Hide and seek with United Parcel Service (UPS) Today I (Sam) am traveling to Liberia, West Africa, to help lead an Oral Bible Translation course. I needed two things to come this week, my visa and a box of computers to take with me. My visa arrived on Tuesday! The computers were supposed to…
Nathanael heads to Liberty! Nathanael finished his senior year of high school at Ukarumpa on June 13, 2017. What great experiences he has had over the last four years – studying, making lifelong friends, playing sports, leading worship, working at the Teen Center, and much more! We also give a…
My mom tells stories of when she was going to school in Minnesota or North Dakota where they had to walk to school in the freezing cold. Sometimes they would carry baked potatoes or even stones that were hot out of the oven to keep their fingers warm on the…
I know this isn’t my usual topic of writing, but one of the things about living in Papua New Guinea is the sheer beauty of nature all around me. I never get tired of the breathtaking scenery and my orchids are blooming right now, so I thought I would share them…
I am spending 4 weeks in Arop village in Sandaun Province or Papua New Guinea running Trauma Healing courses. This is the same place where a tsunami wiped out half the village in 1998 as told in the book Sleeping Coconuts. But that’s another story. I wish I could post…
Red, yellow and black are the colors of the day as Papua New Guinea celebrates its independence. Forty years ago PNG became its own country through a peaceful handover from Australia. Today there were many activities including speeches, concerts, greased pole climbing, tug of war, flag raising, and parades. One…
When we returned from our three week trip to Yabru, we returned to a messy house. Frank (not his real name) had broken into our house. While we don’t know for sure what happened, the clues point to the following probable story. Frank watched for his opportunity and snuck into…
