We're fixing floatplanes in Papua New Guinea

supporting free medevacs to the only hospital in 32,000 square miles. This is our story as told by me, the grumpy dad.

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Anyone In Their Right Minds Know That Animals Don't Use Toilets

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.
Village Hopping With A Floatplane In Papua New Guinea

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.
Our First Tropical Christmas

Our First Tropical Christmas

Sweating while caroling and other strange ways to spend Christmas.
Samaritan Aviation attaching floats to a Cessna amphibious missionary float plane in Papua New Guinea

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.
Patient being unloaded from mission aviation floatplane in Papua New Guinea.

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.
Common Cockroaches & Exotic Marsupials

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.
Missionary family in Papua New Guinea

Do Fish Even Sting People?

Because of the sun’s death rays we’ve been spending a lot of time at the ocean.
Ride Along On A Visit To The Haus Sik

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."
Death Warmed Over is Better Than Death Served Cold, But It's Still Worrisome.

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.
I Know What's Wrong With My Faucet, But What's Wrong With My Feet?

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.
Missionary family in Wewak, Papua New Guinea.

Speaking Funny

Language learning is shifting from memorizing vocabulary to the next step: Embarrassing oneself.
Missionary family Wewak, Papua New Guinea.

So Far We've Been Spreading Diabetes More Effectively Than the Gospel.

But thank you for your patience with us. Good things take time!