You guys, we love our church. The truth is that often going to church is one of the more stressful aspects of life for people working overseas. The culture is different, styles of worship are different, it's hard to understand, it's uncomfortable, you miss your community back in the USA, and sometimes the local church feels dead. Knowing this, we are extra thankful that we landed in this church. It is vibrant, with a Papuan leader who is humble and passionate about the Lord a

"Is it a sin to chew pinang?" "We tell people it is important to read scripture but there are people in our areas that can't read? "Do we need to send money to Israel?" "What about when you have explained scripture and people still don't understand?" These are some of the kinds of questions that were lobbed at Isaac at a recent training of church leaders of one of the tribal groups near us. To get there we drove for an hour out to transmigration camp #8, where a church buildi

The video above is from the recent celebrations for the anniversary of the college where we work. There's been some changes in our neck of the woods, some big and some small. Some things, like this simple canteen for students, can make a big difference. Previously many of our students would eat in the morning or not at all and so would be listless in afternoon classes. TEAM built a little courtyard, and assigned a few students and their spouses to cook for the group. Cooking

One of my biggest fears about life here was grappling with major illness with limited medical facilities. Now, though, we have a private Muslim hospital on our side of town that is clean and we have now been to maybe six times for malaria tests, urinalysis, and nebulizer treatments. What a huge relief and blessing it has been to know where to go when Judah struggles to breathe and his inhaler isn't helping! We recently were referred to the main public hospital in town when we