Past Adventures
We spent 7 years living in Papua New Guinea working with a religious non-profit. Five of those years were spent deep in a jungle swamp, living among a remote, isolated tribal group. These are some of the posts that we wrote from that context!
Reality Check
We’re in the States on Home Assignment right now. We’re spending time with family, we’re sharing about our ministry with supporting churches, we’re eating awesome food and getting fat…all the things that you’d expect a missionary family to do when they hit their home...
Feelin’ the luv!
I am not a rapper. Actually, I am about as “not a rapper” as they come. I don’t have rhythm, I don’t like bling, I wear flannel shirts and hiking boots as leisure wear… you get the idea. Nevertheless, out of the vestiges of my youth, I was reminded of the lyrics of an...
We’re going to see a baptism!*
We’re going to see a baptism. It’s going to be a fun one. What a beautiful day! We’re not scared. Uh-oh! A jungle! A big, dark jungle. We can’t go over it. We can’t go under it. Oh no! We’ve got to go through it! Stumble, trip! Stumble, trip! Stumble, trip! We’re...
My Pulitzer, Please
I finished writing an epic saga the other day. Truly, it is literature at its finest. I am inclined to think that even the most critical of readers will be forced to grudgingly agree that it is destined for greatness. Literary enthusiasts around the world will be...
Contentment: Friend or Foe?
In our line of work, we are regularly challenged by the concept of contentment. This is especially true in the realm of material pleasures. Hardly a day goes by where I do not entertain the notion, “You know, this would be so much easier if…” And I don’t think it’s...
The Rest of the Story
I once saw a video on YouTube of a chicken that could play a song on an electric keyboard by pecking the keys with its beak. It wasn’t epically amazing, or anything, but it was pretty good considering a chicken’s brain is dwarfed by a common green pea. I mention this,...
Blissful Dreams and Brutal Nightmares
Last week, I wrote up my account of how I single-handedly ended up single-handed, which was no small feat in itself, as obviously, I only had the single hand to type it with. Now that the back-story is public knowledge, I thought that I should probably go ahead and...
Not So Handy
Following an eventful month of sickness, passing a kidney stone, and eventually getting some rest, we finally made it back into Iski-land the other day! After being away for so long, we were definitely ready to get back into a normal rhythm of life again. Even though...
Radio Silence
You may have noticed that the frequency of our updates has reached something of an all-time low of late. Over the last 4 months we have posted no more than three newsy items. Normally, I would feel obliged to apologize for such negligence, but this time things are...