The bright red numbers on the clock didn’t lie and the deep stillness that accompanies the minutes between night and morning, unsure which they want to be, all told me it was much too early to get up. It was going to be a long day and I should sleep. I rolled over sure I […]
The obsession started well over a year ago. Not princesses, not unicorns. Not horses or puppies or kittens. Whale sharks. Those behemoths of the ocean had the hearts of two little girls in Papua New Guinea as soon as they learned of their existence. I’m fairly certain the fascination started with an episode of Octonauts […]
So if you’ve followed us at all, either through this blog or via our monthly updates, you know we’ve been troubled lately. Dallas was going to be our time. We were going to get work done, get our materials prepped for visiting churches later this year, and buy supplies for our next term in Madang. […]
Home assignment. A concept that used to be as vague to me as job titles in Washington, D.C. What happens to missionaries on furlough? Do they have jobs and live normally? Do they live in a house? Do they own that house and, if so, how does that work? Do they still need financial support? […]
I’m a missionary. I live in a sweltering, uncomfortable, remote corner of the world where consistent medical care and convenient eating are nonexistent. We have no parks, no movie theaters, no museums, no zoos, no open air malls with cute little trains, no MOPS groups to join. Church is spent sweating through a theologically questionable […]
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