I don’t have eloquent words tonight. Emptiness and tears that feel endless when they start and even some blissful (and willful) forgetfulness. We’ve had those things in spades. When we arrived home from Ukarumpa we found out a teammate was sick. She passed away of cerebral malaria in our collective arms on Tuesday. The whole […]
We’re heading to the Highlands for a last-minute trip to see the doctor. It hit us rather suddenly that we needed to get some annual checks done and slipped in for some appointments this week. We’ll leave bright and early tomorrow morning with plans to return on Saturday. The last trip up in March saw […]
We so appreciate your many prayers for Brian’s trip last week!! It was weighing on him heavily before he went and we both rejoiced when in the end it was clear the Lord had gone before. The meeting with the community went well and he enjoyed breathing the cleaner air of village life for a […]
We don’t turn on the AC every day, but having the solar panels certainly makes it possible to use it more liberally than we used to!! So on very sweaty afternoons you can find the girls piled on our bed soaking up the frigid temps under the thickest of blankets while reading. Ray has perfected […]
We had a mid-week break to celebrate PNG’s independence from Australia! Cars all over town are decorated with huge flags as their owners cruise up and down the handful of roads honking and waving. People are wearing the red, black, and yellow colors of PNG with tiny flags poking out of their hairstyles while games […]
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