Beyond our borders in Papua New Guinea Some years ago I was blessed to visit in Hewa and get to know the 2 families who worked among them: Jonathan & Susan Kopf and Keith & Angie Copley. Back about 2004 another missionary (Leah Kneviel) and I helped them set...

For those of us yet in the throes of winter, life in the tropics may sound pretty good right now! Over in Amdu PNG there’s news from one of the young churches in the process of being strengthened and established in their faith. Missionaries Bart & Emily Allen...

Fruit from your prayers for the Maliyali people of PNG! It’s been less than 2 months since the Foundational teaching from God’s Word brought the Good News of Jesus to the Maliyali people in Papua New Guinea. Missionary Rachel Mueller recently shared this testimony of...

Thank you for praying for the Maliyali people of Papua New Guinea! The Gospel was presented to them in their heart language late in November and some have indeed come to see their need of Jesus as the only one who can save them from their sins! Those who have chosen...

Prayer needs from Papua New Guinea: the people in the Maliyali language group!!!! These past few months the missionaries (Chad & Martha Earl, Nathan & Rachel Mueller and David & Emily Rimested) have been teaching about 5 days a week through the Old...

Dear friends, First off, here's some prayer needs for PNG – Maliyali Foundational Bible teaching continues at Maliyali. The book of Genesis is full of teaching on the character of God and His loving care for people. Here are some of the key truths taught from the...

News from Papua New Guinea: In parts of PNG, when a person dies it is cultural to blame someone for that person’s demise. Often it’s a woman who will be accused of being a witch. She’ll then be brutally murdered to “pay back” the person’s death. With every death, the...

First off, some praise and prayer points from PNG: Bart & Emily Allen, who, along with Ben & Missy Hatton, minister among the Amdu people, recently wrote: “Most of the believers share a common prayer request — the weight of their unbelieving family and...

When local gas prices hit $4.49 some weeks ago I stood at the pump pondering. The numbers 449 were “ringing a bell” somewhere in my aged and addled brain. …. Oh yes! Bible School chapel time! Nearly every day someone would request to sing #449 - Wonderful Grace of...

Dear friends, It’s Sunday morning. You arrive at church and are likely met at the door by a team of greeters, welcoming you to the service. You probably enter into a nicely carpeted sanctuary complete with padded pews. You’ll sit with your husband & family or...

Little news has filtered out from PNG these past weeks. Part of the reason for that is that our regional conference was held in March and though the missionaries did tribal news reports for the gathering, everyone was understandably busy and not writing and sending...

“Infrastructure” is a term thrown around rather freely in the USA these days. Consider: Would we rather be traipsing across a bridge (pictured above) in Lembena land in PNG? Such pictures give us glimpses into their daily grind and hopefully, put our life here in a...