Missionary stories filled with the heart of God. Please keep them in your prayers.
Dear family and friends Wow! What a shock to the system, thinking that we had another four months here then suddenly we are asked to consider leaving in the next few days!! Actually, it worked well. We had just completed the lessons on Romans the week before. It was just all the rush to alterContinue reading March 19, 2020
Dear family and friends, I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discernContinue reading Mid March 2020
Dear friends and family It has been a few weeks since I sent out a letter. Two weeks ago we had a week’s holiday then the next week Wendy went up with me. That night we had the last lesson in Romans chapter 8. Whatever difficulties we have to go through God’s love is alwaysContinue reading February 2020
Dear friends and family From last update: Sevis’ son, Robin, was playing rugby and when he came back after playing he suddenly had a dizzy spell and collapsed. He had a severe headache was not coherent and they took him to the hospital in Goroka. I saw him a week later and his mind wasContinue reading January 24, 2020
Dear family and friends We have booked our flight to Cairns for Sunday the 5th of July. We plan to spend a couple of weeks in Cairns and hopefully get a car and travel down to Brisbane to visit family and friends before heading home. This will be our last term in PNG. We stillContinue reading January 17, 2020
Dear friends and family We really had a multinational Christmas this year. We had one family and a single girl from America, a couple from Canada, a family from Mexico and single girl from Germany. Then, of course, we were from Australia. But at least we all spoke English and had a great time together.
It is good to remember how Christ came to us as a baby but let’s not keep Him there. Let us look beyond the food and tinsel and remember, today He dwells in us through the Holy Spirit. As we learned in the lesson that I taught last week, “If Christ is in you, yourContinue reading Christmas 2019
Dear family and friends It has been three weeks since I sent out an update. Three weeks ago Wendy went up with me. We taught the end of Romans chapter seven and into the first couple of verses of chapter eight. We looked at Paul’s trouble with sin. If Paul had trouble with sin whoContinue reading November 2019
Dear friends and family Last week I took Joel Kemaya with me to Koropa. Joel is a PNG man from a village southwest of here. We have known him since he was just a boy in the late 1980s. He is now an evangelist/Bible teacher and travels quite a bit. We have been concerned aboutContinue reading November 1, 2019
Dear family and friends, Well, it has been three weeks since I wrote last. The first week I went up to find that everyone had gone to a court in a neighbouring clan. Then that night they sang all night and I was thinking, “This has to be either a wedding or a girl’s comingContinue reading October 12, 2019
Dear friends and family Last week Wendy went up with me. We arrived in the afternoon and Wendy was able to spend some time with Dolis in her garden but other than that she didn’t get a lot of time with the others individually. That night’s lesson was in Sevis’ house and we contrasted theContinue reading Late September 2019
Dear friends and family This week I was able to start teaching again. We had checked the translation and lessons up to the middle of Romans 6 which put us 4 lessons ahead. I am now just teaching one lesson a week but teaching it twice to make sure they are getting it. This weekContinue reading September 6, 2019
Dear family and friends I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was going to have to suspend teaching for a few weeks to catch up on lesson and translation checking. Well, the next week we had a short break and the week after Wendy went up with me. Wendy had a talk with theContinue reading August 23, 2019
Dear friends and family We have come to end of our break but the last few days we have both been ill with some kind of gastric bug ☹. Now Wendy has come down with a virus. Anyway, we are glad it happened on our break 😐.
Dear friends and family We enjoyed a visit from Travis who is a professional photographer from the US. On the 16th he took photos of us and did an interview with Wendy. Then on the 17th I took him up to Koropa in the morning and the people just happened to be cooking a mumu.Continue reading July 29, 2019
Dear friends and family Well finally it is signed and sealed. We now have travel/medical evacuation insurance until July 2020. It was a bit of a shock getting the email saying that they couldn’t provide insurance after the 25th of July. Then not being able to find another company that would provide insurance for peopleContinue reading July 13, 2019
Dear family and friends Well, so much has happened up at Koropa in the last couple of weeks. Tuesday the 11th I took two of the workers from Sobega up to Koropa to cut down a tree that was leaning over our house. I wasn’t too worried about it while it was alive but someoneContinue reading June 23, 2019
Dear family and friends, We are well into the dry season now. Dust instead of mud. I’m not sure which is the best, though I think the dust might just win out. Wendy’s sister-in-law’s ‘sorry’ mumu went well. Wendy came up with Nate and Elizabeth Claasen and their three boys. They had a wonderful timeContinue reading June 2019
Dear family and friends Well, it is good to be back into the work. Wednesday the 15th I went up but nobody came for the lesson that night, which is understandable since it had been a while since I had been up there and they didn’t know that I was back. Thursday night there wasContinue reading May 24, 2019
Dear friends and family Yes, we are really back here in PNG. David received the ‘all clear’ from the doctors in Australia so we are ready to roll again as soon as we have a few days R&R to recharge our batteries. It has been stressful the last few months changing back and forth betweenContinue reading May 2019
Dear friends and family Well, things are changing around here. First Wendy goes off to Brisbane to support her brother and sister-in-law in her sister-in-law’s sickness and now I am going down to join her(Wendy). On Tuesday I had a sudden rise in blood pressure. The doctors here are wondering why, so they asked meContinue reading April 19, 2019
Dear friends, We have completed the introductory section of Romans where Paul introduces himself, greets the Roman Christians and gives an introduction to the gospel he preaches. There is a lot of interest in the teaching right now which is a bit frustrating as I am teaching believers and when people come in who haven’tContinue reading April 6, 2019
Dear Friends and family, There was an improvement in attendance last week as they were all there both days. The lesson was Paul’s farewell speech to the Ephesian elders. A lot of food for thought in that passage. Paul’s concern for the believers, that they should know the whole of God’s truth. What was importantContinue reading March 15, 2019
Dear friends and family, Last Wednesday night we had a small group as usual but Thursday night they were all there. I taught the story of Paul’s ministry in Thessalonica and Beria. We looked at the contrast between the attitudes of Thessalonica and Beria. In Thessalonica most of the Jews rejected Paul’s teaching but inContinue reading Late February 2019
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