Category: Life in PNG!
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Vlog: Reverse Culture Shock
After living for over two years as medical missionaries in Papua New Guinea, we transitioned back to the United States. It has been quite the adjustment!
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There and Back Again
Reflections on two years in Papua New Guinea as medical missionaries, and our return to the United States.
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Vlog: Completing Two Incredible Years as Medical Missionaries in Papua New Guinea!
Reflecting on two wonderful, challenging years as medical missionaries in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, and an update on our upcoming return to the States.
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Vlog: Joy – Stories of Medical Missions in Papua New Guinea
Stories of medical missions in Papua New Guinea
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Vlog: Summiting Mt. Wilhelm – Papua New Guinea’s Tallest Mountain!
Earlier this month I went on an adventure to summit Papua New Guinea’s tallest mountain! It was majestic and wild. Check out the video! “Restore us to our truer, wilder stories oh God.”
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Vlog: Wild Emergency Medicine in Papua New Guinea!
Our best Vlog yet. Genae’s brother and professional videographer @evanlanier recently followed me through the hospital here in Papua New Guinea. Check out a typical (and never routine) day of missionary emergency medicine “plus”!
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Vlog: Our Family’s Week on a Remote Island Off the Coast of Papua New Guinea!
In April, we took a much needed escape to a remote island off the coast of Papua New Guinea. We lived with a PNG family on an island with no electricity or running water. It was part cultural experience, part vacation, and all adventure! We had a wonderful time and learned more about this special…
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Two Roads to Contentment
In Brennan Manning’s powerful book, “Abba’s Child”, he recounts Flannery O’Connor’s short story The Turkey about a young boy named Ruller. Ruller feels down about himself because nothing he does amounts to much. One day, while meandering through the woods, Ruller spots a wounded wild turkey and thinks of how proud everyone will be of him if…
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Vlog: The Worst Delivery!
Stories from the hospital, reflections on moral injury, and the blessing of lamentation.
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Patience in Well-Doing
In truth, if we know how to look, we find evidence of human dignity all around us, in the valiant efforts ordinary people make to meet necessity, to combat adversity and disappointment, to provide for their children, to care for their parents, to help their neighbors, to serve their country. Life provides numerous hard occasions…