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June 2022

God’s Faithfulness March 1969 to March 2022 53 years When we gave our lives to serve the Lord, we had no idea what the future would hold, however, we did know God held the future and He could be trusted. Many times, we thought we couldn’t keep going any longer because...

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Winter 2022

Faithful Servants and Friends Years ago, we were asked to send some teachers to help a group in a Province in which we had never taught before. We were on home assignment, so had to organize it from America. I chose one man with whom I had done team-teaching before....

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October 2021

How is a peanut and a missionary related? Not long before we left Papua New Guinea, a special group of people from our community came to say farewell to us. Special because they had been taught through the first three Bible lesson courses, got saved, and were now...

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September 2021

Brain Fog the New Norm We have been back in America for just over one month now. Through the years, we have experienced jetlag many times, but this trip back, our “Transition Time” has been like jetlag for a whole month so far. We heard from another missionary family...

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August 2021

Over 50 years on the mission field! Joy and Tears--Painful Farewells We were wondering if the container with 12/000 books (3 titles) and 4,000 sets of illustrations (in two sizes) would arrive before we departed, and God allowed them to get here in time. The picture...

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July 2021

              55 Years Together July 23, 1966 to July 23, 2021 We certainly have a lot to look back on from when we married at 19 years old to retirement from the field of Papua New Guinea in 2021 at 74 years old. We have certainly...

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June 2021

The first Creation to Christ teaching was done here a couple of years ago. Some attended as skeptics but discovered the Word of God to be true and convincing as many got saved. That was a start. From there, the Word started going out to other areas and people are...

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May 2021

Betty sat on the wooden floor of the classroom and her eyes never left the teacher. Even when they brought her baby to be fed, she stayed focused on the teacher. Later, it was evident that God was doing a deep and lasting work in her heart. He was transforming her...

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April 2021

Gardens Can Wait Man can’t live by sweet potato alone! I heard a great testimony today. God’s Word has impacted a whole village and great changes are taking place. Melki is a young married man who came to our teacher training course a while back. He was eager to help...

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Late March 2021

God is at work in the mountains! The Gospel of Jesus Christ has gone to another village in Papua New Guinea! In 2019 we took the Firm Foundation lessons to the village. In 2018, we first went to take a look at the place and the people were often drunk from a home brew...

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March 2021

This young man is JayJay. He was saved a couple years ago but drifted to bad friends and practices. He thought people were gossiping about him and was driven to despair and finally took a knife and cut his own neck in an attempt at suicide. God used others to get...

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February 2021

This group of teachers were supposed to split up and teach in two locations, but one of the villages wasn't prepared to host a large group of people. The Lord directed the teachers to go to another place and they ended up teaching 103 people, among them were some...

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