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June 2023 Update

We have arrived in Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea! Thank you so much for praying over our journey. We all remained healthy the entire time, made every connection, and arrived with all of our luggage (It was quite a lot). Praise God! We all quickly felt “at home,” though we have a mixture of hellos and […]

March 2023 Update

Our dear friends, we’ve had such a wonderful and refreshing time in the USA over the past 7 months. First Baptist Concord has hosted us in their cozy missions house right next to the church, heaping blessing upon blessing to our family through the missions and family ministries there. We have enjoyed seeing many of […]

April 2022 Update

The Jesus Film was launched!!! On Thursday, April 7, the village of Sivauna hosted a large gathering and celebration of the Jesus Film completion. Their Member of Parliament was able to be there, took some photos, and stayed in our home. The cell tower had been down for a while, so we didn’t hear about […]

March 2022 Update

Dear friends, you may remember a sentence we wrote in our January update: As our stateside assignment approaches in just 6 months, we are feeling the pressure to accomplish quite a lot during this short window… Today, we can chuckle at this declaration of our large hopes of checking off all our lists. However, when […]

January 2022 Update

Blessings in the New Year! Praise God for sustaining each of us through 2021 and for giving us hope for 2022. Our family enjoyed a very quiet and peaceful Christmas and New Year together here in Ukarumpa, our Papua New Guinea mission headquarters. This wasn’t our plan (we had planned on being in the village, […]