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 […]

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, […]

We’ve had some sicknesses run through our family this past month. When it was time to go to the village, we had to cancel since we weren’t all well yet. This is disappointing to say the least. But the Lord in His sovereignty ordained it, and so we must trust. The Lord doesn’t experience setbacks, […]

Friends, thank you for your prayers during my recent trip to Sivauna village to teach the second level of Translators Training Course. We had a great time together! Of the 14 participants from last year’s course, 12 were back this year, and we had one new participant. We spent the first week working through the […]

Grace and peace to you, friends and family. While it is tempting to wait until plans are done spiraling out of control before we write to you, I am reminded in Scripture that these are the moments when we truly need to trust our outcomes and plans to our Father. We need your prayers. In […]