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Dear Friends and familiy, My time in Ukarumpa is winding down, and I am about to begin the next stage of this trip. My parents and I will be travelling to Bougainville for the New Testament dedication of some dear friends of ours, Roman and Caroline Hostetler. I am very excited about this, because we have known the family and have been following their work since Dad and Mom came to PNG in ...

The following is one of the stories I wrote from my time with my teammate, Hannah, in Madang interviewing Erastus Otairobo and family: Living for Glory Erastus Series 28-6-05 Romans 8:18 I consider our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Romans 2:7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. "How many languages do you speak?" Hannah asked Delwin, Erastus's nineteen ...

Hi all, It has been a good number of weeks now since I last wrote. Much has happened in between, that I am looking forward to giving you glimpses of. At the end of POC (the Pacific Orientation Course) we had a weekend village stay with the Amele language people. It was a time for the Disc-ies to practise their Pidgin and see what a village looked like, more than anything. The girls all went to a village named Balina, and the guys to the neighboring Iha. Following the village ...

Day three started well, around Tami Islands the weather was good and the swell was moderate. Today we are to head across to the neighbouring main Island New Britton this crossing was due to take 8 or so hours. Little did we know that the same storm from the day before blew up again and turn an easy 8 hour crossing into a hellish 20 hour crossing with all the trimmings, headwinds swell from the wrong direction etc. At one stage the speedo on the boat ...

Once we were in the Lagoon the water became wonderfully still and I breathed a sigh of relief, you see in a small boat like the Barbarian, she is only 14m (42') in length she takes on the open ocean but she does bob around like a cork. just before this trip Rod had a problem with one of the outrigger stabilizers so he took them both of, no good for the unprotected stopovers. so into ...

Leaving Lae in Papua New Guinea aboard the Barbarian we were following a storm that had left a large amount of debris in the water, I was assured by the skipper a mate of mine, Rod that the storm was in front of us and we still had a couple of day in the relative protected bay outside of Lae before we hit open water between PNG and New Britton. Our fist stop was to be the Tami Island group. This was an ...