We have had an especially busy week so far and want to update you all on a few things. So, here they are: Bible Study I met with the guys on Monday, as usual, and it went really well. I reviewed the basic points of the gospel thoroughly and asked a bunch of questions to…
This weekend a container full of food arrived from the U.S.! Yay! It is so exciting to get a new load of American food. Since there isn’t a lot available in town, the store on our base orders stuff from America to give us more options. The shelves have been pretty skimpy since we…
This is Mokame–the second of the two ladies who have been attending our Bible Study. Friday we reached the end of our story. After reviewing previous lessons, I read Romans 3:10-20 to remind them all of our sin problem and the inability of obedience to the law (or other behavior) to make us right.…
This is Balux. More on him at the end. Yesterday was not a work day here in the commonwealth where we were celebrating the Queen’s birthday, so we met today (Tuesday) instead. We talked about Jesus’ teaching working through the following points: Jesus preached repentance (Mark 1:14-15) Sinful actions are a result of our sinfulness (Mark…
This is Gosalakame, one of the two ladies who work with COC and come to our Bible study. They have been coming more frequently over the last few weeks after only showing up intermittently initially. I’m glad that they are showing up (even if it is only to drink coffee and eat Elizabeth’s banana…
Here at Lapilo, the Junior class at the school is always raising money to go on a big trip when they are seniors. They do a lot of different things like selling fresh squeezed lemon juice or tortillas and hosting events throughout the year. One of the big events they do is called skate night.…
Our local rugby team got new uniforms and asked me to take a team picture. It turned into six team pictures and seventeen individual ones, but who’s counting. I turned one of them into what you see above just for fun. I’ll see tomorrow how some of them like it. Three of these guys work…
This is Malon. As you can see, he is one of the older guys in the group. He has been working here at Lapilo for sixteen years. He is very excited to be hearing the “whole story.” Today we talked about Jesus’ miracles primarily. I picked out a few representative passages to show Jesus’…
We officially began homeschooling in December in the US after pulling Belle out of school in order to get ready to head back to PNG. There are so many curriculum options out there, that it really is daunting! Thankfully, I had done some homeschool preschool with the girls before, so I had a bit of…
In the picture above I have two extremes from the coffee-quality-spectrum. On the right, some of the best coffee beans in the world fresh from a local coffee garden recently roasted and packaged. On the left, coffee beans from the same source that have been sent to Australia to become instant coffee. I prefer…
