The Great Commission is our Mission.
In February 2004, in lower Asaro territory, on the other side of Goroka from here, but still in the Eastern Highlands Province, something special happened. A local Assemblies of God pastor named Joseph was holding evangelistic meetings at a local elementary school yard. Only a handful of people showed up, and he was preaching the …
Read More Resurrection in Asaro country, Papua New GuineaNo, we didn’t make a time machine, but we came close to time travel. In February 2002, my family and I traveled to Papua New Guinea. During the village living phase of the SIL Pacific Orientation Course (sometimes called Jungle Camp), we lived with people who were not far out of the stone age. Yes, …
Read More Out of the Time MachineWhat, exactly, is the purpose of this part of our web site? Good question. After all, we already have a “conventional” web site, plus two email mailing lists (one for most people, with pictures, and one for people with very slow and/or expensive Internet connections), plus a paper mailing list. So far, this blog is …
Read More What is this blog for?News flash: after living out of suitcases since the 19th of June, we will finally have a place to unpack our suitcases next month. 🙂 We signed a lease, today. May God bless our landlords for letting us lease their very nice house for less than they could have made renting that place. This will …
Read More New and AncientI was very happy when I was given money to buy a new notebook computer for my Bible translation support work, over a year ago. I carefully researched options, and it came down to two choices: a Toshiba Satellite P35 or a very similar Dell notebook computer. They were about the same, but the Toshiba …
Read More Toshiba Computer WoesI have finally gotten around to getting a WordPress web log up and running. I’m sitting here with my daughter on my lap. I think that she is more impressed with the banana she is eating and that daddy is giving her some attention than whatever it is that I’m doing on the keyboard. I’m …
Read More My first web log (blog) posting