

Two weeks later, another death
In my last post, I described the death of our neighbor's child, and our other immediate neighbor, Evert, preached the sermon at the...


Grieving in Community
We had a lovely family Christmas at home, relishing the age our children are at where everything is magical and delightful. The day after...


Community in 2020
In February we had the privilege of going to the first ever all Asia-Pacific conference for our organization. We went early so that Kacie...


An Update on Our Kiddos
Since our newsletter this round was focused on teaching, I thought I'd give a blog update on these kiddos. Hope turned 3 and is...
Bride Price
We've chuckled recently when we have asked some of the students about their biggest challenges and found that frequently the answer is,...
A Nurse and Professor
Friends, we are looking for a nurse and a professor to come and minister here in our community. In our last post we mentioned giving to...


What YOU are giving towards
Over the course of our first term overseas we steadily settled into our community and found ourselves seeing needs around us in the...
Help when we are ALL sick
Recently we were sick, ALL of us! Isaac was sick with one thing after another for two and a half, and the family joined him with the...
Special Message to Watermark Friends
Dear Watermark Friends, We wanted to communicate particularly to you all about how we fit in to Watermark. We are Watermark members and...


Nokens - Handwoven Treasures
Before we left Indonesia I went on the hunt for nokens, hand-woven net bags that everyone carries in Papua. They're the favorite local...