We Are Grateful for you in 2018

The G version is surprisingly hard for me to write without feeling like I am not telling the whole story, but I promised so here goes. Flooding.  Some have seen the devastation of more than 20 inches of rain in 4 days in our coastal city...

Picture of Arwen and buds as they prepared the potatoes, cassava, chicken and pigs for the pit feast. Thanks for praying for us.  The celebration went incredibly well today.  Troublemakers came twice in their truck but decided to let the...

Rated R for Domestic Violence Pima’s dad threatened to kill him more than 10 times in our school office this week.  By the end of the meeting both Pima and his dad were crying and we had made a little progress.  I tried to help Pima...

Rated G Update We have been back at work in Papua for 5 intense weeks and Heidi and Arwen have already been blessed with an awesome ”vacation.”  Walker and I drove them to Wamena on the beautiful new road, which only takes 2...

Rated R Version Update. 1) Wayne and Seth Von Borstal were a huge encouragement and did some really powerful training.  Wayne is now on trip number 4 or 5 and is getting the place wired.  We dealt mostly with money, tithe, family and the...

Dear Rated R people,  Here is some war and violence for you, American’s will find it okay, Europeans will be appalled.  Next update will be about sex and then we can shift it up so everyone can be equally appalled.   Because war...