” It’s been a while since we’ve shared how things are going here in Papua New Guinea. We want to share a few […]