Phantom Potholes & Life Lessons
Elliot learns to use a drill, Adi learns life lessons, and our new espresso machine keeps our guard up all night.
Josh Snader
Simple Solutions Versus Wild Ambition →
Mechanics without pilot licenses are a bit like penguins. We’re basically flightless birds. This is why we don’t care much about the weather. Pilots do.
Potholes
Anyone In Their Right Minds Know That Animals Don't Use Toilets →
We eat antibiotics like Tic-Tacs, we try not to curse the world, and Elliot gets new underwear.
Being Sick
Village Hopping With A Floatplane In Papua New Guinea →
We airdrop some electrical supplies to a bush missionary, then fly to Gavamas to pick up a missionary.
Papua New Guinea
Our First Tropical Christmas →
Sweating while caroling and other strange ways to spend Christmas.
Christmas
Airplane In A Box →
Even the most stoic mechanic will leap around and shout like a spirit-filled Pentecostal if the airplane goes down when it was supposed to go up.
Airplanes
Dying From Boredom Is Entirely Preventable →
It's disheartening to have a patient heal from tuberculosis or some other horrible condition only to die from boredom a week later.
Haus Sik
Common Cockroaches & Exotic Marsupials →
It can be an unsettling transition to go from sipping coffee to having a marsupial in your hair without any time to get used to the idea.
Pets Other Than Children
Do Fish Even Sting People? →
Because of the sun’s death rays we’ve been spending a lot of time at the ocean.
Raising Children
Ride Along On A Visit To The Haus Sik →
After we fly patients in, we all take turns going and visiting them. Come with our family on a trip to the local "Haus Sik."
Haus Sik
Death Warmed Over is Better Than Death Served Cold, But It's Still Worrisome. →
Janice picks up some strange tropical disease and Adi gets stitches which causes me to muse about suffering and its effects.
Being Sick
I Know What's Wrong With My Faucet, But What's Wrong With My Feet? →
I have a revelation about feet while walking to the hardware store to look for a new faucet.
Cultural Expectations
Speaking Funny →
Language learning is shifting from memorizing vocabulary to the next step: Embarrassing oneself.
Cultural Expectations
So Far We've Been Spreading Diabetes More Effectively Than the Gospel. →
But thank you for your patience with us. Good things take time!
Language Problems
Ride Along On A Medivac In Papua New Guinea →
Ride along as Nick and I fly out to Chambri Lakes to pick up a malaria patient and medevac her to Wewak hospital.
Videos
My Fate Was To Stand There For An Eternity Wishing I Were Dead. →
We move to Wewak, Papua New Guinea to start our first term with Samaritan Aviation.
Papua New Guinea
Rejoice! For Our Visas Were Lost But Have Been Found Again. →
An unlikely series of events and a needle-in-a-haystack search helps us find our visas and passports.
God Worked Things Out
It Won't Take Long →
Traveling is getting easier with each generation, thus losing its ability to shape our character. Maybe this is why our nation is in a moral decline.
Christmas