It Was A Relief To Drive A Car That Didn’t Complain About My Driving
We return from Papua New Guinea and begin our furlough.
Papua New Guinea
We Felt A Bit Like Convicts Attempting To Escape →
We leave for America but not before making an important stop in Port Moresby.
Papua New Guinea
I Wish I Was Rich Enough To Burn Down The House & Start Fresh... But I'm Not. →
I hate moving. Janice dreams about it.
Moving
A Blurry Dash Towards The End Times →
"I came to the mission field to change the world but so far the only thing that has changed is myself." - Anton, Russian philosopher
Cultural Expectations
We Survived Our Bush Orientation →
Every new Samaritan Aviation family goes through a “Bush Orientation” which sounds like a formal thing, but it’s not.
Cultural Expectations
Dumping Money Into A Slot Machine And Hoping. →
AirNiugini has many fine qualities as an airline but the thing it does best is lower your expectations.
Cultural Expectations
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.
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.
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
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
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
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